to run for president and of course, ted kennedy did not challenge carter. watch the service today and to see the incredible outpouring of tributes for this one term president, i think the point has been driven home many times now about his character and his decency. more important to jimmy carter and his feelings about his legacy was the second look he's getting at his presidency. stu eisen who delivered one of the eulogies the domestic policy chief in the white house, when he left the white house january 1981, he had a hundred legal pads with notes on both sides of the paper and it took him a number of years but his book that was published several years ago now was the beginning of a very determined and strategic effort to get jimmy carter a second look for what he had accomplished as president. a very much-deserved second look, i may add. there were a lot of cultural differences between this southern president, a one term governor, a peanut farmer. how did he ever get to be president? and he capsulized that and got the biggest laugh today in the service s

joe biden and ted kennedy.arter during that huge division inside the democratic party. so that hurt him. a lot of the wounds were self-inflicted. carter was high handed. he was -- he was very abrupt with members of congress. he didn't really like politicians very much. i looked at some of the logs of his calls trying to get votes on various issues, 30 seconds the call would last. no pleasantries. he invited a couple powerful senators to play tennis on the white house court and then he said goodbye have a drink. >> he saw his constituency as the people who voted for him. that's what he had to do. deal with the issues of the people who voted for him. he didn't see the need to work with washington to play the games of washington to get it done. >> they got a lot more done. many bills were passed and signed. >> is a chance to write the record at least. this opportunity just over lining here. president jimmy carter, 100 years old. the beginnings of his state funeral in washington, d.c. is what you been watching. tha

immediately after the accident, ted kennedy hurried up to the cape, unless he had already been there. he had the body's cremated immediately -- the bodies cremated immediately and the kennedy family made it clear, initially, before the cremation, that they did not care what carolyn and lauren's mother did with their remains. they were only concerned with what they were going to do with john. so she could have the girls and do with them as she wished. that is how callous they were. and that information, by the way, comes straight from robert f. kennedy, jr.'s own diaries. peter: another kennedy who is not buried in the kennedy family plot but in england, kathleen kennedy. tell us about her. maureen: she was jfk's sister. she was a vivacious, beautiful young girl, very smart. she was disowned by her mother for marrying a protestant. her husband was killed in world war ii. she fell into a deep depression. her husband and her young widowhood was not enough to rouse any sympathy from her mother, who instead thought that it was a likely punishment from god for what she saw as a renunciation

and you talk about losing his base to ted kennedy in that primary in in 1980. i wonder from from your conversations with him how he reconciled or reckoned with those elements that influenced his defeat for reelection? >> it was what i call the three i's. it was interparty warfare. it was inflation, which he ended up curing by having paul volcker appointed, even though it was politically difficult and inflation dropped like a rock. but only after he left office. and then third was iran. with respect to interparty warfare, he was very upset for his entire presidency and thereafter with ted kennedy for running against him and for dividing the party and not reconciling. and yet, after he lost the election, ted kennedy called me and said, i would like stephen breyer, my top aide, to be appointed by president carter to the first circuit court of appeals. and carter agreed because he knew that breyer was a terrific person. with inflation, yes. but he appointed paul volcker, who helped end it over time. and with iran, this was really the most excruciating thing. 444 da

i think his most impressive credential on his resume is that he was once a staffer for senator ted kennedy. steve, over to you. >> take you very much, adam. senators, welcome to boston. welcome to the ema institute. do you feel at home? >> when i walked in earlier, before we all got here, i had a chance to look around. it is stunningly like the senate. and i went over and stood behind my desk in the middle of the second row, where i was sitting by lindsey graham on one side, and senator corn on the other. every senator moves -- most senators move every two years and everything is done by seniority. if you are the 100 senator, you get to sit in the desk that is left, while everybody else has a desk. it is a great accomplishment, and a great way to have a sense of what the senate is like, and what happens there. >> senator hetkamp ? >> the interesting thing is, i was the 100 senator. whatever was left, which is way back in that corner over there. 99th, at the time i think was daisy, we were elected at the same time, and we became fast friends, and she was my ohana, which means family in hawa

manyny of kennedy men had their own issues, ted, especially.te ted and joan have a son patrick, who wrote a memoir, he wrote about his issues with alcoholism. andbo he was sort of off the out of ostracized from family for a while it was how dare you expose the kennedy family. joe sr., made his fortune in bootlegging. how dare you say the story irishy catholic family has a problem with alcohol, there is a thread throughout for sure. >> patrickpe has appeared on this program talking about his latest book, profiles in mental health courage, maureen callahan the author of this book, ask not, the kennedys and women they destroyed. >> thank you for spending time on q&a. >> thank you so much for having me. ♪ ♪ >> democracy is is worth dying for. >> we're here in the sanctuary of democracy. >> great responsibilities fall to the great democracies, bigger than freedom and democracy must be guarded and protected. >> we're still at our core, a democracy. >> this is a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. >> weekends on c-span 2.

but then when ted kennedy withdrew from the campaign after chappaquiddick and so forth, i saw a lot ofnderful people, most of them out of the u.s. senate and from the house of representatives like mo udall and two or three governors enter the race against me. so i was disappointed, but i kept going. and the reason i first got in it, to answer your question, i thought it would be between me, kennedy and wallace. mr. updegrove: what's your proudest accomplishment as president? pres. carter: i think the proudest accomplishment in general terms, it's maintaining peace. we never dropped a bomb, we never fired a bullet, we never launched a missile while i was president. and the main thing is that we tried to bring that sort of relationship to other countries. i spent a lot of time negotiating between israel and egypt to prevent another war and to normalize diplomatic relations with the people's republic of china and working in africa with zimbabwe and south africa to try to bring democracy. those kind of things. so, i would say to preserve peace for us and maybe enhance it for others. and th

but then when ted kennedy withdrew from the campaign after chappaquiddick and so forth, i saw a lot ofnderful people, most of them out of the u.s. senate and from the house of representatives like mo udall and two or three governors enter the race against me. so i was disappointed, but i kept going. and the reason i first got in it, to answer your question, i thought it would be between me, kennedy and wallace. mr. updegrove: what's your proudest accomplishment as president? pres. carter: i think the proudest accomplishment in general terms, it's maintaining peace. we never dropped a bomb, we never fired a bullet, we never launched a missile while i was president. and the main thing is that we tried to bring that sort of relationship to other countries. i spent a lot of time negotiating between israel and egypt to prevent another war and to normalize diplomatic relations with the people's republic of china and working in africa with zimbabwe and south africa to try to bring democracy. those kind of things. so, i would say to preserve peace for us and maybe enhance it for others. and th

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ted kennedy decides he's going to challenge carter for the democratic nomination in 1980. to be a successful president on the order of a reagan or kennedy or lincoln or a roosevelt or theodore roosevelt, you have to be a unifier. you got to be constantly building relationships and improving relationships with with all the people who are involved in the governing process. carter was never proactive about that. host: you are listening to -- the scene on your screen today, this afternoon, joint base andrews. the special honor guard has moved into position. the family has disembarked from the aircraft. and they are now also standing by. the military body bearer team, this is a joint service, body bearer team are going to remove the casket from the aircraft. ceremonial troops will present arms and render honors four ruffles and flourishes. we expect to hear hail to the chief and 21 gun salute. as we are talking, talmage boston, i note that we will hear hail to the chief, that is interesting because at the beginning of mr. carter's administration, he didn't like to hear hail to

. >> let's talk about the character of supreme court nominees and certain ted kennedy was front and center with the robert bork confirmation which contagious and that led to justice scalia was appointed by ronald reagan. as you both know when he passed away and almostro 11 months time between his death and the nomination that was held up by your republican leader mitch mcconnell and, of course, four years later a very different situation because amy coney barrett was fast-forward with four, five, six weeks. mitch mcconnell has said democrats would attend saint think. looking at it in terms of the institution, let me begin with you, senator blunt. your thoughts have impacted the politics of the senate and the supreme court. >> well, in the end of the first two years of the bush administration i think once you get to your three, democrats are in control of the senate. senator schumer was not the majority leader and he led this particular fight and he announced that a supreme court vacancy yet but if there is i just tell you we're not going to fill it and so after this presidential election.

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i just want to read you the statement that senator ted kennedy made on television. and, by the way, this race was covered on, national television. george and danny brewster debated on the leading talk show at the time, issues and answers on abc news howard smith moderating. he was the moderator for the first kennedy-nixon debate and for the night of the election. walter cronkite moved cbs national news new york down to the old southern in baltimore and reported by precinct results to the nation on the brewster wallace campaign. but one of the pivotal points was when kennedy family decided to engage in maryland on this very issue so soon after president kennedy's assassination. here's what senator ted kennedy said on that occasion, i appreciate this opportunity to speak to the people of maryland. and i would like to thank all of who are watching for the many messages of sympathy you've sent since last november to mrs. kennedy and her children. and for the prayers you have offered in their behalf, i hope all maryland democrats who voted for my brother in 60 will vote

in his final days he was very open about this sort of uc had with ted kennedy, over a health care bill that didn't get past. and even with clinton and obama, the post-presidency relations were were not always to but i think you stood by with what he meant. in in a way that should be applauded. so i want to send my condolences to the carter family. i think he will leave a legacy that undoubtedly historians will look at for many generations. but it do think the fact he was really the first political outsider that i could think of and like the later 20th century i think without a doubt has impacted the way we see politics today. when you look at donald trump and other outsider figures, jimmy carter, thank you. >> host: new jersey,, independent line. >> caller: yes, good morning. thank you for taking my call. i'll relate an experience, i assume no other listener has experienced. in 1979 or 1980, my wife and i were in manhattan, and it was in the evening. i think after dinner walking down the street, and i looked across the street. there was a long block limo surrounded by men in suits. so

ted kennedy died and the democrats law support had previously been considered a very safe seat in massachusetts. and so you're going to enter this whole history of the sort of congressional dealing with making and horse trading. but look, i do think that for any press a particularly want to serve in a 2nd term as will be the case for mr. trump. you've got to use the political capital pretty quickly because of the fleets very fast, whether that is through congressional losses, or whether that is through the awareness that our president is approaching the end of this term. to be one of the other day, one. commitments at the present is made as universal terrorist, not just shutting down immigration by shutting down a lot of trade essentially. but tariffs, canada, mexico, much of the world. and i think there are a lot of people out there. there's saying, is he serious? because that could start a very serious global trade war, or is it going to be national security directed or directed in certain industries? and frankly, i'll be honest with the the public right now watching this, you hear different

mcelwin, two pro-enforcement guys and two people on the other side of spectrum, one worked for ted kennedynd the other for z o lofgren. if they gave honest views, we had wise decisionmaking going on. >> steve: that is kind of what donald trump is doing, bringing all different viewpoints. he does not want to hear everybody say, boss, you are brilliant. >> i hope so, role of cabinet officer has four jobs, one, you are ceo of a very large government agency. two, you represent, you bring the president's political agenda toureiocabinet department, three, you are a champion for that department, four, as a member of the cabinet, you tell a president things he or she might not want to hear. i think that is fundamental, i promised myself in the cabinet, i was going to tell the president what i thought he needed to hear. i would get a raised eyebrow, really, jay? it is fundamental for a president to have -- >> brian: you did a mini-obama impersonation. kristi noem will take questions. that department is as big, you say not as big as pentagon, it is different from secret service and fema, what should

champions of the 74th amendment, the great john moss congressman from california, democrat senator ted kennedy from massachusetts, democrat. they were very sinequan on champions and of course john marsh was the all-time champion. he worked several years just to get to 1966 . the 1966 act which i participated in supporting a time as well in a very modest way was in law that didn't really have any sanctions. it wasn't specific enough and of course it didn't have the strengthening methods of the 1974 act which provided judicial review by petitioners rejected in their petition to get up file or report. it provided attorneys fees. if the petitioner won the case, against the government it provided more than specifics of course and modest sanctions against what was called the vicious bureaucratic assumption, sanctions very rarely use could suspend government officials for egregious obstructions for 30 days without pay. the speakers today will recount and recommend many items of importance about the freedom of information act and how it's been administered up till now and what long awaited updated imp

remember in the '80s with ted kennedy, he is legendary.thing you want to tell us about your colleagues among chickens here? >> i don't know any underlying stories and they are probably some out there. there were times have started voting 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon and go until 12:00 the next day 24 hours straight. and make some of us look like we have had a long night at the bar, but i don't see any of that, i really don't. i set aside markwayne and expression when he is doing all of that. it was a fun day to watch the democrats while under the table, interestingly they overstepped their bounds. >> laura: all right, senator, at least we have that settled tonight. senator, thank you. is joe biden to up and trump's first agenda on his way staggering out the door coming up. are you looking for a walk-in tub, for you, or someone you love? well, look no further. january is bath safety month. and for a limited time, when you purchase your brand-new safe step walk-in tub you'll receive a free safety package. and if you call today, you'll also

remember, back in the 1980s with ted kennedy. he was legendary.thing you want to tell us tonight about any of your colleagues just among us chickens here? >> i don't know any underlying stories and there are probably some out there. now, there is times that we will start and have started voting at 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon and go until the next day at noon, 21 hours straight, and that might make some of us look like we have had a long night at the bar. but, i don't see any of that. i really don't. but i set beside markwayne, you can probably look at my facial expressions when he is doing all of that. that was a fun day to watch the democrats kind of crawl under the table, understanding that they had overstepped their bounds. >> laura: all right, senator, at least we have that settled tonight. senator, thank you. >> thank you. >> laura: all right, is joe biden trying to up end a key part of america's first agenda? on his way staggering out the door? coming up. ♪ ♪ imagine checking your own heart with medical precision from anywhere. introducing

in his final days he was very open about the disputes that he had with ted kennedy over a health care bill that didn't get past. even with clinton and obama, the post presidency relations were not always strong but i think he stood by with what he meant. in a way, that should be applauded. i want to send my condolences to the carter family. i think he will leave a legacy that undoubtedly historians will look at for many generations. i think the fact that he was the first political outsider that i could think of in the later 20th century, the key without a doubt has impacted the way we see politics today and when you look at donald trump and other outsiders, you could go to jimmy carter. host: new jersey, independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i will relate an experience i assume no other listener has experienced. in 1979 or 1980, my wife and i were in manhattan and and in the evening after dinner walking down the street and i walked across the street and there was a long black limo surrounded by men in suits. so i crossed the street. i walked up to the limo and put my

that was the first time he met ted kennedy, who he thought was going to be his rival in 76. and it was the first time the gonzo journalist, hunter thompson, encountered carter and thompson was blown away by carter's speech that day, which was an extemporaneous speech he had thrown away his speech notes, and he made this this sermon. it was a sermon where he talked about southern justice and how lawyers had not serve the people by you know, not representing the poor and giving them equal justice. and it was a passionate speech. and hunter thompson became a carter advocate at that point. yeah, i love to go back to that speech and to teach that speech. it's a very timely speech because it's really it is a sermon about the injustices of the criminal justice system. and it's remarkably, you know, timely in our own moment when we're doing going through this reappraisal of race and criminal justice in contemporary america. but the closing in that speech, too, was is a remarkable when he reflects on having read war and peace as an 11 year old. i don't know what 11 year old reads. wa

consternation around carr is because his presidency in many ways provoked or oversaw a schism that saw ted kennedy, the true north, applicable today. >> and unresolved in certain ways. >> exactly. very much esso.ly >> thank you my friend for a really phenomenal show. >> i appreciate that. >>> okay. there is no longer any questiona donald trump will reenter the white house as a convicted felon. the president-elect is due to be sentenced for his 34 felony convictions in the new york case. he will tiingo from a felon to officially convicted felon. in a last ditch attempt to stop that sentencing, trump had asked the supreme court to intervene, an attempt to effectively run anout the clock until trump was sworn in as president and could no longer be criminally sentenced. before we came on r air, the supreme court decided not to intervene on trump's behalf. in a 5-4 decision, chief justice john roberts and justice amy coney barrett sided with the three liberal justices on the court, and denied trump's request. alito, kavanaugh, gorsuch said they would have kgranted. this comes after justice alito spent

we need not magnify, as ted kennedy said or robert kennedy, we need not magnify these men beyond what they were in life to acknowledge that in an imperfect world they made things a little more perfect and that should be an inspiration and an aspiration for all of us. >> it is in these possibilities of american life that i imagine brings people out in droves, thousands of ordinary americans are expected to visit the capital to pay their respects. what, in these times, is that about in your view? >> i think there is a hunger for agency, if you will, it's not just for a simpler time. there is some of that i suppose, but i think there is a desire in the life of the country to matter and there is this sense that we used to do big things. the american century, one of which though we were dragged into it, we defeated fascism and totalitarianism globally. we created the greatest middle- class the world has ever known. painfully and tragically, with tragic slowness, we expanded the declaration of independence, the implications of it for civil rights. the supreme court of the united states is j

but i also had two advisers, one of whom worked for ted kennedy. the other one worked for zoe lofgren. and between the four of them, i thought we devised. smart, balanced policies. the other thing i'll say, i was very interested in your interview with with senator andy kim, my senator. um, he asked her he asked the nominee, kristi noem, today. all right. are you going to take orders from tom homan? he's white house staff. he's not a presidential appointee. he's not senate confirmed. what is the relationship? and i think that's a good question. you know, to the extent we have a border czar in this country and this government, it's the secretary of homeland security. it's not a person on the white house staff. so that's an issue that she and he and president trump are going to need to work through on the politics of this. >> you, as dhs secretary and president obama, were more aggressive on border enforcement than president biden was. um, and do you think that played any role in paving the way for the reelection of donald trump? >> um, tough to say.

president carter during his term in office that people have forgotten that massachusetts senator ted kennedy challenged him for the democratic nomination. carter beat back that challenge, but not before kennedy won the states of new york, connecticut, california and new jersey. carter, of course, then went on to lose in a landslide to ronald reagan. according to gallup in december, before carter left office, he had only a 34% approval rating and carter's average approval while in office, it was higher at 46%. here's the silver lining. perhaps for biden, when in 2023, americans were asked retrospectively whether they approved of jimmy carter as president, 57% said yes, and i'm sure that number would have been higher today, given the outpouring of emotion after his recent passing. then again, there's that front page story in today's times detailing how six people close to president biden, including the first lady, protected him and worked in concert to mask his frailties. according to the times, they recognized his limitations to a greater extent than they publicly acknowledged. but the story

ted kennedy challenging him from inside the democratic party, and a series of other things.red to reagan. a lot of things went into that defeat. but the point is, carter was a visionary president in many, many ways. and the deregular deregular tear environment. >> jonathan, let me ask you about an issue that's come into the forefront this week, with incoming president trump really latching onto one of the things that jimmy carter did as president, signing the treaty to give back the panama canal to panama. how do you look at that historically? >> so reagan came to prominence saying we bought it, we paid for it, it's ours. then carter comes in, and he again really makes a tough decision. everybody's telling him to put off this panama canal treaty until your second term. he says no, i've got to do this. two thirds of the country is against it. it takes a two thirds vote in the senate and carter gets it done. seven u.s. senators lost their seats because they voted for these treaties. now why was it so important that the canal be turned back, this great artery of global commerce

so he comes into the senate and you have people like ted kennedy, daniel patrick moynihan, bob dole, bill bradley, all sorts of people, john glenn, people who had really made their mark in american life in all sorts of different ways, including in the senate. so he took a seat in the far rear of the chamber where the newest members had to sit, but he immediately looked down and saw where dole was. and in his mind, he thought ahead and he thought, that's what i want to do. always had his eye on leadership then. and one of the reasons i think he eventually got there was unlike 99 out of 100 senators, he didn't want to be president. he had no desire to do that. he was fixated on that. and i think it made his strategic maneuvering easier within the senate, and it also made his path easier because he could take jobs that other people didn't want because it wasn't going to cost him in any kind of national campaign. you heard lamar alexander say you're smash him in the mouth strategy. explain what that is. and how did he apply that strategy not just to his own races? well, it's interesting

so i would point to ted sorensen, john kennedy working on that speech together for 1961 and then having it delivered so beautifully by president kennedy. the famous line of ask not what your country will do for you, ask what you can do for your country. i still have people say to me that they were inspired by that. and then there's the the hopeful in time of crisis mode of an fdr in 1933, the famous we have nothing to fear but fear itself, to say to a country that's being rocked by a great depression and to just be calming the nation, but also to say, here's what i'm going to do to try to help the crisis and ameliorate it. so those are all of the things that presidents need to do. and d when we're not in an actul crisis, it is helpful if a president could be a unifying force and could be positive and uplifting. donald trump, in his first presidency was coming in as a candidate who was kind of like blowing up the norms. what will you be watching for in this address? i'll be watching to see if donald trump offers an olive branch to the 75 million americans who did not vote for him. i'll b

. >> hunter thompson was sitting in the back of the audience because he had come with ted kennedy, and he was going outside, putting on wild turkey whiskey in his iced tea glass. but he listened to my speech, and then he his speech made a great impression on him. >> but i saw him first. terry kennedy iran john in athens and atlanta. i had never seen kennedy pushed around anywhere in any room, and i was stunned. i had never seen a politician do that before, and he just pushed teddy aside, like out of the way. you know, i've got i've got work to do. move aside. and kennedy was stunned. i was stunned. >> hunter thompson spent three nights with me in rosen at our house, and he became a very close personal friend of mine. i remember one time during the campaign, since we'd had a previous relationship, he thought he could have first crack at getting an interview with me and jody powell, my press secretary, kept putting hunter off and said, you have to get in line. and so hunter thompson got drunk one night in a hotel, and he gathered up newspapers and dumped some trash cans in front of jody

. >> right, after they are seized, there is a rally around the flag phenomenon, and he beat ted kennedy as the crisis were on, especially after the iran hostage rescue mission failed, remember those helicopters crashed in the desert in april of 1980. suddenly it really became an albatross around carter. it is like when are you going to get these people home? and it was almost as if he was being held hostage by the ayatollah khomeini and his entire administration seem to revolve around bringing them home safely. if he had bombed iran, as he told me when i interviewed him, he would've been re-elected. but about 10,000 iranians would have been killed, and the hostages would've been executed. so he decided he was going to try to negotiate the release, and in the fall of 1980, events were moving in carter's direction because the iraq war had erupted in the iranians needed the frozen assets to fight iraq. so they were making a lot of progress in getting the hostages freed. suddenly the progress ins. it is because william casey, who was reagan's campaign manager, and became director of the cia

ted kennedy ran against him and split the party. he was never able to get the liberal interest group wing of the party together, whereas trump has been able to unite the party behind him. >> interesting. interesting insight. let's bring in sir richard branson. he was a founding member with president carter of a group called the elders. that's a group of independent global leaders who work together for peace, justice and human rights. sir branson, thanks for joining us. you've said that president carter was one of the guiding lights of your life. tell us more about that. how did he impact you? >> um, well, he's impacted many people. but about 20 years ago, um, i was fortunate enough to be sitting with nelson mandela and archbishop tutu, and they decided they wanted to set up, um, a group of 12 global elders, six women, six men who had high moral authority. and and as they were going through the list, uh, nelson mandela's face lit up with a massive smile when he saw jimmy carter's name. and he said, basically that, you know, this man

[applause] i would like to say a personal word to senator kennedy. tedu are a tough competitor and a superb campaigner and i can attest to that. [applause] your speech before this convention was a magnificent statement of what the democratic party is and what it means to the people of this country and why the democratic victory is so important this year. i reach out to you tonight and i reach out to all those who supported you in your valiant and passionate campaign. ted, your party needs and i need you. [applause] [applause] i need your idealism and your dedication working forward. there is no doubt that even greater service lies ahead of you. then we are grateful to you -- [applause] and to have your strong partnership now in a larger cause to which your own life has been dedicated. i thank you for your support, we will make great partners this fall in whipping the republicans. [applause] we are democrats. we have had our differences. but we share a bright vision of america's future, a vision of a good life for all of our people, a vision of a secure n

ted kennedy. when kennedy decided to replace me as a democratic nominee. and so later in my term, i didn't have as close a relationship with the extremely liberal democrat as i did the moderate democrats and the republicans. and so depended heavily on republican support. the house and senate. and so that's maybe the question. but every weeks, regularly, i had breakfast with tip o'neill, worked with him on every possible issue very harmoniously. i admired him very. and and he was a great of the house. and i forgot the other. g uh, any other leaders, any other presidents besides president ford? well, yes, i get along well with the presidents. as a matter of fact, president and i have gotten fairly certainly since he left the white house or he's investigated thoroughly. what i did in the carter center. and he's creating a wonderful role for himself as a former president, quite different from i do, but that in a very harmonious way. in fact, earlier year, this summer, i went to to new york city during i think it was an or september, october october to to appea

shwe lost cecile to brain cancer that took john m{l1}c{l0}cain and ted kennedy.if they cared about saving lives they would increase funding for medical research that results in new cures and treatments and implement policies that address our nation's abysmal of infant and maternal mortality. i yield the floor. ms. smith: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. smith: i rise with my colleagues senator schumer, senator durbin and senator klobuchar and others to stand up for women and doctors in my home state of minnesota and around the country. i want to appreciate senator durbin for raising cecile richards who was a dear friend of mine and someone i worked with closely at planned parenthood. she was quote the great american poet eedna, she said it wasn't the same damn thing or another, it was the same damn thing over and over again. republicans are here on the floor introducing this bill, not to talk about what we can do to lower prices for measures, not to talk about how we can lower the cost of housing or how to help people's lives

this decision was kennedy justified by the ted and authorities, including the president who insisted that this break was not to go shovel at the office 60 years, military allies with friends. chad not choose as to taught its own course. and of course, presume a crime is not taking this the right way. all right, i have some really troubling disclosures for you now here on the program as military was so below as have given closed door testimony, the burdens of special forces engaged in a deliberate policy of executing a scan civilians the soldiers alleged but a rogue s. a s unit target male is young and old, even if they posed no threat to the troops. it is sort about the possibility of suspected wal crimes carried out not got us on. correspondent now picks up the story you case special forces in afghanistan, carrying the banners of freedom and human rights to protect the innocent. and this throne, whom they themselves have labeled as despotic oppresses while instead, they are now themselves being investigated for acts of barbarism and war. crimes by tons of reverence require me to inv

particularly amazing experience i had, they post fellows at harvard and one i followed was ted sorensen, john f. kennedy's speechwriter. as a student, you could apply to be their liaison and work with them for the semester. i was one of six liaisons who got to work with him for a semester. we hosted weekly discussion groups. for someone like me, or for any student, frankly, just to be able to work with someone and hear them tell stories, such a historic time that i had grown up reading about in history books, it was a very formative moment for me. particularly because he worked for a very young president. host: giving the words to president john f. kennedy, the inaugural address, profiles in courage, many of the most famous speeches that president kennedy delivered. rep. stefanik: absolutely. host: you came to washington to work in the bush administration. how did that come about? rep. stefanik: i didn't have a job until the week i graduated. i am sure that made my parents nervous at the time. i graduated 2006 from college. many of my friends went the route of where you get recruited very early in finance