of wheres an example the kennedys began, ted kennedy's career is where the kennedy influence ended up and it was far different from kennedy the nationalist, you would never hear him saying this about an under grappa -- an underdog group in the united states. he was a champion of the underdog. host: what was the ratio of winners to the try to hold? >> maybe 100. i would go through dozens of these boxes and walk home with a smile on my face with one or two pieces of paper. but if you figure a book is 600 pages and there is a standard stuff you have to get in there, when he was born, where he went to school, what he was like as a young man, what bills he sponsored in congress, his communications with his brothers, just the basic chronology of the story fills up a large part of the book. so what you are looking for a re intriguing, revealing anecdotes like this one, that cast light in a new way on the figures in the book. and if you can only find one or two a day and you do research of 100 days a year over four years, that is still 400 nice nuggets to slip into the book here and there to

kennedy, ted kennedy, and robert kennedy's death.rsial figure because he made lots of money on wall street right before the crash of 1929, he was one of the pioneering tycoons out in hollywood he was rumored to have been a bootlegger during prohibition and he was always a lone wolf. the flipside was that franklin roosevelt needed somebody after the stock market crash to head up the new regulatory commission called the securities and exchange commission so he had the brilliant idea of taking a fox and putting a fox among the foxes. he selected joseph kennedy had much of our security regulation today is based on the work that kennedy did setting up securities and exchange commission back then. he was also an ambassador to great britain. if i'm correct the first catholic and deftly the first irish catholic ambassador to great britain. there's a famous scene in his wife's memoir where having arrived there from these two irish catholic families in boston and invited to windsor castle and going up to see this amazing bedroom while they wer

ted kennedy who i didn't know well. i was kind of in awe. i was doing little briefing for every one and he said can i interrupt. i said certainly. he said i just want to remind my colleagues that we are representing the yiunited state. we have a lot of differences back home but let's leave them behind and speak in unity about the u.s. and our ability and willingness to work together to help central america move forward. i know you don't need this reminder, looking around but i want to offer you that. that still sticks in my mind that ted kennedy said that aboard air force two with dan quayle. >> that's such a wonderful story. >> people criticize the contract overseas as well. i remember three of my colleagues when they went to iraq just before the invasion and criticized our entering into that war, be excoriation that they went through after that was unprecedented. at the same time it's the president of the united states. our president making statements about a potential candidate or a candidate against them. it's probably without precedent.

yes, we had agreement between ted kennedy, whose brother instituted the family unification policy in the 1960s, that the system was out of balance. that we needed to move -- the dial was too much over on family unification and we needed to move it back towards merit. that's what it sounds like the president is doing. he's not wiping out family unification, but is having a point system, much like australia and canada, which is what the 2007 was based on, that puts a greater emphasis on education, work experience. doesn't wipe out family. if you get rid of the visa lottery, which is a random come into the united states, sign up for the lottery. if you get rid of visa lottery, you can keep family unification stable, but you'll have more people coming here because of merit, because they have education work experience and english proficiency. >> dana: listen to senators durbin and blumenthal. >> i can tell you the president's plan will be received with skepticism. for two years we tried to work with this president on immigration. the president stopped us. the president needs to roll up hi

trump's ideas for immigration reform also are what ted kennedy, bill clinton, john kerry, even barackbama wanted. this as border crossings now exploding. border apprehensions equal to the population of orlando in just the last two months. that's what obama's former homeland security chief points out. also we bring you this story, rare unity for a divided america and new yorkers. they are now saying don't do it. don't run for president new york city mayor de blasio. president trump tweeting that new york city hates de blasio. that's a quote from the president. as local polls show here in new york show the majority of new yorkers say don't do it, don't run. the chief of the police benevolent association says that the mayor, quote, who has no interest in running new york now wants to mismanage the entire country. de blasio now planning to travel to iowa and south carolina this weekend as new york's housing projects, its subway system and more on the brink of collapse. we have that coverage for you tonight. plus the blame game now on as william barr turns up the heat on how the russia pro

reporter: the public health works of their father and grandfather as attorney general and senator ted kennedybobby is an outlier in the kennedy family, they write. tonight robert f. kennedy jr. says i don't think we should be forcing pharmaceutical products on unwilling amerin citizens without understanding the downside risks, risks the cdc and other medical organizations say are well understood and do u not eigh the benefits of vaccination. anne thompson nbc ne. >>> now to your money, your life and the crushing burden of prescription drugs on so many families tonight. there's news about a new plan to bring the cost down by forcing companies to reveal the prices in all those prescription drug ads.kr ten dahlgren explains. >> reporter: soon when you see a drug company ad on tv, there will be something new, the cost. new regulations will require drug companies disclose list prices for any medications that cost more than month. xarelto, the first to include its price at this end of this ad, $448 a month. health and human services secretary azar saying -- i >>f they're afraid that people will be

ted kennedy colluding with the soviet union to try to defeat ronald reagan in his second term. the media ignore that. he was still alive no hearings. know nothing. right now john kerry is colluding with the iranians behind the president of the united states. we have real cases of collusion. what about abuse of power? the last president the irs went after the tea party the media blew it off he blew it off. and then use by franklin roosevelt with jfk he sat down with ben bradley with "newsweek" or "the washington post" that is cde considered iconic. and peter salinger working for kennedy with the fbi files. robert kennedy agreed to wiretaps to mlk. uneven is vice president. the abuses of the irs or the fbi to go after political opponents our president has done none of that but yet you would think he is a dictator. know how many times they compare him to a nazi or hitler when those words come up to describe the president , you have to be unhinged. speaking of that remember that. they brought in the professor from yale and she and 26 others wrote a book about how the president of u

he was worried ted kennedy may be running against him and he was worried that the cia had secrets that would be damaging on him. he didn't know what that could be. if you take that into the present, what is donald trump doing with this effort to get all this stuff or all this intelligence agencies, if nixon is any lessen, i would say he wants to know what they have against him and what he might have done in the past or the present and everything that he may be asking these intelligence agencies for secrets that he can use against his own, maybe barack obama or hillary clinton or maybe everyon joe biden. >> what is traditionally has reigned in a president's desire to take this immense power with the executive branch in using the fbi and the justice department. what will rei what reigns them in? >> they should not abuse power as president of the united states and the other thing is fear of getting caught. since watergate 1974, presidents have been nervous that they may be caught doing some of the things that nixon did that led to three counts of impeachment that were suggest against him.

leader in the senate, chuck schumer, my own utah member, orrin hatch, a republican, and liberal icon ted kennedy, it was also signed into law by democrat bill clinton. i have introduced commonsense amendments that would help achieve this critical balance of protection for both maybe taining the standards against discrimination -- maintaining the standards against discrimination and religious freedom. i'm frustrated that house democratic leaders have decided there will not be any consideration or even debate of amendments to the equality act. instead, they establish a model of legislative gas lighting. in this case they are taking issues where broad bipartisan agreement is possible and taking the debate right off the table on issue after issue, whether it be climate change, violence against women, and now the equality act. they disregard willing partners such as myself standing here ping to work with them and instead prefer to pass party line bills that won't go anywhere so they have issues to campaign on. if my colleagues on the other side of the aisle truly want to achieve progress on this issu

ted kennedy was colluding with the soviet union to try to defeat ronald reagan in his second term.he media utterly ignored that. he was still alive. no hearings, no logan act, no nothing. right now, john kerry is colluding with the iranians to undermine the president of the united states. what about abuse of power? the last president before this president, the irs refused to go after the tea party. the media blew it off. it was no big deal. he blew it off. he didn't know anything. the irs was used by franklin roosevelt, i said earlier against media outlets. it was used by jfk. jfk sat down with ben bradley. with "newsweek," later with "the washington post." he's considered iconic. so peter salinger, who was working for kennedy, shared fbi files. fbi files. robert kennedy. robert kennedy agreed and agreed to order wiretaps of martin luther king. lyndon johnson wiretapped hubert humphrey, the vice president. here's what i want to get at. this is important. there's been abuses of the irs of the fbi to go after political opponents, to go after newspapers, to go after newspaper men. our

one of the most important pieces of legislation this country has ever seen was john boehner and ted kennedyleave no child behind. so it's not as if we don't know how to do it. it's just we haven't had the ability or the resources to do more good things regarding education. boehner, whatker would you say? i really thought we were motoring down that road, were basically everybody realized we were going to get to 13. we thought we were motoring in that direction. then we looked up and realized we weren't starting early enough with kids. pre-k wasn't as widespread as it needed to be, and it still isn't. then we began to realize our elementary schools weren't really getting the job done. and so it kind of got stopped in its tracks because we weren't ready for it. what is one of the biggest costs at unlv and other universities? remedial education for incoming students. it just drives up the cost of education and frankly, it should not be necessary. so i think what happened over the last 15-20 years is another look. how do we make sure that every child has a chance at a decent education? i don't k

the match was struck at that moment that robert bjork lost to ted kennedy, the angry democrats. >> theo fund the federalist society, is it just that they share the aims that were outlined that i talked about that would have started in 1992, or is it something else? >> first there's an injustice that happens, which was bjork. he was the adviser at yale. they all loved him. remember who these federalist society members were. they were people who had been on liberal law school campuses and didn't really have anybody to talk to. of course they are an affinity group. they grow, get larger and larger. they get the money from underneath. what they are determined to do, which is something the democrats do not do, they are determined to not work so hard -- they understand the numbers are against them in demographic terms and otherwise. what are they going to do? get policy change for a couple of years. if you get a judge, especially a supreme court judge in there, that's six presidential terms that that person can serve, that's where the big gain was from the point of view. and in donald trump,

in the past if you wanted a line of the left, it was someone like ted kennedy, but in 2020, it couldaoc endorsement primary. >> what does she get out of all of this? >> in some ways, she could be a king or queen maker if she decides to go with elizabeth warren and her endorsement is deemed pivotal. she could have a hugely influential role in bringing voters to one candidate or the other. >> centrist and party leader joe biden crushing the competition so far early in the polls. aoc represents very different wing of the party. how much swing does she have in the real world? and by that i mean, if the party really were coming around to aoc, why would joe biden be doing so well on so many of the early polls? >> that's a great question. i think aoc's defenders would argue that even though biden is is doing well in the polls, he's still under 50%. so that means a majority of voters are still not on the booiden train. still i think biden's surge has left a few of them rattled. but they would also argue there's nine months to go. and as voters start paying attention and tuning in, then maybe

. >> you look like ted kennedy. >> his positive message and internet savvy made him a internet sensation. >> but not everyone is onboard with beto. >> he was running a campaign of puppies and rainbows. >> does this democratic favorite have what it takes to reach the white house? >> why are we excited about someone who is very light on policy? >> can you run a national campaign that is about aspiration and invasion and not about a deep dive on substance and issues. >> a young man who has very little going for himself, except he has a great first name. >> beto, beto. >> we saw in texas that we have a chance to be part of doing something great for this country. >> one, two, three. texas. >> ahead, the rise and rise of beto o'rourke. >>> all the speculation ended on march 14th. less than 24 hours after "vanity fair" published a cover featuring him in a pose reminiscent of ronald reagan. beto o'rourke announced his candidacy for president and hit the road in iowa. >> it's the first stop in our campaign to be president of the united states of america. >> you'll see us run the largest grassroot

however, however, great men, great men like ted kennedy, mike mansfield, hubert humphrey, men who haveown right, convinced him to serve. he was sworn in in the hospital at my bedside. >> and of course beau and his brother, hunter, eventually left the hospital. they grew up and they thrived. joe biden, of course, stayed in the senate where he thrived as well. he got married again, or as his boys said we got married. they got a baby sister ashley. by the late 1980s joe saw big things ahead. he ran for the white house. the remaking of camelot in the backyard in delaware, but that campaign didn't work out. but joe would learn later that it was all in god's plan because in february of 1988, joe suffered a brain aneurysm. a brain aneurysm he believes he would have otherwise ignored on the campaign trail. a police escort raced him from delaware down to walter reed army medical center in washington. the family piled into the cars and beau would ride up front in the cops, jill would ride in the ambulance with joe. maryland cops were supposed to meet them but they never showed up. deep into mary

she interned at ted kennedy's offices working on immigration issues.uring her junior year she had eye opening look with a foreign study. >> changing growth for her was going to africa and studying abroad. she got malaria. she was there in some very challenging communities. >> there was something about that experience that was like, there is much more to my life that i can do than go work at a bank. >> alexandria graduated in 2011 with a degree in international relations and economics and returned to the bronx with a new perspective on life. she worked on social causes during the day and at night took on a second job to help her now single mother keep the family afloat financially. blanca cleaned houses while alexandria waited tables and tended bar. >> it was very challenging, financial, socially, emotionally. making it through that made her incredibly strong person. >> between shifts, alexandria got involved in bernie sander's 2016 presidential campaign as an organizer in the south bronx. after the november election, she traveled to the standing rock i

ted kennedy was colluding with the soviet union to try to defeat ronald reagan in his second term.ly ignored that. he was still alive. no hearings, no logan act, no nothing. right now, john kerry is colluding with the iranians to undermine the president of the united states. what about abuse of power? the last president before this president, the irs refused to go after the tea party. the media blew it off. it was no big deal. he blew it off. he didn't know anything. the irs was used by franklin roosevelt, i said earlier against media outlets. it was used by jfk. jfk sat down with ben bradley. with "newsweek," later with "the washington post." he's considered iconic. so peter salinger, who was working for kennedy, shared fbi files. fbi files. robert kennedy. robert kennedy agreed and agreed to order wiretaps of martin luther king. lyndon johnson wiretapped hubert humphrey, the vice president. here's what i want to get at. this is important. there's been abuses of the irs of the fbi to go after political opponents, to go after newspapers, to go after newspaper men. our president has

ted kennedy even criticized what he called, quote, virtually endless chain migration closed quote.hey have done a 180, tucker. they have done a 180 specifically for votes. >> tucker: and your point about chavez is right. he physically assaulted illegal aliens in the senor ran desert. that's how threatened he felt by the influx of low wage labor. it crushed hiswa bargaining power and hurt his people. >> incorrect thing to say but chavezor worked with the federal government to stop illegal immigration for the precise reasons i just now mentioned. >> tucker: i don't understand where organized labor is in all of this. this kills them. why aren't they speaking up against it? >> they ought. and so ought to black sam brown's whose wages by the illegal aliens. this is all about votes. you can go to youtube and can you find a video from a guy named medina a senior v.p. with the seiu union and he said shortly after obama got elected if we have quote comprehensive immigration catchphrase for amnesty two thirds of these new voters will vote for t us. we have a governing coalition for the long

he was worried that ted kennedy might run against him. he was also worried that the cia had secrets that would be damaging on him. he didn't know what that could be. and if you take that into the present, what is donald trump doing with this effort to get all this stuff from all these intelligence agencies? if nixon is any lesson, i would say, number one, he wants to know what they have against him, what he might have done in the past, or even the present, and the other thing is that he may be asking these intelligence agencies for secrets that he can use against his own political enemies, maybe barack obama, maybe hillary clinton, maybe even joe biden. >> and we know that obviously under dick cheney and george w. bush, valerie plame was outed, they outed a cia set when they thought it was good politics for them. what traditionally has reined in a president's desire to take this immense power and use the cia or the fbi or the justice department simply to persecute their political enemies? what reins them in, typically? >> most presidents

host: if you look back in 1980 when ted kennedy challenged jimmy carter, he funneled a liberal at jimmy carter. more recently it was hillary clinton and barack obama in 2008 and bernie sanders and hillary clinton and 2016. candidates, 23, 24 have joe biden who is the front runner in so many progressives, it is a different race. you will not just have an alternative, you will have 5, 6, seven alternatives. guest: you run the risk that when you leave it is not a kumbaya moment. when you have such disparate interests going in and so me different lanes within the party, what is the likelihood you can come out unified? i get that. that would be one of the most difficult aspects to overcome. host: colorado, independent line, good morning. caller: good morning. guest: hello. caller: what you think about all this stuff? i sit there and watch trump to all this -- he is a poser. why are we not in the gdp? that is a way to fight back with china? packguy gets out of the j -- ian and it seems like have watched trump say we are going to get rid of it and all his supporters are screaming but nobody is

there was a whole hearing on mk ultra that ted kennedy led. inhad a personal interest that subject for obvious reasons. there are incredible things in the files. i am sure there is much more i have not found. the watergate committee, the pike committee, there was stuff relevant to this assassination from all of these investigations. i also tracked down some witnesses. not interview the ones who had been interviewed a lot. i was very interested in searching -- ronald panda was a little kid at the time. he was hesitant to talk to me. a lot of people were scared. the people -- the police had said, you cannot talk to the reporters or anyone but the court about the case. that was only true until the child -- until the trial was over. the way it was presented to them, it sounded like forever. i often have to talk to people five or six times before they will sit down and open up to me. i have saved you sometime. press reports and books by others were valuable as well. here are the facts. this is what we know for sure. the assassination was kind of a

forward and in fact many voted for in previous congress when the plan came through bill clinton, ted kennedyschumer and other democrats say it was president trump's premedicated plan to walk out of the meeting. had he ever really intended to stay for that infrastructure meeting? >> absolutely. we sent a letter the night before laying out the priorities that we wanted to talk about, what we actually considered to be infrastructure. that's another problem that we've got to get solved on the democrats side is they themselves have yet to define what infrastructure means to them. the president sent that letter the night before and said that was what he wanted to talk about. >> but that letter was about nafta. that letter was about the new version of nafta. >> alisyn, you must not have read the entire letter. >> let me get the question. >> sure. >> it was that you couldn't talk about infrastructure until the usmca, the new nafta was addressed. >> no, it didn't say you couldn't talk about it. it said we need to get usmca completed so that we can fully focus on infrastructure. >> right. so there was

should know that he wrote a stimulating book on richard nixon recently and is working on one on ted kennedy. there is an enormous amount of talent in this room. >> let me ask one last question. the 40th anniversary of c-span. not only injured but expanded in terms of networks and success over these 40 years. c-span: i would say two think was one, an industry that financed this spent over $1 billion in the last 40 years on this public service that has no advertising or stars or ratings or anything like that and the public watch it. if we didn't have a public that reacts, shows our stimulating, and somewhat balanced. those two things. >> the book is the presidents. i think brian lamb for joining us and thank you for notifying us. [applause] >> selling books outside. you can join us for a book signing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> history professors have a lot of those -- 19th-century presidents had to face the radio. did you know that? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> c-span's newest book, the presidents. noted historians rank america's best and worst chief executives, provides insight

kennedy: you are working with ted cruz. kennedy: his great.ne would say he's a master debater. >> there were things that hurt donald trump. he refused, he too tried to not put estate in the last debate. they gave us momentum moving into that. those kind of decisions had an impact going to this. whenever you're splitting up the stage, you will allow everybody who can raise $65000 to make it onto stage, you could be in a situation, because my friend who is an analogy today, i cannot remember his name. kennedy: i hope it's a three night dumb dumb fast. everyone will get in. there are so few candidates gaining traction, who are nationally prominent. cory booker, he has low single digits. and people. [inaudible] >> you have a lot of the ones that could be serious candidates slipping down. but i'll tell you what also gets pathetic, serious political figures, playing beer pong to try to get. kennedy: their pulling to make this criteria, it is a very undignified -- >> is belittling for the office they are seeking. kennedy: that is coming from the syri

. >> ted kennedy slips him a note and says, i've been there, there's life after this. ink that resonated with biden in that moment, because kennedy had been there. >> after an historic constitutional debate led by biden, the senate rejects bork's nomination. as biden presses forward in the senate his severe headaches continue. >> the headaches really got bad after he withdrew from the race. >> and in february of 1988 an aneurism ruptures in joe biden's brain. biden is rushed into emergency surgery. >> you were on the verge of dying, weren't you? >> yeah. >> what did you say to your children? >> in general terms i told them how much i believed in them and what i expected of them if i died. >> i think there's a reason for what happened, and i think that getting out of the race was, quite frankly, a god send. >> it was at that point that i made my peace with the campaign falling apart. in the long-run if he wants to be president i think it will make him a better president. >> after lifesaving surgery biden returns to the senate. >> i mean he is a man who really has a lot o

department established the kennedy-luger yes abroad program named for senator lugar and senator ted kennedy. the program provides scholarships for students from the united states and countries with significant muslim populations to spend one year in the other's country. it fosters the same goals that senator lugar did he r dedicate the his life to aa cheembing, understanding, collaboration, and friendship with the rest of the world. mr. speaker, i thank senator lugar for his legendary service. he leaves a long record of legislative accomplishments. i offer my condolences to his family. may he rest in peace and may we learn from the example that he set. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. costa: mr. speaker, it is with great pride that i rise today to congratulate ma dearo high school's robotics t

rifra was introduced by then chuck schumer and senator ted kennedy and passed unanimous in the house and by a vote of 97-3 in the senate and signed into law by president clinton. for nearly two decades rifra has been the hallmark of protecting religious freedom against the weight of a powerful federal government. contrary to some of its opponents claim, rifra is not an opt out of any law of people of faith. it provides a commonsense balancing test between religious pleff and government action. first an individual challenging the government must show they have a sincerely held belief that is being substantially burdened by the government, that is there is a real matter of faith actually being affected by the government's actions. if the individual successfully shows that, they do not automatically win their claim. the government may show it has a compelling interest. that is a good reason to interfere with the individual's religious rights and the interference is the least restriggettive means to accomplish the government's roles, that is the government doesn't have a better alternati

host: if you look back in 1980 when ted kennedy challenged jimmy carter, he funneled a liberal at jimmyr. more recently it was hillary clinton and barack obama in 2008 and bernie sanders and hillary clinton and 2016. candidates, 23, 24 have joe biden who is the front runner in so many progressives, it is a different race. you will not just have an alternative, you will have 5, 6, seven alternatives. guest: you run the risk that when you leave it is not a kumbaya moment. when you have such disparate interests going in and so me different lanes within the party, what is the likelihood you can come out unified? i get that. that would be one of the most difficult aspects to overcome. host: colorado, independent line, good morning. caller: good morning. guest: hello. caller: what you think about all this stuff? i sit there and watch trump to all this -- he is a poser. why are we not in the gdp? that is a way to fight back with china? packguy gets out of the j -- ian and it seems like have watched trump say we are going to get rid of it and all his supporters are screaming but nobody is askin

rifra was introduced by then chuck schumer and senator ted kennedy and passed unanimous in the house and by a vote of 97-3 in the senate and signed into law by president clinton. for nearly two decades rifra has been the hallmark of protecting religious freedom against the weight of a powerful federal government. contrary to some of its opponents claim, rifra is not an opt out of any law of people of faith. it provides a commonsense balancing test between religious pleff and government action. first an individual challenging the government must show they have a sincerely held belief that is being substantially burdened by the government, that is there is a real matter of faith actually being affected by the government's actions. if the individual successfully shows that, they do not automatically win their claim. the government may show it has a compelling interest. that is a good reason to interfere with the individual's religious rights and the interference is the least restriggettive means to accomplish the government's roles, that is the government doesn't have a better alternati

ted cruz is from harvard. mike lee of utah from brigham young. senator john kennedy from louisiana state.hat is on the republican side. democrats, pato lahey, dick durbin, getting there agrees from georgetown. chris coons and richard blumenthal and cory booker getting degrees from magnet universities law school. kamala harris getting her degree from uc law. host: 12 republicans, 10 democrats. who will you be watching? what questions do you want them to ask the attorney general and what do you want to hear from william barr? sharon in kentucky, democrat. you are next. caller: how are you? host: good morning. is --: the things that the thing that is so amazing to me, the gentleman who talked to you from nevada, he said what really did get this going? that is the overwhelming thing i think bothers most americans, how much is our government doing now to protect these elections that are upcoming? questiond be my first to the attorney general. the other thing is i think there was a lady that called and she was talking to you about the summary that william barr had and thatn 1989, summary from w

kennedy: i don't think he ever had again. i think that's the problem, that democrats could have put up anyone against ted cruz. no offense. fan of beards. >> kennedy: again, it speaks to the supreme court and democrats really wanted confirmation power in the senate. that's why texas was a critical state because they figured if they could flip texas they could take the whole darn thing. >> harris: may be what his reset should be, to answer your question, shannon, is him reading his policy. nice, boring, old school style, no hands in the air. >> kennedy: that's the problem, he has to go back to hygienic's >> pete: accountable completely. he's wasting of a people's money at this point. you can't restart something that never really started. what did you say the name was of the article? >> shannon: he's like your worst college explosion. always finding himself. you don't know if he's going to show up. he might be late. >> harris: that's the word that katie just spoke. >> katie: so privilege. a ton of money, his wife is worth something like $100 million but he pretends to be this guy who doesn't have that kind of money. he got a

ask ted cruz and hide cruz and rafael cruz and go back through the kennedy assassination lore. this is what the president likes to do when you get under his skin. >> the campaign has been very clear. they say they follow the lead of the president. they believe the president's political instincts are what helped him win in 2016 against all odds and even if theft best, you know, political analyst and the best people that can look at polling, they are going to follow the president no matter what he does, and if he decides, you know, to take on joe biden and call him nicknames and decides to tweet out, you know, weird videos about the speaker, they are going to follow. they are going to follow his messaging no matter what, and that's what we're seeing. normally we expect the president to sort of try to calm political tensions and not inflame them and not allow the country to move towards this area where we don't even know if the video is real or not, but this is instead a president really pushing forward on that. >> look, they are doing part of this buass because they believe it wo

kennedy: i don't understand the lack of self-awareness. on some level to be a successful politician, and people hate ted cruz.the democratic congressman carnival worker adam schiff has been slamming the president dangerous rhetoric for the better part for years and yesterday he told abc news why you i hope this country could survive in the years with a president like this who gets up every day, trying to find new ways to divide us. he doesn't seem to understand the fundamental aspect of his job is to get a more perfect union. but that is not at all where he's coming from. >> nothing says you're concerned with david broderick like predicting the country cannot survive if you can get reelected. he wants famously promised that he had proof that the president colluded with russia. and has instead offered evidence that the democrats are losing their mind. i will start with you. adam schiff, what is the one thing he is done to unite us? >> why do people continue to give him a platform? kennedy: they know healthy crazy things like that. >> is repeatedly lied to the market people on television, the monster belies, yo

kennedy and joining us on the couch, chris wilson. republican strategist and former pollster for the ted cruz campaign. he is outnumbered and looking snazzy. >> those are everything. >> all the favorites. >> yeah. >> all right. let's get to it. acting defense chief says there's no plans to start sending migrants to florida amid backlash from local officials there. he also says the trump administration is not moving migrants to sanctuary cities. these as he's blasting congress for their inaction in the face of the border crisis. watch. >> the flows are unprecedented and creating challenges for professionals trying to manage it. we're talking about a situation where children are at risk, being smuggled, in the hands of the most violent criminal organizations in this hemisph e hemisphere. >> 2020 candidate democratic senator kirsten gillibrand ripping the president's policies at the border. >> president trump's immigration policy is inhumane, ineffective and wrong. i cannot tell you how infuriating it is for our president to still be separating children from their parents at our border. i think president

kennedy and joining us on the couch, chris wilson. republican strategist and former pollster for the ted cruz campaign.