robert f. kennedy: racial injustice and poverty, ignorancand concn foworld peace d chicagand los angeles, as wl asn the tos and the farmlas of misssippi during thatime, i spokto goverr barnett probab 25 times. wanted the marsha toraw their ns. yoasked for e fact - [announcer]: major funding for reel south was provided by: etv endowment, the national endowment for the arts, center for asian-american media, south arts, and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. additional funding for "you asked for the facts" was provided by: [film reel] [crowd chatter] robert f. kennedy: you're going to go with them here. [crowd chatter] speaker 2: thanks. i appreciate it. speaker 3: could you give an autograph? speaker 4: senator, what do you feel about the reception you got from these students down here? robert f. kennedy: it's very nice. speaker 4: the students are most happy to have you here. speaker 5: why don't you try us at football? robert f. kennedy: i t

ted kennedy, i'm sorry robert kennedy. yeah in 60. yeah. the reason i asked is the famous roger mud interview was with ted kennedy when he asked him why he wanted to run for president, but you're not yeah talking about that's true. but was just interviewed. and that night we went to bed thinking out with we're so hopeful that you know, he would be our next president and then he was killed. at the ambassador hotel that night so just brought back a lot of memories regarding the presentation of news these days. we are really annoyed about so much music before presentations like meet the press all these other shows. it's it's like an orchestra before a broadway show and then they come on and you can hardly hear them with their narrative because the music just drowns them out versus the way news and journalists used to present the news. it's just so dramatic and so overblown that you have difficulty even hearing the information. i'm just wondering if you have noticed this and if well, you're putting your your putting it's called production values

the late robert f. kennedymassachusetts. former senator and secretary of state hillary clinton also represented new york after spending most of her life in illinois, arkansas and washington, d.c. former senator elizabeth dole was a resident of the washington, d.c. area since the mid 1960s before moving from her home at the weathergate hotel back to north carolina to run for office and senator mitt romney ran for open seat in utah in 2018 despite previously serving as the governor of massachusetts. guess what, all of them won. do voters hold residency to be a problem? with me now to help answer these questions is christopher, the author of "the book on point" stranger in a strange state the politics of carpet bagging from robert kennedy to scott brown. he is also an associate professor of politics at st. anthem college. professor, where does the term come from? why do we call carpet bagging? >> it came from southern newspaper editors in the years immediately after the civil war during reconstruction. they were l

attorney general robert kennedy for help at the suggestion of a cousin and robert kennedy. referred them to the aclu and two young aclu lawyers who were recent graduates of the law school i teach at georgetown law took up their case. and for the next you know, like i said nine years they were in and out of court and but they persisted they persisted this quiet couple that did not like publicity and they started opening up their life. there's a beautiful photo essay article about them in life magazine where they started opening up their life and talking about what they were going through and particularly mildred who had been very quiet. she started there's a documentary about them you can watch and so they became the ordinary people who became advocates for themselves and for other people. let's take some calls for cheryl cash in first barbara in new york city. good afternoon to you. good afternoon, peter. good afternoon, professor. kashian a professor in your opinion how likely is it that justice ruth bader ginsburg did not retire from the supreme court when the democrats h

children's health defense, robert f. kennedy's -- were streaming it.have been affected by some of the things they heard today. >> michael, i'm surprised that, you know, fury over vaccine and mandates have lasted this long. it seems like these people have gotten more radical as this pandemic has gone on, regardless of what the numbers or the science or the trends of the pandemic are suggesting. >> well, when you look at the republican ecosystem, you have people like ron desantis, who are stars of the republican party, who every day talk abel how people shouldn't be wearing masks. this is all over. he has gotten the vaccine. he has gotten the booster. the republicans watching fox news, they are in an asylum. all they hear about is how the vaccines don't work, how fauci is, you know, this larger than life person manipulating society. walk into the day, this is the culture war. this is about a couple powerful republicans, wanting to win elections, using uninformed people as, kind of, their army. so, we are running into this really big problem in the countr

it took the assassination of robert kennedy for lyndon b.ohnson just to announce overnight and that is a chillingng moment literally in the middle of the night calls up the director of the secret service and says i want details on every single candidate right now. candidates got protection. >> family members. the protection of the service has been and arthur brammer who shot george wallace wanted to kill nixon first. >> and he was awarded. >> and it's a good story for the secret service. he wrote in his journal he was trying to get next and but it was too tricky he was struggling because the secret service made it too hard to get a close enough shot. did for them but kennedy's assassination made them rebuild that agency from the ground up and amazing security but it has been flipping the last couple of decades. >> i was not aware of the exceptional case study project where the analysis was done of 83 people who attacked or came close to prominent american public figures in 1949 in 1996 but that is a lot of instances of attempts more than we

it took the assassination of robert kennedy while campaigning and looking like he was heading to become president for lyndon b. johnson to announce overnight and thoughts chilling moment, literally in the middle of the night calls up the director of the secret service and says i want details on every single candidate right now. so candidate got protection. >> family members, the protection of the service has been expanded. carol, i didn't know until i read the book that arthur who shot george wallace wanted toth kill richard nixon first and was stored at. >> and that is a good story for the secret service. he wrote in his journal that he was trying to get nixon but it was too tricky, too tricky to get he was struggling because the secret service men made it too hard for him to get a close enough shot. so good for them. kennedy's assassination made them rebuild that from the ground up, rigorous training, amazing security that but it's been living the last couple of decades. >> are not what aware ofpa something called the exceptional case study project where an analysis was done, 83 peopl

are going to take the stage and talk about prosecuting fauci for doing his job or people like robert kennedyst, having to find this woman to prove that she's alive or dead because of this conspiracy. there is no accountability for lying. whether there's a concern about the intelligence quotient going on here, it's harming people. and if there's a harm, there has to be a consequence. >> absolutely, accountability is always the word of the day when you think of what has happened and nobody being held accountable. brandy's new 30d cast, truthers, tiffany dover is dead. make sure you follow the podcast now. >>> before we go, even swing state voters can't find evidence of voter fraud. we've got the details on that report next. 'vwee got the details on that report next. t, and now you can too by asking your healthcare provider if an oral treatment is right for you. oral treatments can be taken at home and must be taken within 5 days from when symptoms first appear. if you have symptoms of covid-19, even if they're mild don't wait, get tested quickly. if you test positive and are at high risk for s

people forget parr -- robert kennedy's first public appearance after his brother's assassination was on the parr show, successor to the tonight show, parr had a friday night show 10:00 after, that was the week that was. i mean television has never been as good. i mean that was magic. that was the week that was, was this off-shoot of a british program by the same name, 30 minutes of satire, much of it political. some of it going over the heads of the audience, not all of it succeeding, but in some ways a fore-runner of the best of saturday night live but a political, but -- i've not seen it, but to john oliver's program, that sort of thing which we now associate with paid tv. but it was on nbc, free, every friday night, and it had a wonderful theme song i won't bore with but i still know the words, still in mine head. the show has never left me, that's 50 years. and the friday night combination of "that was the week that was" and an hour of and the jack parr, you know, i thought i had died and gone to heaven. all downhill from there, but parr i was drawn to because of the art of conve

it took the assassination of robert kennedy, he was campaigning and looking like he was headed to become president for lyndon b johnson to announce overnight. that was a really chilling moment. literally in the middle of the night called the director the secret service and said i want details on every single candidate right now. so candidates got protection >> family members as you said pray the protection of the services been expanded to so many people. karol i did not know to read this book that arthur bremmer who shot george wallace actually wanted to kill richard nixon first. and was thwarted. >> that is actually good story for the secret service. he rode in his journal that he was trying to get nixon. but it was too tricky. it was too tricky to get. he was struggling because the secret service men made it too hard for him to get a close enough shot. so good for them. kennedy's assassination really made them rebuild that agency from the ground up with rigorous training, majoring security. it's been sleeping for the past couple decades. >> is not aware to something you referred to in

you know, it took the assassination of robert kennedy while he was campaigning, and looking like he was headed to become president. >> right. >> for lyndon b. johnson actually to just announce overnight and that was actually a chilling moment, literally in the middle of the night, called up the director of the secret service and says i want details on every single candidate for president right now. >> right. >> so candidates got protection. >> and family members as you say. the protection of the service has been expanded to so many people. carol, i didn't know until i read this book. arthur bremer, who actually shot george wallace wanted to kill richard nixon first and he was thwarted. >> that's a good story. bremer wrote in his journal that he was trying to get nixon, but it was too tricky. tricky dick was too tricky to get. he was struggling because the secret servicemen made it too hard for him to get a close enough shot. >> kennedy's assassination made them rebuild from the ground up, rigorous training, amazing security net, but it's been slipping for the last couple decades. >> i w

people forget robert kennedy's first public appearance after his brothers assassination was on the partial. it was the success or different tonight show jack parr had a friday night show ten o'clock after that was the week. that was which to me. i mean television has never been as good. i mean that was magic, you know, explain it. that was the week. was was this. offshoot of a british program by the same name 30 minutes of satire satire much of it political some of it going over the heads of the audience. not all of it succeeding. but in in some ways a forerunner of the best of saturday night live, but political it was or some of them. i'm not seen it, but i'm don't john oliver's. program maybe that sort of thing which we now associate with with pay tv. but it was on nbc free every friday night and i had a wonderful theme song which i won't boil you win, but i you know, i still know the words i can still it's still in my head the show. it's never left me. that's 50 years and and the and the the friday night combination. that was the week that was and an hour of jack parr. well, you know, i

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he was meeting leonardo dicaprio on climate change, robert kennedy jr. on vaccines. he was going all over, trump. they asked if i would be off the record and only talk about past inaugurations. and at that point, trump was getting ready to write his first inaugural. it was just, he's not a history-minded person, in fact he told me, "i don't read history books," that blunt. but he was curious, like why kennedy's speech is so celebrated, you know, about ronald reagan's inaugural, about william henry harrison's long inaugural versus short inaugurals. so that was the tone and tenor of the conversation with the president-elect. he did say to me, when i went to see him, tell the head of cnn that he's a -- you know, he used a curse word. he was very angry at cnn. and then he said, you know, you're a historian, i'm not blaming you for what everybody's done to me. he had a chip on his shoulder about the network that i was historian on. but he did not have a chip with me. and i talked to him about sports, a little bit about -- he was telling me he was amazed that the utah jazz

he was meeting leonardo dicaprio on climate change, and you know how robert kennedy junior on vaccines, he was going all over. they asked if i would be off the record, and only talk about past inaugurations. and at that point, trump was getting ready to write his first inaugural -- he's not a history minded person, in fact he told me, i don't read history books. that blunt. he was curious as to why kennedy's speech was so celebrated, about ronald reagan's inaugural speech, about william henry harrison's long eggnog versus shorten audios. that was the tone and tenure of the conversation. he did say to me, when i went to see him tell the head of cnn that he used a curse word. he was very angry at cnn. he said you are a historian, i'm not blaming you for whatever one has done to me. he had a chip on his shoulder about the network that i was a historian on, but he did not have a chip with me. i talked to him about sports, a little bit about him being amazed that the utah jazz -- he had misread that market, he never thought an nba team would function in a small enough market at salt lake ci

all of the navy ships in the class are named for civil rights leaders, including john lewis, robert f. kennedyce cholesterol? so it was a happy ending... it can also deplete your coq10 levels. i recommend considering qunol coq10 along with your statin medication. the brand i trust is qunol. >>> a reminder for all of you on this friday evening. tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern, vice president kamala harris will be joy reid's guest for an exclusive interview on "the reidout." that's coming up in just over an hour. for another week of shows during these extraordinary times, we are grateful. "the beat with arbimelber" starts right now. >> hi, nicole. we'll be watching as well. i want to welcome everyone to "the beat." i am ari melber and we begin with new pressure on trump aides for their plots to directly overthrow the election. at this week's hearing to hold trump veteran peter navarro in contempt, there was a vote and since that vote, the committee is continuing the pressure. and that brings us to a text change that was a text written to then chief of staff mark meadows, and it's making waves right

judge robert bork -- senator ted kennedy pulled no punches going after bork and casted him as the spiritor rising fascism. it worked. it blocks and otherwise qualified -- an otherwise qualified bork because he was conservative. -- her confirmation was blocked. that was bill clinton, he nominated her. it was blocked when someone went back into her record and cast her as a communist or a sim pfizer. -- sympathizer. every hearing has generated a strong clash -- backlash and a strongly divided vote in a court that used to give appointments and a confirmation process that used to give us a more balanced courts. -- court. and give us more balance in the confirmation voting. now, it is polarized. so is everything else on capitol hill. it is very much a political reality. host: clarence page is with us until 9:00 a.m. eastern. a syndicated columnist, you probably know his work best from the chicago tribune. this teeing off of findings in an annual report from the research center, the number of full-time statehouse reporting staff that there are in this country, in the various states, back in the

judge robert bork -- senator ted kennedy pulled no punches going after bork and casted him as the spiritor rising fascism. it worked. it blocks and otherwise qualified -- an otherwise qualified bork because he was conservative. -- her confirmation was blocked. that was bill clinton, he nominated her. it was blocked when someone went back into her record and cast her as a communist or a sim pfizer. -- sympathizer. every hearing has generated a strong clash -- backlash and a strongly divided vote in a court that used to give appointments and a confirmation process that used to give us a more balanced courts. -- court. and give us more balance in the confirmation voting. now, it is polarized. so is everything else on capitol hill. it is very much a political reality. host: clarence page is with us until 9:00 a.m. eastern. a syndicated columnist, you probably know his work best from the chicago tribune. this teeing off of findings in an annual report from the research center, the number of full-time statehouse reporting staff that there are in this country, in the various states, back in the

his 20 years in the senate, eric has worked for senator dianne feinstein, the late-senator ted kennedy, robert byrd, senator inouye, our former colleague, senator murkowski. eric has been a mentor, cheerleader and always a friend. he is a pilot and a blackbelt in can a ratty. enjoys golfing, running, devoted husband to his wife, anne, father to his 7-year-old son edward. he will be our nation's next under secretary of the navy. the senate's loss is america's gain. i am confident that eric will excel in his new challenge, just as he has in the senate. i wish him the very best of luck and thank him for his outstanding service. i ask consent that the next statement i make be placed in a separate part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, it's been almost six years since the disastrous collapse of the infamous for-profit college chain i.t.t. tech. at that time, i.t.t. tech was one of the largest chains of for-profit colleges in the country. 130 campuses spread over 38 states and 40,000 students enrolled. it closed its campuses two weeks after the feder

kennedy was assassinated on a street in downtown, dallas. i was a senior then at robert e lee high school in midland, texas, and i was sitting in a classroom when we learned that the president had been killed. for the people of new york and to tell the press that we were postponing the senate education committee briefing. senator greg insisted that we were merely postponing it that we would reschedule because we wouldn't let the terrorist prevail. at that moment larry mcquillan from usa today. ask a question that was on the minds of many americans. he asked. what do you say to the childre'e said in nearly every interview and i'll say i'm sad and they'll nod their heads and say that they're sad, too. where a different country than we were on september 10th in ways that the terrorist could not have imagined or intended. we'll go back to our routines as we always do but we'll do so with a stronger sense of life and liberty. americans are willing to fight and die for our freedoms, but more importantly we're willing to live for them. we'll move on with our lives, but we won't

kennedy. with me now the justice correspondent for the nation and robert jones ceo and founder of public religionong," the legacy of white supremacy in christianity. >> there was a recent court rules, the "new york times" did a story about the supreme court review which did a study documenting a 35 percentage point increase in the rate of rules in favor of religious and orally argued cases culminating in an 81% success rate under chief roberts. they say this is the most pro-religion court since world war ii and the most pro-christianity court, so when you look at that record it's pretty clear that this coach is going to win, right? >> yeah. he's going to win and the question really is how because people need to understand this man was not fired for praying. you do not get fired in american culture for praying to a kiss god. my muslim friends, call me later, that doesn't apply to you, but if you're praying to a christian god smog going happen to you this. man had his contract unrenewed for being insubordinate and churlish because, first, yeah, he was praying with the kids. that's clearly unconstit

kennedy was assassinated on a downtown street in dallas. i was a senior then at robert e. lee high school in texas, and i was sitting in a classroom when we learned the president had been killed. i remember it felt like a blanket had been thrown over our school. the horror was so sudden and so unimaginable. i went home for lunch that day and i remember my parents' sadness. like most american families, we spent the next few days watching television. i remember it as a terrible blow, almost too much to bear. a sudden reminder at a very young age at how fragile life truly is. now we've experienced another one of those days in our national life, a day so horrifying it will be permanently seared in the hearts and memories of those that witnessed us. i was on my way to meet with senator ted kennedy when a secret service agent told me a plane had just hit the world trade center. we thought it was an accident at first but as we approached capitol hill the secret service said another plane had hit the second tower. we knew then that it was terrorism. i remember thinking that nothin

kennedy was assassinated on a street in downtown, dallas. i was a senior then at robert e lee high school in midland, texas, and i was sitting in a classroom when we learned that the president had been killed. i remember feeling as if a blanket had been thrown over our school suffocating all the usual sounds of chair scrapings and classroom chatter. people cried the horror was so sudden and so unimaginable. i went home for lunch that day and i remember my parents sadness and like most american families. we spent the next few days watching television. i remember it as a terrible blow almost too much to bear. a sudden reminder at a very young age of how fragile life truly is. now we've experienced another one of those days in our national life a day. so horrifying that it'll be permanently seared in the hearts and memories of of all of us who witnessed it. i was on my way to meet with senator ted kennedy. when a secret service agent told me that a plane had just hit the world trade center. we thought it was an accident at first, but as we approached capital hill the secret

anyway, the very day that reagan, nevertheless, announced his pick, ted kennedy went to the wall of the senate to denounce robert ports america, which was a place that featured a few truly horrible parade. it went downhill from there as the brusque pork with the brusque beard was not ready for tv. he failed to adopt the now common strategy without saying anything. a few days later, a few years later, ruth bader ginsburg would pattern that into a pencil movement. you cannot talk about specifics because they might come before the court. can't talk about general principles because a judge should deal with specifics only. confirmation processes were not always like this. we did not have hearings until 1916, which was a tumultuous year. the first jewish nominee, louis brandeis, who was attacked for being a crusading progressive. he himself did not testify. that was seen as unseemly for the nominee to appear before the senate. we had four months of this process, the longest ever. he eventually was concert firmed but then another justice, evan hughes, resigned to what run against woodrow wilson. if you think that 2016

anyway, the very day that reagan, nevertheless, announced his pick, ted kennedy went to the well of the senate to denounce robertbox america, which is a place that features a truly horrible parade, and it went downhill from there as the brock berke, with the boss beard, not quite ready for tv, failed to adopt this common strategy of talking to law without saying anything. a few days later, a few years later, ruth bader ginsburg would pattern that into a pencil movement. you can't talk about specifics because they might come before the court budget can talk about general principles because a judge should deal with specifics only. confirmation processes tumultuous year the first jewish nominee louis brandeis was attacked for being a crusading preset under progressive but that was seen as unseemly for the nominee to appear before the senate we had four months of this he was confirmed but then another justice resigned to run against woodward wilson. think 2016 or 2020 was the height of the intersection of the presidential politics and the supreme court i will see those and raise them to 1960. while the confirmation

office similarly john roberts and all of them still do that, and kavanaugh and there's the newer justices of course is more likely that cases they heard will be headed of but justice kennedy refused from a case years ago that he participated in 1985, and so yes, to the extent of that anything that judge ketanji brown jackson wrote about trump as a federal judge an official capacity, she is required to refuse should be, and i'm confident that she will. >> you talk about some of the elements that what i could've ethic look like and what else would you like to see a part of that. >> sure if you would look at the code of conduct for the u.s. judges which apply to every federal judge in our system and by the supreme court, is fairly good in terms of what it would cover for the supreme court justice it would say currently says judges should apple the integrity of the office and maintain impartiality and treat all the litigants and parties and lawyers with respect is a good ethical things to follow in a fewew things that i would adds think that recently a lot of justices speaking at the man's bethere was one briar spoke outf texas in one the smoke in florida and one in utah that

chief justice roberts appeared critical of claims for lawyers for both the white house and the state of texas president biden announced his first three pardons today. he gave clemency to a kennedycret service agency convicted of bribery and two others who became pillars of their community. and they've rur found high energy levels at the chernobyl nuclear plant in the wake of its occupation of russian troops, who dug trenches in the area the inspectors visited the city today. it's in ukraine. it's the 20th -- anniversary of the chernobyl disaster >>> and natural gas shipments have been halted poland imposed sanctions on 50 russian oligarchs and companies. how u.s. intelligence has helped ukraine protect its airspace that is tonight at 7:00 eastern. kelly, see you in a little bit >> we'll see you soon. >>> still ahead two big tech names on deck with their earnings we'll look at what they need to do to win over wall street with the stocks under pressure. vees issau as well how much of an impact will the russia/ukraine war have? - [narrator] at southern new hampshire university, you can finish your degree faster and for less money. transfer up to 90 college credits toward your bach

roberts, a lot of ways this case can go. >> sandra: fascinating some of the questions received by the justices or the questions posed by justices, equating kennedy'smendment free speech expression they suggest it could not be sanctioned by the school district, and alito, whether he carried a ukrainian flag, or a sign of the cross before the game, reasonable questions, professor. >> they are. the funny thing is it sounded a lot like my con law class, we talked about this case and the students and i came up with all of the same hypotheticals. the justices, if anything, were even more creative. one of the justices saying what if he gave the prayer wearing a nazi uniform or showing a swastika. all reasonable questions as we try to law the line here this. is going to be a huge term for free exercise, free speech and the establishment clause. another case out of boston that the court will be ruling on as to whether the city of boston could prevent a religious group from flying a flag outside city hall where other groups were allowed to hoist flags. so this could be one of the most important terms in history in terms of defining that line on free exercis

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