just as they vet now, it is often a hit and miss process with warren harding. the story goes that george harvey who is putting together a group of senators -- there's a harding, it's you, we're going to you, and is there anything in your background that would keep you from being president? harding is like, -- and it takes 10 minutes to to answer. that should have been their first cause for alarm because there were all those women in trouble, but there were those. nothing of personal corruption. there were those. that nonfarm harding during his presidency. >> host: this e-mail from michael. do you think charles evans hughes would've made a good president? he was an amazingly capable individual. >> guest: he was a capable individual, i was on c-span talking about it. we will be on tonight on american history tv, they are re-airing that. >> host: that is right yes mackey is amazingly capable as an individual. he might've been more liberal or progressive. under harding, even though he served under both the secretary of state, he was a fairly conservative chief justi

they got trapped by calvin coolidge and warren harding, coolidge's republican party. and at the same time after harding was elected, he was appointed hughes secretary of state. one year later, their fortunes seem to have gne one going up in one going down. hughes became an extraordinarily successful secretary of the state. he convened a disarmament conference in washington in 1821 and he negotiated a reduction of the tonnage of warships of the three major naval powers be in the united states, great britain and japan at that time. it is a great triumph for him. roosevelt on the other hand, in 1921, was paralyzed from the waist down with polio. and what would seem to be a very promising career -- there was talk in 1920 that roosevelt would be the democratic nominee for president in 1824 or 1928, but he was paralyzed. he looked at his career was over. so you have hughes going out than roosevelt going down. but by 1924, roosevelt that indomitable spirit began to think of a political career yet again and he is asked to nominate smith at the democratic convention at madison

warren harding of the drunking whiskey party and george w. bush. >> really. from the hiorians.k" might not want us to know? >> i don't know. my lips o sealed. it's an incredibly interesting poll because if you go back -- if you goback, youet washington,jefferson. trwaingt was tean in american history, but to do from theodore res velt the inspired idea of "newsweek's", i thought, and i thought the historians -- the individual rankings are being published the "newsweek" ipad of what they all voted. and is scining. now, dan kevers actually weighted them all. >> it is fascinating. people can find it either on their news stands or ipad. sir harold evans. what pleasure to have you on thogm. i wi. >> thank you. the tweet of the day comes from "the washington post" chris ill lis za who tweets, if bob wins in november, how much credit does bl clinton get? i say a lot. election. reinfor. the turef oudi aso sit man 1: i want facts. straight talk. tell me your plan... and what it means for me. woman 2: i'm tired of the negative ads and political spin. that won't help me decide. man 2: i ea

you don't remember what it was, i'm sure, but warren harding's sex life caused it, you write?one of many scandals in the harding administration. stossel: a corrupt administration. >> very corrupt in the history of american politics. well, the origins of this go back to when harding is running for president of the united states. the party bosses, the republican party bosses are told by harding, well, i have all of these mistresses to keep quiet. they need money. we need to pay off the women to keep them quiet among other women. stossel: so they did. >> the republican party creates a slush fund to pay off all the mistresses so their guy can be elected president, but the men who contribute to the slush fund want a return on their investment. stossel: once the corruption is going, man, they want the cash back. they got oil from the teapot dome? >> there it is. stossel: today's sex scandals, nothing new? >> nothing new. in fact, they pail in comparison to what we had from the very beginnings of the early republic all the way through the 20th century. stossel: thank you larry, david

i mean, if we cared about facts, i mean would warren g harding have invented the cotton gin? president reagan have won the 1987 nba slam dunk contest? no! besides, may i remind everyone out there is the presidential race. and to win a race, sometimes you need to juice. ryan stretching the truth to make his speech more effective is just another form of doping. in that, if you believe him, you're a dope. and it feels good. and if they win the election it validates the strategy and it won't matter what the truth was. after all, josef goebbels once said, if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. but for the purposes of my speech, i am going to say that was barack obama. it was barack obama? it was barack obama obama. it was barack obama. well, that is reason enough not to vote for this guy, because you can not trust a leader who won't tell you the truth. we will be right back. >> >> stephen: welcome back, everybody, thank you so much. my guest tonight is the former governor of utah, and ambassador to china, wow! that guy should run for president. please welcome jon

you have to go all the way back to 1920, warren g. hardingas still living in his home, state of ohio, when he was elected president. not hoover, not eisenhower. not nix on thaon. not reagan. if you ever a question you think we should use, e-mail us. we're expecting statements from hillary clinton, mitt romney and of course the president. election. we're voting for... the future of our medicare and social security. man 1: i want facts. straight talk. tell me your plan... and what it means for me. woman 2: i'm tired of the negative ads and political spin. that won't help me decide. man 2: i earned my medicare and social security. and i deserve some answers. anncr: where do the candidates stand on issues that... affect seniors today and in the future? find out with the aarp voters' guide at earnedasay.org [ dog ] we found it together.upbeat ] on a walk, walk, walk. love to walk. yeah, we found that wonderful thing. and you smiled. and threw it. and i decided i would never, ever leave it anywhere. because that wonderful, bouncy, roll-around thing

at one point only warren g. hard ranked lower. you can't get much lower than that.s joined in this outpouring of criticism and standard jewish history still quote general order number 11 and forget everything that happened later. the new edition of the jewish encyclopedia says grant's name is irrevocably connected with the -- grants career makes clear he -- his transformation from enemy to friend, from a general to expelled jews as a class. to a president who embraced jews at individuals, reminds us that even great figures in history can learn from their mistakes. in america, hatred can be overcome. thank you very much. [applause] >> i want to thank you for a most magnificent picture of this event. my question is this. the department that general grant was in charge of was not a small geographic area. and i wonder whether you feel that his order was an emotional pique rather than something to be implemented, and for that regard i ask you, did he have any sort of method of implementation of enforcing the order or was it just he got angry? >> well, we do know that cop

scott brown went early very hard against elizabeth warren on the basis of race. and while it got a lot of national attention, sort of everything he does gets national attention. sort of a darling of the beltway media and so he gets a lot of attention for what he does. he got a lot of press for it but didn't get any movement in the polls. polling pretty well and consistently throughout and then he took a dive. she gave that well received speech to the democratic convention polls generally turned even more strongly toward the democrats he ended up losing in four straight polls in massachusetts and then all of a sudden he's put her race back as the main reason to vote against her. he has never disproven that she is native american. he says essentially look at her. you can tell she's not. i can tell by looking at her she looks too white. >> and then the video of some of his -- which he's acknowledged and sort of apologized for, of some of his campaign staff not really apologized doing this offensive -- >> mocking native americans. tomahawk chop, war whoops. republica

we cannot do that to hard- working, middle-class, working class families. >> i do want to move on, if i may. >> the u.s. chamber of congress says prof. warren'sicy is a threat to free enterprise. her tax policy would cut 700,000 jobs, 17,000 in massachusetts. i am going to protect the hard- working men and women, the job creators, the people getting up in the middle of the ninth creating jobs and protecting those interested. -- those interests. >> the chamber of congress has not talked about my particular proposals. i am talking by how scott brown has already been talking about what he said in his own voice and what he said he wanted to make crystal clear. he would let taxes go up for 90% of families in order to protect tax breaks for the 98 -- for the top 2%. >> this coming years data may not be a happy one if nothing is done to stop -- new year's day may not be a happy one if nothing is done to steer us away from the so-called fiscal cliff. you've got to have argued quite a bit over tax policy, including just now. i do not think anyone argues that tax policy alone will forestall the cuts. what other specific ideas do you have for avoiding t

just last night, elizabeth warren the democratic candidate for senate in connecticut talked about how hardtoday. >> people feel like the system is rigged against them. and here's the painful part. they're right. the system is rigged. melissa: i think i am not the only one that was completely annoyed by this i can't help but wonder, who is the system rigged against exactly? for a little insight, go to pennsylvania democratic congressman jason altmire. congressman, thanks for coming on the show. i find that comment really frustrating to me i think a lot of small business think the system is rigged against them. that they are overregulated and overtaxed. i think a lot of individuals who make money, you know, think they earn money and government takes it away from them. look at top 1% pays 40% of the federal taxes. i don't know, can you defend that comment by elizabeth warren? >> not out of context. i do think that the clip thaw played is unjustifiable because history is filled with people who the odds were stacked against who became successful through hard work and innovation and yes some luc

warren. she'll spend them. >> he has voted to let taxes go up on hard-working families and said he will defend the top 2% and top 3% so they don't have to go back to the tax rates of the clinton years and he will hold the other 98% of families hostage. >> hours before the debate there was a question wondering whether senator brown would make it suggesting the senator's voting schedule could cause him to stay in washington. harry reid interrupted floor speeches to suggest senator brown was looking for a way out. >> now i'll second. you could ask in congress. most reputable congress including -- >> would my friend yield? >> certainly. >> majority leader. >> mr. president, madam president, i'm so sorry, we can have no more votes today. no more votes today. it's obvious to me what's going on. i've been to a few of these rodeos and it's obvious there's a big stall taking place so one of the senators who doesn't want to be in the debate tonight won't be in the debate. he can't use the senator's excuse. no more votes today. >> the senator from minnesota. >> thank you. that is -- that is too bad. >> you've got to be

please welcome my fellow board member, the tireless and hard-working esteemed chair of the luncheon committee, the very honorable james l. warren. [applause] >> i'm the guy that sends you all those emails saying thank you. and i mean it. i am jim warren, the chair of the committee, and it's my pleasure to welcome all of you here with everybody else. we have more than 900 people in this room, law firms, corporations, public interest groups, judges, we have over 28 judges. i understand we have virtually every court, the superior court, the court of appeals the supreme court, the district court, the ninth circuit, but justice roberts had another conflict and couldn't make it. but i'd like to echo what lisa just said about the people who have committed so much money to making this organization functional. and i'd like to honor specifically certain of our donors who have contributed way above and beyond the call of duty. i'd like to honor odett and partners. [applause] >> lef cabraser. [applause] >> latham and watkins. [applause] >> scad and arps. [applause] >> cooley. [applause] >> morrison and forester. pillsbury. and simpson that

hard. but will elizabeth warren touch that controversial topic again?steps in front of the stage here in charlotte. >> there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. nobody. you moved your goods to market on the road to the rest of us pay for. you hired workers the rest of us pay to educate. we asked over 3,000 doctors to review 5-hour energy and what they said is amazing. over 73 percent who reviewed 5-hour energy said they would recommend a low calorie energy supplement to their healthy patients who use energy supplements. seventy-three percent. 5-hour energy has four calories and it's used over nine million times a week. is 5-hour energy right for you? ask your doctor. we already asked 3,000. bill: there is breaking news where it is rating on the obama for a. president obama speaking on thursday night at an outdoor stadium called bank of america, that move, moments ago has been scratched. the president now will move indoors to the arena here across town where there will be a considerable audience that is smaller to receive his message. this

melissa: last night elizabeth warren said the game was rigged against hard-working americans. ask lou dobbs who the game is rigged against and which party is looking to even the playing field. lori: look at the story in the bond market today. the 10-year yield way up to 1.68%. you heard melissa and kathleen discuss the bond buying program in europe. we have great, well, better economic news on the jobs front. all important labor market. right sector growth came in stronger than expected. initial jobless claims fell more than expected. jobless claims out in the morning. there is the market reaction. long bond is up as well, yieldwise, 2.79%. up nine basis points. back with more after this. [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar, on december 21st polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space. which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say the sun rises on december 22nd, and you still need to retire. td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. we'll even throw in up to $60

hard enough on? who have i been too soft on? how about kelsey warren, chairman/ceo of energy transfer partners.te the most on my charitable trust. this is a remarkably poor performer. it's 8% plus yield. can't break the fall. why have they become such a loser? warren, ceo, lacks discipline. keeps buying and buying, piling debt on top of deb, thereby forcing his company to do equity deals, like he did after coming on this show and moved the stock higher with promises of good growth in 2013. talk about shameful behavior. my charitable trust wants to see what happens when the sunoco acquisition closings, which could happen next month. he hopes that will get them out of the natural gas deal he dug. i've lost faith in his leadership because he cannot grow distribution despite all the deals he's done. he's done the impossible. he's created an oil and gas pipeline that should have taken advantage of all the new finds of oil and gas in this country, like mark west, kinder morgan, enterprise partners, he should be raising distribution while growing earnings along with the industry but now he's given us

only one person wants to spend your hard-earned money and that is professor warren. >> i'm looking at those committed to an independent economic analysis. it shows and 67% more effective at cutting the deficit to five? i think we really have to get serious and that means a balanced approach. >> candidates commit thank you people take a break, have a sip of water and relax when we continue will talk about what are the most important votes in the u.s. senator has to take when the massachusetts senate debate continues in a moment. stay with us. >> welcome back to the massachusetts senate debate that wbz studios in boston. many viewers, mr. browncommonness cornbread and at cbs boston.com asking questions about abortion rights. i would like to expand on that issue in this way and yoko first-tier, ms. warren. the current supreme court is one of the oldest in the past century in terms of the average age of justices and it's entirely likely that whoever wins this election will be voting on the confirmation of hopeful nominees to the court. would you ever vote for a supreme court nominee who o

hard enough on? who have i been too soft on? how about kelsey warrennd ceo of energy transfer partners, the stock i hate the most of all the names on my charitable trust. that's right. he's been on the show many times. this has been a remarkably poor performer, it's 8% plus yield can't even seem to break the fall. why has etp become such a loser? i think it's pretty simple. warren, the ceo seems to be lacking discipline. he keeps buying and buying and buying things, he can't seem to stop himself. piling debt on top of debt, forcing his company to do equity deals like the one right after coming on this show and helping to move the stock higher with the promises of good growth in 2013. talk about shameful behavior. now, i will say this, i'm wary of telling you to sell energy transfer partners right here when my charitable trust has dug in its heels. hoping he'll get the company out of the hole he's dug. i believe the stock can pop. but warren has not been able to grow the distribution. i say he's done the impossible. created an oil and gas pipeline compa

>> also at the podium, elizabeth warren, who is running for senate in massachusetts, the consumer protection advocate, take a look. >> i'm here tonight to talk about harde. people who get up early, stay up late. cook dinner and help out with homework. people who can be counted on to help their kids, their parents, their neighbors and the lady down the street whose car broke down. people who work their hearts out, but are up against a hard truth. the game is rigged against them. it was not always this way. like a lot of you, i grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. my daddy sold carpeting and ended up as maintenance man. after he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at sears so we could hold on to our house. all three of my brother served in the military. one was career, the second, a good union job in construction. and the third started a small business. me? i was waiting tables at 13, and married at 19. i graduated from public schools and taught elementary school. i have a wonderful husband, two great children, and three beautiful grandchildren. and i'm grateful down to my toes for every opportunity that america gave me.

warren was amazing. talking about the importance of a consumer financial protection bureau that she fought so hard for against huge opposition. president clinton we've already spoken about. tonight is going to be tremendous as well. >> how disappointed are you that you don't have the stadium, you don't have the ability to organize by having 65,000 people? i know the president is going to be doing a call-out to those people. >> he did phone calls. >> how disappointed are you that you're in here and how are you going to match what you did in denver, by the way, they're rehearsing behind us, i should tell our viewers. >> that's the noise. we're getting ready for a great night. are we disappointed? we're not outside? of course, we are. safety is the most important thing. the president wasn't going to do anything to put our supporters or anyone in harm's way. and with thunderstorms predicted yesterday, we did the best thing which was to cancel it. we're going to make the best of it. the president as you mentioned is going to do a phone call with all the folks who came to town. who are going to organize whether the

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massachusetts voters and underestimated elizabeth warren's, you know, performance as a first-time candidate. she has made some rookie errors. think eve been hardhen there have been a lot of questions about the tone of her ads. so i think this is a very competitive race. in fact, in the last few polls scott brown is running ahead. there is a path to victory for him here. >> all right. jennifer, my home state of virginia, we have two heavyweights, tim kaine versus george allen. what's going on down there in virginia? >> this is the race i love to hate because it's been a race that's been so close since the day it started very early in 2011. you have two very qualified candidates. you have a very competitive presidential race. this is the one race in the country as a presidential race goes in virginia, so does the senate race an it's going to be for the campaigns about getting every single one of the voters out. >> jennifer, go to the show-me state, the king of junk science is still in the race, todd akin is hanging on. how's he still in the race? >> delusioned? i think probably is the answer to that. look. he is still in the race and a poll out

act spurred lending so we could go from making this hard to get a home to almost a birthright that is then. here we are now. >> and for elizabeth warren her memorable line: corporations are not people which of course is news to mitt romney who says corporates made up of and led by and, well, accountable to people. it is a central theme of a convention that sees a lot of companies as a big part of the problem. a former c.e.o. is going to set the record straight, he says, and stop the nonsense now. copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's always good to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they did photoshop here. hey, good call on those mugs. can't let 'em see what you're drinking. you know, i'm glad we're both running a nice, clean race. no need to get nasty. here's your "honk if you had an affair with taylor" yard sign. looks good. [ male announcer ] fedex office. now save 50% on banners. >> mitt romney said corporations are people. no, governor romney, corks are not people. people have hearts. they have kids. they get jobs. they get sick. they cry. they live, they love, and

hard time. and that was the c.e.o. of costco. now one of the bright lights and great hopes in the democratic party, elizabeth warren running for senate in massachusetts. elizabeth warren. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you. i'm elizabeth warren. and this is my first democratic convention. [ applause ] >> audience: warren! >> okay, enough. i never thought i'd run for the senate and i sure never dreamed that i'd be the warm-up act for president bill clinton. [ applause ] he's an amazing man who has a good sense, married one of the coolest women on this planet. [ applause ] i want to give a special shout out to the massachusetts delegation. i'm counting on to you help me win and to help president obama win. i'm here tonight to talk about hard working people. people who get up early, stay up late, cook dinner and help out with homework. people who can be counseled on to help their kids, their parents, their neighbors and the lady down the street whose car broke down. people who work their hearts out that are up against the hard truth. the game is rigged against them. it wasn't always this way. like a lot of you i grew up in a family on

warren buffett, not a day trader. looking at polls is sort of a day trading like thing, short-term snapshots, hard to know what they mean. i suspect now in the thick of this ray he is probably more interested in it. if i were him, i would look at the polls. if i wanted to explain them is our convention went better than their con ven eggs. >> let's talk very quickly, among all the very many things he does and has to focus on from greeting the super bowl champs or the women's basketball champs to making major decisions that are really life and death decisions about deployments, how much of his time did you really see him focused on the economy? >> it's -- when i was with him, he was focused on me. so i didn't see him focused on anything but me. but it is a constant cover notice white house, the way i was coming at him was a different angle. my question to the white house is how much can you actually do about the economy? how much can you do in the short term about jobs if congress does not want to deal with you at all? without the help of congress what can you do in the honest answer is very little. one of the things inte

warren couldn't win massachusetts by a big margin is kind of surprising to me. why is that race so close? >> scott brown the incumbent republican has really worked harda republican environment where moderates are shunned and often you know, removed. unsayreceremoniously from the party. scott brown has worked hard to maintain his -- he's smart. it is a blue state. a lot of the smart money would have said he never should have won in the first place. the fundamentals in massachusetts have to favor elizabeth warren as a democrat with good name recognition. that race is fascinating. the most interesting thing about it if you're watching from washington, from this perspective is that's one that republicans really don't want to lose because republicans are really all about republican pickups. in massachusetts they're defending scott brown's seat but republicans, if they have any hope of taking control of the senate they need four pickups and if they lose one in massachusetts, that number automatically becomes five and that number is getting more and more difficult to see how they reach it. it is a real tossup right now. i'm not, in any way saying republican

warren buffet buy partisan effort. >> charlie:do you think the president would know -- second term what he would be prepared to do if he entbainled in hard-helded analysis of entitlement the same weigh he did afghanistan, pakistan? >> yes in conversations with me, people like me let's put it that way, they have a story to tell in negotiations last summer they were prepared to make some serious changes. but that's always in the future for people like me, tears lucy is putting down the football in six months we're going to kick that football but then the football is never there. i've been waiting. the first thee days before he was inaugurated, he gave a dinner with columnist and went to washington post and said 6 months from now it's all going to be -- we are going to hit hard in getting our situation under control. it's always been 6 months in the future. >> charlie:efl said this before in an interview with me the problem the last 4 yores has not been getting the policy rights, getting the commune -- i don't want to say marketing, communication of the policy. is he right about that? >> not really. well -- no, i don't really think sovment

hard-working. people are put off by that. and they're put off by the elizabeth warren they're wrong, but they are. if you tell people, particularly successful people, i just wrote a book and i got e-mails like i'm a good liberal and i like your book but don't tell me i didn't work hard or earn what i have. the idea that -- it's an extreme core story we talk about. it's borne of a whole variety of preconditions. >> there is a sub text here that the real theme of the republican party. want to make the point after listening to these republicans, my childhood wasn't that bad but when they started talking about -- i've been saying the republican party has been a party with out a theme in this presidential election but the truth is they even gotten a theme that they can't speak and that theme is a racial theme and when they start talking you built it or we built it and when wiestwood starts talking about we own this country, everybody in that hall knows what they're talking about and it would seem to me a lark part of america knows what they're talking about. running against