he also agreed to first the kennedy administration then the johnson administration pass the bill.rn coming from illinois where they had strong anti-discrimination laws he didn't want the federal bureaucracy to duplicate that effort. >> he was also known as howard baker's father-in-law. >> father-in-law. he had a room in the back of his office called the twilight lodge, a clock was on the hour and every hour was 5:00, appropriate for a drink. >> what was the motivated spirit behind lbj's strong interest? because it because he was a great legislator as the former majority leader he was able to push this through and create the coalition? >> he knew the ins and outs of senate. the myth is overblown, he knew if he got too involved and micromanaging, it would back fire because his colleagues would resent the fact he was no longer one of them. he was the president. one of the greatest contributions was restraining himself. >> do you think that without lbj this could have happened? >> it was so far along the track when president kennedy died and hung up in the rules committee of the house

is that the beginning of the kennedy administration he share ised with with president kennedy a caution towards racial controversial. but marchers kept marching. four little girls were killed in a church. bloody sunday happened. the winds of change blew. i picture him standing there taking up the entire doorframe. looking out over the south lawn. he asked what the true purpose of his office was for, what was the end point of his ambitions. he would reach back in his own memory. and he would remember his own experience with want. and he knew that he had a unique capacity as the most powerful write politician from the south to not merely challenge the convention, that had crushed the dreams of so many, but to ultimately dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation. he is the only guy who could do it. aven avenue -- he knew there could be a cost. famously saying the democratic party may have lost the south for a generation. that's what his presidency was for. that's where he meets his moment. and possessed with an iron will, poes

pretty much prompted a federal constitutional crisis for the kennedy administration to ultimately, and the national guard after the great ride. and then they spent a year and will miss before graduating, incredible isolation, incredible hardship under constant protection from federal marshals and much of that began -- again, and his mind he was a very singular man. he was not someone who associated himself with a large movement, but he was very determined that the same time to try to combat institutions of white supremacy. but after old mess and he drifts of the radar screen for a while and struggles to find his place. he spends time in washington d.c., except to a to nigeria which the band is after one. he has an eye and a larger political career. he envisions this march from memphis to jackson. he sees it as having a number of goals. one is to encourage people to register to vote, encourage african-americans to register to vote. the voting rights act was starting to stimulate the beginnings of mass will registration, but for your ordinary black person they realized that going to the

to follow him and that is what happened and because of his insistence on this strategy, the kennedy administration and johnson administration was forced to do something that had never before succeeded which was to break a filibuster over civil rights in the senate and that too in 1964 is what happened and when she learned he was retiring in 1971 after a bad fall jacqueline kennedy onassis wrote a remarkable three page handwritten letter from the yacht christina and told him she knew that he more than any other single person in congress was responsible for these bills and in the last weeks of her husband's life he had taken great consolation from the fact that mccullough could have easily sabotaged the bill without seeming to do so, could have betrayed his pledge but he had not a she began by saying please forgive the emotional tone of this letter but i want you to know what you mean to me and last night we had a book event at politics and prose and his elder daughter nancy who is nearly 90 came and was great to see her and it is a remarkable story that deserve to be remembered. >> not only does it

nom no because of his ability to deliver the southern white vote and in the beginning of the kennedy administratione shared with president kennedy a caution toward racial controversy. but marchers kept marching. four little girls were killed in a church. bloody sunday happen. and the winds of change blew. and when the time came, when lbj stood in the oval office. and i picture him standing there and taking up the entire door frame, looking out over the south lawn, in a quiet moment and asked himself, what the true purpose of his office was for, what was the end point of his ambition, he would roach back in his o -- reach back in his own memory and remember his own experience with want and he knew he had a unique capacity, the most powerful white politician from the south, to not merely challenge the convention, that had crushed the dreams of so many, but to ultimately dismantle for good, the structures of legal segregation. he's the only guy who could do it. and he knew there would be a cost. democratic party may have lost the south for a generation. that's what his presidency was for. that's where

and at the beginning of the kennedy administration, he shared with president kennedy a caution towardsers kept marching. four little girls were killed in a church. bloody sunday happened. the winds have change blew. and when the time came, when lbj stood in the oval office, i picture him standing there, taking up the entire door frame looking out over the south lawn. in a quiet moment and asked himself what the true purpose of his office was for. what was the end point of his ambitions? he would reach back in his own memory and he would remember his own experience with want and he knew he had a unique capacity as the most powerful white politician from the south to not merely challenge the convention that had crushed the dreams of so many but to ultimately dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation. he's the only guy who could do it. and he knew there'd be a cost. famously saying, the democratic party may have lost the south for a generation. that's what his presidency was for. that's where he meets his moment. and possessed with an iron will, possessed with those skills th

, led to severe resistance from white authorities, prompted a constitutional crisis for the kennedy administration to call in the national guard after not doing so at first. a great riot, two people died, and meredith spent two years in ole miss and faced incredible hardship, unconstant protection from federal marshals and mach of that began in his mind. a very singular individual man. he wasn't someone who has associated himself with a larger movement but he was a very determined to try to combat institutions of white supremacy. but of ole miss, meredith drifts off the rave dar screen and struggles to find his place in the larger struggle. spends time in washington, dc. accepteds a fellowship to nigeria, that he abandons every one year. enrolls in columbia law school but has an eye on a larger political career. ... spec. >> on the second day of the march she has just come in your hand down mississippi mississippi, he left the office the day before and he gets the nice warm reception who say they will register to vote and he tells stories of old african-american men that were so intimidated for so

and at the beginning of the kennedy administration, he shared with president kennedy a caution towards racial controversy. but marchers kept marching, four little girls were killed in a church. bloody sunday happened. the winds of change blew. and when the time came, when lbj stood in the oval office, i picture him standing there, taking up the entire door frame, looking out over the south lawn, and in a quiet moment and asked himself, what the true purpose of his office was for. what was the end point of his ambitions? he would reach back in his own memory and he would remember his own experience with want. then he knew had a unique capacity as the most powerful white politician from the south, to not merely challenge the convention, that had crushed the dreams of so many, but to ultimately dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation. he's the only guy who could do it. and he knew there would be a cost. famously saying, democratic party may have lost the south for a generation. that's what his presidency was for. that's where he meets his moment. and possessed with an iron

in the kennedy administration. and this is just amazing. this is the memo that udall wrote to president kennedy. it says this. george marshall, the owner of the washington redskins, is the only segregationist holdout in professional football. he refuses to hire negro players, even though dallas and houston, texas, have already broken the color bar. the interior department owns the ground on which the new washington stadium is constructed, and we are investigating to ascertain whether a no discrimination provision could be inserted in mr. marshall's lease. at the time the redskins moved to washington, that made them the southernmost team in the national football league. even though washington, d.c., is not all that far south, the owner of the team made a strategic decision to try to market the redskins as the team of the south. as the team of the old confederacy. the band used to play "dixie" before redskins games. and the redskins owner, george preston marshall, he really did refuse to hire any black players for his team, 15 years after the

he told the kennedy administration in '63 if you promise not to water down this bill in the senate whichn the usual pattern and give the republicans equal credit heading into the 64 election, i'll bring the republican caucus along and that's what he did. >> everybody played. nobody tried any tricks. >> his leader respected him. >> they kept the bill strong. >> they kept the bill strong. the pattern, lbj when he was majority leader, of course, had gotten the '57 bill by weakening it. >> jacqueline kennedy wrote to him, who you mentioned there, when she got word in 1974 of his planned retirement from congress. "i want you to know how much your example means to me. you more than anyone were responsible for the civil rights legislation. you made a personal commitment to president kennedy in october of '63 against the interests of your district. there are opportunities to sabotage the bill without appearing to do so. you never took them. on the contrary, you brought everyone else along with you." pretty sophisticated letter. >> and a pretty moving thing. three pages handwritten from the yacht

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and that's what happened and because of mccullough's insistence on the strategy, first the kennedy administration and then the johnson administration, was forced to do something that had never before succeeded, which was to break afilibuster over civil rights in the senate and that. , too on june 10, 196 4 , is what happened. and this -- when she learned he was retiring in 1971, after he had a bad fall, jacqueline kennedy onassis wrote him a three-page letter and told him she knew that he more than in eye single person in congress was personally responsible for the bills and in the last weeks of her husband's life he had taken consolation that mccullough could have easily betrayed his pledge and sabotaged the but he had not. and she said, please forgive the emotional tone of the letter but i want you to know what you mean to meet. and last night we had a function and his daughter came, and it was great to see her and it's a remarkable story that deserves to be remembered. >> not only does it deserve to be remembered, i think it's -- could have some hastening effect on the current incumbents of ca

justice elena kagan recused herself because she was working with the obama administration when this went before the lower court. justice kennedy is an interesting one to watch because he is often a swing vote, and in this case he sided with the more conservative members. justice kennedy wrote the majority opinion saying that this case is not a debate of how racial references should be resolved, he stated that they do not have the authority to over state case law. justice soto myore wrote from the bench that she said that this puts the burden on minority applicants that other applicants that don't have. michigan is one of eight states that gives racial preferences. but there are 42 other states that it can still use affirmative action. this case does not change that. however, they may embolden groups to try to pass laws banning affirmative action there. there is initial signs of how the bans of affirmative action are working at the state level in michigan, also in california, a large state that does not allow for preferenc preferentiat based on race. >> the supreme court heard arguments in a case that could change how we watch

he gave us the best look at those george bush administration after the 9/11 attacks. after his book on john kennedy hersh was considered washed up considered to be done over. he had begun to work all little bit on the middle east and then 9/11 attacks happened. he was backing his car out of his driveway in washington d.c. and got a call from the new yorker, and said we know what you're going to be doing for the next year, you are working on the cia the george bush administration and the middle east. he then gave over four year period look at what was taking place in the middle east that you could find anywhere. sy hersh has been for many years what a journalist should be. a pariah, constantly indignant, independent source of information, someone who gets below the surface, behind closed doors, tells us what things are really like. why he is so controversial, so revered and reviled, it is a funny story. after the of the great story appeared there was a protest in london and a little girl was at this protest holding a sign and the sign said protect seymour hersh, the last independent journalist in th

the age of 67 he was viciously attacked for his book on john kennedy. in 2004 he revealed that american soldiers were torturing prisoners at a prison in abu ghraib. .. the obama administration after obama was elected called david redd and say call your man off and tell him to stop. hurst -- hersh recently said i think there's something wrong that man he was not invited to the state of the union speech tonight. he is known as flies -- sly sy spooky side terrace side and the one i heard so many times from so many people are side can't be trusted or those who said he can hit a homerun with that story. either you love him or hate him. he's one of the great characters in american life. for four decades he begins his scoops and a work in all 1850s early 1960s and he's been doing what he's been doing for more years than you can imagine. he continues by the way today to be completely and totally indignant and angry at the conditions and thinks he sees around him which separates him from so many journalist. he's one of the great characters and the stories about him are legion and legendary pretties clearly won one of the top-tier figures in american life. when biographers take a loo

so hopefully the next administration can expand the private screening program, and eventually, i think we can go to private screening across the country. kennedy: another big win for unions. chris, thanks so much. >>> so far you have been groped, fondled and shut down. if you play cards right, you can win big money online. nope. the government shut that down, too. it's all up in your business. this is "the independents." >> when does government regulation go too far? >> when it interferes with people's personal lives. kennedy: like what? >> what they can drink, from a >> what they can drink, from a hello. shopping for a used car with the right history? yeah. i don't want one that's had a big wreck. oh, our team tracks millions of accidents. yeah, doug to carfax... i got an accident report on vin# 1dc... moles? they dig up the facts. naturally. let carfax® help you find the right used car with the right history. i like it. start shopping now at carfax.com xfinity watchathon week was the biggest week in television history. but just when you thought it was over... what now? with xfinity on demand you can always watch the latest episodes of tv's h

so hopefully the next administration can expand the private screening program, and eventually, i think we can go to private screening across the country. kennedy: another big win for unions. chris, thanks so much. >>> so far you have been groped, fondled and shut down. if you play cards right, you can win big money online. nope. the government shut that down, too. it's all up in your business. this is "the independents." >> when does government regulation go too far? >> when it interferes with people's personal lives. kennedy: like what? >> what they can drink, from a . kennedy: did you know there was a poker boom in the early 90s. i'm sorry, poker, from 2003 to 2006, there was serious money to be made online and fun to be had in the booming online poker communities. the bigger the pool of players, the more money you could make in no limit texas hold 'em. the government smelled the party, shut it down. bring in dusty schmidt, a professional poker player who profited during the boom. welcome, dusty. >> thanks for having me. kennedy: are you in the home of orlandia. i'm happy you are talking to us as well. how did the government get up into your

the new u.s. ambassador, caroline kennedy. then, mr. obama joined japan's prime minister at a famous sushi restaurant. they'll hold more talks tomorrow. from japan, the president will travel to south korea, malaysia, and the philippines. the administration announced today that it will complete the sale of ten apache attack helicopters to the military dictatorship in egypt. it's a reward for egypt keeping its peace agreement with israel, but this is the same dictatorship that overthrew egypt's only democratically elected government. in cairo, clarissa ward caught up with some of the die-hard activists who are still pressing for democracy. >> reporter: they were among the first waves of protesters in tahrir square three years ago using social media to spread their call for freedom, helping to overthrow a 30-year dictatorship. we first met sherief gaber at a protest in late 2011. he had returned from studying in the u.s. to join the revolution. >> the bravery of the people around me is really what drove me. i mean, i was coming back and feeling actually quite disoriented, but seeing all of these other people around me doing what they were doing, standing up the way they were, is what actually gave me heart. >> reporter: but the triumph in

the age of 67 he was viciously attacked for his book on john kennedy. in 2004 he revealed that american soldiers were torturing prisoners at a prison in abu ghraib. .. the obama administration after obama was elected called david redd and say call your man off and tell him to stop. hurst -- hersh recently said i think there's something wrong that man he was not invited to the state of the union speech tonight. he is known as flies -- sly sy spooky side terrace side and the one i heard so many times from so many people are side can't be trusted or those who said he can hit a homerun with that story. either you love him or hate him. he's one of the great characters in american life. for four decades he begins his scoops and a work in all 1850s early 1960s and he's been doing what he's been doing for more years than you can imagine. he continues by the way today to be completely and totally indignant and angry at the conditions and thinks he sees around him which separates him from so many journalist. he's one of the great characters and the stories about him are legion and legendary pretties clearly won one of the top-tier figures in american life. when biographers take a loo

nixon in the very beginning of his administration talking about and less committed, less activists role for the united states not trying to solve every problem. >> i think that's what jack kennedy said also. he just did the book. who was coming in after overcommitment. kennedy thought he was coming in during under commitment and he wanted to reinflate american foreign-policy. >> what did he do to kennedy echo >> he said he was much more of a barbarian than i expected. was a brutal arguer, rather unpleasant company. whatdy was nervous about kind of impression he had made. he thought he had come across as weak. there is a need to re-energize the american policy to slow it down. have taken away a slightly different impression. he was impressed by kennedy's threats and he did not try to drive the u.s. out of berlin. >> the book is called " maximalist. steven sestanovich. back in a minute. ♪ allen and s jonathan me. parnes are wilthe they have written a new book, "hrc." they call hillary clinton's return while the greatest in history. is chief white house correspondent for the hell. i'm pleased to have them at the table for the first time. i said you are the chief, i don't know if y

the obama administration has pursued an aggressive agenda of regulation without weighing costs and benefits. presidents reagan, kennedy, and clinton have pursued international trade agreements. there are several trade opportunities on the rise and are proven job creators, but the administration has not fully engaged in this issue. there has been bipartisan support in the past. i am confident there is bipartisan support in congress for trade agreements today. presidents kennedy, reagan, and clinton did not burden people with the cost of retirement programs. in contrast, president obama has pushed forward the affordable care act on partyline votes. the health care law has increased uncertainty, raised taxes by nearly half $1 trillion, undermines the medical device industry that is so important to our home state of minnesota, and is causing millions of americans to lose access to some of the health insurance plans they like. the policies america needs now are well known. stable prices, a gradual decline in federal spending, tax reform that encourages new business investment, balance regulation, and trade liberalization.

the obama administration has pursued an aggressive agenda of regulation without weighing costs and benefits. presidents reagan, kennedy, and clinton have pursued international trade agreements. there are several trade opportunities on the rise and are proven job creators, but the administration has not fully engaged in this issue. there has been bipartisan support in the past. i am confident there is bipartisan support in congress for trade agreements today. presidents kennedy, reagan, and clinton did not burden people with the cost of retirement programs. in contrast, president obama has pushed forward the affordable care act on partyline votes. the health care law has increased uncertainty, raised taxes by nearly half $1 trillion, undermines the medical device industry that is so important to our home state of minnesota, and is causing millions of americans to lose access to some of the health insurance plans they like. the policies america needs now are well known. stable prices, a gradual decline in federal spending, tax reform that encourages new business investment, balance regulation, and trade liberalization.

presidents reagan, kennedy, and clinton have pursued international trade agreements. the administrationot fully engaged in this issue. there has been bipartisan support in the past. there is bipartisan support in congress for trade agreements today. president kennedy, reagan, and clinton did not burden people with the cost of retirement programs. president obama has pushed forward the affordable care act. it has increased uncertainty and raised taxes by nearly a half trillion dollars. the medical industry is important to her home state. millions of americans have lost access to doctors. the economic policies that america needs now are well known. graduate --s, a gradual decline in pricing. balance regulation and trade liberalization. it is the best way to strengthen our economy. it is time the administration work together with republicans and democrats. with that, i look forward to your testimony. >> thank you very much. sorry i was a few minutes late. i was in a dentist's chair. how much more fun to be here with all of you. it is great to be here. representative paulson is chairing the

in the very beginning of his administration talking about a less committed, less activist role for the united states, not trying to solve every problem. >> charlie: i think that's what jack kennedy said, too, even though his rhetoric was soaring often. >> yeah, but it was nixon who was coming in after a period of overcommitment. kennedy thought he was coming in after a period of undercommitment, and he wanted to reinflate american foreign policy. nixon wanted to downsize it. >> charlie: what did vienna do to kennedy? >> kennedy had a terrible experience at vienna with krischov and said he was much more a bar barrian. krischov was a brutal arguer, rather unpleasant company and kennedy was nervous about what kind of impression he had made. he thought he had come across as weak. he came home, assembled his advisers, called for an increase in the defense budget, forfeit case of berlin, a need to reenergize the person policy to slow the soviets down. but what was interesting about it is krischov had taken away a slightly different impression. he was impressed by kennedy's threats and he did not try to drive the united states out of berlin. >> charlie: maximalist, the world from truma

were positive, they worked very closely with the administration and we participated in the negotiations that lead to the compromise three weeks before kennedy's death. >> ifill: what's interesting to me is that in some ways the people who drove this act, a southern president, and republicans in the house and ultimately the senate, wrote this and it is counterinfewive to the politics we understand now. >> yes, it's very -- >> how did it happen. >> first of all there were many more moderate and liberal republicans back then. the democratic party still was split. you had the southern group who was going to vote against the bill. and people who would support it. we needed a coalition between both parties. we all knew that and we knew also that it had to be a massive coalition and not just a one vote victory. so we strove for that and it was passed through the house at 290 to 130 which is a big margin and that was very important for the future of it. >> and in the senate those were the days when a filibuster was a real filibuster. >> it was a role filibuster. >> how long did that go on? >> several months. >> several months. and finally passage. so

have changed from administration to administration truman thought that roosevelt was on the wrong track. eisenhower were thought truman was on the wrong track. kennedythought eisenhower was on the wrong track. ronald reagan thought the last three presidents before him had been losing the cold war and this pattern has continued. to me, that makes the past much more like the present. we are able to see our controversies about syria and ukraine in a more meaningful historical context if we understand what a mess the past was. i should say that i wanted to make this argument with as much vividness as i could in the book with color and drama and lively stories. i am assured an audience last week in california there is plenty of presidential profanity in the book. a woman came up to me afterwards and said it was that presidential profanity of mine that made me want to buy this. [laughter] so there are many different tastes. i felt in the course of writing at that perhaps i had gone too far when my editor called me up and said, why is the prime minister of great britain always bursting into tears on the phone with the president? he. >> claimed this had hap

administration, to the incoming president. why? because not only is he not stupid and he's not crazy and he is witty, but he's a gracious man. so i had ted kennedy to the -- that's why he had ted kennedy to the white house so many times, even though ted kennedy would go out and bash him every time he'd been over. he's a gracious man. and he thought it would be a gracious act, from what i understand, to allow the obama administration to get the credit for finalizing the status of forces agreement with iraq. ut then the brazen attitude by the new administration not only didn't sign the status of forces agreement that the bush administration had teed up, they didn't get any status of forces agreement. mitt romney was not very eloquent in the way he pointed it out, not very effective in the way he pointed it out. but he did bring it up in one. debates. you can even -- in one of the debates. you can't even get a status of forces agreement done with iraqment and it is something that this administration -- iraq. and it is something that this administration should have been embarrassed about. after all we had done for iraq, under this president, this ad

the recovery and administration was tracking you down to put you out of your misery. well, i'm still here porter. they are disappointed. this is taxing. all right. that is it, see you tomorrow. kennedyhe power in this day and age, whether a congressman or a president, how would you use it? would you take your machete and hack off useless governmental limbs, stagnant agencies that suck money. would you use your might to compel people to testify as a moral beacon, urgeing your foes to do what is right? we have people on tonight show, liberty leaning democrat, jared pollis. and congressman darrell issa will be here. he feels he knows what is right, we

he moved the administration far beyond where it expected to be on civil rights and by next tuesday he was included in meetings and the president, president kennedyan he thought he was going to go at the time. >> look, it was brazenly political what they did on how they handle gay marriage. they were worried about a floor fight at their own convention. i don't think the republican party 2016 willi be able to be for same-sex marriage but i bet by 2020. jo becker, good luck with the book. thanks for being here. happy easter for all of you. i wanted to show you pictures of pope francis giving his traditional easter mass before a crowd of thousands in st. peter's square. he parade fprayed for peace in syria and ukraine and an end to all war and conflict. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." nd conflict. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday,t's "meet the press." >>> no matter what you're doing or where you are -- >> back up! >> you never know what might happen next. >> it's just pushing and pushing and pushing. >> you can see these big shapes of ice just coming at you. >> oh, my god! >> how would you react? >> it's your l

he moved the administration far beyond where it expected to be on civil rights and by next tuesday he was included in meetings and the president, president kennedy he thought he was going to go at the time. >> look, it was brazenly political what they did on how they handle gay marriage. they were worried about a floor fight at their own convention. i don't think the republican party 2016 will be able to be for same-sex marriage but i bet by 2020. >> all right. we're going to leave it there. jo becker, good luck with the book. thanks for being here. thanks to the roundtable as well. happy easter for all of you. i wanted to show you pictures of pope francis giving his traditional easter mass before a crowd of thousands in st. peter's square. he prayed for peace in syria and ukraine and an end to all war and conflict. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." >>> and it's sad that this day and type that because of who i love i can't carry insurance on that person. we don't have the same equal rights as everybody else. >> the police chief of a small south carolina town said she was fired for being gay. an exclusive with crysta

kennedy school of governance. good to have you back on the show. there's a rift between the sprem allied nato commander, he apparently wants the u.s. to do more militarily, but the obama administration doesn't. do you think that policy rift exists? >> actually, i don't think there's a rift the size that the daily beast article portrays or paints for us. i think at this point there are a lot of different assessments going around and there are a lot of different ideas on how to react to what russia is doing or potentially could do in ukraine. it's only natural that nato and the ultimates and nato members would be fleshing out all those ideas right now in preparation for rolling out a plan which i think is next week on about the 15th of april. so i don't think that the story really is a disagreement between nato an the ultimate and the unr general breedlove. i think russia under the guise of an exercise has amassed a force along the ukrainian border the only purpose of which is for a major military action inside ukraine. that's the problem, that's the issue and i think everybody's trying to figure out what should be the appropriate extent for nato to take. >> in light of these troops t

the administration was concerned. and of course, what's been interesting about the visit to japan is that part of this success has to do with the celebrity status of ambassador caroline kennedy prime minister abe and joint press conference, lavish praiseç on caroline kennedy being named ambassador. having a sit-down interview seemed appropriate. i started off asking her why japan since she arguably could have picked any country in the world give her close relationship with the president. >> it is such an important country and such an important region and i couldn't think of a more interesting place to serve. for me it's just absolutely the greatest honor i can imagine to serve president obama and our country here in a place and region where i think history is going to be made in the 21st century. >> reporter: i also delved in a little politics, she indicated she probably won't ever seek political office again ever since that flirtation in 2009 and we talked about 2016 whether she'll be ready this time to support hillary clinton since she chose barack obama over hillary clinton in 2008. >> i would like to see her run, if that's what she wants to do. she would be great. >> be

, the obama administration has launched a regulatory tsunami, red taped the highest levels of the last three years, historically high, and that slowed job creation along main street. presidents kennedy, reagan and clinton opened the new markets for american sales through international trade agreements. and aside from completing the agreements left unfinished by president bush and despite having first-rate trade team in place, opening new market, tearing down the america -- allowing our companies' workers to complete on a level playing field, that's now stalled under this white house. presidents kennedy, reagan and clinton didn't burden a weak economy with costly new entitlement programs. by contrast, president obama rammed the affordable care act through congress on party line votes. the controversial affordable care act is heightening uncertainty, boosting taxes by more than $1 trillion, undermining key industries like medical devices and small businesses and causing millions of americans, including families in my community, to lose access to doctors and health insurance plans that they liked. and now they're paying more for a plan they didn't ask for and are forced to do it or pay

the side dating back to kennedy. at one point the cia tried to kill castro with an exploding cigar. now according to documents obtained by the a.p., under the obama administration, usaid, not a spy agency, ran a secret program for two years from late 2009 to 2012. the idea was to engage unsuspecting cubans in a primitive form of social media like twitter on their cell phones in a country where internet access is severely limited and controlled. the apparent goal, to help organized dissent against the government. the program was called zunzuneo, cuban slang for hummingbird, run by fake companies in the cayman islands in spain. 40,000 participants had no idea it was run by the u.s. government which was also collecting their personal data. >> a lot of them were really happy about the service. and if the cuban government caught on that this is a u.s.-backed program, you know, i think the question remains is were they put at risk by using the service? >> reporter: usaid is known around the world for its good work and has always denied that it spies. but in this 2011 speech during the arab spring, then-secretary of state hillary clinton acknowledged helping people us

kennedy school of government, harvard law school. she was in 2012, the steven s. goldberg awardee for distinguished scholarship and a belovedlaw, already teacher. her teaching and research interests include education, social welfare law and policy, administrative law, governance, regulation. i predict that if she's not a dean or a university president a judge, who knows, the sky's the limit. extraordinary. so when thinking about this eloise immediately came to mind. it is now my great honor and to present in the extraordinary eloise and my friend and my sister, the truly extraordinary associate justice sonia sotomayor. [applause] judge, forank you, that incredibly generous introduction. hello, justice sotomayor. >> hello, eloise. >> it is such a pleasure to be here today. >> i always love having you back. i don't think he mentioned that was my law clerk my first year as a supreme court justice. what we share in common, but we share a whole lot of other things in common. ien he called me sister, called him my brother. and you can see why. more loyald have a and supportive friend than bobcatsman. him all the time protocol in the federal system. you get to be chief judge by seniority. was appointed before bob. of in the normal course things, i wo