and ted kennedy always wanted to raise the minimum wage. so with decades of precedent stacked against them, the senate staff of chairman bernie sanders' budget committee still made a very powerful case to the senate parliamentarian to include the minimum wage in the budget reconciliation bill that was so powerful an argument that it took the senate parliamentarian several days to decide the issue. speaker nancy pelosi today correctly did not blame the senate parliamentarian. she blamed the rules of the senate. and by implication, the senators who support those rules. . >> as a matter of practice, i don't get involved in the rules of the united states senate. but as a matter of values, i can just say we will not rest until we pass the $15 minimum wage. we have been engaged in the fight for $15 for a long time. this is legislation that affects a majority of women. over 60% of the people making minimum wage are women. many are moms. and it is so essential for us to do this. and whether it happens when we send this over there, we are sending it

. >> the man called the lion of the senate, ted kennedy of massachusetts. >> senator ted kennedy, a member in mourning. someone that most people would agree was one of the greatest legislatures to ever live. >> it was a product of an age when the joy and nobillity of politics prevented differences of party and platform and philosophy from becoming barriers to cooperation and mutual respect, a time when adversaries still saw each other as patriots. >> the president was deeply saddened by senator kennedy's death. it was a loss of a mentor and a friend and someone that had been willing to support him early on when a lot of others weren't. >> so with the death of senator kennedy, immediately a democrat was appointed to temporarily fill that seat. so the president still had a super majority in place. however, a special election was coming down the pike in january that could change everything. that super majority was in true question. ything that super majority was in true question when the chapstick goes on. it's on. get yours on at chapstick.com my psoriatic arthritis pain? i had enough! it's

ted kennedy spoke. phil gramm spoke. they seemed to be saying the same thing. we went with the phil gramm ted kennedy proposal. we went forward and figured out what that was. i think it was a unanimous vote. the fact that mcconnell and schumer have already come to an agreement of the rules to proceed, that's a good achievement. host: how much of establishing the rules back then was based on trust? how much trust you think is in the current senate? guest: i agree with trent. personal trust is key. we trusted each other. we had worked with each other on other big challenges facing the senate. we began to trust each other and develop a relationship that has lasted to this day. it is essential. i like what i am seeing so far. it looks like in this context mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer have developed the trust necessary to move forward. they got an organizing resolution. they seem to be in agreement on the way to proceed. i like what i am seeing in the last couple of weeks. host: leader trent lott? guest: i agree with tom on that, as i usually do. they've got ag

sometimes not great relationship with tip o'neill cost him on some things so they thought he and ted kennedy a famous feud really hurt on healthcare they can get the healthcare bill through and failed untaxed care reform that many other areas he succeeded in part because he had a democratic congress for four years and clinton and obama only had one for two. >> telling the story earlier before he ran for governor he did spend a year or two preaching and visiting people one of the things he did that you mentioned that surprised me but speaking with foreign leaders and conversations he would try to get them interested in christ in addition to whatever else he talked about so if mitt romney had become president had done the same thing and having been based on his two years of service this is something that is unusual that presidents in the middle of their negotiation to push religion a little bit it wasn't separation of church and state kind of guy so is very interesting to hear he didn't do that abroad. >> it's really fascinating because i really hadn't known how strongly he felt about the sepa

cuba or in the united states you do you see by improving relations to back and back when senator ted kennedy did make things warm up between the 2 countries. i think having friends in our hemisphere is a very important thing for our total security and i also think that we still have mob rule you know if organized crime running cuba so they still routine way deny people's human rights and so we need to put some some accountability in place so if we have any kind of relationship with them that we want to press forward on human rights and i think joe biden will pursue human rights obviously donald trump did not he loved dictators he love putin he loves to war to say he loved kim he loved any dictator he could shake hands with and joe biden's the opposite joe biden is going to be pressing for more democracy and human rights everywhere in the world and i'm so grateful that joe biden is our president those countries often see old deny their dictatorships and including cuba patrick kennedy thank you and that's it for the show will be back on monday with respect to system of a down from man surge ta

one of the senators was ted kennedy there were different views on different things and that was helpful to me so i'm feeling fine and you know he had a heart replacement and so on but now he's feeling great he has a new book coming out and i had a little back and forth she's a pretty fierce arguer but doesn't like lapdogs. so people just yes marguerite. so we would go at it but our way of thinking about things was very similar and i was glad to be a part of it and go to the funeral because i had been close to her both before i was in office and after we left office so i was glad to have the chance to go and pay my respects because it is a fair statement that between margaret thatcher and ronald reagan they changed the world. >> page 245 of issues on my mind you write in my view of the most striking trend now is something else. it's the growing dynamism and cooperation of like-minded nations that share an important set of positive goals. >> that's what i think we managed to do after world war ii. remember there were some great statesmen in the truman administration. this was carried on t

republican with republican kevbts back then because he just tried to do immigration reform with ted kennedyt and spoke and got a good reception and he talked about unifying the party. i remember being at cpac when m.i.t. romney won the presidential straw poll in 2012. and today if m.i.t. romney or john mccain showed up up at the stage they'd be worse than booed. they'd be in physical danger as they were -- as m.i.t. romney was on january 6th. something that hasn't been mentioned and should be is that let us remember that the people who are running cpac right now, specifically matt schlapp and his wife have benefitted tremendously from donald trump's administration. donald trump is the hen that lays the goldo golden eggs for people people. sc the hlafp got $750,000 from somebody who to try to get a pardon from trump in the last days. didn't get it but got the money. his wife worked at the white house and went on to work at the campaign. and they have milked this cow fairly well. they have a very personal, personal financial interest in keeping the trump movement alive. and in part of that th

back at that desk there, a fellow named ted kennedy used to stand. i used to love to come to the floor when senator ted kennedy of massachusetts would give his speeches. when he got into it, he was amazing. his booming voice could be heard all over the senate chamber, and i never heard him more energized than when he argued for increasing the minimum wage. and oftentimes, he was a lonely voice. there were no proposals before us and none likely to appear, but he never failed to come to this floor and remind us on a regular basis of how we have failed year after year after year to increase the minimum wage. and he would tell the story of people in america getting up and going to work every single day, sometimes two jobs a day, to try to keep their families together, and still qualify for food stamps and assistance from our government. and he would ask us when we were going to give them the dignity of passing an increase in the minimum wage. i can still hear him thundering across the chamber. you wouldn't want to be in a place if he was arguing a differ

remember back when all the ads against two former m aquatic centers -- senators were he votes with ted kennedy. every cycle has the bogeyman, the person you don't want to be associated with. what makes it so much more possible to weaponize is the speed at which we can communicate, and the pinpointing we can do within the social media to drill down and deliver that message. i think this is bigger than politics, though. i think when someone runs an ad holding and ar-15 and says she wants to shoot someone through the head or implies she is going to do bodily damage to democratic members, there needs to be a response to that and when the republican party fails to take the adequate measures, you can make an argument it is time for the body to step up. you had 10 people on the republican side, we are going to look at all of this and not in the heat of a moment but look back 18 months, what is the damage being done i someone like her. she has been someone, marjorie taylor greene, has become the aoc of the left and they weaponize this. i can have a debate about whether anything the president is doing

teasing us into think the effort to go bipartisan, barack obama had almost 60 senators, though ted kennedy passed away and then scott -- scott walker. >> no, that was texas ranger. you are right, brian. >> brian: in it will kill me to remember this. but he has a 50/50 advantage. they never got joe manchin involved in the process has they choose to do jima down the republicans though it's but it's really our throats. $900 billion check on overdraft we will ever have trouble paying back and now, in a massive rush. and so for $600 billion plan, already said yes to the offer, harris in these ten republicans over today. but if $900 billion in the republicans and he's at $1.9 trillion, they can work something out. logic would say, if serious about negotiating, we will find out in the next few days. >> harris: i'm always looking for that one big note that there seems to be a shortage of an capitol hill, logic. tomi. >> tomi: i agree wholeheartedly and harris i was watching your show before talking to the restaurant owner and he for getting the economy back together and direct relief to americans.

ted kennedy spoke. phil gramm spoke. they seemed to be saying the same thing.nt with the phil gramm ted kennedy proposal. we went forward and figured out what that was. i think it was a unanimous vote. the fact that mcconnell and schumer have already come to an agreement of the rules to proceed, that's a good achievement. host: how much of establishing the rules back then was based on trust? how much trust you think is in the current senate? guest: i agree with trent. personal trust is key. we trusted each other. we had worked with each other on other big challenges facing the senate. we began to trust each other and develop a relationship that has lasted to this day. it is essential. i like what i am seeing so far. it looks like in this context mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer have developed the trust necessary to move forward. they got an organizing resolution. they seem to be in agreement on the way to proceed. i like what i am seeing in the last couple of weeks. host: leader trent lott? guest: i agree with tom on that, as i usually do. they've got agreemen

. >> i watched my husband argue with ted kennedy and others, but he did it for the good of the countrydorsement was personal for voting for the g.o.p. does that mean anything? what does that mean? >> it is laughable. there are a lot of names in the arizona republican party that have been been censured. >> reporter: but she had a political life of her own, working on the mccain institute on human rights issues, especially human trafficking. but she has never had any desire to run for elected office herself, she says, and still doesn't. >> these are all of the babies now. >> reporter: she has found that rhythm of life without a spouse, taking joy i in her grandkids and spending time with the family. during the pandemic, she and her daughter-in-law started making recipes for what she called quarantine cocktails, and posted them on instagram. it kind of took off? >> it did. and i did not expect that at all. >> reporter: and one of the most popular was her blended watermelon margarita. cheers. >> cheers. they're fun. >> reporter: indeed they are. that is strong. she does have a lot to toast

bush tried with john mccain and ted kennedy.ried with rubio as an ally in the senate. and trump obviously didn't try. but no one has dealt with immigration at its root level and then trump turned human beings into political pawns and took pleasure in torturing them. that's what biden inherits, and we've spent so much time talking about what he inherited on the pandemic. what he inherited on immigration is just as dire. >> you know, i completely agree, and what trump did as he did in a number of different areas is he took an aspect of the debate and exaggerated, made it a caricature. there was always this element of the debate around immigration, nicole, that carried with it a certain set of assumptions about the humanity of those who were trying to make their way to the united states. so i think it's important, as you rightly say, to make a couple of distinctions. we need to, i think, and they're analytic distinctions between the moral and ethical considerations around child separation, around spiked walls, and the like. and wha

bush, sought to build a coalition with john mccain and the late ted kennedy.enate, it seems like the circumstances may suit this urgent need. talk about their strategy for getting this through. >> so, it's interesting right now, and comparing it to 2013, the last time that there was an attempt on legislation like this, and you've got a different senate and a different house, and you can imagine this passing the house, i think the struggle is in the senate. and white house officials have been a little bit cagey over what specifically their strategy is going to be in the senate. whether they would try to do this through budget reconciliation, whether they would try to end the filibuster as a way to pass this, so i think that they're trying to game that out right now in part by seeing reaction to their first piece, and i think it's important to also note a little bit of the change and sort of how they're approaching this, how they're talking about this. even if you look at the sponsors of this legislation, congresswoman linda sanchez was raised in southern califo

the eb-5 program, bipartisan program created, i think, under the partnership with maybe ted kennedy and senator chuck grassley if i'm not mistaken, it wasn't a perfect program and wasn't being administered in a perfect manner either. the constitution of our country has its prable. it starts off with these words -- we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union. that's what it says. we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union. that includes writing more perfect legislation and creating more perfect programs. when we find they're not, they're flawed or the people administering are ill be-equipped with their skills, we have to make changes. to those people whose feelings were hurt, those people who maybe had to find a different path in their careers, i reach out to you with a heavy heart. but i want to close by saying ali mayorkas is a good man, a great nominee. he served us before. he'll do it again. let's give him our votes. thank you, madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. peters: thank you, madam pre

you can talk about george bush, john mccain, working with ted kennedy. a huge bipartisan consensus.st it that killed immigration reform then. marco rubio said we lost in 2012. la team knows didn't like mitt romney. let's get out and pass immigration reform. he quickly retreated when the base turned against him. why is 2021 going to be different than 2013 or 2006. . >> well, it may not be, joe. because you used the key words. the base turns against you as a republican. and that's what a lot of elected officials are looking at. what's interesting this time, though, is that president biden is swinging big. and i think they are betting he will be successful in attacking this first as a public health crisis and then the economy. come 20222 i'm not sure people want to be in the anti-biden category, except in a primary. the other thing is breaking up the legislation. dreamers can move forward. even thought donald trump thought dreamers should be acclimated into our country. and of course they should. the other thing is that we have seen the chamber of commerce talk a lot about immigration.

marc siegel. >> kennedy speaking of real science that may be called the ted cruz affect other mexico.on to cancÚn than before. now of course 60% capacity rather than 30%. we going to keep night clubs and bars right are still potential for spread there. you've seen how people are. kennedy: and more ways than one, doctor. [laughter] sorry. [laughter] >> so i am thinking that down in cancÚn they just spread covid. i like that florida is putting in some restrictions. governor to sanchez as been quite open with his state. he wants to run for present was to change things up and look like an adult. people have been first socialization for year. they hear hospitalizations are going down for there's more testing. if you are 20 years old and you know your grandma has already had the vaccine, you are not as scared white would it go? >> okay let's talk about that. i'm not against a the points you just made pay the excess regulation, sometimes in mindless regulations are huge part of the problem here. the goalposts keep getting move, right? vaccines were supposed to free you of it should open more

president trump from new jersey muslim celebrating 9/11 on rooftops, didn't happen, to ted cruz's dad was part of the kennedytion, didn't happen, to george soros funding caravans to come to this country to destroy us. it's hard to believe that marjorie taylor greene is doing anything new. let's discuss with michael dyson, author of "long time coming:reckoning with race in america." thank you for both joining us. mary katherine, let me start with you. it's great that mcconnell is condemning the quote looney lies by congresswoman greene but that's hardly the only looney lie we've heard from the republican side of the aisle. >> it wouldn't surprise you i'm with mitch on his assessment -- excuse me, senator mcconnell. i shouldn't use mitch so cavalierly. on his assessment of marjorie taylor greene. they've put up with this nonsense from trump for so many years and he's gone now which is so frustrating for some republicans to watch as there's this seemingly inability to knock down this kind of stuff, right? by the way, what i don't understand from mccarthy, who took away representative steve king's committees whe

ted cruz. we will do everything possible to reopen schools. so let's try to get a big payout in half the pensions. kennedy: matt i would do anything for schools i won't do that. i won't go to cancÚn with party ted cruz. now marie you as a democrat have to be delighted with this bill. is there no such thing as spending restraints in the democrat party anymore? believe me i know this is also infected the republican party. >> nobel is perfect that's how the process works. there's a lot of good in this bill. there are some money in this bill for american people, for small businesses, for the vaccine rollout. there's a lot of good in this bill connick kennedy. that's why every poll we've seen over 70% of the american people support this legislation. and so we get out of the weeds about how much should go to schools or how much was state local. beware that's on a reality. >> kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, the political reality is the american people are still hurting. they want more relief but when they elected democrats to take over the senate and joe biden to take the white house they did it and said we need more

ted in warwick rhode island. good afternoon mr. merrick. >> thank you. i read or amit reading i should say the susan sween c-span book bryan lam's book regarding the ranking of the presidents. john f. kennedy at nine. i'm wondering what your opinion is of that what i considered to be a very high ranking. >> thank you ted. yeah, i think i have probably covered it. i would just say i'm a great admirer of kennedy. you know, i had never read pt 109. robert donovan book about kennedy's wartime experiences. but i have read robert carol's multi- volumes on lyndon johnson. carol makes it interesting points, johnson when he was in the senate with kennedy totally misjudged kennedy. thought he was a rich kid who had everything handed to him. and did not know adversity and would not know how to handle that if he encountered it. it messed with a time when johnson disfiguring canoes going going to be an adversary. as any talk about kennedy's wonderful and a pt vote but it is amazing story. what we did in adversity to maintain its leadership is just inspiring. i think he was an empire inspiring person that's a reflection of it. go back to what i've said before would love to say anytime kennedy to huge im

kennedy: i like this question. it is sort of an addendum to the ted cruz question.ist spy? please explain. >> emily: makes it sound official. then, take us home. >> ben: you know, this past week, i debated, so when i much to him because this was impressive that he actually asked a very serious question of neil gorsuch during the hearing. "would you rather fight one horse-sized dock or 100 duck-sized horses? and i would love to hear everyone. >> emily: these are all brilliant. thank you so much to everyone on the couch. we appreciate you all. have a great rest of your day. now, here is "america reports." >> sandra: this is a fox news alert. more than 150 million americans under winter weather advisories across the country, and thus, live look and indianapolis at this hour facing near whiteout conditions. you have seen where they had to wipe off the camera there. frigid temperatures, dangerous wind chills. does record low temperatures are happening in many u.s. regions. 2 million people are now without power in the state of texas alone. dangerous driving conditions in

ferina and ted cruz's dad helping to murder mr. kennedy. he talked about mr. bush's wife.ou know, coming down the stairs in the trump tower, that was a beautiful photo of his wife in her $20,000 outfit and him in his expensive suit and all the gold. but that's not where it started. it started on the stage. and for the electoral college to put him in office after he put full display his mental and emotional instability, i blame our government. that electoral college had no right to put him in office after he was on the stage. he set the pace. he balled up his fists and socked every opponent. he didn't debate them. he verbally assaulted every republican opponent on the stage. host: on yesterday's debate and vote on witnesses after that -- or during that vote, i should point out, the hill had some reporting on a bit of an argument between two senators, johnson confronts romney after a vote on witnesses is their headline, two republican senators, ron johnson of wisconsin and mitt romney of utah got into a confrontation on the senate floor saturday after romney voted with the d

kennedy at night and i'm wondering what you were opinion is of that what i consider a very high ranking. >> host: thank you ted. >> i think i have probably covered it. that i am just say a great admirer of kennedy. you know, i never read pt 109, robert donovan book about kennedy's wartime experiences. but i have read robert carol's multivolume onon lyndon johnson. and carol makes an interesting point, johnson when he was in the senate with kennedy totally misjudged kennedy. and thought he was this rich kid who had everything handed to him. and did not know adversity and would know how to handle it if he had encountered it. and this was a time when johnson was figuring that kennedy was going to be his adversary for the democratic nomination in 1960. he goes in and talks about kennedy's military cure was him and world war ii in the pacific on a pt votes. it is an amazing story. what he did and adversity to maintain his leadership and to maintain hisde survival. in survival of his people is just inspiring. and that is my view of kennedy. i think he was an inspiring person in a lot of ways and that's a reflection

ted lieu? colorado senator john hickenlooper or oregon governor kate brown? >> this is tough. i've got to go blue. >>. kennedy hickenlooper. >> jimmy woody doing over there? >> like yeah let's party. >> apparently i'm doing some things not here but legal and hickenlooper state >> kevin who go so the lead. which donkey's administration was accused of overseeing the accidental release of 3000 dangerous prison inmates? was it washington governor jay inslee, former president barack obama or illinois senator dick durbin? back i think it was j inslee in washington state. supported some and give you these answers advance this is correct. all right, steven this last one is for you. if you get this, you and kevin are both in the dnc for lyford if you lose kevin wentz and jimmy has to buy you. >> pressures on pressures on perspex steak dinners have any big dinners of my get a buyer? kennedy: cannot wait until super bowl sunday for them getting the 32-ounce bone in veto with my hands. >> if i win this is reason magazine going to increase the cost of my subscription? kennedy: absolutely. which donkey resigned from office

ted cruz. you called leader mcconnell moscow mitch and voldermort and on and on. >> snowflakes. remember that? liberals are such snowflakes. they're so sensitive. they are shocked -- shocked by neera tanden's tweets. senator john kennedy calling her out for name calling. >> i have to tell you, i'm very disturbed about your personal comments about people. it's not just one or two. i think you deleted about a thousand tweets, and it wasn't just about republicans. and i don't mind disagreements in policy. i think that's great. i love the dialectic. the comments were personal. you called senator sanders everything but an ignorant slut. >> that is not true. >> was that -- so, was that republican tears? like they say liberal tears? now, listen, let me be honest with you. i want this to be clear. name calling should really be beneath our government officials, it really should. mean tweets, bullying, no place for that. but this is what i'm talking about. the hypocrisy in all of this is off the charts. no one is saying mean tweets are right, but the hypocrisy. senator kennedy is disturbed by neera tanden's name calling. listen to the names senator kennedy was throwing around just today, like neo socialist, left of lenin, whack