before i got on the set i was hoping that piers morgan would bring up ted kennedy and thankfully that moment came. in this video they played they showed mitt romney debating ted kennedy when he challenged for a seat in the '90s and he said he was pro-choice and since then he has changed his position but that didn't stop him from asking me did it make you uncomfortable hearing mitt romney espousing the choice to be pro-choice? and i just responded you know, what made me uncomfortable that at a convention that claims to be fighting the war on women that they would play a blank. >> host: minute video, a tribute to a man who left a woman to drown in his car. [laughter] [applause] after that the panel exploded we cannot bring up chappaquiddick we cannot talk about how all mitt romney bullied a kid when he was 13 but not with ted kennedy. so hilary rosen immediately yelled, and peers market and said my comment was below the belt. [laughter] so during the commercial break hillary turns to me and said i think what you said it is disgusting and i said i think what he did was disgusting. [laugh

ted kennedy was on the do not fly list. and so there's a chapter about that in the book i worked back in. on september 21, 2004, just about one month later we learned that the entire national security and homeland security establishment of the united states government was dealing with an incoming threat to our survival and security and our way of life. it was a plane heading towards the border of this country carrying a potential terrorist named yusuf islam who we also know as cat stevens who in my view, you become his worst crime was actually composing the song i love my dog but didn't go beyond that. and we're accurate thinking about scrambling fighters, intercepting that plane and diverting that plane to avoid it was bangor, maine. now, that was worked into the book i worked that in as well and the book is a chronology that documents the excesses that we all witnessed but at the same time and i don't want to get too serious about this, but at the same time trying to make a point, and the point is this. we wrestled with t

ted kennedy was a big supporter. >> host: we've hat common core we've had race to the top. are there subtle differences between these programs or are there significant differences? >> guest: that's a really wonderful and important question because no child left behind, president bush's law, it really looked at schools as the most important organizing principle in education. the idea that if you collect all these students' scores and you would judging whether the school was failing or succeeding. now, that has changed since president obama has come into office in 2009. he looked at a lot of research, and his administration decided it was not the school that was the most important thing, it was the individual teacher and his or her individual classroom. and what president obama's policies have done such as race to the top, the way that his administration has changed no child left behind is to require states if they want federal money to judge and evaluate every single teacher no matter what grade they teach, no matter what subject they teach based on kids' test scores. and th

the senate is often a stress test for marriages, and it was for ted kennedy, and it was for ed brookeed brooke's first marriage was unraveling, we now know, thanks to barbara walters' memoir that he had an affair with barbara, who said she found him fascinating. senator brooke had two daughters with his first wife, who he met in italy during his service in world war ii and a son with his second wife. president obama commented on ed brooke's bipartisan friendships during the ceremony in 2009 when senator brooke received the congressional gold medal. >> i don't know anyone else whose fan base includes gloria steinem, barney frank and ted kennedy as well as mitch mcconnell, mitt romney and george w. bush. that's a coalition builder. [ applause ] >> edward brooke died on saturday morning at his home in coral gables, florida. he was 95. when i was a kid growing up in an all-white neighborhood in boston, i often heard adults say, i'm not a racist, i voted for brooke. you wouldn't have to wait long after that to hear that same person say something kind of racist. this was a puzzle i figured

it was ted kennedy and john ashcroft and dan coats that said no and beat back that effort. and then passed the religious act this past week the supreme court used to protect a muslim's right to have a beard inside prison. that was this unusual left/right coalition. following that open society institute said what will we work on next. we thought second chance act that rob portman went to work on. john conniers has been involved in it for years. danny davis. it was, again, a left/right coalition. the essential message of the second chance act is that prisoners are people we should care about. their future after they leave prison is something that matters to us. and human dignity is an important part of it whether you are religious or not. those of us who are religious know each of us is a child of god created in his image. it's that divine spark that gives us dignity. government should never strip anybody of that no matter what they have done. and yet piper has done such a good job humanizing prisoners. prisoners are continually debased. i was in prison a little over 29 month

when i went up to orrin hatch and talked to him about the eulogy he gave to ted kennedy beautiful, andhey had a sincere love for each other and despite they are right and left, far and firm and found places to work together on. i understand i bemoan the fact that the republican party didn't return dick lugar and olympia snowe. i mourn the fact we don't have republican diversity in that sense. they exist when i see a gas tax. surprise me to deal with infrastructure. the point i'm trying to make is that my job here is not to cast on republicans. there are days i'm frustrated. now that i'm a minority, there are going to be a lot of days i'm frustrated. my obligation is to seek out republican colleagues and say we could disagree, but can we find two or three things to work together? >> that's my point. i'm not demonizing it. is it not the case that washington is so partisan now and so polarized, because there aren't the kind of moderates there used to be in this town to establish the friendships and relationships you were talking about? >> we are doing it now. i have been in the senate ove

only jumping in at the last minute in a showdown that really grabbed headlines with ted kennedy, who led the charge for the other side. while making his anti-communist insinuations, helms pointed out that ted kennedy's brothers had authorized the fbi to investigate king in the first place because they believed he had communist associations. at any rate, helms stood by his case against king until the 11th hour. filibustering against the holiday until he finally made a deal giving up the filibuster. reportedly to get a tobacco subsidy deal. also enough, it seems, to generate high turnout among his right-wing supporters in north carolina in what turned out to be a very close election. for the next few election cycles. the holiday past. ronald reagan gave up his initial opposition to sign it into law in 1983. it is tempting to see the martin luther king holiday as a consolation prize at best for the dismal string of disappointments and failures that the movement endured from 1968 up to the king holiday battle itself. especially tempting in light of the last legislative campaign of the ol

mainly through the help of ted kennedy. we got a bill through congress authorizing the creation of a monument of john adams in washington, d.c. -- there is nothing in our capital commemorating the presidency or the importance of our founding time to john adams. president george h.w. bush -- was newly in office and he signed the bill. ted called me and said you should come down for the ceremony. i had never been to anything like that, and i wanted to. we met for lunch at a hotel, that we were going to walk over through lafayette square. ted was suffering from a lot of back pain. it was clear it was difficult for him to walk, but he insisted he wanted to walk and he never complained. so we started out to go to the white house, 2:15, 2:30, and all the way he was going that damn president is doing this, republicans are doing that. i said, i have to tell you, i like the president. he said, so do i. [laughter] like, don't you know anything? what is that cap to do with it -- what does that have to do with it? that is what we have

through mainly entirely through the help of ted kennedy, we got a bill through congress authorizing the creation of a monument to john adams in the district of columbia. there is nothing in our capitol company rating the importance of our founding time of john adams. and president bush, h.w. bush, was newly in office and he was going to sign the bill. and ted called me and said, you should come down for this ceremony. well i had never been to anything like that and i wanted very much to do it. so we met for lunch, ted and i at the adams hotel and then we were going to walk over to the white house. and ted was suffering from a lot of back pain then and it was clear i was difficult for him to walk but he insisted me wanted to walk and he never complained about it. so we started out to go over to the white house. i don't, it was 2:15, 2:30 something like that. and all the way through the park he was going, that damn president is doing this and those republicans are doing that. and i said, ted, aye got to tell you, i like the president. he looked at me and he said, oh, so do i. like, don't

to give you some idea, ted kennedy and john boehner was coauthors of it, so that gives you a hint of how widely it was approved. and now 12 years later, people are looking back and thinking that there are huge problems with this bill. it mandated annual testing in reading and math for students in grades 3-8 and again in high school, and there's a huge backlash now against so much standardized testing. and it also set out strict sanctions for schools that did not continually improve their students' performance on those tests and that also has created a huge backlash and kind of an idea there's too much federal interference in local schools expwhrar one of the critiques in between periods was schools were trying to teach to the test just to get those numbers up, right? >> exactly right. there were sort of two strategies. a number of states actually reduced the rigor of their test sort of a race to the bottom to try to make the test easier so more kids would pass them and you would look better as a state or school and want other strategy was to teach to the test and that created a narro

i remember when you came to a friday lunch that senate ted kennedy was -- senator ted kennedy was speaking at, and you all had an interesting exchange. the next time you came as minister of education and led a seminar at brookings with a whole group of education reformers which leads to my question. we now our paths respective paths of education reform overlapped a good deal. ours began in some ways with governors sort of leading up, republican and democratic governors, clinton and bush 43, to some extent even 41 were deeply involved in this national standards, testing, measures transparency accountability. it was really fascinating to see. but now if you look at america, it's become caught up in the same ideological debates. the common core standards which were developed voluntarily by the states are now being disowned by some of its former champions like the current republican governor of the state of louisiana. so my question to you is did you face similar opposition when you were enacting your education reforms? and will your reforms survive a change of government? >> it's a different,

there was a kind of -- look how wonderfully ted kennedy turned out to be. in my heavy-loaded biased days i would have just written him off and said fascist, some stupid thing like that. >> there are several drawings of henry kissinger. i understand one of them was rejected by a publisher? >> no. by all other than one publication. that is, the nation. in fact, the nation was known as -- among cartoonists that if you really had to try something or you wanted something that would be loaded in political terms, this was the place to go. and so i went there and sure enough, they printed kissinger having sex with the globe, being the head of a woman. and i got a call from the editor, saying dave, i think you ought to come down. there's a group of young interns that want to say some things -- question some things you did in that drawing, which they did. they questioned my intentions. was the hand clutching part of the bed a show of passion or was it fear or was it anger? why was he on top of this woman? why was the woman, instead of a hairy man? they used the term

that senator hatch has been willing to reach across, as he did with the late massachusetts senator ted kennedyto get things done. >> right, and the ranking democrat on that committee has a history of bipartisan deals as well. i think there is a difference -- republicans and republicans -- democrats do not agree on the purpose. also there are questions such as how do we treat those overseas question mark i do not think there is enough common ground. i do not think it is a priority for the president, which is a factor. if the president is not aggressively pushing and putting a lot of resources into tax reform, which he has not so far and i do not think he is going to do, i do not think it will get done. >> andy, the next two years seems to be a prelude to the 2016 election. is the democratic field hillary clinton's if she wants it? >> hillary clinton is the odds on favorite. the only person you would have a chance of defeating her in the primary is elizabeth warren, and it does not look like she is running. although she might. on the republican side, jeb bush, it looks like he is in. i would be

he said, oh, ted kennedy. without hesitation. teddy came here, met me, we had a cigar. he sat right in the seat where you're sitting and we smoked a cigar. i think i can work with them. that was eye-opening. my question is, could that happen today? have you guys met a democrat you think you can be friends with and work with? >> sadly, they don't let a smoke cigars in the capital. [laughter] i think it will. i think it comes down -- we have the opportunity to set the tone. we have won the majority. we controlled the house and the senate. we're the ones who need to reach out to those members who i think exist and would be happy to have that conversation, and let them know we want to have it. then as we move into our tenure, we need to be those leaders as we gain more and more experience to invite people over and do things differently. that is what the american people want. they don't want the fighting. they don't want the backbiting. they want results. that comes through relationships and it comes through professional courtesy and it comes from respect -- demonstrated res

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>> i don't know if you guys caught it last night but she had this tech expert ted kennedy -- >> any relation>> and if your husband had married and taken your name -- anyway, let's move on. what he said was the terror groups are campaigning for people that have good expertise expertise -- big tarring itsgetstargets. you're going to see a lot of terrorist groups have more capabilities than you're seeing today and it could be disastrous disastrous. we look at the sony situation and the hackers that the f.b.i. determined came from -- somehow dispatched by north korea. they hit sony but it's practice and everybody in the hate game is paying attention to see, can we get good at it too? >> the irony here is that the president was talking about cyber security and this hack occurred while -- and you know what the administration response is, we need to get companies to disclose to customers that they've been hacked within 30 days. what about the health exchanges getting hacked? are we going to get disclosures from the government within 30 day snz >> what about the government spying on its own citizens

. >> tony, he was considered one of the most stirring convention speeches of the era ted kennedy in 1980jessie jackson 1988. and mario quomo's stood out. he wasn't the democratic nominee, it was walter mon mondale. walter mondale erchtded up getting crushed in the general -- ended up get crushed in the general election. >> i know he wasn't a baptist minister but he sure sounded like one. >> it fueled such anticipation and speculation that the democrats could have another kennedy-like speaker in 1988 or 1992. and mario quomo kept a lot of people waiting. there was a plane in albany that was literally fueled and ready to take him to new hampshire so he could sign the papers. there was full press conference coverage. but he says so many troubles in new york i can't do it. >> the reagan speech, and quomo follows, thank goodness for youtube. david schuster appreciate it, david schuster with us. aids for democratic senator harry reid, says he will be back after breaking bones in his ribs and face. reid's office says he will -- that he actually fell off of a piece of equipment. police in sweden

. >> of all the people i worked for, he was probably the very top with president carter and ted kennedyd with character. this is a man who had great principles, he had great passions, he was greatly persuasive and he was a patriot and he rose above the battle. this is a man who worked he stood by who he believed in, he took care of ordinary people not interest groups, he was a governor who put aside as a candidate and as governor i worked with him in 1973 for a long time trying to get him to run, he made people come together as he did in forest hills and corona he believed in unifying people. he was the most articulate spokesman for what i call classic liberalism, which we don't really have in the democratic party today. and he expressed in that speech in san francisco and i remember he called and read me this speech in the weekend before and read me the speech and i was in tears, i don't think you should change a word of it. then he said we stand on the shoulders of giants, he was a giant, and we have a bunch of pig mys in politics now. >> and there are so many politics. >> they have p

insane at the time but began a process which lo and behold with the help of a lot of liberals like ted kennedy led to airline deregulation, which is one of the examples of deregulation helping anybody. upper class people were helped by that. john: people believe in astrology. i showed college students when i show them their horoscope. it was their mass murderer's we got your personal references. high-school diploma or equivalent? [dramatic music] announcer: skip the drama. get your ged. it's right there. announcer: sign up for free classes now at yourged.org. @? these ally bank ira cds really do sound like a sure thing but i'm a bit skeptical of sure things. why's that? look what daddy's got... ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! growth you can count on from the bank where no branches equals great rates. . john: a "gallup poll" says a third of americans believe in astrology. in times square it seemed like most did. >> i love astrology. i'm a big believer yeah. >> rational to believe in astrology? >> absolutely absolutely. everything happens from the stars. >> yeah, i'm deep into it. john: why? by what logic woul

terrorist was stopped at an airport because he was on the do not fly list in his name was senator ted kennedy of massachusetts. he was on the do not fly list and so there is a chapter about that in the book. we learned that the national security establishment of the united states government. it was a plane heading towards the border of the country carrying a potential terrorist named yusef islam who we also known as cat stevens who in my view his worst crime was composing the song i love my dog didn't go beyond that and we were thinking about the scrambling of fighters and diverging the plane. that was worked into the book as well and it is a chronology that documents the excess we all witnessed at the same time coming and i don't want to get too serious about this because at the same time we try to make the point and the point is this. in the privacy security constantly. and it's not in the wrestling match. we did it with the alien and sedition acts and we had this debate and this wrestling match forever. sometimes we go to far but sometimes we don't go far enough. but it's a constant theme

was ted kennedy ever known for that? "the boston globe," would never report that kind of news. it goes back to the larger problem of "the globe," that this is a newspaper where political correctness is treasured above all else and --. >> but you are suggesting this goes beyond political correctness and that this is a media organization and run by separate editors but a media organization that does not like republicans and would poke this fun at boehner but never indug in that against democrats? >> there is no question about it. i saint you a tweet from friday night by another writer at boston.com and he said that only people that were angry about the traffic disruptions by a group of occupy people on thursday that would shut down the city during morning drive rush hour, the only people angry were white bostonians. it is not true for starters. number two, why would you put out something like that publicly this is a purported news organization. >> right. you are obviously enjoying this too much because you write for the rival paper. >> i am enjoying it. >> boston.com did apologiz

and he was a pretty undistinguished guy at this point, ted kennedy. e age requirement for senate. his name was edward moore kennedy. they said if his name were edward moore his candidacy could be a joke. you can be helped by your last name or hurt. for bush, he'd certainly be hurt by it. >> his father was revered but it wu the economy that did him in for a second term, and his brother is coming up in the popular opinion polls right now as usually happens to presidents who presidents who come under trouble. you feel the bush name is what tired? people are just tired of it? >> look, it's as if he needs to defend the record of george w. i think it's a defensible one. but it adds a burden onto him that he wouldn't have if his name was jeb smith. he benefits from the network from the donors and all that, i don't deny that. and they might even equal out. but if you're going to the polls and you're going to look at clinton against a bush, you're going to have a sense that this is old, even though jeb is not old. he hasn't been out there in the presidential ar

insane at the time but began a process which lo and behold with the help of a lot of liberals like ted kennedyd jimmy carter and others led to airline deregulation, which is one of the examples of deregulation helping anybody. upper class people were helped by that. john: people believe in astrology. i showed college students when i show them their horoscope. it was their mass murderer's . john: a "gallup poll" says a third of americans believe in astrology. in times square it seemed like most did. >> i love astrology. i'm a big believer yeah. >> rational to believe in astrology? >> absolutely absolutely. everything happens from the stars. >> yeah, i'm deep into it. john: why? by what logic would the position of stars and the moon at the time of your birth govern your personality. let alone predict what will happen to you? it's not reasonable. i once paid a famous astrologier to do a clart on this man, she created a 25 page horoscope based on his date and time. kemper is a serial murderer who murdered six hitchhikers, his grandparents and mother. we gathered their birth dates before and said d

remember his father, ted kennedy, died of brain cancer and his brother lost his leg to cancer. >> i wouldn'tgrudged any member of my family with cancer, and they've all had cancer, anything that would have mitigated the chemo therapy. >> it's why kennedy is meeting with everyone from the fda to the white house to speed things up. but it takes time. time the wilsons don't have. they're finally going to try their new homemade cannabis oil. >> we weren't able to get it tested or anything, so we have no idea what it is, which is why we have to be really cautious. >> behind closed doors, brian tries it to make sure he doesn't get high. he doesn't. >> open up. >> so vivian is next. it doesn't work. nothing in new jersey seems to work for them. vivian's seizures won't stop. is moving the only option left for the wilsons? latte or au lait? cozy or cool? exactly the way you want it ... until boom, it's bedtime! your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. enter the sleep number bed. save $300 on the final close-out of the c3 queen mattress set. he's the softy. his sleep number setting is 35. y

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ted kennedy had that title as well.omo was first of all a man of tremendous character and integrity. i interviewed him about a year ago. a very thoughtful man. he was not the 10 second sound bite. he wanted to get into the detail of issues. and i found him to be someone who was very gentle yet very stern in his believes. and it was a very interesting mix of the way this man presented himself to the american people. your thoughts? >> well he was very pragmatic. he was running one of the largest states in the country. so you have to be pragmatic. in order to balance the budget you have to make tough choices especially with what was going on back then when he took over. because his pragmatism was tempered by his principle. that's the example he set. again, we all know him for that famous speech in 1984. but a lot of people can give good speeches. there are not a lot of people who can govern the way mario cuomo governed. he never lost his concern for ordinary working people. and he experienced tremendous discrimination in 1

you came to a friday lunch that senator ted kennedy was speaking at and you all had a very interesting exchange. the next time you came as minister of education a seminar at brookings with a a group of education reformers which leads to my question we now our past respective past of education reform overlaps a good deal. ours began began in some ways with governor's leading up republican and democratic governors clinton and bush 43 to some extent even 41 deeply involved in this national standards testing measures transparency, accountability. it was fascinating to see. now if you look at america it has become caught up in the same debates the common core standards which were developed to voluntarily by the states are now being disowned by some of the former champions like the current republican governor of the state of louisiana. my question to you is, did you say similar opposition when you were in acting your education reforms? and will your reforms survive a change of government? >> it is in some ways a different set of issues for us and in some ways the same set of issues. the tool

i recall the story when he ran for senate in massachusetts was allowed senator ted kennedy one question, what he wanted to ask him, what would you do about the glass ceiling. kennedy busted out laughing and one shot to take out kennedy and couldn't do it. it speaks to the fact he would make a great president harris because he is not a strong candidate because he is mushy and -- >> somebody who can lead and win. you need a frontman. here is the thing we have not had to cruz's point a decent frontman who goes up there and stand in front. american people and does first thing politician needs. people want to listen to you agree or disagree and see how you present your position. >> one of the things you said i thought this was brilliant you said before you start talking about the presidential election you have to have senators and congresspeople actually doing something. we have this new republican-led congress. and among them, senator lindsey graham has just said, it is being reported in a meeting to some of his top don't a week ago in south carolina, told them in first quarter of this year

the only reason you didn't become a career politician is because you lost to ted kennedy in 1994. >> wait a second. you get 30 seconds. this is the way the rules work here. i get 60 seconds and you get 30 seconds to respond, right? >> it is three agencies that are gone. commerce, education, what's the third one there? let's see. i would do away with education, commerce, and let's see. i can't -- the third one i can't -- sorry. oops. >> would you please wait? are you just going to keep talking? >> let's go through the lineup with ben carson, chris christie mitt romney and rick perry. let's get back to this ben carson comment. we all know the republican party is so sensitive and they except apologies every other week. for ben carson to compare american patriots to isis should disqualify him at every level. isis fighters are willing to die. is dr. carson forgetting how many american patriots we have lost in this age? they are every bit as patriotic as the ones who started this country. we all know if it was a democrat or liberal commenter who said this there would be an onslaught of pre

ted kennedy jeff sessions unlikely characters you know cosponsors. so they're in session. said i sent thousands of people to prison for terrible crimes but not one of those sentences involved being raped. and i it was that moral statement that was so powerful helping us pass it. so we i just want to establish there is a moral basis for this. the economics of it, the plundering of our state budgets. the diversion of money that could go for schools for road for hospitals that instead go into prisons, all that is important. the hole it puts inside of our state budgets eating up so much that's important but it really is, that's that's the thing that allows conservative legislators to explain why they're doing these moral things. why the impact on the budget is there. i have to take my hat off to pew. the data pew has provided, not only the figures but putting it in context, their publication, one in 100. showing that one in 100 americans was in prison or jail and one in 41, those that are under government supervision. that's really something that opened the eyes of conservativ

>> well you know ted kennedy had a little bit on the othertory spot but, no i don't think we're findingt person -- i mean maybe de blasio in some ways. most people on the left of the democratic party like the word "progressive" not "liberal." but i think we're lacking a kind of cuomo -- somebody who has a real populist appeal from the northeast who can project himself in a national way. the closest we come to it is his son andrew cuomo. look recently at the guts andrew cuomo said no to fracking as governor in new york and it recalls mario cuomo say nothing to the nuclear power plant in the state. these were deeply controversial issues but they weighed in there on the progressive or liberal side of it. in this case backing the environmental movement of new york state. >> douglas brinkley, thanks for the insight, i appreciate it. i'll be right back. so you're looking for a loan? how's your credit? i know i have an 810 fico score, thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. and your big idea is hot dogs shaped like hamburgers? nope. hamburgers shaped like hot dogs. that's not really in o

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ted kennedy called him a good friend. he wanted to defeat his opponents, but not destroy them. reagan came into the office with a focus on two evil empires. one was the soviet union, and the other was the federal government intruding evermore on the lives of its it is. he brought down the former it rained in the latter by doing something that would be today considered unthinkable. he embraced his adversaries. imagine that. he had a relationship with the speaker of the house. that relationship created the possibility of saving social security, meaningful tax reductions, because democrats and republicans forged consensus and focused on the broader long-term interest. that lesson is hugely important. two people can disagree vehemently, but if they see in each other honesty, they can find accommodations. president reagan led. how about my dad managing the fall of the iron curtain? as the soviet empire collapse, there were significant dangers that it would become violent. the united states could have justifiably done a victory dance as the berlin wall fell. many people, critics of m

by 1984 with cuomo's speech to the democratic national convention convention, he had supplanted ted kennedythe leading voice of american liberalism. >> there is despair mr. president, in the faces that you don't see, in the places that you don't visit in your shining city. >> cuomo was the poet of american liberalism in the '80s where he once said politicians campaign in poetty but govern in prose. in his terms as governor, he balanced budgets, reduced taxes and stood strong against the death penalty when it was not very popular to do so. but for some, cuomo will likely be remembered for what he didn't do, he twice didn't run for president, despite being at the top of many democrats' wish list. >> mario cuomo's on again off again presidential pain is off period. for 19992, mostly for sure. >> the second no go in 1991 a down to the wire drama that left two planes on the tarmac that were there to rush him to file for the primary. he cited the new york state budget as a reason that he could not run. >> it seems to me i cannot turn my attention to new hampshire while this threat hangs over the

talked about this before, i belief she want wants to be a powerhouse in the senate and has the ted kennedyt, a position of power in the community. i don't see her wanting to but if clinton didn't run, all bets are off. >> i mean, look senator warren is really steering the debate in directions that it needs to go. and that's a tremendous contribution so far. i'll also say this, what i heard in the comments you just played was basically getting on offense, and a lot of us are really just tired of playing defense. tired of jutst sitting here and explaining why trickle-down supply side tax cuts don't work. what she's suggesting we do now is come up with a set of ideas that actively try to reconnect, that create the policy agenda that can reconnect middle class prosperity to overall economic growth. now, as i said the other side says, well it's just all about overall economic growth. that's obviously necessary but it's not sufficient. what i hear liz warren saying is let's create that policy architecture, that connective tissue that will raise the middle class. >> joan walsh and jared bernstein