. >> walter mondale. >> i think i lost count.his is an important window. -- an important one though. >> we have been here before during the clinton administration. >> will you be tweeting through the dinner? >> after. not during. a stop the politest thing to do. -- it is not the politest. did you follow the supreme court arguments today? >> what happened? we could not keep up. is there anything that we should know? >> how are your chopstick skills. >> i grew up with them. >> i don't use them correctly. i don't usually have trouble getting food to my mouth. >> i don't use them correctly is our. i managed to use them though. the honorable ron wyden and mrs. wyden. >> it will be challenging in that department. i always play it safe. i will try to move between chopsticks and regular silverware. i've got a long way to go. the fact that we had such a strong vote in the senate finance community including the majority of finance democrats is great. thanks, everybody. >> she a junior at georgetown. >> i'm 21. >> have you been to the white

the senator from minnesota and then-vice president walter mondale, and senator gary hart of colorado. finally, the brennan center chief counsel, rich schwartz -- who was chief counsel of the church committee -- has written a new book called "democracy in the dark: the seduction of government secrecy." the purpose of today's symposium is to examine how the intelligence reforms studented as a result of the church committee investigation 40 years ago have fared and how they might be improved. when the church committee issued its report, it warned that its recommendations for reform would be tested over time and that new national security threats would arise that could be used to justify new departures from american values in the rule of law. and so we have it that chaos and co-intel pro and shamrock and minaret were replaced by stellar wind and x key score, by talon and the fusion centers, by black sites and enhanced interrogation techniques. we're hoping that a new generation of intelligence overseers can benefit from the wisdom generated from the church committee investigation and be i

as church committee member walter mondale said, there is disappointed and anger that we are back where we started from. that is not in conclusion to downplay the very considerable achievements of the church committee. in this conference about taboos it is appropriate to focus on the church committee because it exposed so many surveillance abuses and pierced the veil of secrecy that hung over the national security establishment. i admire harris, johnson, fao schwarz jr and other committee veterans who cite post-9/11 surveillance abuses as reasons for a 21st century church committee. but what if congress stirred itself to create one? history does not repeat itself but as mark twain may or may not have said, history does often rhyme. the church committee may have provided just enough exposure of past abuses, just enough comfort that they were history to allow the continuation of business as usual. thank you. [applause] ethan: i think i am the parochial person on the planet-- the panel in the sense that i will speak not as an fdr historian but someone who is appointed one of those jerks th

walter mondale, who was vice president, told me on the first day of office, carter said we're going to try and bring peace. and the universal advice from his advisors was let'sai our second >> thelassicd goal. >> let's not try that right now. so to start with -- ittarted with carter, he had the determination and persistence and maybe the delusion he could do this. and he is working with two very eccentric men, sadat, longed for peace. >> yeah. >> israel had captured the sinai in 196 and sadat tried to recapture it in '73 and scared the israelis, you know, just was a -- took them out of their sense of smugness, and that they had -- the sinai, they were at that point, you know, they were setting up dive shops on the red sea and so on, pretty much annexed sinai and suddenly the egyptian army comes pooring across and reshapes the thinking but not necessarily toward peace. you know, in the thinking of a lot of israelis, we can't afford to give up sinai. >> yep. >> that's our 100-miles of sand between us and the main egyptian forces where would we be in the egyptians had started at the edge

the senator from minnesota and then-vice president walter mondale, and senator gary hart of colorado. finally the brennan center chief counsel rich schwartz -- who was chief counsel of the church committee -- has written a new book called "democracy in the dark: the seduction of government secrecy." the purpose of today's symposium is to examine how the intelligence reforms studented as a result of the church committee investigation 40 years ago have fared and how they might be improved. when the church committee issued its report, it warned that its recommendations for reform would be tested over time and that new national security threats would arise that could be used to justify new departures from american values in the rule of law. and so we have it that chaos and co-intel pro and shamrock and minaret were replaced by stellar wind and x key score, by talon and the fusion centers by black sites and enhanced interrogation techniques. we're hoping that a new generation of intelligence overseers can benefit from the wisdom generated from the church committee investigation and be insp

walter mondale. [applause] and howard baker.u so very very much for sending us such shining champions of democracy. [applause] the ambassador also embodies the tradition of american democracy. thank you. you have done for all of us. [applause] prime minister abe: we all miss senator daniel who symbolized the honor and achievements of japanese americans. [applause] prime minister abe: ladies and gentlemen, my first encounter with america goes back to my days as a student. when i spent time in california. a lady named catherine let me live in her house. she was a widow and always spoke of her late husband saying, you know he was much more handsome than gary cooper. [laughter] prime minister abe: she meant it, she really did. my wife is here. [applause] prime minister abe: i don't dare ask what she says about me. [laughter] prime minister abe: she was cheerful and so kind, and lots and lots of people stopped by at her house. they were so diverse, i was amazed and said to myself "american is an awesome country." later i took a job a

hart who beat expectations and finished second in iowa to then go on to new hampshire and stun walter mondaleg him by ten points. >> boy, did new hampshire come up with a surprising finish tonight. >> hart's candidacy collapsed, but his victory exposed weakness in mondale. in november, ronald reagan carried 49 of 50 states. in 2012 mitt romney beat rick santorum, but never recovered from santorum's bruising. a populist insurgent is poised to become the latest protest vehicle, pushing hillary clinton to the left and potentially exposing vulnerability that could help republicans in the fall. and the democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders joins me now. welcome back to "meet the press." let me start with an issue you are going to be dealing with in a few hours. i know you'll be flying back from minneapolis to washington for this special senate session, nsa, patriot act session 215. i assume you are a supporter of the usa freedom act. is that where you are going to be voting? >> i may well be voting for it. it doesn't go as far as i want it to go. i voted against the patriot rack

walter mondale was the son of a methodist minister but he had a very irreverent sense of humor and sometimes he would nudge me and say, jim i gave him a b minus, i gave him a b plus but on this particular occasion, chip was marveling because he had grown up in the catholic church as a devout catholic, and those were the days before pope john xxiii when the public had very little to do with the mass. it was voter clergy almost exclusively. and he said to chip as we left that morning, he said, chip said to president carter, he said, mr. president, i can't quit marveling at you protestants sure do know how to pray. and the president said with some confusion, to chip, i haven't the faintest idea who's a profit stent, who's catholic, who's jewish. chip said for your information these guys who come every tuesday except for danny and me, except when the senate brings traman along, i think traman is jewish but danny and i are catholics and then when he left, it hit him. chip's like, i realized what i've done to the president. next tuesday, he's got to call on danny or me to show us that he is tolera

after a while, we had been doing this three or four weeks and i sent between tip and my friend walter mondale. some of you may know he was the son of a methodist minister but sometimes asked someone to pray. he would nudge me and say, jim, i do not know. i gave you a b minus. but on this particular occasion, tip was marveling because he had grown up in the catholic church as a devout catholic, and those were the days before pope john the 23rd when the public had very little to do with mass. it was for the clergy exclusively. he said to tip as we left -- tip says to president carter, mr. president, i cannot quit marveling, you protestants know how to pray. the president said, some confusion, i have not -- i haven't the faintest idea who is a protestant, who is catholic, jewish. that said, for your information, these guys who come every tuesday, except for danny in me, are protestants except when the senate brings up somebody jewish , but we are the only catholics. then when he left, it hit. tip said i realized what i had done to the president. next tuesday he would -- he is going to call on da

and gary hart beat walter mono mondale in the new hampshire primary.s do better than expected and win early. >> and you don't have to win, right? >> that's right. >> in '68, mccarthy did so well that ultimately president johnson opted not to run again, right? >> you see my material. i have nothing left to say. but that's absolutely right. but what i stressed last time the electorate the universe that votes in primary and caucuses, in the -- last time we had more than one ballot in a convention. it was in 1952 both parties, eisenhower and stevenson got nominated on the third ballot. the people that participate on the caucuses and primaries want to see a contest. it becomes a platform for their liberal views and they want a candidate to champion it. already o'malley who endorsed clinton four years ago is taking after her for not coming out against the trade bill for not -- >> real quick, is a fought-far nomination where you have multiple ballots dangerous for the party that has to go through that? >> no look at 1948 two people in both parties -- >> but b

it was the movie "the lincoln conspiracy of quote got then-vice president walter mondale very excited the department of interior, which oversees the national park service, requested ford's theater to look at the diary and missing pages and they reviewed the diary and said that there was no hidden message in ink and then there was another piece of evidence i forgot to mention, and that is a journal that lafayette baker own in which dots had been placed under the letters. the journal was dated 1866 by lafayette baker and it said stanton did it. wow. turns out that was a 20th century fraud. people think it is great sport to dr. and come up with new evidence. they created evidence to back there believes. ultimately, civil war times which published this, recanted and apologized and said this is a fraud. after all of this, where do we come down? i'm sorry to say, it's boring, john wilkes booth did it. he had a band of terrorist conspirators who tried to kill seward and may have tried to kill johnson as well and they changed the course of american history, but there was no one behind it that

mayor and you may have been there, harold went to a church on the northwest side of chicago with walter mondalethe presumptive nominee for the democratic party for president. and they were greeted by crowds that were as ugly and as vicious as any of the crowds you saw down south. shouting racial epithets and it was a terrible scene that became national news. 21 years later, barack obama, we were working on the senate race, barack obama carried a seven-person by mare statewide he got 53% of the vote, surprised everyone. and he carried virtually every ward. i went up that night and i looked at, i looked at the precinct in which that church sat, and i saw that barack had won that precinct, and is i grabbed him and i said -- i think harold's smiling down on us tonight. so we made great progress. but i learned a lot of -- [applause] >> yeah, go ahead. >> i learned a lot of lessons about the challenges and about how to navigate the waters of race and ethnicity. >> yeah. you've given us the perfect segway to get to 2008, 2012. but i want to ask one other question about president obama before that. i t