presser that black people are always a bright lights are always wrong i did not understand how ted kennedy, the ted kennedy joe biden in a series of white privilege men could sit in judgment the son of grandparents who were sharecroppers who raised him. and did everything right to including four and the negative hill to rise through her ranks where she never had a sexual relationship at all and did nothing untoward she was party to the takedown i could not understand how these people were attacking this black man in the historic position while the media took him down. the naacp and the urban league and other leaders sat still make you have them mentor at the time he was brutally murdered and you did not know whether or not to cry but about that time you started to question the indoctrination. >> the smartest person i ever met was the man named mike. he was just different. alternative the smartest guy i ever knew. hindsight the most of the call took the s.a.t. for a bunch of my friends and got them 1600 in the smartest guy you could never meet. he dropped out of uc santa barbara. he was flo

the senior democrat for many years was a guy named kennedy, ted kennedy. they were remarkably effective, the committee was remarkably productive. i would say to mike enzi, how does one of the most conservative republicans around here work so productively with one of the most liberal democrats? you -- the chairman was kennedy or whether it's enzi. and he said that ted kennedy and i subscribed to the 80-20 rule. what is that? and he said, the 80-20 rule, we agree on about 80% of the stuff. we disagree on maybe 20% of the stuff. and what we decide to do is focus on the 80% we agree on. as a result we get a lot done. more times than i count i call my colleagues on this side to subscribe to the 80-20 rule. if we get that on a consistent basis i think it would be not just a better place to work but probably a better country. i would urge us as we -- it seems like we got about -- i don't know about 80%, but agreement on what needs to be acted more quickly, more promptly, and that which needs more sculling. so deference to my mother, haste does make waste. remembe

the son of mobster al capone was overheard making a death threat on ted kennedy during a phone call backn the '60s, and then there was the white powder mailed to kennnny's office during that anthrax scare back in 2001. >>> a clue from the deep might be enough to end a mystery. an underwater vehicle was able to locate a body in a crevice some 265 feet below the surface of lake tahoe. it was found there last week by another diver. they say it was s markably well preserved by the lake's cold water. and the hope is that it will help end a missing persons case from 1994. >>> and turning now to sports news and some baseball highlights, we get those from espn news. >>> good morning. cole wright here with your espn news update. and how about that national league central? things getting tight on monday evening. chris carpenter on the mound. bottom five, brew crew down a dash. bases stuffed for cory hart. singles one to center. the game tied at two. next batter with bases loaded would be nyjer morgan. he was in a double state of mind. that's deep to left center. three runs would hustle home. it's

he used to do deals with the late senator ted kennedy. he's a deal maker. but his best friend in the senate, robert bennett, was defeated last year by a tea party candidate, who is now a united states senator in utah. 1286 words could have been summed up in 14. i saw what the tea party did to my friend bob bennett last year. he's not going to vote yes. >> you can't really overestimate the sea change that's going on right now in washington. because you're right, these tea party conservatives have really shifted the debate. remember, barack obama when he started this and said i want a clean debt ceiling -- >> which happened 70 times in the past. >> and mitch mcconnell also made the point, i think he's absolutely right, he said the template for the debt ceiling has now changed because it's always now going to be associated with deficit reduction. we've been in the process of stimulus spending for the last couple of years, to try and get the economy jump-started. now we're going to a new era of real fiscal restraint and economists disagree, actually, about whet

he is more precarious than ted choice and- more pro- ted kennedy. now he is a greater science rickre tha -- denier than perry. he has to decide it to his every morning. that has to be fatiguing. >> who can argue with that? the burning of fossil fuels has produced this greenhouse gas act. if you argue with that -- >> no, it is the second step. can the atmosphere self-correct -- >> can we also agree that in -- since 1850, when we started keeping track of these things, yearsight warmest since 1858 occurred since 1998. do we agree? >> we agree on that, but let me explain what the problem is. in the human body, if you increase the amount of co2, the body has corrective mechanisms. it excretes hormones would create changes in physiology and it brings it down. at a certain point, it cannot handle the access of co2 and you die could the question is, the globe has its own mechanisms of self correction. exactly how they works, how the ocean currents -- >> i hate -- >> is there a point at which it gets overwhelming? we do not know. >> c. lovell actually droppe

." >>> newly released documents show that ted kennedy faced threats after the murders of his brothers. one reportedly called in by the son of the late mobster al capone. during the 2001 anthrax scare his office received an envelope of white powder which tested negative for anthrax. >>> in uganda, scientists have found the 20 million-year-old fossilized remains on a tree climbing ape. >>> and in a stunt filmed for a european tv show, the mayor of lithuania's capital allegedly fed up with illegally parked cars crushed a mercedes with an armored vehicle. the mayor has long advocated his citizens take up cycling as alternative transportation. >>> and now here's an early look at one of your top health headli headlines. >>> women who take fish oil supplements during pregnancy may boost their baby's immune systems and help protect them against colds during their first year of life. mothers who were given an omega 3 fatty acid got sick less often and for a shorter period of time than mothers who didn't take that supplement. for information on this and other health stories check out the health

." >>> the late senator ted kennedy faced threats long after the murders of his brothers.any warnings included an alleged assassination plot out of cuba and one reportedly called in by the son of the late mobster al capone. during the 2001 anthrax scare, his office received an envelope of white powder which tested negative for anthrax. >>> in uganda scientists have found a 20 million-year-old fossilized remains of a tree-climbing ape. it could shed light on the region's evolutionary history. >>> in a stunt filmed for a european tv show the mayor of lithuania's capital allegedly fed up with illegally parked vehicles crushed a mercedes with an armored vehicle. the mayor has long advocated his citizens, take up cycling as alternative transportation. >>> and a male peacock has become the latest escapee from a new york city zoo. since the animal went awol he has been spotted perched on a 5th avenue apartment window ledge and spawned two twitter accounts. >>> now here's a "first look" at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,866 after dropping 265 points. th

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

kennedy was killed the files show the son of mobster al capone was overheard making a death threat on ted kennedyecret service were notified. this claim is notable because of all the conspiracy theories connecting the mob to president kennedy's assassination. >> fascinating. >>> a bizarre twist in the investigation of that brutal beating of a san francisco giants fan at l.a.'s dodgers stadium in march. an important witness, matthew lee, has suddenly died. lee went to the game with beating victim bryan stow and lee died sunday apparently from an allergic reaction to eating a peanut. he had already given a statement to investigators and had provided other evidence as well. >> what a mystery. >> a crazy story gets crazier. >> yeah, absolutely. >>> now casey anthony may have to show her face in public for the first time since she was released from jail last month. >> a florida judge wants anthony to serve a year of probation in orlando on a check fraud conviction. abc's diana alvear has the latest on this. good morning, diana. >> reporter: rob and tanya, good morning. after disappearing for two weeks

romney hen he lost his run for senate against ted kennedy back in 1994. watch. >> romney's firm bought a company called scm, fired awe. some could reapply at a 25% pay cut. but many who were pregnant or older were denied jobs and romney made $11 million in two years. >> i would like to say to mitt romney -- if you think you can make such a good senator, come out here to marion, indiana, and see what your company has done to these people. >> we have no rights anymore. >> they cut the wages. >> we no longer have insurance. >> basically cut our throats. >> i would like to say to the people of massachusetts, if you think it can't happen to you, think again. we thought it wouldn't happen here either. >> when that is the baggage that candidate mitt romney brings to his presidential run, getting rattled by hecklers and blurting out this statement is not going to be helpful to him. >> corporations are people, my friend. we can raise taxes. of course they are, everything corporations there goes to people. where do you think it goes. >> it goes in their pocket. >>

you don't have what jimmy carter faced in 1980, ted kennedy. keep his base together, which i believe he will, i think his chances for re-election look good. >> it's a decade on from the terrible day. it's been dramatically affected by the event osf that day. do you think america ten years on is a better or worse place? >> it's ten years. i think we're better off in that we understand now in the shadow of 9/11 still in the shadow of 9/11 that we're not invulnerable. i think we are better off than we were before. more realistic if you want to call it that pragmatic, foreign policy, military policy, almost all other policies. in terms of the economy, we're not as well as we were. wars in afghanistan and iraq being obvious ones. it's mixed. but i will say that we're different today, a lot different than we were in -- on september 11. that hawthorne in the early stages of our country wrote, he said, you know, a time passes over us, flies over us. but the shadows remain. for the president in the foreseeable future, we live in the shadow of what happe

i went head-to-head to ted kennedy, the lyons of the left and bill clintton who didn't want to end the federal entitlement to welfare he veted it twice . we were able to put time limitos welfare . something we have to do with medicaid and food stamps. the core problem with our deficit are things i was able to accomplish when i was in the united states senate. no one else has been able to do that. >> bret: vice-president biden is in china and passed blame to the strong voice within the republican party that prevented a bigger deal on debt and deficit reduction. your reaction. >> guest: biggest thing we can do to reduce the deficit is get the economy growing. left thing you want to do is increase tax. we are trying to help you, joe . get the economy going by doing things that actually create private sector growth and the response from the left time and time again is we need more government and more spend taxes and which is the reason we are in the problem today. >> bret: you called president obama's policy in syria slapping the back of the hand of assad instead of going after him. now th

one is his years at bain capital, remember when ted kennedy was running against romney in 1994 for theenate from massachusetts, he pulled that out, it was a close race, kennedy won in the 11th hour by going to people who had lost their jobs as a result of decisions made by bain capital, and even though that was many years ago, you can expect to see those same folks in obama ads, and the other thing that's very important that you're going to hear a lot from republicans is that massachusetts was 47th out of 50th in job creation when mitt romney was governor, and before this race is done, if romney's the nominee, every voter will at least have heard that, that statistic, because romney's whole campaign is he could be a better economic steward for the united states and if he wasn't a good steward in massachusetts, he's going to have a harder time making that argument. of course, rick perry might be the nominee, so this could all be moot. >> right. jonathan, i think the politico piece raises an important question, which is how does a president run for reelection if the president can't run o

senator ted kennedy. senator brown talked about his political career at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley california. this is 40 minutes. [applause] >> before i get started i just want to say i had an opportunity to go-round and try to meet everybody and say hello, and i know you talk about the weather here. no offense. [laughter] i have snow that is about as high as the flags over here, so and they did get a chance to go into her this amazing facility and be part of history. it is such a wonderful opportunity for not just young people but every person from every walk of life and i'm so honored to be here. i want to thank you all for the very very warm welcome and john i appreciate the kind introduction and a chance to visit the ronald reagan presidential library. you know this is my first time here and what an honor it is for me to really meet a living legend, obviously nancy reagan herself and it is wonderful to be with you, maam. thank you. [applause] it is a tremendous thrill formi

i've seen bob dole and ted kennedy, i've seen orin hatch and russ fine gold and john mccain and peopleongress to do this. congress is the same constitution that tip o'neill and ronald regan made work. the problem is not the institution. it's the people. and it's a small group of people who don't negotiate. if you're not willing to negotiate, nobody can make something happen. we had a group of people who actually argued for default. we had a group of people who were willing to hold the entire economy of our country hostage to the shooting of the hostage. and they were willing to shoot the hostage. if that's your situation, everybody winds up being hurt by it. and, and so i think people have to stop and say who's caused this? i am very sympathetic with the anger that the tea party feels and i respect the grassroots movement that says you guys have ogot to get serious about the debt and deficit, well i am. i'm prepared to put social security, medicare, medicaid on the table to talk about how we reform and fix them, improve it. we don't have to cut the benefits of them. but we certainly ca

one of the people we elected in 1974 was ted kennedy of massachusetts. o you have all of this correspondence between carter and kennedy. kennedy profusely thanking him for helping get arrested. carter did another interesting thing in 1974. he already knew he was going to run for president but nobody else knew he was going to do that except for his inner circle. so when people like walter mondale, as a primary example, during the 74 campaign every once in awhile prominent national democrats would make some announcement about 76. they would make references to 76 and carter would always collect them and say concentrate on 74. don't confuse the voters by thinking about 76, concentrate on 74. and of course what he was doing, but they didn't know he was doing as he was planning for 76 and didn't want them to get too much of a jump on that and they didn't. charles kuralt laughed and said by the thai people like robert strauss and walter mondale knew what carter was doing it was too late. he already had the nomination for 76, and so she did. quickly the other bre

. >> mitt romney once, beat him when he tried to knock off ted kennedy, and you beat him because he didn't know what he was talking about. he's a little better, smarter than then, but not that great. here's the romney campaign. how would you deal with this? the statement he put out today. mitt romney. today's unemployment report represents the 30th straight month that the jobless rate has been above 8%. the administration promised with their $800 billion stimulus that would keep unept ploy below that number. when you see what the president has done top the economy in just three years the american people don't want to know what he can do in eight. promise job, jobsish jobs. doesn't the president have to act now? or give him that argument? a year from now? >> sure. that's why i say, he's got to put a real jobs agenda, real jobs program out there and then mitt romney, because the tea party types won't let him, there have to be against it and also you can then. >> yes. >> on that basis, go to romney's only record which was guy who destroyed jobs, not created them in the private sector. he was

joining us now from austin, texas, bob mann, former press secretary for ted kennedy and our pal kikiedman who himself ran for governor against rick perry. do you like the guy, mr. friedman? >> i do, bill. i think, you know, he's a fellow texan and so forth. but i'm kind of in a lincoln and churchill spirit, i'm finding good in a former foe, you know, and there's a lot of good in rick perry. >> bill: tell me why. tell me what's good about him. >> well, there's one thing. he's a nuts and bolts guy with the economy. if you're going to give obama credit for killing bin laden, you got to give rick perry credit for doing pretty well with the texas economy. and obama has done for the economy what pantyhose did for foreplay. >> bill: so you believe that perry's main -- main campaign theme, that he's a good economic guy is true but texas does have a budget gap of between $15 and $27 billion. i mean, you know, they owe a lot of money. there's a lot of shortfall in texas. >> well, you know, part of it is that i would support charlie sheen over obama. but i think there's a dignity in rick perry

in 1982, he teamed up with ted kennedy on an effort aimed at freezing the nuclear arms race.nator mark hatfield was one of two senate republicans to vote to authorize the gulf war. >> let's not be conned into thinking war will be quick, easy, and clean. maybe it will be over in a matter of hours or a matter of days or a matter of weeks at the outset, even if it is, at what cost? at what cost in human lives? we are told that the loss of life would be minimal. minimal compared to what? the loss of life in war, no matter how short it might be, would not be minimal when compared to the alternative. even in the best case scenario, the loss of life would be unacceptable to me. >> in the navy in world war ii, mark hatfield fought at iw iwo jima. mark hatfield was against war. he was deeply religious. he did what he thought was right for the country and although he did not go out of his way to aggravate his party for aggravation's sake, he did not shrink from aggravating them either. i'm a liberal and disagreed with a lot of positions he took. he was a republican. but he was not a do

they said ted kennedy would offer to drive the sitter home. >> juan: let me go back to gingrich for just a second. this is kind of awkward for me because is he going after people that are my friends chris wallace and bret baier. is this smart? is this a part of newt gingrich saying the mainstream media, including fox news is a problem? >> well, i thought it would have been far more credible if the person if he went after chris matthews or george stephanopoulos, going after wallace and bret, i thought, that people liked them. but i did feel that he came across as elitist and cranky when he did that. >> juan: one last thing for you, dick. the white house says hey, wait a second, how come all these guys and lady on the stage say ten two one we wouldn't take that deal on taxes that they are out of touch with the american people? did the debate leave republicans look like they are not willing to do anything but talk to the base. >> no. there is a vast difference between how you would vote if you sat in congress and the clock was ticking and you were one minute to midnight. what they were sayi

violated massachusetts voting laws in 2009 and 2010 when he voted in the special election for ted kennedy'sican senator scott brown. mr. romney voted once in the primary and once in the general election in massachusetts. at the time that he cast those ballots, he claimed he was living in his son's basement in belmont, massachusetts, having sold his own multimillion dollar estate there in april 2009. his son's basement at the time was an unfinished space. meaning that mitt romney, a multimillionaire, was claiming himself to be the legal resident of his son's unfinished basement. he is claiming under massachusetts law that his son's unfinished basement was the center of his domestic, social, and civic life. massachusetts officials told us when we asked there would be no investigation into the claims made by mr. karger. but despite having a number of people on his own side who really do not like him and are willing to say so out loud, mitt romney of course also has his fans. people who do like him and write rather large checks to further his political career. he has powerful and wealthy people

exactly be what rick perry wants to emulate, but it did seem like a little bit of copying from ted kennedy's final speech. of course, that was denver in 2008. as an experienced campaigner with a big war chest, perry, the long-serving governor, is an immediate threat to the field, especially tim pawlenty who needs a big finish in iowa to keep his hopes alive. joining me now, pawlenty campaign adviser phil mussert. you've been trying hard. the governor spoke. what do you do about being overshadowed by what happened in south carolina today? >> well, look, with all due respect to governor perry and welcome to the race to him, the real story in american lipsticks happening in this coliseum on these fairgrounds because to get to the white house, you got to start in iowa. so our campaign has been predicated on it for a long time. frankly, if you spend time walking around here, with all due respect to a conference room in south carolina, there are 10,000 to 15,000 grassroots activists energized and fired up about taking back the white house and barack obama. we're here campaigning for the votes. we

they said ted kennedy would offer to drive the sitter home. >> juan: let me go back to gingrich for just a second. this is kind of awkward for me because is he going after people that are my friends chris wallace and bret baier. is this smart? is this a part of newt gingrich saying the mainstream media, including fox news is a problem? >> well, i thought it would have been far more credible if the person if he went after chris matthews or george stephanopoulos, going after wallace and bret, i thought, that people liked them. but i did feel that he came across as elitist and cranky when he did that. >> juan: one last thing for you, dick. the white house says hey, wait a second, how come all these guys and lady on the stage say ten two one we wouldn't take that deal on taxes that they are out of touch with the american people? did the debate leave republicans look like they are not willing to do anything but talk to the base. >> no. there is a vast difference between how you would vote if you sat in congress and the clock was ticking and you were one minute to midnight. what they were sayi

he along with tip o'neill, ted kennedy and ended for all times i hope american support for violence innd. they were the famed four horsemen who started and ended with a good friday and with that end to the troubles, time of hard that had the irish killing each other for too many years. hugh carey, the man who saved new york. the last of the four whomen, not the last american irish politician, because he was toughing with truly and bravely honest, because he had guts, because he never lost his faith. because, as he said, he was always underestimated. he gives every politician of every background someone to b

it was a bipartisan effort between ted kennedy and the president, john boehner involved in that.n the law was written at the time, what wasn't foreseen, and now that you're on the state side of things, what wasn't foreseen at the time when they wrote the law that has made it frankly so controversial to so many state governors regardless of party? >> first i'd say the law gets more than it deserves. we needed accountability in education. we came off decades in which the education establishment just said shovel in some more money and shut up. the national policy finally said no, we want to see every child have a chance to succeed in life. we're tired of minority kids and others being hidden. their failure being hidden in the averages. so the general idea of no child left behind deserves the bipartisan support that it had. but it was a pretty clumsy implement as was quickly learned. i go back to the point i made earlier. it isn't fair to hold a teacher or a school accountable for a child who might have arrived at school with very, very far behind, it may be impossible for that kid t

known in the past as, yes, a conservative, but someone that cut a lot of deals with late senator ted kennedya lot of democrats. he gave a speech, 1286 words explaining why he would vote no. let's listen just a bit. >> but my opposition is not owing to the failure of the conservatives or the republican leadership in the house and senate, it's owing what's clearly amounting to the failed presidency of president obama. >> he could have saved a few words, gloria, right? but i saw what happened to my friend robert bennett in utah last year? >> exactly. he's afraid of being primaried by a republican house member who is a prominent tea party person, and i think you have a lot of republicans like that. olympia snowe, for example, of maine who voted to raise the debt ceiling, held out until the last minute after consulting with republican leaders because it's very clear that she is feeling -- feeling that pressure as well. so, you know, look, they've had their impact. and in a way, they got the best of both worlds, because the debt ceiling was raised, so independent voters will not think it was too i

in the senate i went toe to toe with daniel patrick moynahan, ted kennedy, bill clinton who did not wanto end the federal entitlement to welfare. he vetoed it twice. able to end the federal requirement, require work and put time limits on welfare. something that we have to do for all of the programs that are growing exponentally that are the core problem with our deficit are things that i was able to accomplish in the senate. nobody else has been able to do that in this field. >> vice president bide season in china and delivered a keynote address which in part he passed blame to the "strong voice within the republican party that prevented an even bigger deal on deficit and debt reduction. your reaction to that? >> the biggest thing we can do to reduce the deficit is get the economy growing and the last thing you want to do if you want the economies growing is to increase taxes on the job creators and so what we are trying to help, joe. i mean we are trying to help you. trying to get this economy going by doing some things that actually create private sector growth and the response we get

senator ted kennedy. senator brown talked about his political career at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley california. this is 40 minutes. [applause] >> before i get started i just want to say i had an opportunity to go-round and try to meet everybody and say hello, and i know you talk about the weather here. no offense. [laughter] i have snow that is about as high as the flags over here, so and they did get a chance to go into her this amazing facility and be part of history. it is such a wonderful opportunity for not just young people but every person from every walk of life and i'm so honored to be here. i want to thank you all for the very very warm welcome and john i appreciate the kind introduction and a chance to visit the ronald reagan presidential library. you know this is my first time here and what an honor it is for me to really meet a living legend, obviously nancy reagan herself and it is wonderful to be with you, maam. thank you. [applause] it is a tremendous thrill formi

he said ted kennedy and i subscribe to the 80/20 rule. what is that? he said we agree on about 80% of the stuff. we disagree on maybe 20% of the stuff. what we decided to do is focus on the 80% that we agree on. as a result, we get a lot done. more times than i can count, i call on my colleagues on this side of the dice in the senate to subscribe to the 80/20 rule, and if we did that on a consistent basis, i think it would be not just a better place to work but also a better country. it seems like we got about 80% agreement on this stuff. agreement on what needs to be acted on more quickly and more promptly. so in donchese my mother, haste does make waste and in the words of my father, work and what we allocate to a job. let's take a little more time. will you not -- but not more time than we really that having been said, we're going to wrap this up. you go eat and we'll go vote. this hearing is adjourned. thank you all for coming. >> we have two weeks to submit some more questions. if you get some more questions, please respond to them. thank you. >>

ted kennedy. they were remarkably effective. the committee was productive. i would say you have one of the most conservative republicans here and you guys get so much done. regardless who is the chairman, kennedy or enzi. he said ted kennedy and i subscribe to the 80/20 rule. what is that? he said we agree on about 80% of the stuff. we disagree on maybe 20% of the stuff. what we decided to do is focus on the 80% that we agree on. >> i call on my colleagues on this side in the senate to subscribe to the 80/20 rule. if we did that on a consistent basis, i think it would be not just a better place to work, but a better country. it seems like we have about -- i don't know if it is 80%, but a pretty broad agreement on what needs to be acting on promptly and that which needs more scrubbing. in deference to my mother, haste does make waste. but work does expand to alal-- to allocate the job. the stuff that needs more time, let's take more time, but not more time than we really need. that having been said, we are going to wrap this up. you guys go have lunch, i am go

he said ted kennedy and i describe to the 80 clash 20. we agree about 80% of the stuff, disagree on 20%. we focus on the 80% that we agree on. as a result, we get a lot done. more times than i can count, i call my on colleagues on this side to subscribe to the 80/20 rule. if we did that on a consistent basis, i think it'll be not just a better place to work, but a better country. i would urge as we seems like we've got about 80% agreement on this. but it's an agreement on what needs to be acted on more quickly, promptly, and that which needs more scrubbing. and so as my mother said, haste does make waste. in the words of my father, work does expand to the time that we allocate. we need to move forward on what we can, as a team. on the stuff that needs more time, let's take more time. not more time than we need. with that being said, we're going to wrap it up and you guys go have lunch. i'm going to go vote. thank you all for coming. this hearing is adjourned. >> i think we have -- our colleagues have two weeks to commit questions. if you