.>> i will show this -- walter cronkite. i mention that because david has treated this bucket list, to witness a rocket on the scale of a saturn 5 lunch up close. will be see something like this again? >> i think it's in our human dna to push further and further. i think it's in our system. by the we as we sit here at the end of 2018 the saturn 5 remains the most powerful machine. when the obsolete-- when it's obsolete in a matter of months it is still the most powerful machine and the testimony is incredible. it's like something we can never experience and walter cronkite himself, when he announced the launch of apollo 4 they normally stayed and a conservative run-- walter cronkite is overwhelmed. he's trying to load the panels and the power experienced by those people almost cannot be described. 13 miles away and windows were rattling and threatening to collapse. to get anywhere close really is a bucket list item. if they ever launch something again stop at nothing. >> the excitement will never appear again about space tra

thed: walter cronkite used phrase "co-presidency" and reagan got upset with that and said it wouldn'tork. he openly called george bush. james: i took the call. it was drew lewis working for reagan. i handed him the phone and he said yes sir, how are you? yes sir. he said, yes. the only question reagan asked him was would you support my position on abortion. ambassador bush said yes or, i will. david: you were given a task by ronald reagan to help on the debates? james: help negotiate the debates and help prepare for the debate. david: was it difficult to prepare reagan for the debate? people were not confident he was a good debater. james: a lot of his close people did not want him to debate. i wanted him to calm his old wanted them to, i think nancy wanted him to. i always thought he was terrific in front of the camera. the red light goes on and he is perfect. david: dragon wins the election and what do you think you are going to be offered, if anything? james: i don't think. i don't know. i had heard my name had surfaced as a potential white house chief of staff. i said that's not p

tet offensive, vietnam, walter cronkite went on tv. two assassinations.hink this picked up the spirits of the country on christmas eve. nixon was elected. his motto was "bring us together." i think this launch did bring our country together. i was sitting with my family in philadelphia on christmas eve ready to go out to midnight mass. i watched this on tv and it was amazing. just amazing. brought it to life. 50 years, it seemed like yesterday. >> yes, thank you. it was really amazing. you know, people were very worried about it because apollo 8 was so condensed and compressed in terms of its flight training and conception and training. only 16 weeks to get ready when really it would take a year to year and a half. people were worried about this. major newspapers editorialized against it. famous astronomers begged nasa not to do it. one of the most moving things in my research was a letter written by a connecticut schoolteach to er to nasa that begged them not to go at christmastime. his point was it was a terrible year with the tet offensive, as you ment

. >> and on february 27th, 1968, walter cronkite says this. for it seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of vietnam is to end in a stalemate. how significant was that back then? >> there were only three networks then. walter cronkite was considered the voice of america, so that content was vitally important. lbj used to say that an army was two divisions. and probably walter cronkite was an entire army. >> our conversation with david marinis and jim webb the author of nearly a dozen books, former u.s. senator, former navy secretary, and let's get to your phone calls. james here in washington, d.c., a veteran of the vietnam war. go on, please. >> caller: thank you. half of my class in south carolina, 21 boys, 12 were vietnam veterans. i was at placu. there was over 8,000 americans, nurses, soldiers, marines would volunteer for vietnam almost every year of the war, and you could not get none of the president to get v.a. to move on the backlog of people waiting two and three years, entry people like myself cannot get our cl

everyone trusted walter cronkite . i'm told walter cronkite did not even vote because he did not want partisanship to intrude on his objectivity. today we have silos. not only on television but in newspapers as well. it's a terrible tragedy. we need a return to objective, neutral principles of law, reporting. donald trump causes many of these problems. his use of extreme language, his putting down of his opponents. he has helped to divide the country. he's responsible for a lot of that division. i would have thought some of the media would be above that and would at least report more neutrally and objectively. have twond i televisions and we watched the state of the union and then the analysis of the speech afterward . it was as if we and seen two different speeches. you could not find out what was said by the various media already interpreting. the new york times, the lead story was how trump had caused the reduction in the stock market. maybe that is true but that the lungs of the opinion page and it is now called ne

paula caplan, was inspired by the late cbs news anchor walter cronkite.uring the 444-day iran hostage crisis that ended january 20, 1981, cronkite ended his broadcasts by stating how many days the 52 hostages had been held. is, monday,e wa it january 19, 19 81, the 443rd day of captivity for the american hostages in iran. this is walter cronkite, good night. amy: well, for more, we are joined by dr. paula caplan, who leads the coalition that created -- asking the media to ramp-up coverage of family separation. she is a clinical and research psychologist associated method was instituted harvard university. dr. caplan, welcome to democracy now! explain what you are demanding in this petition. >> we are demanding that the media all over this country keep this huge problem from this ongoing trauma and emotional violence against all of these children and their parents by separating them, we want to keep that in the public eye. the story of this little girl who died is tragic, but it is sort of like this will shootings. it gets to the point where if we don't ha

and whatever walter cronkite said was true because he's walter cronkite.ht? i'm not too sure this is such a bad generation where they're a little more skeptical. they don't necessarily trust what people are saying. but the problem is us. what have we done to the media where you cannot turn on a station any more without having this level of advocacy instead of coverage? your point goes to coverage. that's the job of a a journalist. but that's not what i'm seeing. ,>> sir, your turn. >> i would like to ask can for a couple of specific applications of general points that they made. ambassador, i talked about bobby kennedy certainly not having been, would not have been an impartial attorney general in a case involving john kennedy. i'm wondering whether that same sort of a situation applies to matthew whittaker who has defended consistently president trump for what he considers to be a witch hunt. as for judge star, you talk about the appropriateness or the inappropriateness of mary row being talked about by the authorities as being guilty of a number of crime

host: walter cronkite was a space advocate, loves covering the space program in the 1960's and 1970'smentioned that because david has this tweet -- "as a bucket list, to witness a rocket on the scale of a saturn 5 launch up close." will we see something like this again? guest: i think it is in our dna and politics, i think it is in our system, and we must do it. by the way, as we all sit here today at the very end of 2018, the saturn 5 remains the most powerful machine ever built. think about what that means, 50 years later, when technology is obsolete in a matter of months, 50 years later, the saturn 5 is still the most powerful machine ever built. the testimony of the people who witnessed it, it is incredible, and walter cronkite himself when he announced the launch of apollo 4, as you can see on youtube and online, the normally staid and conservative walter cronkite is overwhelmed. he is shaking. he is trying to hold the glass panel together, and he is miles away. the power almost cannot be described. 13 miles away in a howard johnson hotel, windows were rattling and threatening to

i went to school with walter cronkite son. alter was on television every night and his son was in class with us so i am harry truman's grandson. i went to school with bankers, lawyers, politicians, i was not outstanding by who i was growing up with. >> when did you decide to take an active interest? >> in my mid-to-late 30s. i had avoided it after being a teenager and college student, not knowing what to do with it and i think you have to go off and for at least i did had to live my own life and do what i want to do or what i should be doing and i came back in my 30s i read and reread my mother's books on my grandfather and grandmother and rediscovered my grandparents as people. even though they were my grandparents they were a collection of dates and events and things in my history books and people talk to you at parties about the marshall plan and the atomic bomb. i rediscovered them as human beings and although i loved them as my grandparents, i like to them as younger people. i enjoyed who they were and that's what brought

was walter cronkite. not being a conservative journalist. a journalist to ask questions in thatha room that others may not think of asking or can't ask. the journalist who i believe i am they try to get all sides of the story and let you make the determination of what's happening. >> i'm going to want to follow up with linda after you comment. >> the kind of journalism that i do recall we call it narrative journalism. the longer stories it says kind of stories that drew me to journalism. people's lives are being deeply impacted by those things that are happening in the country. and also maybe people are paying enough attention to those places. ts,s, i go and i spend a lot of time and i learn about people whose experiences are very different than my own. people reading about them might understand o other people and other experiences that are very different from their own. this is what i hope to get to continue to do. emma to take a little bit of issue towards the end of the remarks. she views herself as somebody who presents all sides of the

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february 27, walter cronkite says this. now more than ever the bloody experience of vietnam is to end in a cellmate -- in a still made. how significant was that? david: there were only three networks. walter concrete was the voice of middle america or considered as such, so that comment was vitally important. obj used to say that a post editorial writer who supported the war was worth two divisions, and probably walter cronkite was an entire army. steve: our conversation with david maraniss, an author with the washington post, jim webb, author of nearly a dozen books, former u.s. senator, former navy secretary. james, veteran of the vietnam war. go ahead. caller: half of my class from south carolina, 21 boys, 12 were for vietnam veterans. 8000 americans, nurses, soldiers, marines would fall into your for vietnam almost every year of the war. you cannot get none of the presidents to agree to move on the backlog of claims of over claims, people waiting two and three years. infantry people like myself can not get our claims at

walter cronkite was overwhelmed. he is trying to hold the glass panels away -- the glass panels together and he is miles away. 13 miles away in a howard johnson hotel, the windows were rattling and threatening to collapse on the hotel stairs. a get anywhere close to rocket launch is definitely a bucket list item. host: this is another tweet. the excitement will never appear again about . we let it slip away and will never get it back. i hope that is not true. what is certain is that certain things will never happen again for the first time. the matter where we go or what we do, no one will ever leave the earth for the first time or live on the moon or any new world for the first time. that we have that sounds again -- sense again. host: let's go to -- caller: i remember 1968 was such a big year for this country. cronkite,tnam, walter two assassinations. i think this picked up the spirits of the country. mottowas elected and his was to bring us together. this once did bring us together. i was with my family on christm

that stu was saying when we grow up, whatever walter cronkite says is true because he is walter cronkitet sure this is a bad generation where they are a little more skeptical. they don't necessarily trust what people are saying, but the problem is us. what have they done where you cannot turn on a station without --ing this level of agassi advocacy. that is not what i'm seeing. >> sir, your turn. >> i looked at a couple of applications that can star made and i talked about bobby kennedy impartial attorney kennedyinvolving john samem wondering if that sort of situation applies to matthew whitaker who has consistently criticize president trump for what he considers to be a witch hunt and asked jeff ther, you talked about inappropriateness of mary rowe being talked about by the authorities as being guilty of the number of crimes come about never being indicted. again, does that apply to james comey's public report of hillary clinton and do you think it impacted the election at all? >> it is unfortunately very typical that presidents often appoint people who have been very critical in their

walter cronkite johnson hotel, the windows were rattling and threatening to collapse on the hotel stairs. a get anywhere close to rocket launch is definitely a bucket list item. host:i watched this on tv and is amazing. it seems like yesterday. guest: people were very worried about it because apollo 8 exhalx for just a few hours. it was the only thing we had in this year. please don't risk the lives of these men. if anything happens to these men, no one will think of christmas or the moon the same way ever again. not only was the space race at stake, but the moon and christmas were at stake. but these people believed in their hearts and minds that they needed to go and they did. t read all of them but one of them anded with remains with them, it was sent by an anonymous person in the midwest and it simply said thanks, you saved 1968, and indeed they in the back of your, you have a diagram of apollo 8 an from a layman's perspective, what is remarkable is how simple this market -- how simple this rocket was. guest: it is at once incredibly which is a question i have for the author, which i

. >> reporter: walter cronkite anchored cbs news coverage from the kennedy space center. >> what a beautiful man, perhaps on the way to the moon. >> reporter: in some ways does apollo 8 feel to you like it happened yesterday? >> in some respects yes. it's never gone away from me. >> reporter: we met one of the astronauts, jim lovell, at the national air and space museum in washington. >> sometimes i look back and say, you know, how did we ever do ter the first humans to leave earth's orbit, circumnavigating the moon 10 times. the mission was planned in just four months.as the u.s. raced to beat the russians to the moon. nasa's flight director believed they only had a 50% chance of coming home safely. >> some of the odds of trying to be successful in that mission are overwhelming, and perhaps at that time we didn't even understand what the odds were. >> reporter: the mission may be best remembered for this photo--earthrise --our planet as seen from the moon. and for a live christmas eve broadcast, the most watched tv program ever at the time. >> god bless all of you on the good earth. >> repo

every night we were required to and watch walter cronkite. then the tv went off and then we sat down and had dinner. the we talked about, at dinner table, what we had just seen on the news. talking aboutto it, through my mom and dad's really made me understand that a lot of good people do this. i was taught that politicians and dirty, rotten sob's that both parties were trying to do something extra to help their government. i lived in a household where i was encouraged in this line of work and they were tremendous supporters of mine. my mom was the best politician that ever walked the planet in terms of never looking past anybody. >> why did you decide public service? sen. mccaskill: i worked in campaigns on high school. i was good told me at arguing. i did public speaking in junior high. entering speech contests. i did debates in high school. mind when iup my was a fairly young teenager that i needed to be the first woman governor of missouri. i tried to explain to other women that we need to be less shy about our ambition. when he to be pro

. >> reporter: walter cronkite anchored cbs news coverage from the kennedy space center. >> but whattiful flight, man perhaps on the way to the moon. >> reporter: in some ways, does apollo 8 feel to you like it happened yesterday? >> in some respects, yes. it's never gone away from me. >> reporter: we met one of the astronauts, jim lovell, at the national air and space museum in washington. >> sometimes i look back and say, "you know, how did we ever do that?" >> reporter: lovell, frank borman and william anders were the first humans to leave earth's orbit, circumnavigating the moon ten times. the mission was planned in four four months as the u.s. raced to beat the russians to the moon. nasa's flight director believed they only had a 50% chance of coming home safely. >> some of the odds of trying to be successful in that mission were overwhelming, and perhaps at that time we didn't understand what the odds were. >> reporter: the mission may be best remembered for this photo "earthrise" our planet as seen from the moon. and for a live christmas evepro. >> god bless all of you, all of

it's not like he was with walter cronkite and broke out a map. look how bad the film was back then? hear the crisping of the tape while the president of the united states talks about the moon landing. the media is so thirsty for any type of drama they will create it. greg: this was the creation of the media. i happen to believe the moon exists, but it's flat. >> they say you always see the same parts of the moon. greg: i have never seen the other side of the moon. >> i have never seen the whole basketball game fully through. i saw on social media, curry things the moon landing was fake. as a comedian i thought to myself, mark curry is getting back out there, the guy hanging with about cooper. so that's good for him. greg: was he kidding? >> i don't want to get into a rumble with tyrus. but just in case he wasn't kidding, apollo 11, six times we have been to the moon since then and 12 astronauts have landed on the moon. and richard branson is going to the moon in private space rocketships. we just landed rover on mars and we have a space force coming. greg: the space force is coming.

support for the vietnam war, president johnson said he lost cronkite, lost middle america, noting walter cronkite cronkite's influence. they believe president trump thanks losing conservative radio hosts means losing his base. corker even said this is "tyranny of talk radio host." here is the reference. after first saying he would be proud to shutdown the government if he doesn't get his wall funding, the president backtracked on that threat, and that inferior rated conservative talkers rush limbaugh and ann coulter. here is both. >> this is textbook, a textbook example of what the drive-by media calls compromise. trump gets nothing in the democrats get everything. including control of the house. >> it will have been a joke presidency that scammed the american people. enraged, amused the populace for a while, but he will have no legacy whatsoever. >> president trump quickly unfollowed ann coulter on twitter, but also changed his mind on a bill to prevent a partial shutdown of the government. in essence saying it is wall funding or bust. it is fascinating that when the president ordered all troops

everyone trusted walter cronkite . told walter cronkite did not even vote because he did not want partisanship to intrude on his objectivity. today we have silos. not only on television but in newspapers as well. it's a terrible tragedy. we need a return to objective, neutral principles of law, reporting. donald trump causes many of these problems. his use of extreme language, his putting down of his opponents. he has helped to divide the country. he's responsible for a lot of that division. i would have thought some of the media would be above that and would at least report more neutrally and objectively. have twond i televisions and we watched the state of the union and then the analysis of the speech afterward . it was as if we and seen two different speeches. you could not find out what was said by the various media already interpreting. the new york times, the lead story was how trump had caused the reduction in the stock market. maybe that is true but that the lungs of the opinion page and it is now called news a

that it is split but you could have something similar to britain like the bbc on national walter cronkite re-created into that institution and those are things that should be on the table because the media is critical and to talk about the centrality and efficacy of democracy but it's also clear right now that it is far too fragmented not enough clarity of what is true and what is made up and that is incredibly damaging long-term. >> your book has a number of things we should be doing like education or expanded trade or protectionism. but you didn't want to stop there and just make a set of economic recommendations. >> because then you are stopped by the politicians. so what? . >> how big of a difference would it be for what you describe? . >> i think it would be highly impactful but i also recognize that there is that we can agree there is a very good case that globalization is the right system for the world and all countries can benefit and the proverbial all boats will be lifted but i am now more skeptical if we can get to a place in particular with the democracies where globalization

. >> reporter: walter cronkite ank -- anchored the space coverage. in some ways does apollo 8 feel like it happened yesterday? >> in some respects, yes, it never went away from me. >> reporter: we met one of the astronauts at the national air and space museum in washington. >> sometimes i look back and say, you know, how do we ever do that. >> reporter: he and william anders were the first humans to leave the earth's orbit, going around the moon ten times. the mission was planned in just four months as the u.s. raced to beat the russians to the moon. nasa's flight director believed they only had a 50% chance of coming home safely. >> some of the odds of trying to be successful, in that mission, were overwhelming, and perhaps at that time, we didn't even understand what the odds were. >> reporter: the mission was best remembered for this best photo. earth rise, our planet as seen from the moon. and for a live christmas eve broadcast the most watched tv program ever at the time. >> god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. >> reporter: the mu

that report from walter cronkite on the death of martin luther king jr. occurring 50 years ago this week. we're going to be talking about it this morning. certainly that topic and others as we cover civil rights and race relations from 1968. we're joined for that discussion this morning by kathleen cleaver, senior lecturer at emory university school of law as well as a former communications secretary for the black panther party, and from austin, texas, we welcome back peniel joseph, center for race and democracy as ut-austin. professor joseph, i want to begin with you. take us back to the end of 1967 and where the civil rights movement was as 1968 was dawning. this was 13 years since the brown v. board of education decision had been handed down. what was the state of the movement? >> well, i think the state of the movement was very strong, but it was also -- there was a lot of debate and there was a lot of controversy. in a way, when we think about the civil rights movement and dr. martin luther king jr. as this significant figure, this iconic figure, kin

color televisions. 50 years later, the world population has doubled, and we are connected in ways walter cronkite could never have imagined in 1968. how will we experience the first steps on mars? if the world stopped in awe and self reflection when our astronauts took first steps on moreoon, whatthe legacy of apos of the moment send peace and unity we celebrate tonight. it is a conversation about how and why we keep exploring and what we owe ourselves and each other in a world where the sky is no longer the limit. and how we treat a planet that hangs like a blue marble in space. last week the world gathered here in washington national cathedral to say goodbye to an american president who celebrated that legacy with his own challenge, 30 years ago resident george h.w. bush stood on the steps of the air and space museum and said you who are the children of a new century, raise your eyes to the heavens and join us in a great dream, and american dream, a dream without end. when you enter the cathedral, the moon was in the same waxing crescent that shines down on the world on christmas eve 1968. i ho

host: walter cronkite was a space advocate, loves covering the space program in the 1960's and 1970'si mentioned that because david has this tweet -- "as the bucket list, to witness a rocket on the scale of a saturn 5 launch of close." in our dnaink it is and politics, i think it is in our system, and we must do it. by the way, as we all sit here today at the very end of 2018, the saturn 5 remains the most powerful machine ever built. think about what that means, 50 years later, when technology is obsolete in a matter of months, 50 years later, the saturn five is still the most powerful machine ever built. the people who witnessed it, it is incredible, and walter cronkite himself when he announced the launch of apollo 4, as you can see on youtube and online, the normally staid and conservative walter cronkite is overwhelmed. he is shaking. he is trying to hold the glass panel together, and he is miles away. the power almost cannot be described. 13 miles away in a howard johnson hotel, windows were rattling and threatening to collapse on hotels there. to get anywhere close to a rocket

vietnam war, president lyndon johnson said i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america noted walter cronkite'st influence. bob corker and dick durbin believe president trump thinks losing conservative radio hosts means losing his base. corker said this is the "tyranny of talk radio hosts." after first saying he would be proud to shut down the government if he doesn't get his wall funding, the president backtracked and that infuriated conservative talkers rush limbaugh and ann coulter. >> it's a textbook example of what the drive-by media calls compromise. trump gets nothing and the democrats get everything including control of the house. >> it will just have been a joke presidency that scam to american people, enraged -- amused of the populace for a while but it will have no legacy whatsoever. >> president trump unfollowed ann coulter on twitter but he also changed his mind on a bill to fund the wall. when the president ordered all troops out of syria it also drew wide conservative condemnation. trump allies senator lindsey graham said it was a mistake, senator marco rubio called it a major bl

this is walter cronkite on the right. they're kind of pretending to use it. other people are really using it. they also do look like they don't know what they're doing. they're trying to ask it to predict the election. remember 1948, the presidential election. >> dewey did not beat truman but everything predicted they would be. two things went wrong, they made the wrong call and it was incredibly boring. if you watch the election coverage from 1948 it will make you weep. it's the cutest thing. it's like cameras on empty podiums and a voiceover hearing them say, what time is it now, fred? nobody has any idea what to do or to make it interesting. the like will get people to watch because we have a computer but then they don't know what to do. think about the degree to which technological urgency of sputnik in 1958 begins to drive how much investment the federal government makes into the technology that is now in your back pocket. and that we expect should be on regulated by the federal government as if your iphone wasn't built by the federal government. it was

in the 1970's, the most trusted man in america was walter cronkite.day a journalist could have that kind of trust, that everybody knew he was doing his best, he did like it's everything right but people believed he was trying to be fair. now we have liberated everybody from that obligation. i find that really worrying. brian: what would you think of a fairness doctrine was applied to bookwriting. did newspaper writing? prof. churchwell: it is applied to newspaper writing in the case of stories like a new york times story that i mentioned about trump's taxes. mostly by the lawyers. they will make sure that everything they say is not defamatory or libelous. but also, good reporting. i don't have to tell you about good reporting. he stand up a story by making sure it is not just one view or opinion. that the facts are robust. brian: you write about citizen kane in the book. why? prof. churchwell: trump has said it is his favorite movie. citizen kane was a movie that orson welles made specifically as an anti-fascists, anti-american fascists story. he saw

this is walter cronkite. good night. >> this cbs news special report, man at the moon. the flight of apollo 8, was brought to you by western electric. manufacturing and supply unit of the bell system. the people who provided telephones and equipment that connects them. archival filmsh on public affairs in their entirety on our weekly series america.ica -- reel this weekend, on american thisacts, the -- we visit -- smithsonian. here is a preview. >> let's start with first lady michelle obama. you probably heard a lot about this picture. it has caused a lot of discussion on the internet. we have had many visitors come to visit michelle. this artist had one our portrait competition. here you will see a fantastic obamae of michelle sitting outside. the setting was done in the fresh air. you see the blue background. wearing this wonderful dress. the dress is very appealing to the artists because it's related to modern art. it looks like a constructivist painting. a cultliket has effect that made the artist and michelle obama think about the quilts that had been made by the .

vietnamm war, president lyndon johnson said i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america noted walter cronkite'sinfluence. bob corker and dick durbin believe president trump thinks losing conservative radio hosts means losing his base. corker said this is the "tyranny of talk radio hosts." after first saying he would be proud to shut down the government if he doesn't get his wall funding, the president backtracked and that infuriated conservative talkers rush limbaugh and ann coulter. >> it's a textbook example of what the drive-by media calls compromise. trump gets nothing and the democrats get everything including control of the house. >> it will just have been a joke presidency that scam to american people, enraged -- amused of the populace for a while but it will have no legacy whatsoever. >> president trump unfollowed ann coulter on twitter but he also changed his mind on a bill to fund the wall. when the president ordered all troops out of syria it also drew wide conservative condemnation. trump allies senator lindsey graham said it was a mistake, senator marco rubio called it a major blun

walter cronkite used to say we need around middle school if we are going to be living in an online worldith a lot of misinformation, you have to train how to use it as a tool. instead, kids are just reading garbage. it is going on an unsupervised way. i mentioned rosa parks. before she died i went up with her in detroit and she was taking assisted living homes and connecting them with a buddy in elementary schools, the kids teaching the seniors how to use telephones, being able to communicate, learning how to email. the idea that we don't to crossgenerational as well as we should. many times older people are considered in the way instead of fountainhead of knowledge. one project i encourages to have high school students do oral history projects were you interview someone from another generation. brian: the book, the book. you can name your own book if you want. prof. medford: i was going to say mine. [applause] prof. medford: absolutely. lincoln and emancipation. slow book you can read it in a , couple of days. it is a great start. four an understanding of what the civil war was all abou

trump has created a situation where he has no leverage, and there was the old saying that when walter cronkiteainst the vietnam war, lbj knew he lost america. here we have donald trump losing ann coulter and then his mind. he has no strategy. so far the framing has been one side is accusing the other side of playing politics. if only they were playing politics. politics is horse trade traiding and knowing what the other side's priorities are and maybe political vasavvy. there's no game or end game on trump's part. i don't think how he could see how he's going to win except to do that thing of appealing to his base which is smaller and smaller and shows no evidence. we were just talking about california being lost. appealing to the base shows no evidence of being a winning political strategy. great, this shrinking base continues to like you. how does that mean you're going to win an election again let alone a floor fight? >> i recall there was a time in the country where when the government was shut down people were annoyed. >> yeah. >> it seems as if as "the new york times" pointed out, there'

. >> ted koppel on abc news, walter cronkite, america 15, day 100, day 200, it started wearing on people american prestige. >> ronald reagan is running officially. he got in the race tonight in new york city at a fund-raising dinner and he taped a speech yesterday for showing tonight on abo about 90 independent television stations. >> i'm here tonight to announce my nomination to seek the president of the united states. the crisis we face not the american spirit, it's the failure of our leaders. >> the country is looking for optimism, they're looking for a new dawn, new beginnings. and ronald reagan epitomizes all of those things. >> reagan is building a coalition, bringing in cristian fundamentalists and law and order nixonian people. to sell conservatism, you have to do it with a smile and a way that makes people feel good, not scold them. >> we can turn this country around and we can turn our economy around. and the time to do it is now. >> we want ted. >> there were many democrats worried carter wasn't going to win. ted kennedy, senator from massachusetts, decides to take him on. >>

walter cronkite's first influence. gop senator bob corker and democratic senator dick durbin believe donald trump, conservative radio hosts means losing his base. corker even said this is the, quote, tear any of talk radio hosts. after first saying he would be proud to shut down the government if he doesn't get his wall funding he backtracked on that threat and that infuriated conservative talkers rush limbaugh and ann coulter. >> textbook example of what the drive-by media calls compromise. trump gets nothing in the democrats get everything including control of the house. >> must've been a joke presidency, the american people enraged, amused the populace for a while but no legacy whatsoever. >> reporter: he unfollowed and coulter on twitter but changed his mind on a bill to prevent a partial shutdown of the government innocent saying it is wall funding or bust. fascinating that when the president ordered all troops out of syria it drew wide conservative condemnation. lindsey graham said it was a mistake. marco rubio c