ted kennedy cheated on his wife, bob john kennedy was a womanizer. john was cheating on jackie left and right. so democrats are not more -- than the republicans. host: on our social media page, we have a couple people bringing up names like bill clinton and ted kennedy. what do you say about those who say you're being hypocritical if you say democrats don't actually care about these things. guest: no, no, no. that's ridiculous. i talked about 2021. i specifically said in the call and we reached a point in 2020 one at last where democrats cannot survive these kinds of things. bill clinton was 20 something, 25 years ago, monica lewinsky i think was 23 years ago. quick was 1969. jack kennedy was 1961-1963. of course they did those things in those days and went unpunished. those things were not punished in those days in either party. my column says things have changed now just in the last few years, and now in 2021. so these people are not listening. host: let's talk to pamela also a new york resident calling in on the democratic line. pamela, good morni

he met ted kennedy without was going to be arrival and 76. it was blown away by carter's speech that day was an extemporaneous speech we thrown away his speech notes. it was a sermon where he talked about southern justice and how lawyers would not serve the people not representing the core and giving them equal justice. as a speech and hunter thompson became a carter advocate at that point. >> i love to go back to that speech and teach that speech. it's a very timely speech it is a sermon about injustices of the criminal justice system. it is remarkably timely in our own moment with the race and criminal justice and contemporary america. the closing and that speech is remarkable it really reflects on having read war and peace as an 11-year-old. i don't know what 11-year-old breeds war and peace. but it is a remarkable speech. this is the first ever kind of cradle-to-grave biography. there been books about president carter before but this is the first to deal with the whole light. it's interesting that 22 of the 27 chapters i counted were abou

service by my count the big grievous offenses is he wanted to use the secret service to attract ted kennedyecause he feared kennedy as a political threat to even disable him for 76. nixon is relying on the service to take on expenses not really legitimately renovation expenses at nixon's private properties in the attempt to use secret service members to remove protesters to disable the ability of americans to protest peacefully if not loudly against their government. it reminded me of what happened during the trump years. >> it reminded me of the same. there were so many very parallels between nixon and trump just with the secret service. the idea that we will handle antiwar pastors protesters by putting theus secret service on them and use them as a tool president nixon's view of the secret service was very much like president trump. this is another tool of my power not that they are protecting me but these are my goons. [laughter] and donald trump deployed them the same at mafia square on june 1 and nobody can forget the presidents wish to work as a law and order president that tough guy

if was alive when ted kennedy and i was born after the death of kennedy. say to her, honey, you wouldn't get what i am saying. boomers don't understand where gen xers are coming from and we're ten months apart. >> i'm sure she loves that joke. >> stephen: yeah. what was your high school and college experience like. are you making up for lost time by giving these racy experiences to younger people? >> i think yes. but i'm just realizing that now, yeah. >> stephen: i wish hi this experience in college. >> i write about nerds, so i do identify as a nerd but yeah,-- i think you are right, i think there is some of that. >> stephen: so these are sexy nerds. >> they are nerds who like veer around sexy situations. >> stephen: i think we have a clip of some of the sexiness here, what is happening in this clip. >> i think, i don't remember. i'm so sorry. i don't know what this clip is. >> stephen: the guy seems damp. >> a handsome man has climbed through a window in the rain. >> stephen: and who is she. >> to a young woman a star of never have i ever who is a funny

what ted kennedy did in giving a speech on the senate floor as far as why the conservatives republican conservatives are able to say the democrats engaged in character assassination of work. he gave a speech and it really was over the top talking about how and roberts court you have people knocking on your door without a warrant and back alley abortions and things which frankly some of it doesn't sound all that far-fetched anymore. a lot of democrats were chagrined. we go into this at length in the book because the two that justify their own much greater maneuvering skullduggery to get their own people on the courts. bork frankly and i think it's a story of two joe biden's. on the bork hearings joe biden i think was if you look at the full record ran a hearing and a confirmation that was textbook what you should have under the senate's power of advise advice and consent. it was a master class in constitutional law and the problem was that robert work there's a reason he was one of ronald reagan's last of supreme court nominees until he had to replace him once bork was busted by the sen

sincerity at all among democratic leaders at all, so clearly they wouldn't be -- i mean, they stood by ted kennedyly killed a girl and they never criticized him. they are now knifing andrew cuomo. what you think is actually going on here?al >> you know, that's a really good question. originally i thought that well, this was their way of distracting from the nursing home scandal because they'd rather talk about this than that because the nursing scandal in pockets, by the way, a lot of other democrat governors who did the exact same thing. i thought maybe that's the reason but then again, people of moved on, so why don't they need to talk about it now? maybe it's that the powers that don't want him running for president. i have no idea but whatever the reason is, it's not a good -- >> tucker: can i just make one super quick prediction? if he resigns, however we get in new york is going to be worse. i'm just throwing it out there, and that's a big statement considering how just awful andrew cuomo is. but do you think that's probably right? >>>> well, yeah. look at -- bill de blasio. you know, bill d

we haven't seen a leader this fallen asleep at the wheel since ted kennedy.nge, nonsensical answer. is he really this incompetent or did he inhale too much of that spray tan? but every time, every time you think joe biden is bad, remember what canada has. >> it is exactly the example of the kinds of things you need to do to counter the c session and turn it into a she huff and calvary. >> greg: he really is full of sheet. apparently the u.s.'s exporting woke stupidity. the taliban has taken more questions than joe biden. and then there is this pair. >> it sounds like you are is saying this depends on diplomacy with the taliban. >> well, let me add something here, alain. we've got a couple of entry control point set up. a north one, a eased one, and a third one at abbey gate. they are currently mounted with officers, marines. >> greg: why is everyone acting like it's their first day on the job? their entire job is to protect american citizens, yet they are more scared of depending on the democratic left. he doesn't put the milli and military. just let that mar

massachusetts senator ted kennedy, went to work for his continuous, the mcmahon family and a year later he managed to secure the return of the bodies of charles mcmillon and darwin judge, he never criticize president ford for leaving them behind. senator kennedy never said he had a better idea about how to manage the evacuation of american troops, american allies for war that we lost. the democrats did not attack republican president gerald ford for how he handled the exit from a war lost by democratic and republican presidents. the government of georgia, he was a navy veteran and running for president on the day that the last american helicopter left vietnam, and he did not criticize how our republican president gerald ford managed that evacuation, because jimmy carter knew that the military was doing its best, jimmy carter knew there was no good version of an evacuation from a lost war. no one was surprised by the chaos and the dishonor of the american final exit from vietnam. the world was not surprised. every day of the vietnam war was chaos. including the final day. just a year aft

cannot answer that question through the lens of my experience as a staff person so having been ted kennedy's chief counsel and having been obama's domestic policy advisor, is much as happened in the room estimate happens in the fall. in written material can't capture that. but a memo looks like by the time it that it gets to a senator or a president, is often been edited and reedited lots of people put their opinions and and they said things back in scribbles and notes. it will tell you something but when you have the conversations, you get the nuance commute in the tone of voice and you get the humor and anger and things that you cannot necessarily interpret from the written word. now all of a sudden our very visible and certainly the oratory is available to you and it gives you a sense of the moment in a way that nothing else really can. and for the purpose of the podcast, i know those who listen to it, and came back to me said that oh my gosh, i kneel that lyndon b. johnson was a character but i never knew that and they never had a sense of that. and i also know from their experiences tha

states' ally in its fight against communism globally, but liberal pro refugee advocates like senator ted kennedy emphasized that southeast asian refugees deserved american help due to more of a responsibility to alleviate suffering. so what happened to these refugees once they arrived in the united states? how were they resettled? a lot of conversation focuses on admission, but we also need to think about how refugees were resettled. because successful refugee resettlement made policymakers more likely to want to admit more refugees. and refugee admissions and refugee resettlement in this way are very intertwined. in the united states, refugee resettlement is a public/private effort. the government delegates a lot of work to private agencies. called voluntary agencies. interestingly, a lot of these agencies are also religious. 75% of southeast asian refugees who arrived in 1981, which is roughly the midpoint to southeast asian refugee arrivals, were resettled by religious organizations. some of these organizations are ones that are very active and prominent today. lutheran immigration and refuge

senate and providing in the senate and mike enzi got recognition and started speaking and how he and ted kennedy worked so well together. [inaudible] and health education and remarkable job working together and he said during his comments on the floor that day he talked about the 80/20 rule and i didn't know what he was talking about, discussing other context, but i wasn't sure what he was talking about. before i gave a note to one of the pe's to send a note what's the 80/20 rule and ted and i agree with 80% of the stuff before it's committee, and we focus on the 80% that we agree and talk about the other 20% the some other day and it works and as we mourn his loss and his passing and trying to work our way through this discussion, debate on infrastructure and others, a nod to mike on 80/20 rule, maybe something we could pull off the shelf and put to good use. i just wanted to say that. thank you very much. if i could now, mr. secretary, welcome, mr. secretary. thank you so much for your leadership today. i don't normally ask yes or no questions, but given the 14.6 billion-- do you believe that

ted kennedy was a senior democrat and mike enzi was a senior republican. i asked mike enzi on the floor, how come two leaders of the committee, one liberal democrat and one rather conservative republican, how do you get so much done? we use the 80/20 percent rule. we agree on 80% and 20% we put aside to work on another time. if mike enzi is looking down on us, he would say, amen, we should follow his lead. i always want to get things done by working with my colleagues across the aisle because i think bipartisan solutions are laughing solutions and i'm committed to working with our republican friends in the senate on getting all these actions across the finish line in this congress. i -- we will continue to work toward these urgent needs in the budget reconciliation process. again, it's an all hands on deck moment, requiring meaningful investments in climate action in a lot of different ways. a lot -- the last thing we cannot afford to do is inaction. we cannot wait and delay. we have to put in place commonsense policies, some of which i talked about today,

he said it is the secret to ted kennedy and i being successful on the health, education, labor, and pension committee being so successful and taking on legislation and coming up with principled, bipartisan solutions. and he says that ted and i agree on 80% of the issues that come before our committee. we disagree mainly on 20%. what we do on the health, education, labor, pension committee is we focus on the 80% where we agree. we set aside the 20% where we don't agree to another day. come back to it and we will deal with that later on. it worked for them. he would be delighted -- i guess is he is tuned in today somewhere up there. but he would be delighted to see that this week the 80/20 rule that mike enzi epitomized is alive and well on both sides of the aisle. and i hope that the spirit that has infused our work leading up to the work of our committees, committees of jurisdiction providing the function on which the gang of 20 and the administration went to work i hope is that is -- hope that spt of bipartisanship and mike enzi's 80/20 rule will continue to infuse our work this week and i

ted kennedy cheated on his wife, bob john kennedy was a womanizer.s cheating on jackie left and right. so democrats are not more -- than the republicans. host: on our social media page, we have a couple people bringing up names like bill clinton and ted kennedy. what do you say about those who say you're being hypocritical if you say democrats don't actually care about these things. guest: no, no, no. that's ridiculous. i talked about 2021. i specifically said in the call and we reached a point in 2020 one at last where democrats cannot survive these kinds of things. bill clinton was 20 something, 25 years ago, monica lewinsky i think was 23 years ago. quick was 1969. jack kennedy was 1961-1963. of course they did those things in those days and went unpunished. those things were not punished in those days in either party. my column says things have changed now just in the last few years, and now in 2021. so these people are not listening. host: let's talk to pamela also a new york resident calling in on the democratic line. pamela, good morning. call

former senator ted kennedy from massachusetts had in his memoir a fabulous description of the unitedtes senate, the best i've ever heard. he calls a chemical body and said something happens when senators are stuck in a room and realizing they are not going home until they get something done. that highlights the difference with these weekend sessions now they are not doing anything. you will maybe have a speech on an unrelated subject. you're not voting on amendment around-the-clock and outgoing late at night and that annoys and frustrates senators because they are just sitting in their offices waiting for a cloture vote. that annoys them because they don't have time to fly home and get back and so they are just sitting around and not engaging in meaningful activity. that is a source of dysfunction we see in the senate today. host: let's talk to the caller from -- let's talk to arthur from fraser, michigan. caller: thank you for taking my call. my question is this -- there is an abundance of money for the projects that were laid out there before president biden took over. i am wonder

kennedy and another book about president kennedy by ted sorenson just called "kennedy," he thought it put his administration in a really poor light. so he put out a memo to his friends. he said, i just dashed these things off the top of my head. but it's this really kind of detailed memo. we often at work refer to it as ike's top ten. he actually lists 23 things. i just have some of them here on the screen for your consideration. of course he added two states to the union during his presidency. the st. lawrence sea way was built. significantly, the first civil rights bill in 80 years, one in 1957, one in 1960, dealing largely with voting rights, were passed. the most ambitious road program by any nation in all history of course is our interstate highway system. eisenhower did not completely reject the new deal. in fact he really accommodated much of fdr's new deal and harry truman's fair deal. the interstate highway system cost more than all of the new deal social programs and work programs combined. so it was a massive public expenditure. and of course something that many of us exper

kennedy, and another book about president kennedy by ted sorenson, i believed it was just called kennedy. he thought put his administration in a poor light. he put out a memo to his friends and said i will take these things out of the top of my head but it's this detailed memo and we often at work refer to it as ex top ten. he listed about 23 things. i have some of them here on the screen for your consideration that of course he added to states, rather, two unions were added in an ex presidency, silence seaway was built, the first civil rights bill in 80 years, won a 1915 seven 1957 a 1960 dealing largely with voting rights that were passed, the most ambitious road program by any nation at all, history of course is our interstate highway system. eisenhower did not completely reject the new deal. in fact, he really accommodated much of fdr's new deal, and harry truman's fairytale. the interstate highway system cost more that all of the new deal social programs combined. it was a massive public expenditure and something many of us experienced almost daily in our commutes. he notes, as you

and another book about president kennedy by ted sorensen. i believed it just called kennedy. he thought that his administration in a really poor light. so he put out a memo to his friends. he said i just dash these things off the top of my head. and but it's this really kind of detailed memo and we often at work refer to it as ike's top 10. he lists about 23 things. so i just have some of them here on the screen for your consideration. but of course he added. to two states rather to the union were added during ike's presidency the 49th states. saint lawrence seaway was built the first significantly the first civil rights bill in 80 years one in 1957 when in 1960 nearly largely with voting rights were passed. the most ambitious road program by any nation and all history of courses are interstate highway system. eisenhower did not completely reject the new deal. in fact, he really accommodated much advice of fdr's new deal. and harry truman's fair deal the interstate highway system costs more than all of the new deal social programs and work programs combined. so as a massive p

probably had an the most speechwriters in the history of america with the exception of ted sorensen who was john kennedy's that he had marvelous speechwriters and it wasn't just ordertaking. this was a unique think tank insider the white house. he was like tear down this wall and things like that. they came from speechwriters and sometimes he was involved in every oneit of them. he would add paragraphs and things like that. and he was very involved with them and they grew to really appreciate his speech and really loved ronald reagan. here's the e-mail from margaret from illinois thank you mr. surely for your extensive information on ronald reagan. the church that he attended is still going to school he attended is now a museum and their public library has a large section on reagan. atry in there to find your book. i once lived in reagan's home before it became a historian. >> guest: how about that. it's not a wonderful story? i have been to his boyhood town several times and attended his church several times for their two statues of ronald reagan in the kitchen one on horseback and at the river he w was

here are senators john kennedy, mike lee, marsha blackburn, and ted cruz. >> i realized pretty quickly that if you look up stupid stuff in the dictionary, there is a picture of this bill. >> 1.2 trillion inflation bomb being dropped on an already carpet bombed economy. >> wait a minute. i thought it was a infrastructure bill. >> the democrats want to give billions of dollars to unelected bureaucrats in the biden administration to spend as they please. as admiral ackbar said in star wa, it's a trap. >> a "new york post" op-ed sums it up this way. one awful bill. one terrible bill. hope the dems double dealing dooms them both. florida senator rick scott is in focus to weigh in. first let's get the latest on all of this from peter doocy live outside the white house. peter. >> more than a dozen republicans are expected to support this infrastructure bill later on today. once it leaves the senate and goes over to the house it is not really an infrastructure bill at all. speaker pelosi is planning to combine it with 3 1/2 trillion dollars worth of democratic priorities in her budget using th

how do you say no to ted kennedy to start with and i was fascinated. i got involved then and over the years. at one point i joined three other democratic senators and four republican senators, the so-called gang of eight and tried to fix this broken immigration system. we actually wrote a bill, a good bill. it passed here on the floor of the senate, i think 67 or 68 votes. senator mccain was one of the contributors, senator flaic, of arizona -- senator flake, senator rubio, of florida, senator schumer, senator bennet, senator menendez, we put our hearts and souls into it and we brought it to the floor and it passed the senate. it failed to become enacted into law because the house of representatives under republican control wouldn't bring it up for debate, let alone a vote. we have not passed a significant immigration bill in the united states of america in 36 years. everyone, but everyone, concedes that our immigration system is broken. there are parts of it that is just fundamentally unfair. there are parts which do not serve our nation. there are ce

about the 80-20 rule, senator kennedy and mike enzi, democrat, republican, how they were able to find a common cause and get stuff done. i asked him, what is the 80-20 rule. 80% ted and i agree on, 20% we don't. there is common ground here. i think the gentleman from wisconsin knows what it is. in addition to talking about our differences, let's talk about where we agree and do good work there. thank you. the presiding officer: the question is on the amendment. mr. johnson: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: on this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 49. under the previous order requiring 50 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. the senator from mississippi. mr. wicker: thank you, mr. president. it may take a moment, but i would suggest that the senate be in order now. i thank the members for their consideration. mr. president, i offer today what should be considered a friendly amendment to the broadband section of this infrastructure bill. why is it a friendly amendment? because usin