walter cronkite's anger was when barbara walters became the million dollar a year later and he was getting $600, 000 a year. when he left, he was getting paid a million for being on retainer. the kids need to negotiate his contract. a million today sounds small. look at what katie couric's contract was. people get paid hefty salaries. cronkite was the most well paid. money was not always as motivation. it was more if he got so used to be on television he did not complete if he was not on. >> what was the story of mike wallace and dan rather? >> mike wallace is a whole other case. he was the toughest interviewer cbs ever had. it is a style of how you interview people. wallace and cronkite had their differences, but they became close in later years. it is called the battle of the bathroom at cbs. it is a long story. rather did "memo gate" about george w. bush in the national guard. there was some sentiment by mike wallace that rather should have just quit and taken the knife. edward r. murrow always said in journalism, be ready to clean your desk out in half an hour. if you make one big mist

he knew the funny walter cronkite. the bitterness was directed toward cbs, not just dan rather perry -- dan rather. there is the new regime. he thought he would be able to hang around cbs in the 1980's and 1990's and they did not have a role for him. brokaw said he always had to be the top dog. he is very darwinian. that comes across in my research. with walter cronkite, people only see him as the friendly man, which he was, but there is another side of him that wanted to be the best. he was obsessed with ratings. he is a fierce competitor that i have written about, and that includes presidents and generals. his desire to be the best was very pronounced. >> you talked to a nixon aide chuck colson. what did you learn from him? >> he was very nice. this was before he died in florida. he was a very repentant pro- nixon person. he regrets the nixon tapes, he told me perryhe was embarrassed when i read to him transcripts of white house tapes about walter cronkite. he was the pit bull of richard nixon. colson was on to the i

when the conventions came around, walter just sort of relished in it. i wonder if that was the advent of 24-hour news. >> i think that's spot-on. in 1952, walter cronkite covered the democratic and republican conventions and murro thought they were going to be infomercials and it was beneath the dignity of a serious journalist. i'm writing my book about the riff between murrow and cronkite that dated back to world war ii. once those cameras came in and captured stevenson for the democrats and eisenhower in '52, everything changed. the cameras did turn conventions into infomercials and it did lead to a birth of 24-hour news broadcasting. cronkite in '52 taught a seminar on how to talk and how to apply makeup properly, and two of his students were sam rayburn and john f. kennedy. from '52 onwards, you just see television news and special events reporting, which cronkite was the master of, like walking us through the kennedy assassination, or taking us through, you know, the apollo 11 mission. he would go marathon for days. he was known as the iron pants,

in january, walters wrote saying she had contacted c in. n's piers more began on her behalf and how terrific you are and attached the resume', appropriate? >> not appropriate and much to barbara walter's credit she owned up immediately and said she made a mistake and was sorry, apologized, a great reporter and great anchor over many, many years, she shouldn't have done it and she knows it. >> jon: so, jim, she also wrote to a former abc news executive richard wald now at the columbia journal echl school journalism school and tried to get his support. >> this is a window into the world of celebrity get. how you get access to the fill in the blank person who is famous at the moment. the and assad said i have nothing to do with people getting murdered and she sat and listened to them. now we know how the game works and played. >> they get chummy with aides, this is not every journal, but some might get chummy with aides and exploit the relationship and return the favor. you have to ask the question if somebody on the right had done this, they

walter cronkite, andy rooney they, homer bigart and hal boyle. mr. gay speaks with walter cronkite's and chip cronkite, tim wendell and david maraniss, associate editor of "the washington post" that is next on booktv. >> good evening and welcome to the national press club. i am the aarp bulletin executive better for state news, member of the book and author committee and former president of the national press club. are booked tonight is "assignment to hel," the war against nazi germany with correspondents walter cronkite, andy rooney, homer bigart, and hal boyle. the authors timothy gay. excited to be doing this book because that just finished reading andy rooney's my war. before we turn to tonight's book but me mention some upcoming books. june 14th, liz quince said the persian look media and satirist will discuss her book is free or die. june 28th, a commanding officer of the uss cole at the time of the attack will discuss his book front burner:al qaeda's attack on the uss cole. on june 12th, the vice president and the republic of donna will discus

walter cronkite was trusted. integrity factor was extremely high.ut some moments really was kind of the old boy ace cl's club. they interacted different than they do now. by the time cronkite became hankerman in 1962, people were getting their news from the evening news of walter cronkite. and almost became a ritual. you got home from work, 9:00 to 5:00. you relax a little and then you watch cronkite and then have dinner. and so his impact is immense. things like civil rights, gay rights, women's movement, environment and the '60s and '70s, cronkite insisted all the stories be covered in a real time and important way. you can't think about something of the birth of earth day or, you know, why the images of bull connor in the south and the horrors of jim crow were brought into everybody's living rooms. cronkite is managing editor of cbs and insisted on it. >> i want to get to riz relelhi relationship with edward r. morrow. he thought news should be more thought out. and then when the conventions came around, walter sort of relished in it. i wonder if

and walter reed army medical center. and now at the walter reed medical center where he is affectionately known as the milk shake man. gentlemen, thank you for your service to our nation and for your continued service to fellow veterans through your many worthy endeavors today. both of you are truly inspiring to all of us and it is really an honor to have you here with us today. i very much look forward hearing from your testimony. mr. register, you may proceed. >> thank you very much, ranking member, thank you and members of the subcommittee. i know the milk shake man. it's outstanding. thank you for the opportunity to testify and the department of veterans affairs to deliver state of the art care to veterans with amputations. the naaop, the national association that promotes public policy in interest of orth dottic and prosthetic patients and providers who serve them. i served in desert shield and desert storm. my injury happened may 17th, 1994. my 18th and verse vi is tomorrow over at the pentagon where a friend of mi

>> remember, walter cronkite was with the u.p. during world war ii.ism had a propaganda aspect to it. cronkite was pro nasa, pro federal government, was pro vietnam war from '65 to '68. >> until. >> he goes and reports from vietnam, comes back and does a february 27th, 1968, the primetime special saying that vietnam was a stalemate. big ripple effect. >> big ripple effect. that changed the debate, it shook lyndon johnson. why did he have -- we'll come back to the other point in a mi minute. why did he have so much authority, one reporter, one anchor. >> he had that much because he became beloved. he brought the nation through -- we were used to him in the 1950s. he was one of the inquisitors of the nixon/kennedy debate but mainly the kennedy assassination when he guided america almost as pastor in chief through that long weekend and just started building an audience, mr. steady eddie. also some areas also got cbs news. >> cbs and nbc had huge audiences, there wasaudiences, was no cable television you all that. so come back to the senate office, bobby

uncle walter.s, cbs news anchorman walter cronkite epitomized the no-nonsense newsman. but a new book offers surprising revelations about the news ank oar who was watched by millions. liz trotta joins every sunday at this time and knew walter cronkite and worked alongside with him. >> good morning. >> eric: what about the new book and what's in it? >> i tell you, it is so interesting, the critics of this book are -- who are trying to find every imperfection they can are really trying to hold walter cronkite up to the standard of today, that includes, you know, every news freak you can imagine, every incompetent reporter, every blogger. this is the standard by which they judge this. i mean, just a quick look at the headlines, new biography of cbs newsman, walter cronkite, dents his halo. new book dents walter cronkite's image. walter cronkite biography reveals dark side of former newsman. brinksly reveals the bad side of world's most trusted man. well, i mean, it is really terrible, if you are going

that is the great walter cronkite and the great walter bigger standing up for the baric symbols were 300. and if you didn't know better, wouldn't you souris peter graves from stores 17? and that's the good guys. anyhow, i know from a research come in the correspondence that that was taken on february 19, 1943, exactly one week before the assignment to how arrays. these guys have been trained by the army air force on combat braves. they're right in the middle of the training of the photograph was taking. they were taken on that days the shin. is it the weather attempted strummed. they brought a couple bites, peddled around and visited across the stabenow points, once, but twice. so i don't know how many pitchers of went down before the photograph was taken. .. >> three times at that point. now, think about that for a second. here it is 14 months after pearl harbor, and the only real action to speak of in the european theater are these amazingly brave bomber boys who risk life and limb to take the fight directly to adolf hitler. and yet it's taken all this time to get the manpower, the

this is walter cronkite. good night. >> your quote from lyndon johnson, he told the country in a few weeks right after that, that he wasn't going to run again. >> right, the end of march, 1968. that's right. >> if i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america. i've been reading that for years. true? >> there's no evidence that lyndon johnson ever said that, and the power of the anecdote that's discussed in "getting it wrong" called the cronkite moment, supposedly lyndon johnson was watching the cronkite show, and at the end of it, johnson supposedly leaned over and snapped off the television set and said something to the effect of, if i've lost cronkite, i've lost middle america, or if i've lost cronkite, i've lost the war, or if i've lost cronkite, i've lost the country. there are various versions as to what he said, a lot of various versions as to what johnson supposedly said. that in my view right off the bat is a tip-off, a marker of a media-driven myth. if you can't get the story straight as to what the p

for walter. [laughter] but i'm sure that both of us would be more than willing to receive those letters. so i hope that answers part of your question. >> it does. and just one little bit after that. in terms of, um, when martin luther king was assassinated and it was the relationship with the garbage strike and the whole movement in terms of the economic justice which, um, i know you said the thing about, you know, we get stuck in places, but i think there's a whole corporate, um, a corporate media that wants us to be stuck in a place. >> right. >> and they highlight what we pay attention to. >> right. >> so it is important to pay attention to the other speeches. so as kind of a follow up of what someone asked earlier in terms of your reading, was there any communication in terms of an economic, an economic direction in the conversations between bayard and martin luther king? >> yeah, great question. early on, very early on bayard is encouraging dr. king to see linkages between economic justice a

is one by any chance walter johnson? well, bob, yes, one is walter johnson.ere are three statues right outside nats park. i think we have pictures of somethem. one of them is walter johnson. the reason these particular individuals were chosen is because they -- all three of them had a significant impact on baseball in the nation's capital. >> who do you want to talk about first? >> probably walter johnson. >> isn't he the big train? >> he y, very good. >> all three of these are former senators. >> no, josh gibson played with the homestead grays. he was in the negro leagues. he never played with the senators. >> these guys go way back. this is when you were a kid i don't even before me. although i remember frank howard. we've just given all three names. >> this you go. >> josh gibson, frank howard, walter johnson. i don't remember which statue we're seeing when. liz, can you tell me who we are seeing now. >> this is the josh gibson statue. the statues are unique. what the sculpture tried to capture was. no some the statues so you see the arm and bat kind of co

we at walter reed have set the standard, they are seen within 72 hours. another factor is the logistics and contracting within prosthetic services. walter reed embedded a warranted contract officer in the prosthetic service which enables same-day ordering of new prosthetic devices with next day delivery. the development of blanket purchase agreements have ensured best value through discount pricing and fixed component costs. a logistics technician provides the ability to warehouse non patient specific items further reducing delay in delivery and care. a third factor in the success of the d.o.d. has been the research efforts with partnerships of industry and the v.a. in providing new devices such as the microprocessor knee the bionic robotic ankle and power knee. so the department uses the both civilian and contract prosthesis within the facility. and enabling the d.o.d. best value was guaranteed within the contract and in a bid phase of the procurement. the civilian model has wide degree of variability costs. based on the use of not otherwise classified c

how you doing, walter? money. have these new tools changed the business model with -- people with money are sort of forced to come to you to buy advertising. now, they have access to these new tools as well. they don't need you as much. business does not need you either. has that changed your model as an organization? >> obviously. >> somewhat more difficult. our view is that we have an audience and if we can maintain and build that audience, we've actually done very well over the last couple of years of building our digital audience. if we can build that audience, we can find ways of making something economically. the paths aren't clear. our newspaper is still a big metropolitan newspaper. it's not a great business right now. we do well on digital display. but it's not nearly enough money to cover all the costs of operations. woor -- we're not losing money right now on an operational basis but we're okay. we face challenges and we'll work through them. >> for instance has 425,000 subscribers to their website. tha

walters landed an exclusive interview with assad last december.ers admits to trying to help a daughter of a former aide who set up that interview. she passed on the daughter's resume to cnn for a potential job and recommended the girl for columbia university's journalism school. the aide's daughter did not get in and did not land the job. >>> google warning g-mail users they may be the target of cyber attacks. google will put a banner message at the top of the accounts. google didn't mention specific governments some say it could be google's latest effort to fight china over censorship and web privacy. >>> new honda fit is the new king of electric cars. the japanese carmaker says their 2013 fit operates on epa rated fuel cost of $500, per year. it uses 29 kilowatt hours of energy per 100 miles and combine add justed rate going it were using gas, but it is not, of 118 miles a gallon. the highest fuel rating ever given by the epa. >>> we'll be right back. first, more local election results: great idea. so we'll switch to u-verse tv and internet....

walters landed an exclusive interview with assad last december.admits to trying to help a daughter of a former aide who set up that interview. she passed on the daughter's resume to cnn for a potential job and recommended the girl for columbia university's journalism school. the aide's daughter did not get in and did not land the job. >>> google warning g-mail users they may be the target of cyber attacks. google will put a banner message at the top of the accounts. google didn't mention specific governments some say it could be google's latest effort to fight china over censorship and web privacy. >>> new honda fit is the new king of electric cars. the japanese carmaker says their 2013 fit operates on epa rated fuel cost of $500, per year. it uses 29 kilowatt hours of energy per 100 miles and combine add justed rate going it were using gas, but it is not, of 118 miles a gallon. the highest fuel rating ever given by the epa. >>> we'll be right back. first, more local election results: copd makes it hard to breathe, so i wasn't playing much of a ro

stephen martin, cbs news, walter reed. >> and that is the cbs evening news for tonight.the jones day law firm for this view of the capital, and from all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >> good evening i am dana king @ >> i am alan martin. in 2006 a poll found that nearly three-quarters of americans could name each of the three stooges. >> in that same poll only 42 percent of americans were able to name the three branches of government. today a reminder of why that is kind of important. >> it took well over one year to pass the patient protection and affordable care act. otherwise known as >> obama care >> whenever you call it, it was the largest expansion of the nation's social safety network in more than 45 years. extending insurance coverage to more than nine out of 10 eligible americans. it has also proven to be a big public relations challenge. >> history making expansion of power. >> it was derided as an example of legislative incompetence, and overreach of executive power. ultimately its fate would be decided by one member of the judiciary. >> a

david martin, cbs news, walter reed. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight.the jones day law firm for this view of the capitol, and for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the most watched entertainment newsmagazine in the world. >>> ann curry's tearful "today" show good-bye. >> i never expected to leave this couch after 15 years. >> was she a scapegoat for falling ratings. >>> alec baldwin's weekend wedding. so secret, even the guests don't know where it is. >>> plus, britney, julia, sandra, hollywood's most hush-hush weddings ever. >>> katy perry surrounded by sailors. how she's celebrating theou

david martin, cbs news, walter reed. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight.the jones day law firm for this view of the capitol, and for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> a huge victory for president obama and the democrats tonight as the unusual supreme court majority upholds the heart of the patient's protection and affordability act. fdr, truman, bill clinton all tried to move the country towards universal care. today, president obama has succeeded where they failed, but republicans are vowing to press on. bruce leshan was there in the supreme court chambers when the chief justice announced that the individual mandate will be constitutional. but bruce, this may not be the end? >> reporter: it may not be the end, andrea. the republicans are vowing to fight on. i'll tell you what though. both parties are out

walt, walter kump. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: hi, walter, it's great to see you. [ robot voiceare things going? [ robot voice ] >> chris-tine-ah, my love, we are like two penis a pod. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: sorry. what did -- what did you say? [ laughter ] [ robot voice ] >> i said we are like two peas in a pod. >> jimmy: oh. i thought you said something else. [ laughter ] anyway, are there any juicy details from the relationship that you can tell us? [ robot voice ] >> yes. last weekend, i got to second basey. >> jimmy: whoa. second base. what does that mean? [ robot voice ] >> we held hands for a full 20 meenut. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: wow. anything else? [ robot voice ] >> that's all you get, pervert. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: okay. i'm sorry. let's switch gears. what have you been up to lately? [ robot voice ] >> i have been focusing on my music career. >> jimmy: that's right. that's right. you performed a couple of songs on our show in the past. [ robot voice ] >> yes, and lately i have been into rap music. >> jimmy: rap -- walter, that's great. do you have any favorite

said to walter ruther about one suggestion he made he said you know walter that's a really good idea because it's your idea we're not going to do it. that's that's really in your face quite remarkable the inequality in the united states has exploded we have a we have a graph of this comparing the united states to other countries. japan and sweden and here in the bottom this is income inequality ratio versus health and social problems based on the call this is from from wilkerson and pickets were you know the equality trust in the u.k. quality trust or u.k. and and the us not only is at the top but we're almost an outlier here in this in this graphic how. how did we get here i mean you've talked about education and labor but is there is there some grand you unifying theory of this and what are the consequences and we also see that these social problems we're almost off the scale on that you know things like poverty obesity lack of trust drug drug use teen births all those things we beat everybody in the world and we write well david that's really kind of two points one is that income

sgt walter e. larsen was in that same position when he scrambled on to a mound of earth to draw the attention of the machine guns and other members of his platoon could flee to safety. a real test is when you are flying a medevac helicopter in thick jungle fog in close range enemy fire trying to rescue fellow soldiers. in january of 1968, major general patrick brady flew in these conditions and despite the 400 blow holes found in helicopters flew that day, he was able to rescue more than 50 men. a real test is when infantry commander closes the landings and to any further operations because of the intensity of heavy fire, but you know american forces are in desperate need of ammunition and aid. and these circumstances, colonel bruce crandall made flights delivering ammunition and evacuating wounded men. a real test is when despite not having slept for 36 hours, you and your men are loaded into a landing craft, said down river to join and tense battle. colonel j. vargas, in this situation, managed t

walters has now apologized for what she calls a conflict. in the aftermath, miss jaafari returned to the u.s. and contacted me looking for a job. i told her that was a conflict of interest and that we would not hire. i did offer to mention her to contacts at another media organization and in academia. though she didn't get a job or into school, in retrospect i realize that this created a conflict and i regret that. it was surprising to hear this. >> this is a world class embarrassment for barbara walters. i have a huge amount of respect for her but i think she realizes how badly she screwed up. you have barbara walters on the one hand just seeming to do a favor for somebody she had gotten to know, the daughter of the syrian ambassador, help her out, the news organization she referred to was cnn. she tried to help her get an internship with the piers morgan program and help her with an application to columbia university but we're talking about syria which is conducting a campaign of violence against its own citizens. secondly, this woman help

. >> walter and olive ann beech. >> walter, i think his great get was an ability -- his great gift was an ability to sense what the market might want before the market knew it wanted it. olive ann, in turn, her great ability was administration and making decisions. she actually was a better businessman than he was. >> all this and much more as booktv and cox communications bring you to wichita, kansas. >> i started working on the project, the popular wisdom was that, you know, presidents and the u.s. government really didn't have an interest in black entrepreneurship until the '60s. part of that was motivated by the war on poverty and some saw business ownership as a means to help alleviate african-american poverty. another impulse, you know, the urban rebellions of the mid to late 1960s, and there was a belief that if you had more african-american-owned enterprises in black neighborhoods, that that would decrease, you know, the likelihood of people destroying property in those neighborhoods. now, all that being said and in doing some preliminary reading, i came across a fleeting refer

paul pesquina at walter reed, both the older walter reed and the new bethesda campus who is a pysyiatrist and mr. charles skoeville, and they provided us their data set of combat injured veterans from the recent wars who had major amputation. at the time we got our information, 180 amputations were not traumatic, they were related to some other feature. 38 of those individuals were dead which left us with 1,288 individuals with combat related major amputations. of that number about 450 remained on active duty, some of whom were employed and some of whom it appears to us were severely medically ill and dod seemed to be keeping them to make sure that they were in a better condition when discharged from dod. that left us with about 838 traumatic major amputations of the upper and lower extremeities we tried to assess. divide it by 150 medical centers and we did plot out addresses for these folks you find out this population, they're everywhere in the united states so there is a simple problem of having 10 or less on average without knowing specifically patients who have these problems across

walters admits in the months falling, she tried to help jafari.offer to mention her to contacts at a media organization and in academia, though she didn't get a job or into school. the media organization was cnn, but it went nowhere. columbia university tells cnn, its applicants are evaluated solely on the materials submitted, saying, we understand and share concerns about the brutal regime in syria. she says she was accepted to columbia because of her qualifications. as for her relationship with al assad, she says she was an unpaid intern in media circles for three months, not an aide. saying, "i am nothing but a victim for some personal agendas. as any ambitious young graduate student in america, all i was trying to do in this very brief time was to build up my knowledge and to explore ways to successful academic options. what's going on in syria and to my people saddens me and breaks my heart. activists fighting for democracy in syria aren't swayed. >> what she represents is an outlet for the assad regime to basically extend their reach outside

thank you, walter harrison. [applause] now, i want to give a special congratulations to this class and especially to the students who attended and worked here while holding part or full-time jobs, while caring for their parents or children, students who overcame the odds and are here because they were determined to graduate and give back. before we give you the keys to the car, so to speak, i will ask you to make a promise from entering a compact that generation after generation has done in this country since its very founding. that is to leave the nation a little bit better than you found it. my parents, many of your grandparents, defeated fascism in europe and came back to build an interstate highway system, break down racial and religious barriers, and launch a state program, all of it leaving america better. that is what my generation should do for you. one of the worries, the risks of my generation, is our fear that perhaps we will not leave this nation better for you, for the first time in our history. we

walters admits in months following, she tried to her her.she said i did offer to mention her to contacts at another media organization and in academia, though she didn't get a job or into school. columbia tells cnn its applicants are evaluated solely on materials submitted, adding we understand and share concerns about the brutal regime in syria. she says she was accepted to columbia because of her qualifications. as for her relationship, she says she was an unpaid media intern. saying i am nothing but a victim for some personal agendas. as any ambitious graduate student in america, all i was trying to do in this very brief time was to build up my knowledge and explore ways to successful academic options. what's going on in syria and to my people saddens me and breaks my heart. >> what she represents is an outlet for the regime to extend their reach outside of syria, perpetuate false messages, false realities that are occurring within the country. she's actively taking part in this activity through her media advice. >> reporter: at columbia,

. >>> legendary journalist walter cronkite. next hear why president john f. testy with him in an interview and why he talked him into running for president against lyndon b. johnson. careful, pringles are bursting with more flavor. [ crunches ] mmm. ♪ [ male announcer ] pringles... bursting with more flavor. [ crunch! ] to deposit checks at the nearest citibank branch. ♪ like this one. ♪ or this one. ♪ or, maybe this one. ♪ but when it's this easy to use citibank mobile check deposit at home...why would he? ♪ woooo! [ male announcer ] citibank mobile check deposit. easier banking. every step of the way. >>> prom nant anchors like dan rather and tom brokaw have criticized cozy relationships between journalists and politicians. i asked author of "cronkite" whether close relationships between journalists and presidents was an issue. >> no, it wasn't. cronkite tried to stay objective. the truth is you all have biases, favorites. he got very close to dwight eisenhower because cronkite covered d-day as a wartime correspondent in world war ii. that he had good, aima

. >> i didn't think about it until you were talking about walter cronkite.at was not the inspiration for those specs? >> no, but this book is fascinating. and when walter cronkite put on these glasses, it was one of the most iconic moments in news. he was announcing the death of john f. kennedy, the president. take a look at this. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> that's what 1963 when he announced that. i spoke with the author of this new book. it's called cronkite about that moment and others. listen. >> he didn't just announce that to the nation in that famous scene with the glasses and looking at the clock. but he had to continue all weekend long. he had to report on, you know, lee harvey oswald, who he was and, of course, ruby killing him and how did jackie kennedy handle the death and then the funeral. so i call him a rabbi or a pastor in chief. he held her hands in a communal way through that long tragedy of the kennedy assassination. >> initially i was going to do an interview with douglas and it became so fascinating.

and after monday, i'm a little more optimistic they won't. >> walter -- >> there was another tea leaflawrence, that linda greenhouse astutely noted. chief justice roberts dissented from the decision, striking down the laws that allowed juveniles to be held for life in prison without parole. and he chose to make his dissent about his need to defer to the judgments made by the legislative branches of the government. that was the theme of his dissent. the cases was argued in the same sitting as the health care case. i can't believe he would set himself up knowing the two decisions were coming down this week to be quoted back against himself. i thought that was quite revealing. >> okay, gentleman, the video of this segment is going to be on our website forever for people to see, whether the night before you called it right in the supreme court. jonathan cohan and walter dilling engineer, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> you will not want to miss "the last word" tomorrow night on this big decision. among my exclusive guests, michael moore, the directo

sir walter raleigh, you know sir walter raleigh one of america's earliest explorers, he said this. i like this a lot. for who so ever commands the sea, he said commands the trade. and whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself. i'm sure that raleigh couldn't have fathomed the impact of planes or railroads, much less ecommerce. but the fact remains, even centuries after he spoke those memorable words, there remains a powerful link between america's oceans, rivers, lakes and coast and america's economy. so consider this, more than half of americans live in coastal watershed counties. that's true even though this area makes up only 17% of our u.s. land area. and those counties support about 66 million jobs. so it's along the coastal areas. and so now, more than ever, we need to ensure that the blue economy is strong and growing. this morning i'll touch on three ways we can do that. so, first, we simply need to show off america's waters. i grew up in portland, oregon, and as a boy, i remember going with my father and my