. >> i am thinking walter mondale telling us he is going to raise taxes.dward snowden, wanted because he spilled the beans on what the nsa is doing, does the first amendment protect him? >> know because the first amendment does not say that every individual has a right to decide which laws he will obey and which ones he will not. if he wants to disobey, we have a historic and heroic example of the civil rights movement, which came up with the idea of civil this obedience. if he had stayed in the country and made his case, he went to hong kong, he is in moscow, who the hell knows. these are not the friends of liberty. i am not sure he is speaking on behalf of the first amendment or anything. i'm not sure what he is speaking on behalf of that i can assure you as he carried in hong kong, everything in his computers were scooped up by the secret services of the chinese and russians. im not sure that is a friend of liberty. >> there are limits to the first amendment. >> it is not a suicide pact. you can't go out and tell the nation's secrets to our enemies and

because james comey spoke once in minnesota with walter mondale, and mondale asked him about that casejames comey went a step further in 2009 -- and this was in my questions in the op ed. he said we need to have an ability to incapacitate suspects when there is not adequate evidence to use in court or a foreign government gives to the united states evidence it needs to be secret. in 2009, which came quite a long time afterwards, he is still defending the concept of indefinite detention without the right to attorney, but even the right to be adjudicated in a criminal court. >> what did he mean by incapacitate? >> he made a reference to the way that we can hold mentally ill people through a different process rather than in adjudicating criminal guilt. he said if there was a way to sod the mentally dangerous that we can maintain safety, there must be a way to do this with dangerous terror suspects. >> during tuesday's senate confirmation hearing, and james comey was also asked about domestic surveillance. he insisted the secret foreign service intelligence act provide effective congressio

rockefeller, in 1975, interestingly enough, was a bipartisan group of senators led by senator walter mondalemocrat of minnesota, and senator james pearson, republican, of kansas, led a fight to change the rule. now, they did change it but after it had been gotten in a position to change, the majority leader at the time, senator mike mansfield, was appalled by the technique they had used. and he got unanimous consent to vishate everything that had been done and go through the regular procedure. so -- >> what is it exactly he's doing that avoids the 67 vote? >> okay, i have no idea what senator reid has in mind. >> but he seems to have a way to do this? >> well, he says that he does, but i'm not sure what it is. my reaction is, if he doesn't get cloture, for example, on one of these nominees, he can lodge an appeal. but appeals are debatable. and it would take cloture to end debate on the appeal. so i really don't know what he has in mind. >> 'cause before it used to be basically the first senate day. the first day of the senate was in session, there was a way to do at all this. >> well, theor

republican vice president, nelson rockefeller, together with a bipartisan group led by then senator walter mondale and then senator from kansas, james pierson, republican, led a fight which basically was the nuclear option. they were successful. they changed the cloture rule from 2/3 down to 60. now the proposal, i guess, is to change the cloture rule down to 51. i am the co-author of a book entitled "defending the filibuster." i wrote it with a gentleman who worked initially for senator paul tsongas of massachusetts and stayed on the hill for 30 years, ending up working for senator carl levin of michigan. the reason we wrote this book is we saw the benefits of the filibuster. when rich aronberg, my co- author, came into the parliamentarian's office in the late 1970's, we knew that in order to pass a bill that senator tsongas was interested in called the alaska lands bill, that the republican senator, senator ted stevens, would have to sign off on if we were to get cloture. this forced a bipartisan approach to that bill. the result was that that bill was adopted and signed by president carter but

originated was originally the rust bowl the first usage i felt was time magazine popularized by eight walter mondale during the presidential campaign when he accused reagan to turn the midwest into the rust bowl then it was altered to match the sunbelt's and whatever other bills that we have. [laughter] the bible belt. the term was the frost belt's before that. on the east side of chicago life to not go according to nature of the rest of the world when i fell in other neighborhoods they stayed dark until the next morning but on the side the night sky burned red when the waste product of steelmaking the steel mills created their own sun and sky and weather. in other neighborhoods housewives would state in deciding when a range of and did not want their sheets stayed with the senate there would be a metallic missed so thick you could get us boon to get a hold of it and if the natives the stench was as natural as the oxygen in did not go to work when the sun rose they went 11 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. or three teeeleven or sometimes a different shift every week when you went above 163 all the restaurants are o

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he enlisted the aid of vice president walter mondale as presiding officer and made a point of order thatthe presiding officer now had to take the initiative to rule amendments out of order, that the chair deemed dilator vice president mondale sustained senator byrd's new point of order. senatorberisk appealed. but his appeal was tled by majority vote. the use of this constitutional option set a new precedent. it allowed the presiding officer to rule amendments out of order to crush post-cloture filibusters. with this new precedent in hand, senator byrd began calling up amendments and vice president mondale began ruling them out of order. with vice president mondale's help, senator byrd disposed 363 amendments, making short work of the metzenbaum-aberisk filibuster. nowes, years later senator byrd discussed how he created new precedent to break this filibuster. this is what senator byrd said years later about what he d. he said, "i've seen filibusters. i've helped to break them. there are few senators in this body who were here wn i broke the filibuster on the natural gas bill. i asked mr

you have howard baker, walter mondale, tom foley, all hold the position of ambassador.he is coming and we know she is a close friend of the president and we respect that very much. >> she can get the president on the phone at any time. also, after world war ii and after 1960 when there was a treaty that put a permanent u.s. base in okinawa, president kennedy did a lot to repair some of the frayed relations, even sent robert kennedy over to japan. they certainly have a history >>> britain's royal baby has a royal name. he will be called george. that name has belonged to six british kings and also st. george england's patron saint >>> prince william and kate revealed the baby's first name yesterday. charlie d'agata is in bucklebury england. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. from buckingham palace to bucklebury, home to the middletons prince william, kate and little prince george have been spending the last day as the palace puts it getting to know each other better. >> george alexander louis may be a big name for a little boy. that's how royals go. they usua

keep in mind, barack obama in 2012 lost white women by the biggest margin of any democrat since walter mondalethink it would be a heavy bet for republican to wager they could expand that margin even further against hillary clinton if she is the first woman nominee of a major party. there's kind of a bank shot effect on the -- it's a big wage especially given how much room there is to grow among women. >> wendy: and they're going to be thinking about putting a woman on the ticket, too. >> they had a woman on the ticket in twait. >> yes, i believe they did and i believe they can possibly find a different one. >> thanks very much, ron brownstein and gloria borger. >> and coming up, a mysterious stomach bug is making its way through the united states. what you need to know. and coming up, details of a shocking and disgusting crime. we're cracking down on medicare fraud. the healthcare law gives us powerful tools to fight it... to investigate it... ...prosecute it... and stop criminals. our senior medicare patrol volunteers... are teaching seniors across the country... ...to stop, spot, and report

walter mondale said that you are a, quote, a remarkable example of the lawyers that remember their function and obeying and enforcing law to be a i would like you to comment briefly on that function both enforcing the law as it relates to what you were appointed here. >> of the oath that the public servants take is to uphold law and the constitution of the united states to with respect the man that you don't exceed the law and that they are executed and given life, that congress intended that they use the tools to address crime, for example intelligence risk for examples of its important than you would be both aggressive and respectful of the boundaries and that is a balance that people sometimes think is impossible to strike. i think this government is full of people that get it that the or to do both, respect law and the constitution and the use the tools to protect the american people. >> one of the many things i respect about the director robert mueller, and i do respect him, is his candor with congress and acknowledging the problems in the fbi that have made it fixing he's been very st

walter mondale said that you are an example of lawyers who obey and enforce the law.i would like to extend on that dual function. >> the oath that public servants take is to uphold the law of the united states. to ensure that they are executed and given life. it is important that you be aggressive and respectful of the boundaries. that is a balance that some people think is impossible to strike but, i do not think so. >> right. >> one of the many things that i respect about robert mueller is his candor. he has been straightforward. when the inspector general released a report in 2007 about the fbi use of national security letters, director mueller implemented reforms and auditing that the inspector general identified. i hope we see that transparency and accountability and that you will be open about anything that needs to be corrected. >> i agree very much. it is at the core of mr. mueller's being. earning from mistakes is the only way that an institution survives and improves. >> i would like to highlight the scope and depth of online policy around the world. the the

the chief proponent was former senator walter mondale and four current democratic senators voted in favorof it. senator kennedy was especially forceful -- and a specially forceful inherent to the majority to govern. he announced by what logic can the senate of 1917 or 1949 bind the senate of 1975? that was senator kennedy. echoed senator walsh. he said it is preposterous to assert they may deny later maturities the right to change them. consentg to unanimous restraints in 1970, senator kennedy made an astute observation as to why the majority has to have rulemaking authority. senator kennedy said no one would claim a rule adopted by one summit. -- senate prohibiting rules except by unanimous consent could be binding on a future summit. if not, why should one be able to bind future senates to a rule that such a change can be made only by 2/3 vote. recently, the authority to which i have been referring has been called the constitutional option or the pejorative term, nuclear option. while the authority of the majority to determine senate procedures has long been recognized, most often in se

republican vice president, nelson rockefeller, together with a bipartisan group led by ben senator walter mondale then senator from kansas, james pierson, republican, led a fight which basically was the nuclear option. they were successful. they changed the cloture rule from 2/3 down to 60. is toe proposal, i guess, change the cloture rule down to 51. i am the co-author of a book entitled "defending the filibuster." whoote it with a gentleman worked initially for senator paul tsongas of massachusetts and stayed on the hill for 30 fors, ending up working senator carl levin of michigan. book reason we wrote this is we saw the benefits of the filibuster. when rich aronberg, my co- author, came into the parliamentarian's office in the that in0's, we knew order to pass a bill that senator tsongas was interested in called the alaska lands bill, senator,republican senator ted stevens, would have to sign off on if we were to get cloture. this forced a bipartisan approach to that bill. that that bill was adopted and signed by president carter but has been a successful build over the years. with theontrast