in contrast, taft had almost every other polity. he was loyal. he was decent.e gave a reasonable explanation for what he did, but he did not love politics, and he felt nervous giving speeches, and when they were on trains, they had to remind him, go wave to the people now. it was not an instinctual thing. loving the presidency, it is such a tough job, but if you can't, like fdr, why would not everyone want to be president, then you are in trouble. and absolutely bill clinton. >> his last weeks in office, he said he literally slept as little as possible so he could have the maximum number of hours being president. >> and there is also this about president obama, the criticism that he does not do enough associating with members of congress and his own party, as well as the republican party. his argument has always been, i do enough of it, and you cannot convince me that one more dinner or playing one more round of golf with somebody would have made a difference in the vote that took place. >> yes, i am probably more in agreement with him on that one. putting in s

jessica taft takes a look at how we got here. >> when jonathan martin walked away from the team in octobert was like opening up pandora's box. details emerged that martin was the subject of intense bullying. on november 4th the dolphins suspended incognito indefinitely saying, quote . . . neither martin nor incognito have suited up for the dolphins since. and the nfl has been left to defend itself culture. it didn't take long before the public learned incognito had a history of bullying rookies dating back to his days at the university of nebraska. and we heard some of what he subjected martin to. on november 8th, martin met with nfl representatives. at issue for investigator ted wells is when does hazing qualify as harassment and bullying. two days later incaution knee toe broke his silence and said, quote . . . the nfl's investigation concluded in late november and all was silent until january 31st when incognito's lawyers released text share showing that both had sent some rather unsavory messages. and then incognito had a twitter meltdown. in less than 45 minutes, he sent five tweets a

exporting country instead of the current standard of dual testing be it fracking banking or flying taft critics argue will leave governments with no choice but to change policies that better suit the business needs of private corporate power what their hope is is to have to find the lowest common denominator between the u.s. and and and standards that then make it more easy for there to be quote unquote trade big call our regulations and our standards that hurts. health and safety trade irritants they're called as opposed to barriers and and we believe that those many of those standards are there for very good reason public support for safety standards and regulation may be the very reason american and european citizens have been kept in the dark about what may turn out to be the world's largest free trade agreement bring up or najar to new york and so we're on our web site today voiceless majority genetically modified maize crops are likely to and are farms in the e.u. despite staunch opposition from over half of the union's member states that stories aligned for you today also there.

the program from san francisco, the author, author of this the bully pulpit, theodore roosevelt and taft and the golden age of journalism, i am pleased to have all of them here as we have the presidency who inabouted this office, what it means, what is the toll and how we measure greatness, i will begin with michael beschloss. what kind of person is attracted to the presidency? >> now a daze, nowadays it is a shrinking number and one that is willing to go through many ways a tortious experience which was not the case for most of american history so the first thing i think to say is that we are not opening this office to as many people who would be great presidents as we used to earlier. you know, it is now 24 hours a day, you are expected to be on all the time, jon kennedy in the summer of 1961 was on vacation at hyannis port, the berlin wall went up. there was an inquiry at the press office what does the president think about the berlin wall going up in spite of the fact we said he it would not happen, a week was allowed to come by before kennedy had to give a response to that, now you

robert taft or whatever was over to have to get robert has the republican presidents didn't just break up oil companies they broke up match. is sugar so that gets paid newspaper syndicate's. so we have taken an oligarchy for why don't we do it again why we do have laws on the books and our antitrust laws should be vigorously enforced but let me just point out that when you're talking about going after political speech. you may have the face of the koch brothers that may be an easy target but the reality is there are lots of smaller groups out there that are often affected we have these i.r.s. regulations proposed regulations the comment period closed tomorrow it was kind of fly by night the obama administration put out a bunch of proposed regulations to regulate c for political activity and you know it created a firestorm of division between those on the political left and those on the on the ideological left because the political left says we can get rid of the seaforth they can clamp down on money in politics and sure will kill some some lefty groups but will really kill you know the

jessica taft joining us with the details. >> look at how thick this document is.oth martin and incognito played for the dolphins and this 144-page document names three starters on the offensive line, but that's just one part as this story has already taken plenty of twists and turns. when dolphins offensive tackle jonathan martin walked away from the team in october, it was like opening up pandora's box. he was the subject of intense bullying. on november 4th the dolphins suspended incognito saying, quote, we believe in maintaining a culture of respect for one another, and as a result, we believe this decision is in the best interests of the organization at this time. the nfl has been left to defend its culture while it's fans had to ask can a 300-pound man be bullied. the public learned incognito had a history of bullying rookies. and on november 6th we heard some racially charged voicemails and video. martin left with representatives investigating allegations of workplace harassment. at issue for the investigator is when does hazing qualify as harassment and bul

when the cancer spreads, the cost of me taft sis is $250,000 per person per year. we are in this program always, all of us have been a big advocate of screening. whether it's a mammogram or for men. you should know that knowledge. risk stratification and know your genetics is absolutely -- >> i agree with what david is going with this. this information and knowledge is power. if we do mammograms and find a problem, women want to know. here's the data. 80 to 90% sensitive at picking up early breast cancer. 98% and five-year survival rate. laura who pea spoke to who is the lead author in the study. there is no evidence that early screening really saves lives. first of all, this quality of life to consider. not a woman wants to know they have breast cancer. it's up to the doctor and these guidelines. this is what laura said. the author of the study. i think it should be every year as a starting point. then say what's the risk point? if you have dense breasts, it's harder to follow. you need to follow a trend. every year should be a starting point. if i say every other

the unimaginable ka taft officery that is syria continues. as always, thank you for your insight and analysis this morning. . >> big news when a florida jury said they were unable to reach a verdict issuing a partial verdict in the loud music murder trial. the injury found michael dun guilty on four of five counts so the judge declared a mistrial on the highest count of first-degree murder. he was charged with shooting and killing then 17-year-old jordan davis outside a gas station in jacksonville. today would be jordan's 19th birthday. that shooting over the argument and jordan's mother emotionally sharing reaction to the verdict after it was handed down. >> we are so grateful for the charges that have been brought against him. we are so grateful for the truth. we are so grateful that the jurors were able to understand the common sense of it all. and we will continue to stand and we will continue to wait for justice for jordan. >> as i mentioned jordan was unarmed. obviously dunn was. they dismissed suggestions that they overreached that fir

my favorite first lady was helen taft. >> why? >> she brought in the cherry blossoms. she started the whole first ady dresses. she was worldwide traveler and i think she gave so much the white house. >> you have been the founding director of a number of presidential libraries so what would your answer be for someone having your job 20 years from now? >> i would say she put her finger on a very real problem. i am a dinosaur when it comes to this. i write books based on ld-fashioned research. going through letters, diaries, and you are right when they disappear. even now they alone are not enough to tell the story. i suspect in the future historians will have all that e-mail and twitter and whatever else we come up with to destroy the art of conversation. there will be even more eliance on oral history. in other words, doing interviews with people who were there, who were part of the story, who were onlookers, and who can in their own words to describe that. all history has imperfections but it is a substitute. one substitute for the written record. >> i just can't imagi

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it, taft did not fare very well in the shadow of colorful theodore roosevelt. in some ways he was best in the domestic sphere. he was -- at some level he probably knew how instrumental she had been in his success. >> cathy is in rockville, maryland. >> i have really enjoyed this series, thank you so much for putting this on. mary wondering about todd's relationship with her family, even when she had depression. >> thank you very much. >> well, it was a serious issue, and it became much worse after the death of willie, understandably. in 1862, they had lost a child. mercurial.ways been she was called high strong as a child. i will leave it to the experts to discern whether there were foreshadowing of the later emotional problems. but even a much cheerier sword than her, i think if they had gone through what she went through come the death of her mother and their children, the assassination of her husband, it would have been almost a miracle if she had not suffered emotional difficulties. but i think the war broke her on sanity.d perhaps in a curious way, the war

that is ellie taft nation.e is the 8-year-old daughter of our very own dan nate that will. curiously despite her young age she's only slightly less mature than her father. welcome ely to "options action." ellie, i know you follow the stock market a bit. what is your favorite stock? >> i'm with carl the apple. >> she's talking about carl icahn. amazing. >>> time now for the final call. scott? >>> how to short volatility. any dope can sell naked options and be short volatility but this week's extra we talk about the short volatility and do it while defining risk. >> we're going to go to carter. carter, what do you say? >> final trade is be defensive. if you have do something do utilities. >> dan? >> you know, in twitter i'm not saying go out and buy the stock here, but, you know, the high of the year is 75. the low is about 55. take advantage of the really high option implied volatilities and recreate a long structure with options. >> mike. >> it's very interesting. the price of options is setting up two great op

really yeah did you go through school yeah i want to finish school yeah i want to and i'm going to taft in women heels i hear in after school i went to phoenix institute of technology for a year and then this ran music took off and how did you come direct. you know i was just a fan you know as a young sea looking for things to do things. that keep you away from trouble you know it was playing sports at first and hip hop came in in eighty's and it just you know i fell in love with the music dr dre who's you know a big time producer his cousin lived down the street from me so it was just a stroke of luck that i had a chance to mean he liked how rhymed took me under his wing and the rest is history what was your first hit my first hit was it was a hit that i wrote for somebody else a rope easy and it was called boys and i heard it was the record proceed at the movie and it was our first major major hit and it really kind of solidified what we were going to do and how was going to approach it i'm going to get a lot of rap people have interviewed you think dog and wiz khalifa and. what are r

we had a conversation yesterday with a gentleman by the name of john taft.wealth management, and he says if you deploy cash wisely, stocks will outperform. he says if you are paying down debt with your cash and buying back stock with your cash and growing the dividend paying out your cash, you tend to outperform. we wanted to put that to the test, so we looked at the s&p 500 and screen for all those paying down debt. at least 10% reduction of your debt as a percentage of total capital. buying back stock and growing the dividend by 10% on average over the past three years. as it turns out, he was right. look at this -- we found 19 companies doing exactly that, and over the past year, these 19 companies are up to the 6.6%, -- up 36 point six percent, practically double the s&p 500. here are 10 of them, but is that we know. i'm going through very quickly. do not worry. i have posted on 19 on twitter, sight. cash is king if you put it to work. >> that is adam johnson talking about what is going on with cash and with the dollar. i want to run through some of the

i am #r-ding thi rding a book about roosevelt and taft, but teddy, his motto was speak softly but carryck. neil: i am wonderingoo in this age, talkingbout republicans of this age, that they speak loudly, for example on issues of spend s, but, they don't ever cut spending, a lot of waiting until i guess, keeping their powder dry for november midterm elections hoping then they might ke the senate, a bigger majority in the house, and able to respond, but our debt keeps filing up, is that a good strategy? >> t spending problem has to beddressed in terms of the entitlement programs. and you haveo face up to them, and social security is easy to fix. really should not be controversial. and our medical health costs are soaring. and it is not that difficult t fire out what to do about it, but we hav to get at those things, that is the big spending. neil: but we don't do that -- >> iight saylso in the military, that a lot of the so-called entitlementshere pensions, and health costs, and so on are ao spending out of control, the more that happens the more it drives out the fundamental functions of

really beats them all but hardy and hoover coolidge and taft teddy roosevelt and jerry ford they're all republicans. i mean i think i think looking at the numbers is asking the wrong question the question isn't how many executive orders has the issue of the question is what executive order says he is sharing and are they within the bounds of his authority as the president franklin roosevelt was putting japanese in prison all right but do we want to hunt osama to the same standard you know putting americans in internment camps or do we want to you know raise our national discussion and talk about something a little bit better so where he's not interning at the legally but he is doing things that are perhaps not the best. work. i think that when you pass a law and he's clearly stating the law that this is how it's going to work and it is an act of congress that it takes an act of congress to change it there certainly will go and i don't in any way mean to imply that a lot of missions don't get it right on the power to to enforce the requires the president to enforce the laws but gives a h

it's now have been standing for a higher minimum wage actually it was republicans before that it was taft and and teddy roosevelt but nonetheless it's been democrats ever since wilson. standing up for a minimum wage roosevelt actually put it in place and. the republicans have been fighting the minimum wage in fact rand paul doesn't think there should be any minimum wage much less seven dollars twenty five cents an hour. what does that make the republicans if the democrats are the party that we're going to. be actually. libya in i'm not a republican independent but i am a federal contractor i mean it's president have you ever heard of davis bacon oh i'm sorry that that day why isn't davis making me and of course david smick human being forced in would i use a little no no look i know that in alabama and you make fourteen dollars an hour down a working at the air force base. let me just for people who don't know what we're talking about let me just explain this real quickly david spade is a piece of legislation is passed or unbacked i think johnson was of the just a majority in the bag. jus

he met with president taft. he met with fdr repeatedly. he was the worst to be reckoned with. sinclair lewis if you are over 50 you are ready know who he is from the novels main street and it can't happen here. which is still, are still part of the political landscape of america. and mencken. many of you know or expect all of you know who mencken is that you probably don't know that rankin was the most influential liberal of the 1920s. you don't know this because in the 30s he was enormously hostile to fdr and he was cast into perfidy. but in the 1920s no one and i say no one was more influential among liberal thinkers. young advanced thinkers on the campus today's equivalent of the creative class god help us. no one was more influential than mencken. like communism fabianism and fascism modern liberalism was a vanguard movement born of a new class of politically self-conscious intellectuals. let me repeat that because it may sound odd. like communism atheism and fascism was a vanguard movement born of a new class of politically self-conscious and righteous. i'm not suggesting

jessica taft is here with those headlines, jessica, good to see you. >> one of my favorite stories, remember the old golfer. >> yes, he took down tiger, didn't he? >> he did, and that -- a few years before he was selling cell phones. >> right. >> and then he goes into the b.f.a. championship. check this out, four years ago, went to the winter games as a technician, today he leaves the games at an olympic medalist, the 27-year-old from vermont, edged out the american teammate, in the snowboarding cross snowboarding to bring home the bronze. he spent the last olympics literally prepping and shaping the boards for the american vancouver, saying stands at the podium today, all that went through his head, department matter when he got to wrap that american flag around him. now, then amile legle spencer was nearly leon of the 15 k buy@lon. >> nice. >> just about he was about to cross the finish line, he celebrated early, and it allowed francis to lung forward to create a photo finish, he eventually was awarded gold unlike the former cowboy who fumbled at the goal line, he was ready to celebrate ea

they talked about his fiction, he met with president taft, he met with -- fdr repeatedly. he was a force to be reckoned with. if you are over 50 you know who sinclair lewis is from the novel's main street and it can't happen here which is still part of the political landscape of america. and an many of you know h.l. mencken but you probably don't know that he was the most influential liberal of the 1920s. you don't know this because in the 30s he was enormously hostile to fdr and -- in the 1920s no one, i say no one was more influential among liberal thinkers and young advanced thinkers on the campus, today's equivalent of the creative class, no one was more influential than h.l. mencken. like communism and fascism modern liberalism was of vanguard movement born of a new class of publicly self-conscious intellectuals. let me repeat that because it may sound odd. like communism modern liberalism was the vanguard movement born of a new class of publicly self-conscious in collectibles. i am not to justin liberals are fascists, communists, none of the above, i am saying there

that is frustrating taft is so expensive. >> it is the most expensive. it has gone over budget. it has problems with the bolts. questions about that. we are going to hear more and more about that. >> i'm kind of upset the about it. >> the tolls will get collected we'll pay out the money. and it is a one of a kind bring in more ways than one. >> the part strikes are the subject of an investigation into figuring out how things have gotten so bad. and there was an inquiry launched. they are trying to find out why negotiations failed leading to two strikes and that contract dispute. the board voted to hire a consultant. i mean what did go wrong? >> there is a combination of things. if you are allowed to strike and the other side is not allowed to bring in workers. how will you work things out. there is no reason to come to an agreement. second of haul, management came in with a team that was moved to cut the wages. you don't need an consultant. this is political cover. everyone made mistakes you bring in an outsider. the question is whether they come up with the solutions or this is

william howard taft. >> that was going to be my second guess!an's second inaugural was moved inside the capital. it was. because of the snowstorm. >> not the senate chamber. >> that part. >> well, we have to do a little more work on that. thank you, guys. >>> kevin spacey coming up. and the expert panel on whether the nfl is ready for the first openly gay player. gay player. hi. i'm henry winkler. and i know there are many myths out there about a reverse mortgage, so i want you to know the facts. there are currently no credit score or income requirements to qualify. you can get tax-free money from the equity in your home. you can use the money to pay off your current mortgage if you have one. the remaining money can be used for anything. there's no monthly mortgage payments. and you still own your home! call today to get your free guide and dvd. it explains how a government-insured reverse mortgage works. there's no obligation. one reverse mortgage is a quicken loans company. their licensed experts can answer all your questions. call to find out

the roosevelts, tafts, harrison, jfk became president and appointed his brother attorney general, otherher became senator. vice president al gore's father was a senator, too. the public says we don't like nepotism, but elect these guys. >> we publicly and in generalsas condemn it, but privately and. case by case basis we approve and it's in the new nepotism, the error, the successor has to prove his worth either before or after the fact. i think that barbara bush says she doesn't want a bush dynasty. it's too late. they already have one. >> on to hollywood where the kids, the famous people somehow get good roles themselves. actor will smith puts his kidslw in movies. >> never let somebody tell you that you can't do something. >> yeah, well. it's easier to do something if your father arranges it for you. >> hollywood is a kind of a family industry. there are not just in the actinw professions, but in directing, in stage craft --ng >> acting alone, drew barrymore the daughter of john.rym jerry and ben stiller, angelina jolie's father is jon voigt. the sheen family is interesting. martin s

and "the money lead," customer service goes to die and now come taft and time-warner cable, the largest and second largest cable companies respectively want to combine into one giant cable provider. what that will mean for your bill and your frustration level. good afternoon, everyone. i am jake tapper and we begin with the national lead. much like the beatles' final performance, we are doing it from the roof today, though we are not singing "good day sunshine." we are atop the capital which is like a giant ice sculpture. the brunt of this storm is smacking boston right now as the snow in the region begins to change into a nasty mix of rain and sleet. going outside in this is like getting a slurpy dumped on your head. here's the view from space from a few hours ago. this is the reason planes are not going anywhere. more than 6,000 flights canceled so far today. here in washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york city, it's not over yet. precipitation has turned into stinging pellets of rain in many of those areas, including right here, this area on my face. but it will likely turn back int

he met with president taft, he met with period of president --r repeatedly. he was a force to be reckoned with. sinclair lewis, if you're over 50, you know who he is from the novels "main street" and "it can't happen here," which are still part of the political landscape of america. and mencken. many of you know -- in fact, all of you know who mencken is. but you probably don't know that mencken was the most influential liberal of the 1920s. you don't know this because in the '30s he was enormously hostile to fdr, and he was cast into per mity. but in the 1920s no one, and i say no one was more influential among liberal thinkers and young, advanced thinkers on campus, you know, today's equivalent of richard florida's creative class, god help us -- [laughter] no one was more influential than mencken. like communism and fascism, modern liberalism was a vanguard movement born of a new class of politically self-conscious intellectuals. let me repeat that, because it may sound odd. like communism, fascism, modern liberalism was a vanguard movement born of a new cl

this is about nelly taft who was first lady in 1910 and about three months in she had a stroke at 48.uld not read or watch and her mouth drooped and she could not be seen in public. she is a very active first lady and wanted it like crazy. she was very ambitious. a man named buck painted a beautiful picture. nelly helped prepare a state dinner but couldn't attend. it was a big affair. there was a little room adjoining the state dining room. before the dinner, she comes down to this little room and she is dressed in her beautiful downton abby outfit with jewelry and hair down. and they had a table for one prepared. she sits outside in this little room adjacent to the state dining room and they left the room ajar is little bit so they can here what was going on. that is a beautiful story >> foster is joining us from virginia. she is the author of a number of books. thanks very much for joining us. >> you are very, very welcome. thank you for having me. >> tune in monday for the final look at the first ladies influence and image. julianna smoot is here. she is a veteran of state dinners.