. >> the entire week goes on the shoulders of ted kennedy he was not ready for that kind of responsibility. >> teddy kennedy was a quarter million miles below as the astronauts headed to the moon, unaware that he would soon be competing for them for attention. still mourning the loss of his brother he was preparing for the annual pilgrimage. the small party on the tiny island. the island of martha's vineyard was a perfect playground. his family arrived. [inaudible] >> in high school he had a job. [inaudible] it was a special occasion that brought senator ted kennedy. >> the annual yacht club that ted kennedy had sailed in for a number of years. >> it was late in the summer of 1969. the kennedy family had long been fixtures and he was looking forward to returning. >> he is there to race, as always and they decided to have union. >> that's an old political term for those doing the heavy lifting in the campaign. >> they were a knit group. rosemary often went by her nickname. they all had specific jobs. there were no computers. they did everything off index cards and they were in constant cont

ted kennedy found that out the hard way. nged. >> week after his funeral kennedy's memoir was released. the book would include only five pages on chappaquiddick he took full response ability for his quote, inexcusable actions on the night of july 18, 1969. senator posthumously spoke appear to show you never gone over the night that changed his life forever. >> in his book he said he was with him every day. it may have been. >> in a strange way of this humanizes ted kennedy. it's his achilles' heel that he took responsibility, i think, to himself over what happened and never forgive himself that he [inaudible] in his own way probably glad he never became president that was the moral price for his actions that led to mary jo's death. >> years go by things become fade into the distance and to some degree after chappaquiddi chappaquiddick, although it remains always something he never fully explained and people never really fully understood. >> when senator kennedy died so too did the only eyewitness event in the years since his

the entire family dynasty falls on the shoulders of ted kennedy. they had rendered entrance-rented a small cabin. not two young fellows reported seeing a car upside down in the water not the political direction of the united states was about to be transformed not i never seen anything like this we wanted to find out what happened. you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 48 hours after senator kennedy's car was dragged out of the water of chappaquiddick, the astronauts were still on the surface of the moon preparing for their return to earth. the senators team of advisors hoped the historic mission would drown out news of his action and the nagging questions that followed. >> if you had a picket day to be a sitting u.s. senator on a day that a woman's body was found that you were drinking with, the best day in history of modern life is the same day that neil armstrong was being the first man to step on the moon at the same time. >> it was too late. the tiny community of chappaquiddick was already over run by reporters. >> at 930 in front of the courthouse, the chief of police

ted kennedy served for 40 years and no one remembers the first 20.i would argue clearly that individuals -- there are time simply's is where longevity isl important. i do think he was a lion in the senate. i did not know him when he was younger but when i knew him, he had already learned -- and i would not look across the aisle without compromising your principles -- but you have to make a deal on occasion to get to the finish line. it was not personal. he would bash you for what you believe in but at the end of the day, he would respect you. he embodied that. i think everyone here respected him. steve: what were interactions with him like? rep. capuano: he treated me like a human being. like a colleague as opposed to an underling. he was ted kennedy, the lion of the senate from the kennedy family. he would have had every possibility to treat you like a punk little kid. do not bother me. he never did that. just the opposite. i never saw him do anything like that to anyone else. he made me feel like i had something to offer. and we were colleagues mor

he had nothing left to live for and ted kennedy took that to hisis grave to make his father's desktopt toll on the senator. >> he went to the day and night and then his father finally died he said i let down my father. >> despite the turmoil he was still exploring a possible run of the white house 1972 as his ambitions took focus so did the questions about chappaquiddick from the press and secretly from the president of the united states. >> nixon's reputation to be tough now given the challenge of the presidency everything is on thefo table including chappaquiddick. >> even though those efforts were evident in the halls of the white house over the years feared a kennedy run spent the next white house was very interested because it was always assumed that teddy would run against nixon for reelection. >> but now we know from these documents that they were obsessed with chappaquiddick they saw this as a silver bullet that would end his career forever they were investigating and digging up everything possible. >> nixon was very afraid he would run against him and 72 so he sent a private

he was ted kennedy, the lion of the senate from the kennedy family.he would have had every possibility to treat you like a punk little kid. do not bother me. he never did that. just the opposite. him do anything like that to anyone else. he made me feel like i had something to offer. and we were colleagues more than anything else. and that was important. his legacy and the position he was in when i got here -- he certainly could have been different and he was not. steve: you have cast thousands of votes over the years. any regrets? rep. capuano: regrets? not one. all of the major roads that i took i thought were the right votes at the time. i think most of them have turned out to be the right votes even in hindsight. a couple of votes i might change but nothing critical. i mean i voted against the iraq war, against the patriot act, against note child left behind. child left behind. even sitting here today, i think they were the right votes based on what has happened since then. no real regrets at all. none. steve: in politics, people like to give peop

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for the clintons it was personal because they had worked with ted kennedy, they were friends with ted. it was a real blow for us. hillary said, where do we go from here? frankly, we didn't have the answer. >> hillary clinton never anticipated, expected to have a well financed opponent, well organized opponent like barack obama. >> her entire strategy is based on winning early on and closesing down shop, moving onto the general election. but that's not happening. they're out of money and that is a huge problem. but she fights and keeps fighting. >> how are you? >> clinton has loaned her campaign $5 million of her own money to see her through the near term. >> i'm going to keep making our case until we have a nominee whoever she may be. >> every chair should have had one of these cards. i want you to fill it out. i want you to become part of this process. >> people underestimated not just him as a candidate but the political operation he was able to put into place. i think his background in community organizing helps throughout the campaign. >> call these folks up and tell them you will

he worked hard with ted kennedy. he has moved where the republican party has moved, to be in complete loyalty to donald trump. this is the dominant ideology of the republican party today. it's not about ideology. it is about donald trump and whatever he does is fine. that is true and will be true as long as the republican party's voters continue to be as lined up behind trump as they are. they are still lined up that way, and you see almost no dissent among elected republican officials about anything donald trump has done. >> nia, do you see that budging at all? >> probably not. you have heard echoes of this from other people like rand paul saying this is a paperwork error. other people saying obama did this as well, even though that's not true at all. >> that was a paperwork error, the obama one. >> yeah. exactly a paperwork error. >> there are a lot of campaign finance violations that are like, well, this was wrongly reported. this is not that. this is six figures of money paid out according to federal prosecutors

ted kennedy, senator from massachusetts, decides to take him on. >> today i formally announce that ies. [ cheers and applause ] >> many democrats believed carter moved too far to the center and that he abandoned the traditional ideas of the party. >> jimmy carter and kennedy became the polar opposites within the party, and jimmy carter on top of that had a feeling that the kennedys felt they were above we southerners. >> it's a nasty contest. when someone asked jimmy carter in passing, what do you think about being challenged by ted kennedy? jimmy carter says, i'll whip his as. >> this is a special report from cbs news. >> the 174th day of the iran crisis has brought a startling and tragic turn of events. the united states mounted a military operation into iran last night to rescue the american hostages, but it failed. >> eight helicopters took off from the aircraft carrier nimitz. they had a staging area 200 miles southeast of iran. >> two of the helicopters experienced problems on route. >> but once on the ground, yet another helicopter malfunctioned, leaving only five for the miss

, all the men and women who voted for tax cuts over the years, ted kennedy and chuck schumer voted for joe biden in 1986-87, madison. >> liz, i'm horrified by these comments. i just got back from israel where i spent time with a terror victim's family. their son and brother died in a terror attack. people who have actually been affected by terror cannot stand to hear comments by that, and i was appalled along with many of his other comments. let's just look to the middle class families that have averaged at $2200 in tax cuts since the tax cuts and job act passed. $300 billion repatriated back into the american economy. this has been good for the middle class. it, at the very least, is an incredible start because they were not in a great place when president trump took office in 2017. elizabeth: you know, you're both making important points and, you know, the tax cuts are coming into the economy in different ways, kristin. we've got in all 50 states something like 134 utilities have cut energy and utility bills for americans across the board. utilities themselves telling the sec and in

ted kennedy used to tell all the time, ted kennedy and chris dodd is to count all the time, well, you know, we are always talking to all in. you should keep that up. well, one of the things we won't have in the united states senate in 2019, and i just want to be able to say and i know nancy joins me in this, we are expecting to see the chairman and his wonderful wife elaine. nancy will see at the store. there would be plenty of books on hand, we want to wish them all the best for the years ahead. we know that they are going to be active on lots of issues and lots of projects, and i want to thank him for his friendship. i want to thank him for saying in the winter 2017 that the chairman wanted to defy the odds, wanted to defy the odds and make sure that the finance committee was on the side of folks so often didn't have lobbyists and didn't have political action committees. the chairman make sure that they got a fair shake. [applause] >> i'm going to take off. [applause] >> good morning. i'm bill hoagland. i had the pleasure of working with our health team here, and a proud of the work

that is wonderful, and kind of weirdly, during that time, you know, you were speaking to senator ted kennedy. and he was talking about a health care bill. i mean, it was all those years ago and how he hoped to pass it through the senate and he called it the health security act. that was in 1972, and just because of the craziness over the political battle over health care still today, i want to play that clip of ted kennedy with you. >> you become bankrupt too often or you're never really assured of quality health care. it's too difficult to get health services. we have tried to outline some of the ways in which that could be done with our health security act. i think it's a program which hopefully will be discussed during a national campaign and we'll be able to get the kind of support necessary to pass it. >> isn't that interesting? >> isn't it? 40 years later, still a matter of divisive debate in this country, basic health care for everybody. >> he didn't say anything about mexicans being rapists, but that would have really warped the time machine. >> can i make a very hard turn and a quit

ted kennedy. jackie kennedy. some of kennedy's entourage. ted sorenson, arthur shoes injury, arthur goldberg the labor secretary and then later a supreme court judge. on the eisenhower side you had eisenhower, his brother, milton, maim my, a cultural figure, you had eisenhower's cabinet that it not particularly well known now but interesting people. and the senators. illinois had two important senators part of this mix, paul douglas and everett dirkson, george mcgovern, congressman, and william fulbright. jut an amazing cast of characters, and as i was reading one account, very vivid account of washington on the eve of the inaugural about the trains pull interesting town and it was written by fairly junior reporter for "the new york times" called david halberstam who has six or seven major books out there. the "washington post" had a young beat reporter who was assigned outside of kennedy's house in georgetown. it was cold and bitter and he was -- every article was grump belling and vardonic, his name was tom wolfe. and he has about six or se

and in one last gesture of ted kennedy who had no reason he wanted steve breyer appointed to a vacancy in the first circuit i went to see carter knowing he wouldn't do it he said steve is first rate it is a tribute to the judiciary and that's what got them on the first circuit and then ultimately the supreme court. my book is not just about policy but people i have very interesting profiles i mentioned only two miss lillian was his inspiration who became a registered nurse tended to blacks and white patients in the rural south when it was highly unpopular and entered the peace corps and as a great defender of her son a new york reporter quizzed her on the central thesis of the campaign and she said certainly you know, that your son must have lied and she said you are right he told white lies all the time. the reporter said what do you mean by a white lie she said remember how we want to have you here? that was a white lie so i saw rosalynn carter going from a shy campaigner that could barely speak on the stump to an accomplished first lady and the powerful chairman of the committee son

. >> i think we used to have to get senator ted kennedy's permission to use that spot, but it looks great. it really is. i thought it was one of the best beauty shots from the capitol. >> thank you. >> general mccaffery, the military connection to this guy from the time he was 18. he put off going to yale. >> andover boy. >> he enlisted and went into combat? >> remember, just prior to the gulf war the pundits were saying it would be the bloodiest day in the history of the armed forces since normandy. many of us didn't buy that, but we were clearly at high anxiety levels. thanksgiving president bush shows up with barbara, the congressional leadership, and one of the first things he says to several thousand soldiers all lined up is in world war ii on thanksgiving day, i was flying a ground support mission in the philippines in support of your division. that division. >> wow. >> you know, that's great. and that was a touch of harry in the night going out there, meeting the soldiers like that. >> well, we understood that he was somebody that understood warfare. he was going to preserve our li

my unlikely friendship with the late senator ted kennedy embodies the spirit of goodwill and collegiality that used to live and thrive here. teddy and i were a case study in contradictions. he was a dying in the wool democrat. choosing friendship over party loyalty, we were able to pass some of the most important and significant bipartisan ,chievements of modern times from the americans with disability act and the american religious freedom act, to the ron white hill and the state health insurance program. these were pretty important bills and we were able to work together, even though we were different on politics. , it iseddy's passing worth asking -- can a relationship like that exist in today's senate? could people with polar opposite believes in vastly different walks of life come together as often as teddy and i did for the good of the company -- country? or are we too busy attacking to consider the friendship of the other side? if i were to identify the root of the crisis, it would be this. comedy and genuine good feeling among senate colleagues. comedy is the college of the senate

the season focusing on the case of 1969, involving the late senator ted kennedy. peek. >> the small party that evening was seemingly typical of the kennedies. >> a lot of parties would go on there. a lot of activity over there at night. >> after sailing, senator kennedy stopped off at his hotel. >> he has a room at the inn, has a few drinks there, and then takes the ferry over to where the party is already underway. >> he was already on board when ferry owner jerry grant arrived to take over from the previous captain. >> he says that's ted kennedy sitting up on the bow. okay, so, he jumped off and i jumped in and we headed for there. jon: you can catch it tonight at 8:00 eastern right here on fox news channel. >>> the white house is celebrating the first night of hanukkah with the lighting of the national menorah. >>> plus a special celebration in works to honor our fallen soldiers across the country. the latest details. >> it's the personal touch. most everyone here has someone in this cemetery that they know that has served our country. ...to give you the protei

my unlikely friendship with the late senator ted kennedy embodied the spirit of goodwill to collegiality that used thrive here. teddy and i were a case study in contradictions. a dyed in the wool liberal democrat. republican.lute but by choosing friendship or party loyalty, we were able to the most important and significant bipartisan of modern times, from the americans with thebilities act and religious freedom restoration act to the ryan white bill and children's health insurance program. these were really important were able to work together even though we differed widely on politics. nine years after teddy's passing, it's worth asking, relationship like this even exist in today's senate? polartwo people with opposite beliefs and from vastly comerent walks of life together as often as teddy and i did for the good of the country? or are we too busy attacking each other to even consider other side.ith the mr. president, many factors currentte to the dysfunction but if i were to identify the root of the crisis, be this. the loss of comedy and genuine good feeling among senate colleagues.

one perfect illustration of this was orrin's friendship with the late ted kennedy. for many of the years they spent here in the senate, it seemed like they managed to rank among each other's closest friends, top collaborators and most persistent sparring partners all at the same time. but that's orrin. he loves to give and take. he loves to discuss and debate. his colleagues and his staff can rely on him equally to sit down and talk at length if they see an issue differently than he does. he does not dismiss or overrule. he wants to learn, to persuade, and to be persuaded. no wonder orrin's peers are so fond of him and his team is so loyal to him. i'm thinking especially of ruthie montoya, orrin's scheduler for more than three decades, a member of the senate family in her own right. but really, you can't but respect orrin because his own respect for this institution and for the dignity of every individual he meets is so evident. utahans know this better than anyone. they know they can run into their senior senator on the sidewalk or out shopping, and he will stop an

he said he was offering the bill with ted kennedy and i thought that was a surprising .combination. but then i learned that it was not. but he would work together with his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to accomplished the goal that he said and he invited me to be one of the early cosponsors of this bill and i was so flattered that the senior member of the united states senate would come to me and invite me to join in cosponsoring such a significant that has made such a difference for millions of american children. another record that is unsurpassedur in 32 of the 42 years in the senate, he's been either the chair man or the ranking member of the a major committee the presidential medal of freedom that he was awarded in november acknowledges the gratitude that the american people have for his many contributions. but there is another side of senator orrin hatch. he's a wonderfully talented musician and successful songwriter. the song he cowrote for the 2005 presidential inauguration called heal our land includes a line that describes the mission to which he has devoted his lif

my friendship with the late senator ted kennedy embodies the spirit of goodwill that used to thrive here. teddy and i were a case study in contradictions. he was a dyed in the wool liberal democrat. i was a resolute republican. by choosing friendship over party loyalty, we were able to past some of the most important and significant bipartisan .chievements of modern times from the americans with disabilities act and religious freedom restoration act to the state children's health insurance program. these were important bills. together.le to work nine years after teddy's passing , it is worth asking, could a relationship like this even exist in today's senate? good to people with polar two people could with polar opposite believes come together as often as we did for the good of the country? are we too busy attacking each other to even consider friendship with the other side? many factors contribute to the current dysfunction, but if i were to identify the root of the crisis, it would be this. and generalcomity good feeling among senate colleagues. comity is the soft connective tissue tha

the government has heard us by electing donald trump this is been going on since ted kennedy and nothing has ever been done george bush tried i am angry and i am mad and i will tell you the republicans are just as much to blame because they did not do a thing shut it down trump i am on your side. >> just one more thing it sounds like in texas you have a close view are you close to the border crack. >> anybody in texas is close to the border because they funnel three ways through the highways in the back roads and they will come into laredo and they will split off to go to san antonio or sanctuary cities houston and trust me right now you will not go to those cities unless you are concealed carry gun owner. >> we have eric on the line. >>caller: thank you and merry christmas to everyone in america. i just want to say that just got off the line i would like to vote for her. whoever she is she is fantastic i agree with everything she said. i am from illinois. we love our state but unfortunately let the liberals have done is very sad. i am for president trump and my life is a - - my wife is

according to ted kennedy, mccarthy said no, anti-war is at the top of my platform. that was the movement of lowenstein trying to get bobby into the race. guest: lowenstein tried to get a number of people. mcgovern said, go talk to gene mccarthy. [laughter] -- donna from missouri. pat buchanan spent many time in the 1960's. caller: good morning. i have a question for pat. first, i was an independent and went to california and was a delegate in 2000 and i had a nice chat with brian lamb while i was there, a great experience. guest: a warm beach. caller: it is. there was a time when i supported the vietnam war in the mid-1960's. i was in high school and graduated in 1966. you knew it was unwinnable with all the chinese pulling in there as they did in korea. why did we not handle vietnam like truman handled korea? i have always wondered that. guest: well, with truman, korea drove truman out of the white house. it was general eisenhower who came in and decided that we are not going for victory, and you had a dmz, where two armies were lined up, and defend the -- threaten

this is some kind of public ervice career that we are honoring this morning, and ted kennedy used to tell me all the ted kennedy and chris dodd used to tell me all the time, well, you know, we're to orrin.king you should keep that up. ell, that's one of the things we won't have in the u.s. senate want to be i just nancy say, and i know joins me in this. we're expecting to see the wonderful d his elaine, nancy's going to see you store, and there will be plenty of books on hand. we want to wish them all the years ahead. we know that they are going to issues and lots of lots of projects, but i want to his friendship, i want to thank him for staying in winter of 2017 that the chairman wanted to buy the odds defy the odds and make sure that the finance of ittee was on the side folks that so often didn't have have political't action committees, that the chairman made sure that they got shake, and i want to thank him for it. >> good morning. bill hoglan. had the pleasure of working with our health team here, and that oud of the work as erine haste and -- hayes dlin and shley r id others. th

kennedy: i have to switch gears talk to panel, i want to ask, how much of a blow hard is ted lieu. >>ght now, i can feel his hot bs breath on my neck yes he is a low hard. kennedy: he smellings like ravioli. >> go cooks. >> there there are bruins. >> yesterday, my california can think congressman, ted lieu. >> i would love to be able to regulate contend of speech, first amendment prevents me from doing so that a function of the firstm amendment. kennedy: private ted lieu wants to recessio regulate. congressman lieu clarifying his remark, he sounds kind of like an idiot. did he slip up or making a point that congress would evolve to a bunch of mini tyrants if not for the constitution. jessica char -- is here, and robby swafy, and face turner. welcome to you. >> yea. kennedy: ted lieu, democrat, they hate free speech, they want to regulate contend of speech they disagree with. >> a lot of people do, president said he would love to do it as well, no doubt a terrible moment for ted lieu. i think he realized right away he had said, and it would have helped if there was anything like, we ha

if they had brought it up. 12 senators of the republican party behind it, people like corker and ted kennedy graham. people are so close to learning how to do it again. i think it comes down to urge y urgency. i remember that because tip o'neill was old and reagan was old by our standards then. and they knew they didn't have any more time. and there's a wonderful thing about urgency. you get it done, because you have to. >> the urgency, the one thing that feels almost missing, there's a connection there that you have to have between people and washington, the folks who are gathered in that cathedral across the street. and that connection i think has to be strengthened. >> we feel it on a day like today when we remember. >> the sense of doing the people's business with the people's consent and encouragement has to be recaptured. >> i think what we've been watching is now behind us. i hear it out of my ears and my earpiece. >> an odd coincidence of live coverage on a delay, and yet we're hearing live the vehicles arrive. no american city does this like washington, of course, where they have so

i remember even ted kennedy, there was a conservative republican from new hampshire a senator whod aenator kennedy's staff. he said how do you do it? that's the air that necessity breathe. >> they do very well with it. conservatives think returning money to the treasury would help. but would help them is to have much better staff people. david: they could create new committees. nancy pelosi announced the head of one of those new committees which will be the subcommittee to study climate crisis. it's not just climate change. when you use the word crisis inside the beltway, that gives you a license to take even more of our money, right? >> it does, and it will. but also with pelosi is trying to do is head off a challenge from the new left. they want sweeping government reforms and they want to do what the end goal of any serious environmentalist is is massive government takeover. nancy pelosi is trying to head that off and still be speaker of the democratic caucus. she is going to study it and look at it. ocasio-cortez's spokesman saying this is like putting a screen door on a submarin

chairman, i am not ted kennedy, but i'm sure interested in trying to build coalitions with you. and the chairman said, that's what i want to do. so we are off to the races, and it all kind of started really with an awareness that both democrats and republicans had missed what medicare has become. medicare in 1965, i was the director of the gray panthers in the 70s, i had a full head of hair and rugged good looks. medicare part a and part b. a for the hospitals, b for the doctors, and as the chairman and i talked, that is not medicare today. today, most of the money goes for cancer and diabetes and heart disease and stroke, chronic pulmonary disease. medicare circa 2018, is hugely different than medicare from 1965 . and the chairman said, we can build on that. we can go now and try to build a bipartisan coalition. and without that decision by the chairman, we would have kind of kept treading water on medicare. we would have been doing piecemeal things, we would have continued to kind of tinker with position payments, modernizing them. we would have tinkered with medicare advantag

and according to ted kennedy. gene mccarthy said, no, anti-war is at the top of my platform. so that was the movement of lounstein trying to get bobby to get into the race. >> lounstein tried to get a number of people. he tried to get mcgovern, right? >> that maybe. >> donna from st. louis, missouri, where pat buchanan spent many time in the 1960s. good morning, donna. >> caller: that's true. good morning. i have a question for pat. but first, i would just say, i was an independent and went to california and was a delegate for you in 2000 and i had a nice chat with brian lamb while i was there. >> and my question is, there was a time when i supported the vietnam war in the mid-60s. i was in high school and graduated in '66. you knew it was unwinnable, though, if all the chinese pouring in there, with as they did in korea. why didn't we handle vietnam like truman handled korea? i always wondered that? >> well, with truman. >> it was general eisenhower who came in and decided that that we're not going for victory. and you had a dmz where the two armies were lined up. and he thr

let's go back to robert durante, the cold war, ted kennedy. this is not a conspiracy theory. colluding to undermine ronald reagan during his reelection campaign. afterly, the democrats, half a century, are concerned with moscow? if this were not a senator, i would think that an "snl" skit. democratic caller for sebastian gorka. hello. caller: hello. good morning. before i get into my main question to you and the reason i called, i just want to say that i am sure history will recall presentrd that this economy that trump is taking credit for was actually rescued by the last legitimate president of the united states, barack hussein obama. and his policy. and to my question for you, i trump ishat president horribly and is compromised by the same putin that you just castigated. prince, andik people can look this up, because you want people to look things up on the internet, erik prince has contacts the right wing connections and his sister, betsy devos, and he has an international group of mercenaries now training in f manys dan, in yemen, in hotspots -- training in and manyan, i

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ted kennedy regularly calls a president a liar. have you heard the leaders of the democratic party that shrill? >> i've heard them shrill and i've heard of some of ours shrill in the past but i never felt the claimant like it is no now, nor the shrillness of the political opposition. >> it hurts? >> well you expect some of it, but when it's your son and they call him a liar, when they impugn his motives, it hurts a lot. you think i feel strongly about it, talk to barbara bush. >> he just tells me not to watch. >> i read recently that she won't read "the new york times" anymore. >> i'm whining much more publicly than he is too because i think they have gone too far. i think they are advocates for the democrats, i think they had lost the objectivity that they did have many years ago, and, you have people in there that smeared george and slam him every day, and you see subjectivity creeping into the news columns, it concerns me. >> >> tucker: you even commented publicly about him. >> divorce, how can you not criticize them? he is a be

. >> and i worked for ted kennedy, as you know. was one of the charter members of what i call the accomplishment swing of the democratic party. he wanted to get things done. he understood idealism and pragmatism wasn't mutually exclusive. he had great respect for the institution of the presidency. which is why he would work with george herbert walker bush and later with george b. bush. that didn't mean they didn't disagree but understood it was bigger than any one individual in washington, d.c., and when we say these tributes to president george herbert walker bush we remember that. the fair housing act was a dicey proposition for congressman george herbert walker bush. he did it. he understood it was the right thing to do for the nation and that's why we pay tribute to that. we hunger for the likes of people like george herbert walker bush who did put country over party every day and he was a former chairman of the republican national committee. i should point out as well. >> right. so, tom, let's talk about what happened in the e

in the early 2000's, george bush and ted kennedy reform education and make sure more children are learningmeland response after 9/11 was a bipartisan effort. in thes a lot of noise system. when you separate the noise from the signal, here are areas that are relevant. we hope that the next couple of weeks, we will have a hopeful piece of legislation called the second chance act, that is going to allow people who have made a mistake in their lives to have a potential for redemption in their future, and to help folks that are in prison get a .eparate -- get a second chance earlier this year, a law called the build act -- this substantially increases the economic firepower the united states has through opec to help us in best all over the world on behalf of creating better infrastructure, on behalf of holding more prosperous societies. those are big things that i think will have very long legs. those are themes we think about a lot. when everyone tells you there is noise in the system, i would say, focus on signals you can get behind, and invest behind. that is how we think about it. jason: ke

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and he said that he was offering the bill with ted kennedy, and i thought, well, that's a surprising combination. but then i learned that it was not; that he would work together with his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to accomplish the goals that he set. and he invited me to be one of the early cosponsors of that bill. and i was so flattered that this senior member of the united states senate would come to me, a mere freshman, and invite me to join in cosponsoring such significant legislation that has made such a difference for millions of american children. in addition to his accomplishments as a legislator, senator hatch holds another record that is unsurpassed. in 32 of his 42 years in the senate, he has been either the chairman or the ranking member of a major committee. he has held in -- he is held in very high esteem by his colleagues. the presidential medal of freedom that he was awarded in november acknowledges the gratitude that the american people have for his many contributions. but there is another side of senator orrin hatch. he is also a wonderfully talent ed mus

i was ten, and dad was working on ted kennedy's presidential campaign, and he was sitting in new hampshire. he dropped me off in boston from that trip, and that was the last time i saw him. >> former congressman allard low lowenstein. >> on march 14th, 1980, aloen stein was killed. >> the guy went into my father's office, closed the door and stood over my father and shot him five times. he sat down and lit a cigarette and waited for the police to come. >> because of his mental illness, sweeney never faced trial. after 20 years he walked away from a mental facility a free man. >> they were just letting him pauline chiou, and there was nothi -- letting him out, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. >> what it felt like to me was if someone kills your father and walks away from it and you don't kill them, then you don't exist. a human being doesn't allow that to happen to their father. >> there was a part where i was planning it and asked a friend of mine if he could get me a gun that couldn't be traced. i was probably 24 or 25 where i realized that i wasn't going to do it and had

ted kennedy was the one who helps the initial hearings about why airline regulations were failing andow the regulation be better for the american people. host: how would you characterize the democrats today on deregulation and why? guest: they are pro-regulation because they are pro-big government. i subscribe to the public choice school of economics. who is supporting their? i think the democrats don't have a philosophy now. they are the indiscriminate defender of big government programs, whether they are working or not. that is what obama ran on in 2012. he was the protector of every big government program. and mitt romney was a threat to them. i think that is what the democrats have become. their constituents are so important. unions. host: what about the republicans? guest: there were ideas. doing.at trump is he is not a man of ideas. he is creating a new coalition. you cannot have entitlements if you do not have growth to pay for them. that is why medicare for all is such a loser for the democrats. older voters65 or think it will hurt them if you start to give medicare to everyon