-- the ted kennedy of chappaquiddick fame -- how joe biden and a series of white, privileged men could sit in judgment of this man who was the son of grand participants who were -- grandparents who were sharecroppers who raised him, and he went to yale law school. he did everything right including allowing for anita hill to rise through the ranks of the legal profession through jobs with him where she never had a sexual relationship with him at all. he did nothing untoward. and she was party to this takedown. and i did not understand how it could be that these white people of privilege were attacking this black man who was in this historic position while the mainstream media took him down, while the naacp and the urban league and other black liberal leaders sat and seemed to relish this takedown. >> who were your mentors? you had this mentor at the time who we're going to get to later who's brutally murdered. and you didn't know whether to cry for him or not. but you had this mentor, and it was along that time that you started questioning the indoctrination. >> the smartest person i ev

would be a very bad thing for barack obama just as it was a very bad thing for jimmy carter when ted kennedy challenged him. i don't think that was really in the cards, but jack is absolutely right. i think this pretty well ends that possibility and gives obama another key to the white house. i've written the book the keys to the white house and the lack of a challenge to an incumbent is one key and another key is a foreign policy success. by itself that doesn't get you reelected as george h.w. bush learned, but it's a lot better to have it than not have it. >> if you can look into your crystal balls, what do you think the delay is from the white house? we've received word three or four times he was about to address the nation. it's been postponed. is he waiting for someone else to stan next to him -- stand next to him? >> it could be a lot of things. it could be going back to your original question. how would we prepare the speech? the president may have two or three versions. he may be realizing now the extreme sensitivity of this and may be writing and rewriting. this thing could still be

i didn't understand how ted kennedy, thee ted kennedy, how howard, joe biden, and a series of white privileged men sat in judgment of this man who was the son of grandparents who were sharecroppers who raised him, he went to yale law school, he did everything right including allowing for

, the ted kennedy a chappaquiddick fame, a series of white privileged man could sit in judgment of this man who was the son of grandparents who were sharecroppers who raised him. he went to yale law school. he did everything right including allowing for in the jail to rise to the ranks of the legal profession three jobs with him where she never had the central relationship with him and all. he did nothing and toward. she was party to the takedown. i did not understand how it could be that these white people of privilege or attacking this black man in this historic position where the mainstream media to condemn. the naacp and the urban league and other black liberal leaders sat and seemed to relish this take them. >> you had this mentor at the time who we would get to later who is brutally murdered. you didn't know. you had this mentor. it was a long that time did he started questioning the induct -- indoctrination. >> the smartest person i ever met was this dynamite. i was delivering pizza in high-school. he was just different, alternative, and the smartest guy i ever knew. in hindsight

, the ted kennedy would come howard metzenbaum, joe biden and a series of privileged men could sit in judgment of this man who was the son of grandparents who were sharecroppers and he went to yield all school. he did everything right including allowing for any the hill to rise through the ranks of the legal profession through jobs with him where she never had a sexual relationship with him at all. he did nothing and torn, and she was party to this takedown, and i did not understand how it could be that these white people of privilege were attacking a black man in this historic position while the mainstream media took him down and the naacp and the urban league and other black liberal leaders sat and seemed to relish. >> guest: who was the mentor? you had a mentor who was brutally murdered. and you didn't know you had this mentor and it was a long that time that you start to questioning the indoctrination. some of the smartest person and it was a guy named mike and he was different, he was alternative and the smartest guy i ever knew. in hindsight he wasn't the most ethical. he took t

, the ted kennedy of chappaquiddick fame, how howard metsenbaum and joe biden, a series of privileged men and a man from a sharecropper who did everything right including for allowing anita hill to rise through the ranks through the legal prophysician through jobs with him where she never had a sexual relationship with him at all and he did nothing untoward and she was a party to this takedown and i could not figure out how these white people of privilege who were attacking this black man who was in this position while the mainstream media took him down while the naacp and the urban league and other black liberal leaders sat and seemed to relish this takedown. >> who were your mentor -- you had this mentor at the time who we're going to get to later who's brutally murdered and you didn't know to cry for him or not. and it was along that time that you started questioning the indoctrination. >> the smartest person i ever met was this guy name mike and i was delivering pizza in high school. he was just different. he was alternative and the smartest guy i ever knew. in hindsight he wasn't

working with the oldest anti- party organization in new england, which ted kennedy was a champion of. we created a series of workshops for the whole year based around a human-rights platform. not looking at these folks who need to be saved but as folks who can engage in a dynamic process to think critically about the situation they are in, understand the situation they are in so they can make informed choices and the other folks on to the information they are getting. we took malcolms idea. we got the united nations convention of the rights of a child. we constructed some of the basic elements. over the years, we created human rights report cards where the young folks in me this organization, who were just coming home, one month they did a report card with a graded the public schools. the next month, they greeted the police in their community. the next month, they greeted the health care services in their community. all of these things -- there's an international convention that says young people have a basic human rights. not citizenship rights but human-rights that need to be protec

. >> reporter: specifically, the massachusetts health care plan he signed into law in 2006 with ted kennedy at his side. it did help deliver insurance to more than 450,000 uninsured people. it also helped paint romney into a political corner. >> i agree with mitt romney. proud of what he accomplished on health care in massachusetts. >> reporter: tough words to take if you want to run in a republican primary. 80% of republicans oppose the president's health care plan. which, like the massachusetts model, penalizes people who do not buy insurance. today, in a breathtakingly scathing editorial, the conservative "wall street journal" said of romney, if he does not change his message, he might as well try to knock off joe biden and get on the obama ticket. but, for those hoping for an apology, romney said -- >> there's only one problem with that. it wouldn't be honest. i, in fact, did what i believe is right for the people of my state. >> reporter: romney did say he would work to repeal the president's plan and hand over power to individual states. >> our plan was a state solution to a state pro

involvement by the president which led to a rather lively exchange between ashcroft and the late senator ted kennedy. january ninth two thousand true signed by john you know you all just two thousand chief justice department and the. amendment. memo and the march two thousand troop. working group those are three number where you provide those to the committee. no i will not. basis. on which bases on the basis the long standing established reasons for providing opinions provided the executive branch. now ashcroft also propose that the best of security enhancements act of two thousand and three was often called the patriot act q because it expanded the powers of the government to fight crime and terrorism with little or no judicial oversight now luckily the measure was never introduced in congress you don't outdrive by civil liberties groups but the d.o.j. was successful at increasing wiretapping capabilities while he was the attorney general and who could also forget the when i became attorney general he spent eight thousand dollars on blue great side to nude statues in the great hall the department

kind of spreading across the country to encourage elizabeth warren to run against scott brown for ted kennedy's old son of seat when it comes up next year i think it's actually demonstrates the political tone deafness of chairman patrick mchenry of this committee somehow he's decided that it's politically expedient to look politically attractive to side with the bankers even though they poll less popularly than a member of congress whereas in fact. as the popular drafting of elizabeth warren to be a united states senator i think he needs to and if you think about it tom it's also kind of a brilliant head fake because basically somebody saying to the republicans ok if you don't give her the job she should have we're going to use her to take out one of your senators right oh i'd be interesting to see how they respond to that and i in fact frankly i think i think she's one of the few people who could actually take out one of her senators a very interesting bar richard thank you both very much for being with there are she back showing those with one is clearly a great candidate for the job but ther

massachusetts senator scott brown was elected last year to replace late senator ted kennedy.ieutenant-colonel in the massachusetts army national guard and required to complete annual service obligations. he requested the overseas assignment to give him a better perspective on the ongoing mission in afghanistan. he did not give a specific date. the president obama meets with the congressional hispanic caucus to address the nation's broken immigration system. for the past several weeks showing his support of the dream at making it easier for those in the united states without legal status to become citizens. the president has also said it cannot make the changes about support from republicans in congress. some say this is how would support of the issue insurers to secure in the hispanic vote in the 2012 elections. the prince charles will visit the united states for three days and it will be his first visit to the u.s. since 2007. the prince will deliver the keynote address at a conference of sustainable agriculture in new jersey and will visit farms growing food for lower incom

on the democratic side everybody would assume ted kennedy would be the nominee and here i turn to 2008. the most prominent figure in the democratic party relative of the president everyone assumes this person -- could i find the 1980 equivalent of a first term young vibrant dynamic senator who could be it change candidate? maybe you could take a poll as to who it is. i think it is gary hart. i talked to some of his aides to figure out how that would be plausible. judge for yourself if it works or not. to wrap up, many of you may quarrel with these histories. that is fine. you can argue johnson would have so intimidated khrushchev he would not have put those missiles in cuba or humphrey would have beaten kennedy any way or nixon would have beat him or ford would have lost. the purpose of this exercise apart from my accumulating enormous wealth is to offer a kind of meditation on history. to suggest our impulse to fits what happened in these grand schemes and patterns can conceal from us the thought that history could have just as easily gone this way or that way. if the book gets you to

so, you know, obama has associated himself with kennedy mystique, caroline kennedy endorsed him, ted kennedy endorsed him. i hope he doesn't associate himself with kennedy's performance in 1961. >> host: in the last couple minutes, what would you like your readers to take away? what are the main things you would like them to take away from reading your book? >> guest: in some ways we're lucky with the cold war because we had an iconic symbol, the berlin wall. >> host: uh-huh. >> guest: of what happens when unfree systems are not resisted by free systems and so we see this and i want people to take away the fact that there are consequences for presidential decision. this one -- it was 30 years of extended cold war. and president kennedy could not have known it was going to end 30 years later. >> host: yeah. >> guest: it could have lasted forever. >> host: yeah. >> guest: where, you know, would we have wanted to go to war? no. would one want to take action to accelerate the liberation of tens of millions of east europeans, poles, czechs, hungarians, astonians? so i think i want people to refle

ted kennedy associated himself. hope he doesn't associate himself with kennedy's poor performance. >> what would you like your readers to take away. what are the main things you would want them to take away from your book? >> in some ways we're lucky in terms of berlin wall when unfree systems are not resisted by free systems. and so we see this. and so i want people to take away the fact that there are consequences for presidential decision. this one -- it was 30 years of extended cold war. and president kennedy could not have known it was going to end 30 years later. it could have lasted forever. >> yep. >> where, you know, would we would have wanted to go to war? no. would we would have wanted take action to liberate the people so i think i want people to reflect and perhaps start a new debate. >> yeah. >> over whether kennedy could have avoided the berlin wall. i don't know whether i'm right but i think the debate is worth it. >> yeah. and as you say, this is one of the most -- less has been written about the col

he was claiming he was better on gay rights than ted kennedy. not today he doesn't claim that. this week he claimed he was for the auto bailout when he was against it two years ago. the media knows -- >> a policy basis because he changed his view. >> in his track record and you hear it from republicans, too. >> there is plenty to criticize on romney's record if you want to go after flip-flops and authentici authenticity. the problem is the press has decided that's the narrative about romney and they're slotting things that don't belong there into that story line like what he's wearing at a particular event. that's the problem. just as when the reporters decided that gore was an inauthentic figure or he had a problem with the truth, every trivial little thing became part of that story line. and the candidate was never given a chance to break out of that. >> but this is not unique to romney. i mean, look at what happened with barack obama bowling in pennsylvania. i mean, the press creates these things around candidates, and their rivals play into that. definitely the other republ

speech writers and political strategists, robert shrum worked with progressive candidates from ted kennedyhwriter for george w. bush, mr. frum. welcome to both of you. david, let me begin with you. was it standard practice or is this is your prying to you that the israeli government knew the precise content of the speech before it was delivered and was given a chance to push back? >> it is standard practice to share a speech with all important stakeholders. clearly the administration felt the israelis were an important stakeholder here. it is surprising to me they allowed it to go so long and i think they thought they were going to spring something on the israelis by showing them at the lass minute and got them -- to pushback. you put your finger in your -- opening statement on the key point about all of this, though. which is -- they -- was this the news the president wanted to make in his speech about the arab? 80% of the speech is about the arab, ball rain and syria. what's the headline that he got? about the '67 borders. is that what he wanted? find that hard to believe. if so, that's

maybe the president forgets that i was one of the authors with ted kennedy and a couple of other senatorse legislation that he helped to kill that would have provided comprehensive immigration reform about five years ago. >> chris: let me ask the question, sir. senator kyl, would you support that bill today? >> not today i wouldn't. it's clear that the effort to secure the border was never a realistic effort. that is to say when the president talks about the progress that has been made, it's because of legislation that i introduced to increase the number of border patrol and provide technology and fencing on the border. when the president suggests that is enough, we have been trying to tell him for a long time, come to the boarder in arizona and you will see it's not enough. there is still some to go. if the president says we're done, we are not going to do anymore, we will never stop illegal immigration in the country so we can then get on to solving the problems of those here illegally. let me make a quick point, chris. >> chris: we're running out of time. >> real quickly. >> chris: oka

speech writers and political strategists, robert shrum worked with progressive candidates from ted kennedy kerry. former speechwriter for george w. bush, mr. frum. welcome to both of you. david, let me begin with you. was it standard practice or is this is your prying to you that the israeli government knew the precise content of the speech before it was delivered and was given a chance to push back? >> it is standard practice to share a speech with all important stakeholders. clearly the administration felt the israelis were an important stakeholder here. it is surprising to me they allowed it to go so long and i think they thought they were going to spring something on the israelis by showing them at the lass minute and got them -- to pushback. you put your finger in your -- opening statement on the key point about all of this, though. which is -- they -- was this the news the president wanted to make in his speech about the arab? 80% of the speech is about the arab, ball rain and syria. what's the headline that he got? about the '67 borders. is that what he wanted? find that hard to bel

oppressed, white people are always wrong, black people always right, i didn't understand how thee ted kennedy, how howard, joe biden, and a series of white privilege man could sit in judgment of this man the son of grandparents who were sharecroppers who raised him and went to yale law school. he did everything right including allowing for hill to rise through the ranks of the legal profession through jobs with him where she never had a sexual relationship with him at all. he did nothing untoward, and she was party to this take down, and i did not understand how it could be that these white people of privilege were attacking this black man in this historic position while the mainstream media took him down or the naacp and the urban league and other black liberal leaders sat and seemed to reel lish this take down. >> host: who was your mentor? we'll get to the mentor later who was brutally murdered, and you had this mentor, and it was along that time that you started questioning then the indoctrine nation. >> guest: the smartest person i met was a guy named mike. i was delivering pizza in high

several years ago i was up in the senate race gallery and i'm watching dan quayle and ted kennedy read each other in the well of the senate and they gave each other these big hugs and their faces are like so far apart that they are laughing and groping and their hands are rubbing up and down each other's backs and they are grinding away there. i was like, get a round. i don't want to see this. [laughter] another story i tell which is a bit of name dropping but you will forgive me. i call it reporting. i'm going for a hotel in boston a couple of years ago when bill clinton comes out of one of the elevators and he starts praising me for a column i had written praising him. [laughter] which he thought was particularly astute column but as he is talking people see bill clinton in the lobby and he starts backing up, and so they can all hear what he is saying. within a few minutes he is like 80 feet away but he is just talking to me but just embracing the crowd. [laughter] another case, i was following me run around while he was campaigning in the last election cycle and who is campaigning i

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whether we think about a soldier returning from iraq or afghanistan, a brain injury, or ted kennedy whothat's where he is focusing his life's work. it was really candid, a kennedy talking about what it was like to be a kennedy as a drug addict, a sitting congressman getting these drugs from constituents, people in his office, it was remarkable. >> did he get help along the way? what i mean by that, he's surrounded by family and friends and people who would want to help see him succeed? or did he consider a lot of that being a kennedy, a lot of that enabled him to continue what was an addictive lifestyle. >> right. you asked the exact question. i think it's both ways. on one hand, it was a very welcoming, opening family and on the other hand it sounded like he was a complete loser, this is his language, not mine, because he was a kennedy. he's supposed to have strong perseverance type, the images of kennedys that they put in their minds and instead he was in and out of rehab so many times. >> sanjay, tomorrow, special on sunday, right? >> sunday night. we're going to talk about his plans

carter's nemesis, the late ted kennedy campaigned for obama last round. interesting to see if carter would go on the campaign road. >> that would away surprise if carter was out there campaigning for obama next year. but huntsman is interesting because the former am abuse door to china. he's back here and tomorrow will be right here in south carolina giving a commencement speech at the university of cycle southbound. he is making the moves and may make an announcement to run for the presidential nomination. suzanne. >> paul, thank you. >>> former president carter, he's 86 years old and we were twooit quite surprised at really how active he is. he still plants peanuts, he paints oil portraits and goes fly fishing. which activity do you think he did before we sat down for the interview? a, write a politically charged open he had, b, call word leaders, c, write sunday school lessons or d, bag a turkey? aaah! [ airplane engine whines ] [ grunts ] [ dog barking ] gah! [ children shouting ] [ grunts ] [ whacking piñata ] [ whacking piñata, grunting ] >>> before

but he left office in part because you know his father, senator ted kennedy, died of a brain tumor not. he and his father were very, very close, they were in the office at the same time today, worked on legislation together. the pain is still underneath the surface for patrick kennedy as we talked. >> and he has this new campaign going on. >> he does. may of 1961 is when his uncle said, look, we're going to put a man on the moon. now it's 50 years later this month and he wants to use that same enthusiasm to talk about brain disease in general. he wants to come up with new ways of mapping the entire brain, coming up with diagnostics and treatments for all sorts of brain disease, addiction and mental health two issues close to him personally, but also brain cancer, traumatic brain injury and the soldiers returning from iraq and afghanistan. all sorts of different things. it's very audacious and it's funny, carol, we had this conversation when i had i would hate to be the guy in the oval office when your uncle said something about putting a man on the moon but somebody said that's not goi

as senator ted kennedy said that day, "at a time of national turmoil, america was fortunate that it wasford who took the helm of the storm-tossed ship of state. his courage and dedication to our country made it possible for us to begin the process of healing and put the tragedy of watergate behind us." a lot of respect and admiration for president ford was truly bipartisan. president ford, as you know, spent a lifetime in service to his country -- in uniform, in the congress, and as our 38th president. today, we proudly welcome him back to the capitol, truly the gentleman from michigan, a state which he loved. may this statue long stand in the united states capitol as a testament of his leadership, values, and integrity. may it also stand as a sign of respect for all tourists, all visitors who come to this capitol, of the respect that the american people have for president gerald ford. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the governor of the state of michigan, the hon. rick schneider. >> speaker banner, congressional leaders, it is truly an honor to be here. today is a proud d

as senator ted kennedy said that day, at time of national turmoil, america was fortunate that it washelm of storm-tossed ship shift of state. his courage and dedication to our country made it possible for us to dedicate the process of healing and put the tragedy of watergate behind us. as you see the love, respect and admiration for president ford was truly bipartisan. president ford as you know spent a lifetime of service to his country in uniform, in the congress, and as our 38th president. today, we welcome -- proudly welcomed him back to the capitol. truly the gentleman from michigan. a state which he loved. may this statue long stand in the united states capital as a testament of his leadership, values and integrity. may it also stand as sign of respect for all visitors who come to this capitol out of respect that the american people have for president gerald ford. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the governor of the state of michigan, the honorable rick snyder. >> speaker boehner, congressional leaders, it's truly an honor to be here. today is a proud day to be an

. >> reporter: specifically, the massachusetts health care plan he signed into law in 2006 with ted kennedyalso helped paint romney into a political corner. >> i agree with mitt romney. who recently said he's proud of what he accomplished on health care in massachusetts. >> reporter: tough words to take if you want to run in a republican primary. 80% of republicans oppose the president's health care plan. which, like the massachusetts model, penalizes the people who do not buy insurance. in a breathtakingly scathing interview, the conservative "wall street journal" said of romney -- "if he does not change his message, he might as well try to knock off joe biden and get on the obama ticket." but for those hoping for an apology, romney said -- >> there's only one problem with that, it wouldn't be honest. i, in fact, did what i believed was right for the people of my state. >> reporter: romney did say he would work to repeal the president's plan and hand over power to individual states. >> our plan was a state solution to a state problem. and his is a power grab by the federal government to pu

kennedy. i met with him back in june and, sadly, he passed away this past october. ted sorenson, when i said -- he wanted to know what the title of my book was, and i said, rose: mother of the kennedy image. he said, i don't like that word image. because to him he was trying to portray the substance of the kennedy administration both when he worked for senator kennedy, president kennedy and all the years after. so he never wanted people to think that there was no substance in the style or the image. so i understood why he took issue with that. but he also was leading the charge against this upcoming movie because he believed it was filled with inaccuracy. and so i guess it's like anything that's in the media whether it's a television show, a movie made for television, books be they of scholarship or journalistic quality, t all up to us to -- it's all up to us to decide based on our own reading and understanding of the record how much is true as being portrayed. but what we should say is this is not a golden portrayal of the kennedy administration. in other words, it con

senator ted kennedy said that day, "at a time of national turmoil, america was fortunate that it was gerald ford who took the helm of a storm tossed ship of state. his courage and dedication to our country made it possible for us to begin the process of healing and put the tragedy of watergate behind us." as you see, the love and respect and admiration for president ford was truly bipartisan. president ford, as you know, spent a lifetime of service to this country in uniform, in the congress, and as our 38 president. today, we welcome, probably welcome him back to the capital. truly the gentleman from michigan, a state which he loved. made this statute long stand in the united states capital as a testament to his leadership, values and integrity. may it also stand as a sign of respect toward all visitors who come to this capital as a sign of respect americans have for president gerald ford. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentleman, the governor of michigan, the hon. rick snyder. >> speaker, congressional leaders, it is truly an honor to be here. today is a proud day to be an ame

kennedy. father and son. ted on the senate side.use, pushing key legislation to require that insurance companies cover mental illness as well as physical problems. the term they use is parody. president bush signed it into law. >> when you talk about parody, the average person doesn't know anything about this, what did z it mean. >> treating physical health the same as mental health. >> in this case, equality insurance reimbursement for the brain just the same as any other part of the body. if you have a chemical imbalance and you need more insulin, you don't have any question about it. but if you needer is ya seratonin then they look at it askew. we are in modern times if people are treating this illness as it is back in the dark age. civil rights didn't pass until '64 and '65 and we had to go through a great deal before america finally came to the realization, hey, why don't we treat everybody the same. recedes seems to me hard it believe, within the last century we add holocaust, not only in europe but in ra wanda. we think we li

what happened with the movie was ted sorrenson, the speech writer with whom i met to do an interview about mrs. rose kennedy, met with him in june and passed this past october sadly. ted, when i said -- he wanted to know what the title of the book was, and i said rose, mother of the kennedy image. he looked a little negative and said, i don't like that word image. to him, he was trying to portray the substance of the kennedy administration, both when he worked for senator kennedy, president kennedy, and all the years after, so he nevermented people to think there was no substance in the style or the image. i understand why he took issue with that, but he was leading the charge against the upcoming movie because he believed it was filled with inaccuracies. it's like anything in the media whether it's a television show, a movie made for television, books be they a scholarship or journalistic quality, it's up to us to decide based on our own reading and understanding of the record how much is true as portrayed, but what we should say is this is not a golden portrayal of the kennedy administration. in other wor