i believe that's what ted kennedy would be doing. it's easy in politics, but senator kennedy appealed to the best of us. the appealed to our sense of justice, to our sense of responsibility, to are uniquely american belief in hope and possibility he appreciated the role of the senate. sometimes you have to be instigated, sometimes defended, sometimes a compromiser. but we are called to fulfill our constitutional duties. we are called to lead. we need to do our job. it is my sincere hope that we will follow ted's example, and not what i would like to do, if vicki, if you could come up here. i just have a personal thing i'd like to do. this is something i inherited when i became chairman of the committee. it is ted kennedy's gavel that he had when he was chairman. hold it up. the gavel, it says senator edward kennedy, u.s. senate committee judiciary, 1963-2009, chairman 1979-1981. and i saw him we held that a gavel -- [laughter] [applause] >> this is so beautiful. it's unbelievable, unbelievably beautiful and so meaningful. ted kennedy

our partner was senator ted kennedy who helped us get that law, along with peter rodino of new jersey. immigrant rights were always at the top and we are still continuing that right now. legislation is going to congress. i don't believe the guest worker program should be implemented at all. we have a 30% unemployment right now. we have lots of people who don't have work. yet employers continue to bring in people from other countries to do the work. they keep saying ordinary people won't do this work. that is not true at all. we look again at "the grapes of wrath" and when all that was going on, people were coming from other places. we have many people here, individuals now in office and hold different positions in government that were once farmworkers. it is not that people won't do farm work, it's that they don't want to pay enough money to pay the farmworker in the kind of health benefits they need. farmworkers see their work as something they do with dignity. they consider themselves professionals and they should be treated with dignity. if you're not going to treat people with dig

. >> ted kennedy went to the convention. jimmy carter had the delegates. and ted kennedy went to the platform committee and asked them to rewrite the rule and to release the gel gets -- delegates to gym mooy carter and he almost pulled it off. we were talking about this during the commercial break. the republicans don't even have their rules set forth yet. >> there is again -- we reneitherred to the eight-state rule. that can easily go before the cleveland convention. >> i want to make it clear that the people who write the rules are not party leaders who are from the inside of the rnc. it is the delegates that are chosen by the voters in each state. >> and who has been working the delegates really hard? >> ted cruz. >> and donald trump still has a pretty large number of delegates as well. i also want to make clear the 1237 number. it is not the kind of unattainable number that has been designed to prevent donald trump. >> it is a simple majority. >> it is a simple number and a reasonable mandate. >> and a difficult number. >>. >> we have to remember who i

. >> and ted kennedy -- wish bernie sanders could paul ted kennedy, go to the floor and say i want you to change the rules and let bound delegate be unbound. >> he could do that and also trying to sway the delegates to his camp. it could come down to his concession. if he concedes clinton be the obvious nominee. if he doesn't, we could be gearing up for an ugly fight. >> could get nasty. >> nastier, yes. >> thank you. good to see you. >> great to be here. >> an intense manhunt underway for the accused murderer who broke out of a psychiatric hospital. the latest on the search for the suspect which has shifted hundreds of miles east of sales -- east of seattle to an area around his parents' home. it's a fact. kind of like grandkids equals free tech support. oh, look at you, so great to see you! none of this works. come on in. hyeah?m. we've got allstate, right? uh-huh. yes. well, i found this new thing called allstate quickfoto claim. it's an app. you understand that? you just take photos of the damage with your phone and upload them to allstate. really? so you get a quicker estimate, qu

in 1980, barbara mikulski and i ran ted kennedy's campaign in baltimore, we were kennedy delegates. the sitting president. we got to madison square garden in july of 1980, and the night they came out for the unity shake, there was divide between the candidates that radiated all over the floor at madison square garden. we left there and five months later, without a united democratic party, ronald reagan beat jimmy carter and for the next 12 years, we had republican control of the white house. >> i watched the famous ted kennedy speech from that, beautiful speech. by that rationale, it's like, hell no. basically when you go back and look at it, whether it led to that result, it's really interesting -- >> but it's also important. frankly at the time, we didn't take reagan that seriously. he was a celebrity guy from the west coast. >> right. what a pleasure, i could do this for an hour. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> now here's the cnbc market wrap. >> hi, chris. we had markets closing mixed today. the dow jumping by 13 points. the s&p gaining 3 points. the nasdaq losing 7 point

the democratic side connecticut has a long history of dealing with the underdog, by that i mean ted kennedyt jimmy carter in 1980, gary hart beat monday detail in '84, brown beat [ inaudible ] -- barack obama beating hillary clinton in '08. [ inaudible ] >> all right. i think -- unfortunately we're having some audio issues there. i'm really -- i apologize, chris keati keating. thank you for joining us, we are having a hard time hearing you there. let me go down to delaware. matthew allbright. you have a winner take all on the republican side, who is the favor on the republican side, who is the favor on the democratic side? >> reporter: well, it's hard to tell particularly on the republican side, there's not a lot of polling here, kasich has the strongest organization here, he's got heavy weights behind him on his campaign committee, but there is a streak of serious hard core conservatism, especially down state that you think ted cruz appeals to and donald trump is completely a wild card. we hear a lot of people in our newsroom saying they support him, but it's hard to pin down exactly how d

they would have applied to senator ted kennedy.hink of a liberal, a democrat fighting hard for chance, nancy pelosi, john lewis, any who wouldn't be disqualified in that same argument. and here's the reason, i think, he may be raising in the polls. if you ask the clinton people, overwhelmingly, they're going to vote for sanders. i am disappointed and "the new york times" mentioned this. i think there's been a turn in the sanders' rhetoric away from the difference issues, more to claiming that somehow she's going to be soft and not prosecute, because she's been corrupted by money, for which she has no evidence. so a lot of the sanders' people are saying that they wouldn't vote for clinton. in other words -- and i think that will turn over. i think, while people are angry now, when you get to november, that's going to change. hillary clinton, to her credit, made very sure in 2008 that women who were disappointed that she didn't get nomination voted for barack obama. and if hillary clinton is nominated, i'm hoping senator sanders will

. >> the old-school senators like ted kennedy and others who have been here for a long time, they would hold their hearings over in the russell building. even know this room was available. becauset felt -- watergate had been held there and so many other hearings have been held there, that they were part of that historical trend. this room here in the hart building has created a wholeness -- whole new historical trend. lots of very prominent witnesses, lots of acrimony often between senators and witnesses. even though this is the newest building, it has already begun to establish a long history and it will continue to serve the united states senate for a very long time. they develop for operation iraqi freedom was even more innovative and transformational. employing an unprecedented combination of precision, speed, and flexibility. space is just below the area that was going to be a gymnasium. the original plans for this building had a gymnasium for the senators. at the time, because the building was seen as so extravagant, they cut the money for the gymnasium and also for the restrooms

i believe that is what ted kennedy would be doing. it is easy in politics to appeal to self-interest but senator kennedy appealed to the best of us. he appealed to our sense of justice. to our sense of responsibility. to our uniquely american belief in hope and possibility. he appreciated the role of the senate. sometimes you have to be instigator, sometimes defender, sometimes compromiser. we're called to lead. we need to do our job. it is my sincere hope that we'll follow ted's example, uphold the finest traditions of senate. what i would like to do, vicki, if you could come up here, i just have a personal thing i would like to do this is something i inherited when i became chairman of the committee. it is ted kennedy's gavel that he had when he was chairman. let me hold it up. the gavel, the, it says, senator edward kennedy, u.s. senate judiciary, 1963 to 2009, chairman, 1979 to 1981. and i saw him wield that gavel. [applause] this is so beautiful it is unbelievable, unbelievably beautiful and so meaningful. ted kennedy loved the un

. >> the old-school senators like ted kennedy, and others who have been here a long time, would hold their hearings in the russell building, even though this room was available. they just felt -- because watergate had been held there, and so many other hearings had been held there, that they were part of that historical trend. this room in the hart building has created a new historical stream of major hearings that lots of prominent witnesses, lots of acrimony often between the senators and witnesses. even though this is the newest building, it has already begun to establish a long history, and it will continue to serve the united states senate for a long time. >> the plan made for operation iraqi freedom was even more innovative and transformational. employing a combination of precision, speed, and flexibility. >> one of the original plans had a gymnasium. at the time, because it with thought to be extravagant, they cut the money for the gymnasium and the restrooms on the ninth floor. they were services that would be provided. over the years, it became clear that senators have stres

. >> the best chance we had for comprehensive immigration reform was under ted kennedy's i voted for it. senator sanders voted against it. >> reporter: at a gun violence forum, clinton claims sanders in his home state of vermont share the blame for new york city's violence. >> in the state that has the highest per capita number of those guns that end up committing crimes in new york come from vermont. >> reporter: and she rid culd sanders saying he can't handle the pressure of new york city media. >> he's had trouble answering questions about his core issue, namely dealing with the banks. >> reporter: upstate today, sanders hit back at clinton, calling her too cozy by wall street and demanded she release transcripts of her big bank speeches. >> i will release all of my transcripts. [ cheers and applause ] which is not difficult for me to do because there are no transcripts. >> reporter: sanders is predicting a win in clinton's >> turns out that if we have a large voter turnout a week from tomorrow, we're going to win here in new york state. >> reporter: the latest polling has clinton

you talking about ted kennedy? yeah, that guy. well, thank you, thank you, mr. president.he american people want me to go, and you yourself got pretty mad at me. so maybe it's time i should go. i don't want to miss my plane. i just want you to know i'll never forget all that we had. neither will i. all right, now i really do have to go. i'm of to a nato conference in paris. au revoir. so you just let him go, sir? yes, i did, conde. well, maybe it's for the best, sir. a lot of people were calling for his resignation. maybe politically it's better for you. you know, you two need to be away from each other, and maybe you can finally get over him. it's true except i don't want to get over him. you're gonna go after him, sir? my taxi's outside! i'll drive you to the airport! [ "i'll be there for you" by the rembrants playing ]

kennedy: they are willing to do the work. llisa, what a difference two das make. >> why wouldn't an immigrant like ted cruz go to an immigrant community. he probably expected a warm welcome. kennedy: he thought he was going to use his boyish charm to win people over. >> she thought he was at hamilton. he thought he had the hottest ticket in town. >> they are screaming. how do you see this playing out in new york? >> trump better step it up. 53. he should be at 55. this is new york. they kept talking about wisconsin. that's the proving ground. he's going to deliver. if he doesn't exceed 50% all across the state, that does not bode well for trump. if you are here in new york, if you can't win in a primary in new york and you can't win big, where everyone is brash, he better win big or it's a very bad time. kennedy: he could win all those delegates if he gets above 50 person *. then he has to win every congressional district. 75 delegates still doesn't put him in the best zone. in new york a much more natural fit for donald trump. it goes to show you have the violent mood swings of the race. you don't have to be a democrat or re

. >> but ted kennedy and jesse helms probably raised $100 million each for the other. one would criticize and then the other one would send out that criticism and vice versa. >> right. >> the hardest thing in politics is to stand up to your friends and tell your friends that you disagree with them. >> right. >> in my case, as i said, it was almost always about -- it was always about procedure and not substance, but there's not enough of that. there's not enough telling the people close to you when you think they're wrong. >> right. so we have openly gay athletes now. >> yes. >> we have openly gay people in the service, as you say. we have, i believe, seven openly gay or lesbian or bisexual -- >> one senator and six representatives. >> -- members of congress. we have an openly bisexual governor of oregon. >> yep. >> and yet have the politics of this country adequately changed to your satisfaction? i'm guessing the answer is no. >> no, pretty much they have. but here's the deal. every one of the people you named is a democrat. >> right, there are no republicans serving i

>> you look at the 65 immigration act, president kennedy and ted kennedy and what they did. is down, but we're so much more aggressive about surveillance and all of that. you come to a guy like bill braton. when it comes to president reagan and the ideas, you look at the courts and the current argument over who to replace justice scalia with. president reagan was trying to respond to the people who live in a living, changing constitution. he said we have to stick to the values. >> do you have a question? >> i'm always interested in how a book is put together. i looked at your cover, and it was interesting why you chose those four people. i have someone else you could have added there. >> yes, it is reagan, billy g m graham, you added -- is that you? >> yes. >> you have been writing for many years, enhow does someone write when they have another job? >> he didn't sit at the bar drinking. >> you know, the one thing i admit because i'm living here pretty much now, i had two computers. one with a time line, and the other one i'm working on, and of course i have -- but it is my s

c-span: back to politics here is senator ted kennedy and senator simpson. >> eventually under the senate rules will have an opportunity to have these offerings and amendments on the minimum-wage. >> mr. president i take we could go on and we made that as we get back to the substance of minimum-wage as the senator does that and i misspoke earlier that senator kennedy as "king lear." [laughter] because certainly he launched and here i am. >> i am not sure what that means that when senator simpson he was "the reader" at the folger and i was told he spent time in the library said he is a huge fan and he read aloud he was in the library. c-span: is a make any sense you call him king leer? >> i need to know more about the context but i think he said plunging into the tempest in a gentle think he is quoting the tempest that talking about suffering the breakdown at the hands of the elements and hurling the insults to the gods and senator simpson calls itself the playful spirit spirit, midsummer's night as a dream it is always better to be puck instead of "king lear". c-span: here is another one.

hillary clinton is definitely sailing against the wind as ted kennedy would say.ost accomplishment figure in this race. four out of five this week. >> she's doing it by being that establishment figure. she cleared the field early. she looked so formidable so early on that many other potential challengers, true outsiders -- you mean chaffey wasn't a true threat. >> many the end bernie sanders wasn't a true threat. he was a representational threat. he showed what she isn't. he didn't have the operation that allowed her to emerge. >> she looks like she will carry that bag across the finish line. >> she is. if you look at the republicans going back to 2009 right after the passage of obama care, that's when their insurgency really started. the tea party came up. that's created this dynamic to trump and cruz were manipulating to amphetamine to the nomination. still not big enough. no infrastructure to that. there's not enough of it there for someone to really beat somebody like hillary. >> you is sense this is the beginning of something like we're seeing on the right? >

stance on healthcare wants to go back to single but i would love to have it but the problem is ted kennedy try to 50 years ago and hillary tried it back in the day and obama started when i realized that this is the only way we will get something close to universal healthcare. i don't know what he thinks he can do to fix things that have never been done before. >> did you grow up? >> virginia beach virginia. >> i am a navy brat . >> dad was in the navy . the only reason i didn't go because if you bring papers to a 12-year-old, they run so i ran !at what point did you think you wanted to act? >> i didn't start acting until i was in college at the university of virginia. i was going to be a lawyer with the supreme court . we'll get you into lawsuit and you can become a clerk and i took an acting class and it all went to hell. >> look at you on one of the most popular dramas there is quite it worked out okay . >> good luck tonight. i was worried about that. >> it's always a possibility and shanda land. >> shanda is the boss of the show and she created it . >> she runs thursday night on the net

. -- there are those who would be for ted kennedy if they thought he was going to have a shot. so i don't view it. i don't think it will be third party. he will run as an independent and they will add the same success. we are a two-party system. it is part of our stability. debate him in the whether he was willing to support the nominee of the party. he made clear he would not prepare that. i think you are right that he will do it. idle think it is going to amount to much after a good trip around the country. i don't see -- he is caught. he doesn't have the true give digital's of a candidate and wants to move against the credentials they got him elected to the house. let him do what he wants. that is the way i feel. [laughter] governor reagan said he could get 20% of the vote. a threat? be >> that would be a disaster. he is probably going to take away from the carter side more than from our side. that i speak pejoratively when i said that i miss him tonight. let's turn to foreign affairs or both of you have been unsatisfied without the president has handled the iranian crisis.

he becomes like ted kennedy giving his georgetown speech back in 80. those kind of speeches. >> i think where you really see this is if on social media the fights that are breaking out between sanders supporters and the clinton supporters. the sanders supporters really feel like this is a movement and this is a sweeping, scathing critique of the democratic establishment in their coziness with wall street and with business. they feel like they've unleashed something that's much bigger. if you're asking him to sort of give up what they see as this kind of moral critique in this foundation from which they have run, you're sort of taking away the energy, the breath and force of this whole movement. >> how can he ever endorse hillary clinton who is tied to the establishment? she is the establishment. >> if you watch that vermont press conference which he gave which was really interesting, he was pretty grudging even in his congratulations toward hillary clinton. he also started attacking the new york results voting irregularities. it does not feel like a mo

kennedy: today a monmouth poll revealed he's just above 50%. >> just at 52%. ted cruz it getting up toward 40%. but this is trump's home turf. kennedy: lord only knows what's going to hapappen ththe next two weeks. did last night's result inch us one step closer to a contested convention? 80% of trump supporters, they don't want any part of that. they think that's the biggest bowl of malarkey nonsense they have ever been served. >> you guys get in the numbers of stuff, huh? kennedy: forget the numbers. >> all i know is i want trump becaususe i hate politics. i want to throw a bomb into the white house metaphorically. you guys have done your research, your 50%s and everything. we trump supporters is an f you vote. itit's not about numbers. kennedy: if he doesn't get enough f you votes to get the number of delegates to get the nomination. >> the only hohope for trump iso appease women bebecause they control the political spectrum. if someone does something illegal they should be punished. it was the worse thing he ever did because women are hysterical and go, i do s

if you look at what they're putting out with this it reminds of ted kennedy's character assassination of bob bork. >> those are politicians. have you ever seen the media do this? it's not just left wing immediate yashgs mara, the national review had the big cover with donald trump. the media attacks donald trump which he loves to run against. they've really gone up to number two here. >> national review is a self-identified conservative publication. the "boston globe" has a liberal editorial page, i think this is not obliterating the fire wall completely because they place that thing on the editorial page in the opinion section. but it's knocking down the fire wall. massachusetts, i think to date, was donald trump's best state. he got 49.something in the vote. i think in the republican primary, timing of it. >> they'll be influential in going into the other northeastern states. >> we're running out of time. when we come back, new york's massive media mob at the center of the political universe. which candidates can handle the tabloid times? and hillary and bernie using the media mega

. >>> scott brown, former senator who of course got a little history, taking ted kennedy's senate seat. does this development worry you? >> it's the worst kept secret inside and outside of washington, neil. carly, who i have a tremendous amount of respect for, and she would make a great vice-president for any of the candidates in a potential great president, the utmost respect for her. everyone has known for a while that she was going to be the running mate with senator cruz, because they've been in acceptabaccept accept ichlts nseperable over the last couple of months. >> he wants to deny donald trump getting the delegates. >> yeah, you referenced it earlier, 250 away? >> 283. >> a lot of states left. yeah, i am, and you are and everyone else in america and throughout the world actually. so yeah, i don't think that's going to happen. especially the way that it happened last night. getting more than 50 or around 50% of women, getting over the -- >> let me ask you, but do you think -- i don't want to jump, because he is going to speak. >> go, go, i appreciate it. >> do you think it's po

it's actually, i think, a little more reminiscent of a campaign i worked on as a kid, ted kennedy's campaign in 1980, where there was a certain point in the campaign which it became clear he wasn't going to be the nominee. but he felt strongly about a number of issues and wanted to continue in the race, and he did. he wanted to make his case on the convention floor, which he did. he actually won quite a few platform battles in 1980. but in the course of doing that, most of the carter people would say he probably didn't do president carter very much good in terms of coming out of that convention in a way that he could win the general election against ronald reagan. now, fortunately, democrats this time won't be running against ronald reagan. donald trump can steal his slogan from 1980, but he's never going to be ronald reagan, the candidate. that makes this a little easier for democrats to absorb. you're right, lawrence, the rationale for his candidacy moved tonight from i'm going to win this thing, to, i'm going to continue to fight because i care about these issues. it's not an illegitimate

jimmy carter had enough delegates to win, but ted kennedy went to the convention and he tried something unique. he tried to change the platform rules before the first ballot to allow the committed delegates to switch on the first ballot. you know what? he almost succeeded. so is that another possible scenario here? >> certainly. i mean, i think in this case, anything is possible. and it's absolutely gonna be all eyes on the rnc rules committee when they can be leading up to the convention. whatever the rules committee does, it's plausible, although conventional wisdom is not super helpful b you it's plausible that it's going to be more helpful for cruz and more helpful for the anti-trump contingent of the republican party because the folks on the rules convention will be party insiders, long-time conservative activists, true believers. not some of the newcomers who aren't necessarily as loyal to the republican party as they are to trump. >> betsy, good talking to you. thanks very much. >> likewise. >>> and for more campaign action, do not forget to watch an "on the record" town hall wit

i used to say to mike, how are you and ted kennedy able to bridge the divide and get so much done?ys talked about the 80/20 rule. i said, what is that? he said, ted and i agree on 80% of the stuff. we disagree on 20%. and what we decided to do is focus on the 80% on which we agree. good enough. jim inhofe and i co-sponsored legislation on diesel emission reduction and making great progress on that front. we decided to focus on what we agree. i want to ask this panel in the spirit of the 80/20 rule to tell us -- and we'll start with you, dr. back -- where is the 80% where you agree or maybe it's 70% or even 60%? where is the agreement on this panel on some of the important issues? and just take a minute. no more than a minute. >> i'm sorry. i'm not quite sure -- >> where are the points of consensus on this panel? where do you think you agree? >> i believe we agree that early interaction with the nrc is helpful for new technologies for advanced reactors. i believe a staged approach is also very helpful. and i believe some kind of cost share to help with the fees or to change the burd

i once saw ted kennedy go into philadelphia back in '80 and own the city, occupy it against jimmy carter. this guy walked in, said new york values, owned the place, tour deforce. i've never seen a more successful effort to just occupy a city like donald trump pulled off the last two weeks since wisconsin. >> it turns out that ted cruz did him a big favor because ted cruz gave donald trump his talking point. >> right. >> and the talking point was new york values post- 9/11, the heroism of the firefighters, the unity of the state. that gave donald trump something nice to say in a campaign in which he'd said mostly nasty things. so one thing is that he said really nice things about new york, and he embraced the city that was, after all, his home and where he built tall buildings that were not knocked down, but he understood. and also his new management team shut him up. >> look at that speech tonight. >> okay. first of all, he -- i'll get to the speech in one second. first of all, he got television. he got off the weekend shows for a while. he stopped talking, and when he talked, he only ta

. >> the old-school senators like ted kennedy, and others who have been here a long time, would hold their hearings in the russell building, even though this room was available. they just felt -- because watergate had been held there, and so many other hearings had been held there, that they were part of that historical trend. this room in the hart building has created a new historical stream of major hearings that lots of prominent witnesses, lots of acrimony often between the senators and witnesses. even though this is the newest begunng, it has already to establish a long history, and it will continue to serve the united states senate for a long time. >> the plan made for operation iraqi freedom was even more innovative and transformational. employing a, nation of precision, spee -- employing a combination of precision, speed, and flex ability. >> -- flexibility. >> one of the original plans had a gymnasium. at the time, because it with thought to be extravagant, they cut the money for the gymnasium and the restrooms on the ninth floor. they were services that would be provided. o

by that i mean ted kennedy beat jimmy carter in 1980. gary heart in 1984.n the democratic side there is a long history of upsets for the under dog and more liberal candidate in connecticut. >> governor moon beam in 1992. one of the great upsets of all time. thank you, appreciate you all taking part, giving us a really good sense on the ground of what is happening in these key states. >>> coming up, we are going to head to michigan where charges are reportedly going to be filed in the flint water crisis. >>> it's time for the your business entrepreneur of the week. he switched gears to let people make their own designs and now the company is flying high. our cosmetics line was a hit. the orders were rushing in. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn't need a loan. we needed short-term funding fast. building 18 homes in 4 ½ months? that was a leap. but i knew i could rely on american express to help me buy those building materials. amex helped me buy the inventory i needed. our amex helped us fill the orders. just like that. another step on the

i used to say to mike, how are you and ted kennedy able to bridge the divide and get so much done? he always talked about the 80/20 rule. i said, what is that? he said, ted and i agree on 80% of the stuff. we disagree on 20%. and what we decide to do is focus on the 80% on which we agree. good enough. jim inhofe and i co-sponsored legislation on diesel emission reduction and making great progress on that front. we decided to focus on what we agree. i want to ask this panel in the spirit of the 80/20 rule to tell us -- and we'll start with you, dr. back -- where is the 80% where you agree or maybe it's 70% or even 60%? where is the agreement on this panel on some of the important issues? and just take a minute. no more than a minute. >> i'm sorry. i'm not quite sure -- >> where are the points of consensus on this panel? where do you think you agree? >> i believe we agree that early interaction with the nrc is h p helpful for new technologies for advanced reactors. i believe a staged approach is also very helpful. and i believe some kind of cost share to help with the fees or to chan

carter used it, as well, for his backers and delegates who might have been thinking about, i'm sure ted kennedyunning for re-election. let me ask you a little bit about how kennedy played off relations. john kennedy played off relations with the hollywood community. ronald reagan did something similar. but first, to john kennedy. >> yes. well, peter lawford was a big star. starred in "the thin man" and people today, our kids don't know who he is but back then nobody knew who bobby kennedy was so he was a big star. and the kennedy suite in los angeles at the builtmore hotel ran all the ladies and food and booze you want eed and a kenned awake as a host or host easy 24/7 in that period. lots of movie stars. >> bobby kennedy trying to secure the deal of each one of the delegations. say ford or ronald reagan, he, of course, a creature of hollywood. he knew even though republicans had a tougher time having actors and actresses in the corner, he had a lot, didn't he? >> very much so. and, you know, you mentioned bobby kennedy and reagan. they had for john kennedy index cards with the name of every de

ted kennedy said he had a movement. he contested it though he had not won the majority. took it to the convention. they had a big fight. though kennedy lost. he won the platform fights. he really, used that moment to, to get across his message. have you contemplated or thought about doing anything like that? >> well, obviously, we will play platform. and what we are going to fight for is to demand that at time of massive income and wealth inequality, the wealthiest people and largest corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. we will demand vigorous action in combatting climate change. so we leave this planet in a healthy way for our kids. we are going to take on the pissue of poverty in america. that very few people talk about. it is unacceptable to me we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. we are going to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create $13 million jobs improving our water systems and waste water plants and roads and bridges. those are the, use that we will fight for to get on the platform, whether

. >> reporter: democrats came up with superdelegates after 1980 when ted kennedy challenged the incumbent president jimmy carter and hurt him at the convention. >> i think i have to plead guilty to being at least one of the creator of unpledged add-on delegates. >> reporter: that's tad devine speaking in 2008. devine is now chief strategist for the bernie sanders campaign now hoping to convince those superdelegates to abandon clinton and side with his candidate, the insurgent. there is a precedent for that. it happened eight years ago when hillary clinton was the early front-runner and a guy named barack obama came out of nowhere. bernie sanders not there yet, but you got to figure that the republicans are probably wishing they had a superdelegate system because it might solve some of their problems. >> yes, david. >> i'm kind of wishing i could go back to college and take another political science class. and brush up on this. thank you very much. >> thanks, david. >>> for more on all this let's bring in a guy who understands it quite well, abc news chief anchor george stephanopoulos gett

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if you look at what they're putting out with this it reminds of ted kennedy's character assassination of bob bork. during the senate supreme court hearings. >> but those are politicians. have you ever seen the media do something like that? not just left wing media. the national review had a big cover against trump with 22 conservative writers. the media attacks donald trump which he loves to run against. they have gone up to deaf con 2. >> national review is a self-identified conservative publication. the "boston globe" has a liberal editorial page, i think this is not obliterating the fire wall completely because they place that thing on the editorial page instead of on the front page, calling it a parody, in the opinion section. but it's knocking down the firewall. massachusetts, i think to date, was donald trump's best state. he got 49 point something of the vote. i think in the republican primary, timing of it. >> they'll be influential in going into the other northeastern states. like connecticut. >> the boston globe doesn't agree with the verdict of the conservative voters in ma

. >> dickerson: in 1908, ezra, ted kennedy said i want the following things on the platform, he got a lot of those. is there a to do list or specific list that sanders might want to use leverage he has with all the voters to say i'd like hillary clinton to adopt the following positions, not just speak in broad terms but be quite specific? >> platforms need to offer vehicle for that kind of trade that people don't feel as potent see any more. even if sanders believes -- did get hillary clinton to endorse a carbon tox, the fact of the republican house, assuming win the presidency she wouldn't necessarily do it, i'm not sure somebody likes sanders with as much mistrust in the system as he has would see that as way to go. what i do think is going to be the interesting question with him. whether if he does not win the nomination, he converts his fundraising, his movement into a downward movement. how much is he really interested in meeting revolution to change democratic party and broadly the country, how much was bernie sanders revolution just effort to get bernie sanders elected to the p