. >> that was the late ted kennedy. he was preparing to challenge then president jimmy carter for the 1980 democratic presidential nomination. that question posed by legendary political correspondent and news anchor roger mudd who died yesterday at the age of 93. a lot of people have been showing that clip and talking about that clip because it was an extraordinary moment in modern american political history, but roger mudd was so much more. he was a staple in political journalism. a real anchor of sorts for over 30 years, beginning his career at cbs in 1961 where he spent 19 years covering congress, elections and political conventions and anchoring its weekend news show. he then became chief washington correspondent for nbc news where he co-anchored nightly news with tom brokaw and meet the press with connie chung. and mika, he lived in mclean, right by your parents. >> they were neighbors. >> a wonderful man. >> a wonderful man. and that question i think is also symbolic of just sometimes the magic of journalism is th

>> well -- >> roger mud's 1979 interview with ted kennedy. ended the senators presidential hopes. he died yesterday from kidney failure. he covered capitol hill. he was 93. >> two congressmen joining the movement to free britney. representatives matt gaetz and jim jordan asking a hearing about unjust conservatorships. they accuse jamie spears and her father of having questionable motives. he was inspired by the recent documentary. he wants her to testify before >> this process abused her, has her where she can't vote. can't get married. can't vote. if it can happen to her it can happen to anyone. it's our power to convene around serious issues. >> an attorney for jamie spears says it's working to protect britney. >> dove will no longer be normal. removing the word from the packaging on personal care products after a study found that seeing the word normal makes people feel excluded. it will effect 200 products. >> people hoping to set sail on a cruise this spring are forced to postpone. seven carriers pushing back the restart date and resume sailings in may. but now they have to d

washington political reporting at cbs, nbc and pbs in one of mudd's most memorable interviews, senator ted kennedy famously had trouble answering the question why do you want to be president? in the early 1980s mudd served briefly as co-anchor of this broadcast with tom brokaw roger mudd was 93. >>> up next, powerful reflections from the class of covid-19. >>> finally, how a class project at one high school turned into a powerful memoir of pandemic life kevin tibbles with "inspiring america." >> for me covid-19 feels like the initial climb on the roller coaster. once we are strapped in and heading up those tracks, there is no turning back. >> reporter: at new jersey's cliffside park high school a year into the pandemic words are the antidote >> the only chance we have to figure out any of this is to figure it out by listening to the stories of our most vulnerable. and by giving them power. >> reporter: shawn adler encouraged kids to publish a collective memoir, "the class of covid-19." >> i feel like i'm an old jerky car traveling through the pandemic the car decides to break down with little warn

just minutes before he was shot by an assassin. 11 years later, mudd's simple question to senator ted kennedy, "why do you want to be president?," caught the candidate off guard and may have cost the youngest kennedy brother the democratic nomination. mudd later wont to anchor and report at nbc news and pbs before retiring in 2004. roger mudd, a giant of journalism, was 93 years old. and there is still much more news ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." flooding in paradise-- more than a foot of rain swamps parts of the hawaiian islands. and why younger smokers are being urged to get scanned for lung cancer. and the fearless girl statue pays tribute to women who have shattered the glass ceiling. no way. more exercise. more water. and more fiber is the only way to manage it. is it? maybe you think... it's occasional constipation. maybe it's not. it could be a chronic medical condition called ibs-c, and time to say yesss! to linzess. linzess works differently than laxatives. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give linzess to childr

in one of mudd's most memorable interviews, senator ted kennedy famously had trouble answering the questionwant to be president? in the early 1980s mudd served briefly as co-anchor of this broadcast with tom brokaw. roger mudd was 93. >>> up next, powerful reflections from the class of covid-19. these are real people, not actors, who've got their eczema under control. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. dupixent is a biologic, and not a cream or steroid. many people taking dupixent saw clear or almost clear skin, and, had significantly less itch. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. if you take asthma medicines, don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. so he

it looked like carter the incumbent could be challenged by fellow democrat massachusetts senator ted kennedy roger mudd interview kennedy in 1979 and with one simple direct question the hopes of kennedy for the white house were dashed the reporting prowess of roger mudd is still studied and admired to this very day here is that famous exchange followed by months come in terry years later on the stump had a vacancy dominating imposing a masterful officer and personal interview which he can become stilted elliptical and at times appears if he really doesn't want america to get to know him why do you want to be president. were i to make the announcement to run the reasons that i would run is because what was interesting about it was how how really discouraged we were at the results of the interview but once you. i took it into a screening room and you saw this the sort of sculpted irish face on the screen of able to to articulate why he wanted to be president everest caught almighty he doesn't know. the right to report it something many journalists in the united states and here in europe take f

it looked like carter the incumbent could be challenged by fellow democrat massachusetts senator ted kennedy roger mudd interviewed kennedy in 1979 and with one simple direct question the hopes of kennedy for the white house were dest the reporting prowess of roger mudd is still studied and admired to this very day here is that famous exchange followed by months come in terry years later on the stump had a vacancy dominating imposing a masterful officer and personal interview he can become stilted elliptical and at times appears if he really doesn't want america to get to know him why do you want to be president. were i to make the announcement to run the reasons that i would run is because what was interesting about it was how how really discouraged we were at the results of the interview but once you. i took it into a screening room and you saw this the sort of sculpted irish face on the screen and able. to articulate why he wanted to be present airbus caught all my duty he doesn't know. the right to report it something many journalists in the united states and here in europe take for gran

of earlier projects like cape wind, which was famously opposed by residents like former senator ted kennedyoesn't mean that everyone is on board. >> there's a lot of questions that should be answered before these structures go in the water, and i think it's been fast-tracked and pushed, in-- in the name of green energy. >> reporter: eric hansen is a fourth-generation fisherman based in new bedford. he owns two boats, which travel up and down the east coast to reach regulated stockof scallops. while vineyard wind is not in an area he fishes, hansen is concerned the turbines will create a navigational hazard. >> when you get bad weather or heavy fog, and then if you throw a boat in there that's moving through besides yourself, to try and pick out the fixed target from the moving target on the radar screen will be next to impossible. >> reporter: about 40 miles down the coast, in point judith, rhode island, fisherman christopher brown is concerned how vineyard wind, and the cumulative impact of future offshore wind projects, will affect fisheries, including the whiting, squid, and flounders he

people saw that as another expression of carter's leadership. >> i'm eternally grateful to senator ted kennedy for challenging senator carter in the primaries. a primary challenge never helps an incumbent. just never helps an incumbent. he had to fight tooth and nail to fight off the kennedy challenge as late as the democratic convention. trying to get kennedy up to be part of the unity and he's literally chasing kennedy around the stage trying to shake his hand and get a picture of the two of them. >> never would do the victory. >> gave a very defiant speech. so, he had a lot of problems, to my point, he had a lot of problems. >> but also the killer rabbit, fainting at the jogging, soviets invaded afghanistan in '79. nothing went right for this poor man. >> so many great, billy carter. >> his brother causing embarrassments there. liberian loan. >> despite all that two-thirds of incumbents who run for re-election win. >> yes. >> exactly. so -- >> and a lot of doubts about reagan. >> there were doubts about reagan. the attacks that fall on him hit the mark in many ways. and, so, it required, yo

forward. >> i think one thing the class should understand is to your point you just made about ted kennedyllenging carter, divided conventions tend to lose in the fall united can vengeance tend to win. 68 the democrats are divided they lose. 76 of the republicans are divided they lose. 80 democrats are divided, they lose. >> that's why there are now tv shows. >> they used to be important. >> they used to be important. no longer. >> now part of leadership is also maybe issuing statements or phrases that become part of popular culture and dialog. churchill was famous, he was so famous for his statements. reagan, the 11th commandment, i'm paying for this microphone. and in 1980 the closing summation is now a phrase which is used every four years now in national politics. >> are you better off than you were four years ago? that sort of misery index that we were talking about before. that was a way of summing up the election. people can look at all sorts of things when they go into the voting booth. and some things favor candidate a, and some things favor candidate b. the trick is do you want p

romney issue per se but imagine mitt romney were conservative members i remember a story about ted kennedy that he was so good at to build alliances this icon of american liberalism and could be a partner with anybody. there was a bill. it was stem cell research he was trying to get through. he ended up winning over as an ally, strom thurmond the segregationist no one in the senate floor opposite than thurmond that he had a granddaughter who had some kind of congenital disorder and he knew that. he could work that and appeal to the personal issue to get thurmond to support it. and help get it through congress. sometimes that's all hands on deck you need the lobbying in the big movement. sometimes it is off to the side sometimes that helps a little bit. >> we are just about on time can we have five more time on - - by more minutes? i just want to ask one question and read one section of the book. the short answer your phone rings. it is joe biden. he says jonathan i hear great things about your book. you had a great event at the harvard bookstore. i don't have time to read the whole book wh

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republican for ted kennedy seat, which i thought was sacrilegious. what happened was we knew we would knock it another bill through the senate. the only way forward, the only way forward was to have the house passed the senate bill. so what i learned from that was never hold on to your exultation. we always have to be flexible. use whatever advantage we can get. to improve health care for the people of our nation. and then, we need to be persistent. the other piece that i thought is that after the house voted to pass the aca, i thought we could declare victory and move on to our next agenda item. i was so wrong. we have had to fight tooth and nail. in a nonviolent fashion. to make sure the aca get simple message, that our people have access to health care. so it matters for me in this is would be flexible and looking for opportunities, the covid package has just passed and it is a fabulous step forward. we were paying attention and were willing to advocate for it. we need to stay persistent. we do not let down our advocacy one -- once a bill is passe

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warner, ted kennedy, john mccain. it has really, really changed in the last 10 to 15 years. and the big question is whether it continues to become lesser than or if they can bring it back and make it the kind of place where great men, great women serve all of us. thank you for getting up early with us on this tuesday morning. >>> vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine ♪♪ i'm begging of you please don't hesitate ♪ ♪ because once you're dead, then that's a bit too late ♪ >> ♪ it's not too late, baby, it's not too late ♪ ♪ you really are going to make it ♪ ♪ you're going to be so strong and healthy when it's it's your turn just take it ♪ ♪ don't be too late, baby ♪ ♪ don't hesitate ♪ >> all right. . >> that's fantastic. . >> the great carol king with her own vaccine song inspired, she says, by dolly parton. >> tomorrow, we of course are going to be doing our own, willie and i are. go ahead, put up the tweet. that you could put up the tweet that would be great. thank you, dolly parton, for you for inspiring me to inspire me to record my own vaccination song. covid vaccine. vaccines

it looked like carter the incumbent could be challenged by fellow democrat massachusetts senator ted kennedy roger mudd interview kennedy in 1979 and with one simple direct question the hopes of kennedy for the white house were damaged the reporting prowess of roger mudd is still studied and admired to this very day here is that famous exchange followed by months come in terry years later on the stump had a vacancy dominating imposing a masterful officer and personal interview which he can become stilted elliptical and at times appears if he really doesn't want america to get to know him why do you want to be president. were right to make the announcement to run the reasons that i would run is because what was interesting about it was how how really discouraged we were. at the results of the interview but once you. i took it into a screening room if you saw this the sort of sculpted irish face on the screen of able. to articulate why he wanted to be president airbus caught almighty he doesn't know. the right to report it something many journalists in the united states and here in europe take

it looked like carter the incumbent could be challenged by fellow democrat massachusetts senator ted kennedy roger mudd interviewed kennedy in 1979 and with one simple direct question the hopes of kennedy for the white house were dashed the reporting prowess of roger mudd is still studied and admired to this very day here is that famous exchange followed by months commentary years later on the stump had a vacancy dominating imposing a masterful officer and personal interviews he can become stilted elliptical and at times appears if he really doesn't want america to get to know him why do you want to be president. were i to make the announcement to run the reason that i would run is because what was interesting about it was how how really discouraged we were at the results of the interview but once you. i took it into a screening room and you saw this sort of sculpted irish face on the screen of able. to articulate why he wanted to be president everest caught all my duty he doesn't know. the right to report it something many journalists in the united states and here in europe take for granted

served as adviser to majority leader harry reed and chairman of the senate labor committee, senator ted kennedy, also jason johnson, professor of politics and journalism, host of new podcast for slate. jim, let's begin with the senate options. get rid of the filibuster has become the easy throwaway line. that we already know is impossible because joe manchin and kyrsten sinema have said they won't vote to do that. and i've outlined why -- trying to get this into reconciliation won't work, mitch mcconnell can strip it out with amendment if you did overrule the parliamentarian. last time the minimum wage was raised, it was squeezed into a defense spending bill at last minute, and that's the way it was done in the past, just stuck on to must-pass bills that then the republicans vote for. last time, george bush was president in 2007 and signed it inside a giant bill with military funding in it. >> and so happened to be working for senator kennedy, author of that bill when we did this. it's a little bit for complicated than that. spent more than a year stalking the senate floor looking for attempts

and let's not forget, in 2012, the dnc was putting ted kennedy, who left a woman to drown and suffocateh in his car as a women's rights champion. when democrats say they are about empowering women they are really only about empowering women who are useful to them politically and i guess the era of #metoo is over and the clintons are back in business after taking a hiatus for four years. oh, somebody's coming back in again come interesting. >> greg: jesse, you must feel bad right now. you don't have a book, you don't have a foundation. >> dana: close. >> greg: you don't have a boat or a bug. i actually asked if i could get a second bug to put on the other side of the screen. >> jesse: wow, i feel really inadequate. that's the first time that has ever happened. greg, that was a good monologue but you were due. do you have had some questionable ones of past few weeks but i have to give credit where credit is due. this is really about kamala harris being used. this is about rehabbing bill, rehabbing the foundation and the initiative. they took a big hit with the pay for play, the epstein de

hour to go in our next weeks q&a and will cover a lot of things including the question asked of ted kennedy why he wanted to run for president. in addition to that some of the comments were made by cbs after richard nixon resigned on auguse you got some news in this book that no one is ever seen before, and that's the story of lillian brown. being with richard nixon right before he resigned. what's that story? >> lillian was the premier makeup artist in washington, and she had started with the face the nation contract and she had done john kennedy when he was beginning to run for the presidency. she was also eric several rides regular makeup artist, she got a call from the white house, we want you over here for the nixon speech. she went over, left eric and went over to the white house. when she got there the secret service agent who knew her said lillian, he's not in very good shape. he was then meeting with the leaders of congress telling them that he was about to resign, and the cameras were over there in the oval office setting up for his speech, and a secret service agent said he's not

out, covering congress and national election campaigns, including the famous moment in 1979 with ted kennedy do you want to be president? >> he was also primary substitute for anchor walter cronkite. among many memorable moments, mudd was present reported on the night when robert kennedy was assassinated. he called his 2008 memoir of those cbs years "the pla to be." he told me why. >> it was a perfect storm. it was a collection of principled, talented, honest, hard-working, very tough perfectionists that all came together, that had written into the two decades violence, chaos, terrible stories to cover, crises, assassinations. we were there with a swagger covering every bit of it. the rule at cbs during those 20 years, first we cover the news, next you beat the hell out of nbc. >> in 1980, mudd joined nbc, his longtime rival, when cbs chose dan rather ahead of him as longtime successor. he later spent five years with us has the newshour. and congressional correspondent. in one classic mudd moment, he found a way to sneak in a question to a congressman that he had been told was off-limits. >>

you know, the immigration bill that ted kennedy from the left supported.john mccain from the right supported. george w. bush the president supported and it got eaten up by the extremes of both parties. i hope that biden can do something. but certainly this makes it much harder. he has to resolve asylum if he wants to solve immigration. >> one other issue you point out in your piece which is really interesting is there's a separate crisis that also isn't being talked about. and that is, you know, what is not happening in terms of immigration and celebrating all of the wonderful contributions that immigrants can make as they become citizens of this country. talk to us about that. >> the single most distinctive feature of american society compared to other rich countries these days is that we take in lots of immigrants and assimilate them well. that's what adds to our gdp, our innovation, that's what adds to our dynamism. it means we don't have a social security problem because we have young workers paying into the system. all that is in jeopardy because sinc

bill clinton, ted kennedy left a woman to die in his car became the line of the senate was talked about running for president. it was celebrated for years including up to 2012 dnc. so for my notes bed to speak ill of the dead. [inaudible] >> i'm glad you did, i can see why he'd ride this out until it either goes away are the investigations are finished. kennedy: yes. i think were going to see this from every politician, matt. this is the new template just don't resign. and larry craig, third craig try to under resign. once you resign you cannot un- resign that is it. >> i think the template is ralph northern in virginia. let's get in a blackface scandal in 2019 or whatever was exactly when that happened. just don't have to resign. the thing is they can impeach him. the reason white near democrats want cuomo to resign is that they don't went to have the responsibility of doing their own job. which is if you think he did bad enough and has done bad enough in these cases it's five women now you could impeach him. i agree both you in katie that this ate it. this is not the reason. as a grea

the last thing big that passed barack obama was president and he had the 60 votes before ted kennedy died to pass obamacare. donald trump was right. he wanted mitch mcconnell to get rid of the filibuster and now joe biden wants to get rid of the filibuster. we have to when hit this thing that somehow there is something racist about the filibuster. that's untrue. it's true the democratic party under richard russell used it to stop civil rights legislation but it was intended to make it harder to pass legislation in the senate after it came out of the house. so it is intended to create some bipartisanship in the country that we need to somehow get back to. this idea that it takes an i.d. -- an i.d. to vote, that you have to identify who you are to vote is somehow racist is so far afield from what we've come to in this country. we had black people in this country who were denied the right to vote not because they didn't have an i.d. and people didn't know who they were. it was because jim crow tried to use excuses to prevent them from voting. i would like to work with every liberal to m

i was in the white house to push bipartisan legislation in the first year, ted kennedy signed off the have by part saj support-- bipartisan support but nowhere near 76% of public approval for either measure, so it see bipartisanship redefined might be one of the most significant sort of things that this white house has pulled off so far. >> you called yourself a nonpracticing republican, is that what it is? >> i think i moved into self-loathing former republican. >> stephen: i don't want you to answer for the republican party and i'm not here to relitigate the bush administration. but i used to talk about this thing called poofiness, about believing what you want to believe to win the political fight rather than what the fact was support. that is not a new idea. i think tremp added dem goingery that is someing the bu minist d, ewat d that i what in a poison ots political weapon, don't you see some continueium between carl rove, you people in the reality-based community, that sort of backhanded slap to reality that leads to the big lie today? i see those on a spectrum. >> i think that'

including a famous moment in 1979 with ted kennedy, and a simple question that left him stunned. >> why do you want to be president? >> he was also primary substitute for anchor walter correct me if i'm walter cronkite. and he was reporting on the night that robert f. kennedy was assassinated in 1968. he called his 2008 mem wear of those years, a place to be. in a conversation on the "newshour," he told me why. >> because it was a perfect storm. it was a collection of principled, talented, honest, hard-working, very tough perfectionists who all came together during a 20-year period that had written into those two decades violence, chaos, marvelous stories, terrible stories to cover, constitutional crises, assassinations, everything that could have happened, happened in those 20 years, and we were there with a swagger covering every bit of it. >> there was always bruising competition. >> the rule at cbs news during those 20 years was first we cover the news, and next you beat the hell out of nbc. we used to call it the national biscuit company. >> reporter: in 1980, mudd joined nbc. he l

bush's first term it was senator ted kennedy helped pass his signature education reform again along ar a long time. had to pick one moment, might be an infamous gop steak dinner the night of barack obama's inauguration. the 15 republicans in the room decided to pursue a strategy of total obstruction to the new president as kevin mccarthy now house minority leader said if you act like the minority you're going to stay in the minority. we have to challenge them on every single bill. so even with the fiscal crisis in full swing, obama's stimulus bill got zero republican votes in the house. despite containing considerable tax cuts. when obama proposed healthcare reform, which remember was based on ideas promoted by the conservative heritage foundation and then put into action by then massachusetts governor mitt romney it again got the heisman among republicans in the house. so one bipartisanship broken out it's democrats rescuing republicans from a mess of their own making. for example, 2013 when the tea party shut down the government over debt ceiling and obamacare, it took all 198 democ

a decade later mudd's interview with ted kennedy helped sink the massachusetts senator's 1980 presidential began. with this simple question. >> why do you want to be president? >> well, i'm -- um. >> reporter: despite years of substituting for walter cronkite, when cronkite retired mudd was passed over for the cbs news anchor chair in favor of dan rather. he jumped to nbc news, where he was briefly paired with tom brokaw. >> good evening. president reagan today proposed what amounts to a summit meeting with the soviet union. >> reporter: later serving as moderator of "meet the press" before moving to the pbs news-hour and then the history channel. still mudd told the newshour in 2008 his years at cbs marked his finest hour. >> everything that could have happened happened in those 20 years, and we were there with a swagger covering every bit of it. >> indeed he did. roger's family roh in a statement that he delighted in discussing journalism and current events with family and friends, particularly with his children and grandchildren, none of whom got off without having to field tough follow

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the president thanks to an unlikely ally, ted kennedy. >> now, that was the only model of bipartisanship have worked to some degree. it was measured by how many politicians from both parties backed something. now that model is dead. a popular president came in offering after a big victory of 60% during his first six months. i'm talking about president obama. he was still organizing entire gop around literally stopping and being against anything the democrats did. >> our top political priority should be to deny president obama a second term. >> he said what he said, and he meant what he said. mitch mcconnell held to that even as the nation battled a huge and painful recession. and those politics of that obama-biden era, they look a lot like this biden-harris era. all opposed the '09 stimulus package despite a recession and reaching across the aisle. there was documented outreach to republicans. when the bill passed, what did republicans do? they went ahead and attacked obama for their own refusal to collaborate. they blamed him for the fact that according to the d.c. definition they had s

. >> in a long career, he is best known for asking a question that senator ted kennedy simply couldn'tg kennedy's presidential campaign before it had even started. >> why do you want to be president? >> well, i'm -- um -- >> and it only got worse from there. when mudd was passed over as the replacement for walter cronkite at cbs, he joined us here at nbc news and briefly co-anchored "nbc nightly news" with another familiar face, tom brokaw. and for a while, he moderated this program, "meet the press." mudd finished his career at pbs and then the history channel. roger mudd was 93. are you one of the millions of americans who experience occasional bloating, gas, or abdominal discomfort? taking align every day can help. align contains a quality probiotic developed by gastroenterologists. it adds more good bacteria to your gut, to naturally help soothe your occasional bloating, gas, and abdominal discomfort 24/7. support your digestive health with align, the #1 doctor recommended probiotic. try align today, the pros in digestive health. also try align dualbiotic gummies to help support di

ted kennedy passed away. his replacement was a republican. this senate voted 59 votes, a big majority, to pass the disclose act. but because of the filibuster rule, they couldn't get over that hurdle. mr. president, the disclose act is part of s. 1. senator whitehouse and all the senators here have been part of that effort. it's part of s. 1. we cannot afford to repeat the history of 2010. we cannot allow a minority of senators who represent a minority of the public in this country and the people of this country to stop the for the people act. mr. president, we have a duty to every patriotic american who has worked hard, many spilled blood for the right to vote. we have a duty to pass the for the people act. and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i pick up where senator van hollen left off. when he was fighting for the disclose act in the house, i was the manager of that bill on the floor here of the senate. it would do something very simple. if you're spending more than $10

bush newly elected president placed a call in december of 2000 was ted kennedy.ber of the u.s. house of representatives he talked to was george miller, the ranking democrat on the housed indication and labor committee. the idea that president obama or president bush or president clinton or president bush 41 would have gone two months without having a conversation with the -- or seeing the minority leader of the u.s. house of representatives is just unthinkable. >> dana: the same with senator mcconnell as well. >> absolutely. >> dana: i want to ask you if if you are the biden team, let everybody complain about us not reaching out and no press conferences. his approval rating is steady. meeting the marks, hitting what they want to do with the legislation. they have big goals and announce the huge infrastructure bill. do they feel pretty good about things? >> well, let's divide those two things. yeah, they can sit there and say we're doing okay so we don't need to have a news conference that quickly. i also what's the time of the news conference? 1:15 in the afterno

he asked senator ted kennedy what seemed like a very simple question, why do you want to be presidentnnedy couldn't handle it. it crippled his campaign from the start. the heir apparent to walter cronkite's seat went to dan rather when cbs promoted him instead. he taught at princeton and hosted documentaries on the history channel and died at his virginia home with kidney failure at 93. a real gentleman as well. >> quite a man. it was such a simple question. >> it really -- it ended the campaign pretty much before it started. it did. >>> following a lot of other headlines this morning including the royal family in crisis. the fallout after queen elizabeth responds to meghan and harry's bombshell allegations of racism and the shocking blowup about meghan on britain's top morning show. >>> also ahead, this frightening call -- close call on the slopes. a bear on the run down the mountain chasing after a group of skiers. how they narrowly escaped. >>> first, let's go to ginger. good morning, ginger. >> reporter: good morning, michael. you know, flash flooding nightmare is happening in par

my life, but number two, i had the occasion of running against caroline kennedy's uncle, that's ted kennedym than i ever did from anybody at any airport, but we became very good friends as time went on. we were able to work together. >> an example he's hoping to set for his family as well >> what i found throughout life is doing those things which you know are right, which respond to the profrmtings allows you to have a greater degree of satisfaction, than if you just do things to get ahead whether or not you get ahead is not entirely up to you but whether or not you live by your conscience is entirely up to you. >> i asked the senator who's tried twice before whether he would run for president again. >> oh, peter, i would love to be president. there are other people in my party with a new vision that may well be able to take us in a direction, which i find to be ideal and appropriate. >> jack, maybe just get your sense. we ask you this every time we see you. when are we going to see jack schlossberg's name on a ballot >> i mean this when i say, i have to pass my exams before i i think abou

a decade later, mudd's interview with ted kennedy helped sink the massachusetts senator's 1980 presidential campaign before it began, with this simple question. >> why do you want to be president? >> well, i'm -- >> reporter: despite years of substituting for walter cronkite, when cronkite retired, mudd was passed over for the news anchor chair. he jumped to nbc news, where he was briefly paired with tom brokaw. >> good evening. president reagan proposed what amounts to a summit meeting with the soviet union. >> reporter: later serving as moderator of "meet the press" before moving to "the pbs news hour" and then the history channel. still, mudd told the "news hour" in 2008, his years at cbs marked his finest hour. >> everything that could have happened, happened in those 20 years, and we were there with a swagger, covering every bit of it. >> reporter: for "today," andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >> mudd had more than 30 years on network television, but, savanna and hoda, he had four children, 14 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. i thought it was interesting in the statement

tight on the "cbs evening news," but he may be best remembered for a simple question to senator ted kennedy in 1979. >> why do you want to be president? >> well, i'm -- were i to make the announcement -- >> kennedy's fumbling answer up-ended his presidential campaign. it's considered one of the most devastating interviews in political history. he went on to work at nbc and pbs. after he retired, he said, "i'm a cbs man." roger mudd died of kidney failure at his home in virginia. he was 93 years old. >> did you know him? >> i did know roger. i didn't meet him until he was at nbc. he filled in for walter macron tight every summer -- cronkite every summer. he may have become known when he broadcast for 67 days from the capitol during the filibuster of the civil rights legislation -- >> he was a pioneered, rolling coverage. what was thought of at that time as something boring. passage of the bill. >> that's what made roger mudd's name. he was a huge figure here and anchored "nbc nightly news," as well. >> his biographer said cbs unleashed mudd on the politicians, the civil rights bull, as surel

it was ted kennedy. he spoke about the 8020 rule and why they were able to get so much done and working with one a the most liberal democrats. after he finished smoking i had him explain what the 8020 rule was. he said the reason why we get so much done is because we believe in the 8020 rule. he said we agree on 80% of the stuff and disagree on 20% and we focus on the 80% we agree on. one of the great things about this committee is we abide by the 80-20 rule. we focus on the 80% that we agree on and that is what we are doing this morning and we are doing a similar thing with service transportation. it is a lot of fun and usually important for the country -- and unusually important for the country right now. >> thank you you, mr. chairman. this is a topic that is probably more than 80% agreement. these systems are critical to the lives of everyday a year and to all of us. this topic is extremely timely and important to people that we work for in washington. i appreciate your choice to lead on this topic.

republican senators ted cruz and john kennedy say the legislation democrats are proposing would hurt legal gun owners. when you disarm. >> law abiding citizens, you make them more likely to be victims. >> the objective should be to how to control the who would be used on each the objective should not be. how to get rid of the second amendment that republican opposition means the house bills could face a steep climb to clear the senate. >> now today's hearing in the senate was scheduled well in advance of that deadly shooting and colorado in washington. rashad hudson, back to you. >> thank you very much for shot and you're looking live at some traffic. this highway 24 in lafayette. looks doesn't look too jammed up. it looks like a nice evening. >> this pretty close to the call got tunnel kind of shows us. catherine, they were slowly creeping back towards normal conditions out there. i mean, it was a time when the freeways are wide open. lauren singing just. >> kind of cruise anywhere you wanted. yeah. not that much anymore every day felt like a holiday come in seriously. but now thing

ted cruz loved the demo to great area to go to shoot them back down there. kennedys really the arbiter of immigration certainty. wherever he vacations, that is where we should send people. >> amen, within my type. [laughter] superhero goat truck 2024. chris, america rejected president trump innate 2020 landslide. tell us why republicans will be fools to nominate him once again in 2024? and why americans are done with the stupid america first agenda. >> look, first off we realize everybody who voted for trump or even thought about voting for trump is a sedition is an insurrectionist. i think at this point the only responsible thing we can do is to make a list of everybody voted for trump or thought about voting for trump, and particularly those who may be considered voting fruman 2024 and bring those people and, round them up, get them into some education. because at the end of the day what we really need to have in this country's unity. the only way we're going to get unities if we can convince republicans to drop everything they believe in. that's was going to best

and then his brother ted kennedy passed the civil rights bill.m that point on, some things are good, but it makes a lot more worse. host: you are blaming the civil rights legislation fo racism -- for racism in our country now? caller: yes, i do. host: bloomington, indiana. a democrat. good morning. caller: well, that caller is wrong. if he would have listened to raphael warnock yesterday in the senate doing his first speech, he would realize that our voting rights are very important. fox channel is letting the fake news -- they are the ones that lie. we have social on the computers. they are not telling the truth to people, and that is a lot of our problems today. they let our former president on there and speak and say that our election was a fraud and a fake, and that is why we had the insurrection. this is getting very sad. now we have people -- we already have a bunch of americans dead from covid. now, we have them not only killing black people but killing the asian people. host: this is rilla in texas, a republican. good morning. caller: hi.