. >> they asked if they wanted makeup and nixon skennedy says nixon wants to be manly and says no. and meanwhile, kennedy gets something called max factor the, and then he puts on something like nixon shave stick which he rubs like grease across the face. nixon was pacing around the studios and asking people questions. >> i think that i better shave. >> well, it is past time por those questions. >> studio, 30 seconds to air. >> and kennedy did not present himself until he was fully ready and he was not going to stand around and chat with nixon before the main event and come in like the prize fighter that he was. >> and nixon made every mistake this you can think of in that debate. >> look at the faces of the two candidates in this debate. and ask yourself, who is presidential, and who is scared. >> the contrast is dramatic. >>> all right. be sure to tune in tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern for the cnn original series "race for the white house" narrated by oscar w winner kevin spacey. >> it is really freaking good. and souper saturday was yesterdy and it is on to salacious sunday and w

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. >> but kennedy was better at dirty tricks than nixon and nixon knew it. and it planted a seed with nixon that he never forgot. >> and that was the origin of watergate. >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. welcome to our special coverage of tonight's cnn democratic presidential debate. the 2016 race has been nasty, vulgar at times, but for those of you who have been watching cnn's series premiere "race for the white house," it made one thing very clear tonight, and that is dirty tricks and nasty debates are business as usual in american politics. and the historic kennedy/nixon debate proved the value of the national stage and how it can change the course of history. in tonight's debate, bernie sanders came out swinging, going directly after hillary clinton, slamming her on her ties to wall street repeatedly. and during tonight's debate we actually found out sanders won today's caucuses in maine and there was a big turnout for democrats in maine, more than we saw for republicans, significantly more. and for the numbers here in maine, a big win for bernie san

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nixon gave us the epa. so, what were republicans just doing all this time as the liberals were expanding government? >> guest: i think it's good you point out eisenhower and nixon because they tried to make peace with the giant welfare state that fdr and lbj created. you don't get a president who really comes along to try to turn this back or stop it until ronald reagan. and reagan -- it's interesting. some of the theories have come back around, i think, to bite conservatives in the end because reagan came in and he wanted to deregulate. wanted regulations to be lifted by the agencies to allow the economy to grow faster, which i think happened, but in order to do that he had to demand that the other branches, congress and the president, give -- i'm sorry -- congress and the courts defer to what he was doing, to give him more of a free hand. so reagan and his lawyers, which you are one, made the claims in court -- you didn't make the claim but one of reagan's lawyers -- the reagan administration came with th

nixon's lies about his involvement in a cover-up. his press secretary is going to have to later say all previous statements were an operative. you see them because of the impact of exposing watergate, reporters want to be bob woodward. he want to break the next scandal. the media has become more hostile. if we look statistically we see the amount of negative news it present has to face has gone out. and the total share of news coverage has gone down. it makes it more difficult to lead publicly. that is related to this point problem. people paying less attention to presidential addresses. you watch a that speech on so many different , onforms, broadcast, cable your phone, on your tablet, on your computer, you will see higher ratings for speeches. that is not what has happened. bysidents used to benefit having a captive audience where there were a few channels. if the president comes on, people would watch because what else are they going to do? talk with their families? i don't think so. but now you can opt out. if you are not interes

have the juice to persuade nixon to do that. and he -- i don't think he ever recovered. that is just my barbershop version. i think that was a big difference. ken: skip is right. they brought up different names -- probably you would never know. sam jethro, roy, some of the folks that came later. but jackie happened almost accidentally by several forces. i disagree about that. rachel said he died of congestive heart failure and diabetes. he got up every day to help the lives of others and he was -- but in his eulogy, jesse jackson said he had carried this weight for everybody. and if you think about when he arrived, april 15, 1947, martin luther king was a junior at morehouse college. harris s. truman had not integrated the military. there was no organized sit-ins. rosa parks was a decade away. he refused to give up his seat in the lunch counter until he was served. henry: he was court marshaled. ken: and he was a sit-in before sit-ins and a freedom rider before freedom rider. jackie represents the beginning of the modern civil r

nixon was trying to make the point of this event we have been thinking about. the protests around the democratic convention, police confrontation with anti-war protesters that led to a lot of violence. i think the trump people think it's going to help they're putting the democrats and whoever their nominee will be in a position to say exactly the same thing. a party that cannot unite itself, meaning the republican party, if it's linked to such things can't unite america, it could bounce against him in a very big way. >> michael, thank you very much. >> remarkable is the word. >> thank you. i'd like to bring robert costa into there conversation if we can get him on the phone. he's a washington post recorder. we're talking about this as not just violence but as violence in a political context in this country tonight. i have to ask how other republicans are reacting to this tonight and whether or not the trump campaign really is going to try to spin this as advantageous to them. >> many republicans are watching these images and think it's a troubling and complicat

nixon to use his good offices when he was candidate richard nixon for presidency of the united states. get martin luther king out of jail. at the same time black democrats were imploring j.f.k. and j.f.k. did it and richard nixon didn't and jackie was very embarrassed for the black community that he didn't have the juice to persuade nixon to do that. and he -- i don't think he ever recovered. that is just my barbershop version. i think that was a big difference. ken: skip is right. they brought up different names -- probably you would never know. sam jethro, roy, some of the folks that came later. but jackie happened almost accidentally by several forces. i disagree about that. rachel said he died of congestive heart failure and diabetes. he got up every day to help the lives of others and he was -- but in his eulogy, jesse jackson said he had carried this weight for everybody. and if you think about when he arrived, april 15, 1947, martin luther king was a junior at moorehouse college. harris s. truman had not integrated the military. there was no organized sit-ins. a parks was a dec

you can also see him in the new film, "elvis & nixon", which opens in theaters april 22nd. and it's been chosen to be the centerpiece film at the tribeca film festival next month. please say hello to the very talented colin hanks, everybody! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: it's so good to see you. looking good. >> you too, buddy. thank you. >> jimmy: congrats on everything. i want to talk to you about so many things. the tower records documentary. >> yes. >> jimmy: that you directed. you -- >> i directed it a tower records documentary called "all things must pass" about the rise and fall of tower records. >> jimmy: does anyone remember tower records at all? >> anyone? [ applause ] i know this guy does. this guy right here. >> questlove: never heard of it. >> jimmy: never heard of it. yeah, yeah. i mean that was -- on sunset boulevard, i used to go out to that one when i was out in los angeles. it was just the coolest. >> it's the best. you didn't have to buy anything. you could just stay and hang out. name another retail operation that doesn't care if you buy anything

. >> nixon tried that. they see right through it. you want to be unpredictable or get respect, electing an orange guy with a weird hair do who changes his mind every five minutes is not the way to do it. >> the idea that they think he is a little more dangerous and that he is going to be -- >> no, they think he is a clown. they are laughing at us. the whole world is laughing at us and they are laughing at him. that's not the same thing as respect. >> you have an idea. >> what if the muslims were terrified of clowns. >> that's a genuine fear. >> do they really think -- >> let's go to rick. rick, you know world politics. this is is a more serious trump interview. they covered a lot of subjects. i thought it was one of the more impressive interviews. did you see the whole thing? >> i did. i agree with you. look, i am not a trump fan and i haven't endorsed anyone, but this is one of his better ones. it could be a low bar. it does make sense when you are a foreign policy expert. you don't want to lay your plans on the table. you don't wan

nixon's average ranking is 22. reagan, 18. clinton, 17. bush, 36. we took the average ranking of 19 these presidents, it is cents roosevelt. is 19 since roosevelt. to some extent, over the course of the semester i have been critical of jimmy carter. not to any personal opposition but out of the criticism of his understanding of executive authority and his use of the powers of leadership. saw, notranking as we good. 25. 19. consistently mediocre. that carter fell short of greatness. only he can be blamed for. plus he undermine the prestige of the presidency. prestige is key at how the president is viewed by people outside, or rather, how the president is viewed by people in washington trying to determine how the public views him. carter did not seem to understand that. he did things i carrying his own luggage. ending the practice of hailing the chief. selling the presidential yacht. giving the national address and a cardigan sweater. he didn't understand that these things may can see more like a regular person instead of someone about the public. he

visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> this weekend, a 1968 campaign film created for richard nixon. here is a preview. nixon: i have a role about press conferences that some of my professionals on my staff do not agree with. i never played questions. -- plant questions. i know most people do. many do. the reason i don't is the answer is contract. no one will get away with a question where you say i would like to have this question asked. i also have a feeling that generally speaking, where the question is hard, strong, tough, not belligerent, it gets a better answer. always save me from the easy question where someone is trying to help me because the average listener or viewer says that is a patsy. that is one of his friends. >> watch the entire campaign film sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on our weekly series, "road to the white house rewind." tv,ext on american history the preservation of archival audio. sound is asat important in film -- as film in capturing history. he was a keynote speaker at a conference in conjunction with the radio preservation task force. this is about an hou

nixon is 32. ford, 25. reagan, 18. bush, 20.25. clinton, 17. bush, 36. if we took the average ranking of all these presidents, it's 19th. these presidents since franklin roosevelt receive an average ranking of 19th greatest. why is that? is that the result of their individual flaws? well, to some extent, sure. over the course fts semester, i have been very critical of jimmy carter. not out any personal opposition to anything he tried to accomplish. but out of a criticism of his understanding of executive authority and his use of the powers of the leadership. carter's ranking as we saw -- we flip back for a second. not good. 25, 19, 27, 25, 26. pretty consistently mediocre. and we can identify very specific reasons that carter fell short of greatness that only he can be blamed for. one is he under mined the prestige of the presidency. prestige is key. how the president is viewed by people outside or rather how the president is viewed by people in washington trying to determine how the public views him. that's key to barg ang. whether the president is able

>> that nixon didn't like you? >> i was per sona non-grata.so n washington. >> we have complained bitterly, musky. >> what can we do to screw him, that gives me courage to go on every time. >> what do you think of the current crop of candidates? >> i i'd rather not say anything about donald trump, you know how venge full he can be. but changing the subject, i do hope that some day we will not have a mis misogynist puffer fae vuvulgarian in the white house. >> somebody you like in the place? >> i like -- what worries me about hillary clinton is that -- and it must be hard on her -- the number of women saying you know, i was all for her. once. but i'm not sure now. i don't know how you overcome that. even with bill. looking like marley's ghost, coming out and advising her, i like clinton, i met him once, way back at democratic convention. he recognized me, out in the lal way. hallway, came ownership, we is had a great talk. he signed my badge that hangs around my neck. i thought it would be just a signature, but he w

. >> doesn't this remind you, nixon and agnew, nixon would use the v sign and try to gin it up? >> i think you have to go back to '68? don't you think? >> violence in politicians, usually from the right who love to gin up the action, get themselves identify, people hate riote rioters, and they sort of become the ones they root for. they root for the ones being protested. >> right, like i get the appeal for trump. he has been saying he is a candidate of the silent majority. he has been saying he is a candidate for all lives matter, not black lives matter. i do think it would be important for him in this case to, like that press conference was pretty unhelpful. it would be helpful for him to say i do not want violence at my rallies. protesters are okay, we're not trying to incite violence. it striking last night when ted cruz, john kasich were asked about the violence, they also were not too unequivocal. they did fought say violence is unacceptable. that's the answer they should have given and they chose not to. >> what your analysis of that? surrogate friend of donald trump on la

you're now making a movie about you're going to play nixon. >> i did play nixon. >> with an elvis themed movie with nixon, which sounds fun. >> it's a true story. >> oh, i know. >> they actually met in 1970. >> and is it just made this more interesting to you? do you find yourself now gravitating more to politics just as a civilian? >> no, i think it's justhe happenstance of things. elvis nixon film was offered to me a number of years ago, but i@ didn't work out. it's remarkable. we are tag lined as the really good one on december 20th, 1970, two of america's greatest recording artists met for the and it's this crazy story where elvis came to washington and wanted to be made an undercover federal agent at large and wanted nixon to give him a badge. so just this sort side of -- it's a farce obviously. we play very seriously. but, no, i've always been fascinated with politics. at the moment i'm having such an extraordinary time plpling frank underwood, a remarkable character really put on the map. it's such a pleasure to play >> how many more seasons? >> don't know yet. >> will you do anot

richard nixon started the epa. richard nixon was one who put more teeth into housing and urban development. he really wasn't a conservative when you take a look at the definition if you will today. in many ways gerald ford, george h.w. bush and to some degree george w. bush were moderates as well and we have to be very clear about our republican facts here. >> the definition of moderate has been sliding, it's been a sliding scale for a long time. >> it has been. >>>my guests will stick around for more but when we come back we're awaiting live events from donald trump and marco rubio. quite a contrast. stay with us. the orders were rushing in. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn't need a loan. we needed short-term funding fast. building 18 homes in 4 ½ months? that was a leap. but i knew i could rely on american express to help me buy those building materials. amex helped me buy the inventory i needed. our amex helped us fill the orders. just like that. another step on the journey. will you be rea

you're now making a movie about you're going to play nixon. >> i did play nixon. >> with an elvis themed movie with nixon, which sounds fun. >> it's a true story. >> oh, i know. >> they actually met in 1970. >> and is it just made this more interesting to you? do you find yourself now gravitating more to politics just as a civilian? >> no, i think it's just the happenstance of things. elvis nixon film was offered to me a number of years ago, but it didn't work out. it's remarkable. we are tag lined as the really good one on december 20th, 1970, two of america's greatest recording artists met for the first time. and it's this crazy story where elvis came to washington and wanted to be made an undercover federal agent at large and wanted nixon to give him a badge. so just this sort of side of -- it's a farce obviously. we play very seriously. but, no, i've always been fascinated with politics. at the moment i'm having such an extraordinary time playing frank underwood, a remarkable character really put on the map. it's such a pleasure to play. >> how many more seasons? >> don't know yet. >

(sot: chris nixon, dietitian) "for cooking, i would go with the sunflower oil. it's got a very light mouth feel so it doesn't have a strong flavor and it's got a high flash point so i know im safe if im cooking with sunflower oil." another thing to consider is whether your oil has the unsaturated fats like you want: that's sunflower, canola, olive and grapeseed oils... the most saturated fats are in, what she calls "tropical oils." (sot: chris nixon, dietitian) "bc saturated fat we know its linked to heart disease and cholesterol, i would not use coconut oil." >> that was haley hernandez straight ahead on news 4 today... apple is getting ready to release the new i-phone this month. and a lawsuit has ensured that your subway foot long will actually be 12 inches. late-day selling pushed u.s. stocks to a loss yesterday and erased nearly all of the market's gains for the month. nine of the 10 market sectors fell monday as investors lost enthusiasm for stocks after two straight weekly gains. finish at 16,516. the nasdaq and the s&p 500 lost 15 points. apple is report

but that's what richard nixon did. nixon went after them, red meat. spiro agnew would go after him. >> was it effective? >> it was effective that he won. but what happened to agnew? busted for bribery and nixon impeached because people hated that style of politics. low gutter, worsed kind of politics. >> did you think there is a lesson in history from all of this? for example, that administration? >> well, the one thing, poppy, i reminds students is that history reminds us that our own times aren't uniquely oppressive. we say, oh, this is nothing what we saw the last few days compared to say the chicago democratic convention when mayor daily's police forces had billy clubs and were hammering on anybody or look what happened to african-americans in the '60s with the mad dogs of birmingham and firehouses and all this. but this is simmering right now. i can see this summer, black life matters movement and others coming, descending on cleveland, massive, hundreds of thousands of protesters, like chicago '68. >> let me ask you, like i did david gergon, is

nixon, a man divided." evan, thanks for joining us. before we start on the series, i want to get your take on today, mitt romney's speech, the 2012 nominee, attacking the current front-runner, essentially urging a strategy to force a contested convention. this seems unprecedented. is it? >> it's a crazy election. i mean the conventional wisdom already seems to be that it's going to help trump. it's just the dying gasp of the establishment. but you don't know. it could be the moment that the trump bandwagon does start to have problems. there has to be a lot of skeletons in trump's closet from his tax returns to his business records. maybe over time those will come out and slow the bandwagon but the opposite could also be true, that the populist fervor behind trump is so strong that it actually helps him to be denounced by the former republican candidate for president. >> it's quite a time. now let's talk about this episode that you're in that documents the attempts to hide senator kennedy's health problems f

that was more of a watergate referendum for nixon. matt: clinton was an exception as well after george bush. carl: which is ironic because the mantra of the election was it is the economy. we were just coming out of the recession of 1991 and the economy did not feel like it was improving just yet. things were starting to improve and the official data, it would have predicted a reelection for george bush senior, but it just wasn't being felt on main street. sentiment and confidence were locked, so they did not vote for change. matt: we are headed significantly down, meaning there is less misery, there is not much unemployment or inflation. that should be good for the encumbered. -- incumbent. karl, thank you so much. ♪ stephanie: coming up next, john writing of our dq economics. -- ♪ stephanie: nationals p milk -- national people's congress meets in beijing. leaders outline their target. global glut, big moves and oil. active rigs cut to the lowest levels in six years. counter bid for dupont, will lift the rail the planned merger w

he swore to that which was a wink but that's been going on since richard nixon on since richard nixon god' thought of ss didn't do anything on behalf of dr. king is about to be sent to change again. it was barry goldwater said we would go hunting where the ducks are committing not into african-american committee, the party of lincoln which was formed and brought forth its first -- in 1856 as principal idea was to introduce the limitation and abolition of slavery. that's an important thing to remember has been advocated. we have a presidential candidate who takes a day to remember that you already once repudiated -- took me to remember that is going to do it now, that is the wink wink dog whistle that signals to our unreconstructed bother. because we like to believe and better angels of our nature. we would like to believe we're making progress. we would like to believe we would all be the slave -- slave ship owner who gives it up and writes amazing grace. we would like to believe in our better selves but in point of fact a lot of us are not that. the older guilt and we've inherited fr

nixon to use his good offices when he was candidate richard nixon for presidency of the united states. get martin luther king out of jail. at the same time black democrats were imploring j.f.k. and j.f.k. did it and richard nixon didn't and jackie was very embarrassed for the black community that he didn't have the juice to persuade nixon to do that. and he -- i don't think he ever recovered. that is just my barbershop version. i think that was a big difference. ken: skip is right. they brought up different names -- probably you would never know. sam jethro, roy, some of the folks that came later. but jackie happened almost accidentally by several forces. i disagree about that. rachel said he died of congestive heart failure and diabetes. he got up every day to help the lives of others and he was -- but in his eulogy, jesse jackson said he had carried this weight for everybody. and if you think about when he arrived, april 15, 1947, martin luther king was a junior at morehouse college. harris s. truman had not integrated the military. there was no organized sit-ins. rosa parks was a d

he said -- "the nixon campaign in 1968, and the nixon white house after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people we knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. we could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. did we know we were lying about the drugs? of course we did." that from john ehrlichman, president richard nixon's domestic policy chief. maia szalavitz, can you respond? >> absolutely. the racism in the drug war goes even further back than that. it's hard to 1914 with the harrison narcotics act. at that time, there were literally headlines in "the new york times" about cocaine fiends who were causing problems in the south and the idea was that cocaine made them impervious to bullets. so the drug war has always not been about fighting drugs because if we actually wanted to deal with addiction problems,