president lyndon b. johnson rushed through congress, a resolution in 1968. it really gave him the ability to do whatever was needed to support and protect south vietnam. it was the beginning of the escalation of the vietnam war. he believes it was not a true declaration of war. it was a needless and reckless and ultimately damaging resolution. he was correct, it led to changing our country in ways that are not completely understood and calculated. that is a major event in the history of our country and it created a lot of concern about our trust in government. he was correct. at the time, he was the fiercest critic of the and not want. at the same time, he was lbj's person in the senate who helped pass all of the great society education programs. the support to public education, the first ever in our country. infrastructure development or education, the g.i. bill, student loans, there was a huge number of society education programs for which he is rightly famous. they did all the negotiations. they were the experts in the process. it was a very delicate and

of multi-part biography of lyndon johnson. he can compassion from the beginning, i wrote in the book, overriding s the consideration with him. t was only when compassion and ambition coincided in the senate, he realizes if he wants he has to pass civil rights bill, he turns to this. say, so was he fielding forth? not at all. he had wanted to help poor people and particularly poor people of color. >> sunday night 8 eastern on q&a.n's >> "washington journal" continues. back focusing e on the healthcare legislation that senate republicans are a look at right now, they are meeting -- the republicans doors.closed get a first look at the details in this draft legislation that been written up by the majority leader in a working it was ome complaining done so in secret. one part of this legislation focusing on medicaid and he senate republicans, many would like to see the expansion done under the affordable care act phased down. want to hear from medicaid recipients this morning and all are your thoughts on republicans wanting to phas

lyndon johnson: this is the richest and the most powerful country... would you cross a street? would you cross an ocean? would you go if you could use your knowledge to teach someone and, in the process, maybe learn something yourself? life is calling. how far will you go? peace corps. >>> we have new details on a fire that gutted a housing complex in emeryville. now they believe a fire at that same site last july was that's arson. agents are sharing these surveillance images. it shows a man checking out the complex before the fire started. he was wearing a backpack and riding this bicycle at one point. >>> alameda trying to find the rightful owners of dozens of stolen packages they recovered. the 41 packages were storage unit. 45-year-old john paul is currently being held in santa rita jail with the thefts, and police want to hear from anybody who was expecting a package but never got one. >>> and then yesterday a budget conference committee advanced pieces of the compromised state budget and includes a boost to spending on social services. the panel also placed restrictions o

. >> sreenivasan: one year later, congress passed and president lyndon johnson signed the landmark civil rights act of 1964. more recently, tufekci cites the success of the conservative "tea party" movement. it began in the spring of 2009 with a viral video... >> this is america. how many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? >> sreenivasan: ...followed by tax day protests around the country. by the november 2010 midterm elections, the movement had a measurable impact. >> they got 50-plus congress people. they essentially blocked president obama's second term agenda, and, arguably, they elected a president that they like. so, it just shows what the protest leads to depends on what happens next. >> sreenivasan: in 2011, on the other side of the political spectrum, one email, inspired by the arab spring protests, started "occupy wall street." within weeks, it was a movement with encampments all over the country. but when the camps came down, "occupy" had little to show for its agenda. >> on the one hand, it was really powerful in bringing to people's attention something t

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on thees his progress multipart biography on lyndon johnson. >> he had compassion from the beginning. ambition was the overriding ambition. it was only when compassion and ambition coincide. he realized if he wants to be president he has to pass the civil rights bill. was -- all his life, he had wanted to help poor people and particularly poor people of color. announcer: the supreme court has ruled unanimously that the governments rule to registered trademarks they can be seen as disparaging violates the first amendment. this is a challenge of the american rock band, the slants. oral argument from january. it is one hour.

remember they needed to give support, lyndon baines johnson ticket that passed. there'there is a variety of exes and for this one you are entitled to see what the government are up to a. why do we need strategies. every state has its own state public records law that entitles the state and local records like the town hall and school district. research i've done shows for example on average three quarters of the time they will deny you that information three quarters of the time the police break the law. this is pervasive throughout the country. they have no enforcement provisions or very little, no teeth. so it's stacked against a citizen and the only recourse is to hire an attorney and take them to court and who has the time or the money to do that. so i wrote with my co-author to help maneuver to the system to figure out how to get the information they are entitled to and unfortunately to no city and a little gumption and psychological human tactics. >> have you ever pursued? >> i was a journalist for a long time. i had to fire lots of public records requests.

lyndon johnson built his behemoth on the campus of the university of texas at austin. it was an-eight story building, dramatic and really the first of the mega-presidential libraries. after that, everyone wanted to copy that in terms of the effects and legacy. host: what does a presidential library cost these day? guest: about twice what the predecessor cost. reagan's cost 40 million. george w. bush about 87 million. bill clinton $167 million. george w. bush $320 million. the estimate is between $500 million and $1.5 billion for president obama, it doesn't take into fact he doesn't have to provide an endowment. congress saw presidential libraries were getting more, they passed an act that said, if you give us a presidential library, have you to give us an endowment to defer the cost. that was raised to first 40 and then 60% f. $100 million, you give $60 million for the national archives. host: that is also the cost of the things you talked about running the paper or running the records, but some other communications issues, as well? guest: supposed to go to operation a

president lyndon b. johnson rushed through congress, a resolution in 1968. called the golf -- golf of tonkin resolution which gave him carte blanche to do what was to support and protect south vietnam. it was the beginning of the escalation of the vietnam war. he believes it was not a true declaration of war that it was a needless and reckless and ultimately damaging resolution. towas correct, and led changing our country in ways that are still not completely understood and calculated. that is a major event in the history of our country which created a lot of concern about our trust in government. thousands and thousands of people dead. we were in a country where we didn't along and ultimately had to leave. ripple effects throughout the world. he was correct and people realize that now. this is one of the most interesting aspect. at the time, he was the fiercest critic of the war. in lbj's face constantly that he was sending our boys to be killed for no good reason just to protect our economic interests. time, he was lbj's person in the senate who got allugh

. >> pulitzer prize award-winning shares his story of lyndon johnson. >> he had the passion that i wrote in the book but the ambition was the overriding consideration with him. he was compassionate and realized to be president he has to pass the civil rights bill. all his life he had poor people and poor people of color. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span q&a. >> interior secretary answered questions about oil anga

he shares his progress on the next volume of his multipart biography of lyndon johnson. >> he had compassion from the beginning. what i wrote in the book was that ambition was the overriding consideration with him. it was only when compassion and ambition coincided, when he realized that if he wanted to be president he had to pass a civil rights bill that he really turns . was he feeling false? not at all. all his life he had wanted to help poor people, particularly poor people of color. q&a.nday on >> "washington journal" continues. host: the headline across "the wall street journal" this morning, "gop prevails in georgia." karen handel, the republican there, defeating john awsat. also a special election race they won in south carolina. the president tweeting about both of those races today, weighing in with his thoughts. we want to hear your thoughts in the last 30 minutes of today's show. what does it say let the mood of the country? does it say anything about the 2018 election? what to do think of the race in georgia, which wound up being the

one of the interesting things about the johnson white house -- lyndon johnson is literally in the oval office talking to the president of cbs news about business deals, having johnson on stations, getting better terms for affiliation agreements with cbs. and at the same time, johnson had people in his administration suggesting that there be better, more liberal, more market-oriented positions to open up new technology for things like cable tv. but he wouldn't go there. he was compromised by the fact he did not want there to be focused on this because he had his own conflicts to worry about. he literally kept that stuff that day. finally after that, starting in the 1970's, there is a tendency to look more favorably on market competition and freedom of speech to the first amendment actors in the market. host: who was at when armstrong and why did -- who was edwin armstrong and why did he commit suicide? guest: a great inventor, a student at columbia university in the early part of the last century. by the time he graduated, he had in a.m.in a radio -- radio. first a professor when he gra

progress on a multipart biography of lyndon johnson. >> he had compassion from the beginning. the ambition was the overriding consideration with him. andas only win compassion ambition coincide that he realizes if he wants to be president he has to pass the civil rights bill. all of his life, he had wanted to help for people and particularly poor people of color. >> american history tv is on c-span every weekend. programs on the presidency. the civil war and more. here is a clip from a recent program. >> edith green was the chair. she held the view of the hearings outlining the problem and recently came up with title ix. the idea was initially to amend the civil rights act which is about race and to include the word gender. there is pressure from the civil rights leaders not to change that law. >> why didn't they want to change those laws? >> the concern that if you put gender in it would diminish the law. it is the first in a series where race and gender were really pitted against each other. can watch this and other american history programs on our website where all our vide

johnson. he had immense political skills and was a very powerful personality. so they sold their political careers destroyed. he made the mistake of assuming he could out negotiate. he had in mind two things. one is the reluctance of anybody that would flip through the first world war to see another. the other is he knew that the gunfighters and radar would be ready for combat until 1940. since it was the greatest secrets there was no way to tell the british that they would have to wait until 1940. but he knew that we had to buy time so he bought time. the british and the french had to buy time. >> the newest book is coming out in september called a loan, britain, churchill and dunkirk to defeat into history thank you for spending a few minutes with us on book tv. booktv. >> it is a pleasure to see you again. >>> as many of you know i am a joyful practitioner of social media. i'm there every day. i was an early adopter of facebook. the first website appeared in my 20s and 30s so i thought it was cool watching a website loading on my old monitor by a little mode

johnson. up next, from 50 years ago, the president, june 1960 7 -- event's to pick did in this half film include the six-day war in the middle east, the nomination of thurgood marshall to the supreme court'. the navy phones are archived at the lbj presidential library and you can watch many of them on their youtube channel. ♪

>> on the first day, january 31st, there was a cia report that went to the president, i found it in lyndon johnson's papers at his library in austin, and so, it certainly would have been seen by general westmoreland, which said it was actually very accurate. it said that the city has been taken by the north vietnamese and the viet cong. there's a small group of americans who are trapped in the southern part of the city and there's a small group of south vietnamese soldiers trapped in the northern part of the city, but other than that, you know, this city has been taken. and that very day, general westmoreland is cabling to washington that there are no more than like 500 enemy soldiers in the city of hue, which was off by a factor of 20. and i might add, that this was not just a-- it was not a failure that was just sort after public relations problem or a communications problem. these young men, like andy, and marines were being sent and ordered to attack entrenched far superior forces. so a force of 300 marines, a company of marines was corded to attack the citadel, which is the big fortre

he shares his progress on the next volume of the biography of lyndon johnson. >> he had compassion since the beginning. but i wrote in the book, but ambition was overriding consideration with him. it was only when compassion and am ba ambition coincide in the center, that he realizes if he wants to be president he has to pass the civil rights bill, that he really turns to this. if anything, what he is feeling for, not at all, because all of his life he had wanted to help poor people and particularly poor people of color. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q nld a. & a. >> now acting navy secretary sean stackly and others discuss the navy's 2018 project requests at a hearing by the senate armed services

meat i don't think use that term and then later they'll have to be stuck with it i think this is what lyndon johnson knew with his and title months and what obama knew but at the end of the day we've got to introduce some options families and small businesses were getting decimated by obamacare is cost and access problem so we've got to do something else but i think you're right america has shifted and they're saying hey wait a second we don't want more people dropped off of access to insurance it's a look at supply tical problem that obama laid out a trap that it's very tough to get out of i think you're right about that well access is important especially for millions of americans who've got a preexisting condition that's going to be on shaky ground and what about what wendell potter just said that we're going back to the days of junk insurance sure your premiums going to go down but your coverage is going to suck i mean i don't know how else to put it i mean we're we're really well how can the conservative sell this to the majority of americans that this is going to be a better deal. well

. >> at 10:00 eastern on real america, in 1967 monthly film series on the activities of president lyndon johnson. >> he remarked one of the chief executive's most important jobs is attracting able and talente public servans to washington. first, the secretary of commerce. and thurgood marshall, associate justice of the supreme court. >> sunday at 6:30 eastern, george washington university history professor greg burzynski talks about the cold war competition between the u.s. and china to influence newly independent african and asian countries. 1960's, thee rivalry intensified. this is an important point where i think to many american policymakers chinese activities in southeast asia and africa start to become as or more worrisome than soviet activities. buckland talkic about confederate colonel john as mosby. >> generally complained to stuart that mosby was fighting into many small groups. decentralized way he operated the not make sense. the needed to mass his forces and pick one big target. that went completely against everton mosby was doing. his effectiveness was the fact he could hav

johnson knew with his entitle months and what obama knew but at the end of the day we've got to introduce some options families and small businesses were getting decimated by obamacare is cost and access problem so we've got to do something else but i think you're right america has shifted and they're saying hey wait a second we don't want more people dropped off of access to insurance it's a look at supply nickel problem that obama laid out a trap that it's very tough to get out of i think you're right about that well access is important especially for millions of americans who've got a preexisting condition that's going to be on shaky ground and what about what wendell potter just said that we're going back to the days of junk insurance sure your premiums going to go down but your coverage is going to suck i mean i don't know how else to put it i mean we're we're really well how can the conservative sell this to the majority of americans that this is going to be a better deal. well right but i tell you not long ago i was getting ready for the show i think and i was talking a woman she s

johnson. up next american history tv's :eal america, the president june 1967. events include the six-day war in the middle east, the nomination of thurgood marshall to the supreme or any 3-d -- three day summit. lbje are archived at the presidential library and you can watch any of them on their youtube channel. ♪

he shares his progress on the next volume of this multi- part biography of lyndon johnson. >> he had compassion from the beginning. his ambition was the overriding. it was only when compassion and power coexisted. he realized that he wants to be president he has to put forward a civil rights bill. all of his life he had wanted to help poor people of color. >> sunday night at eastern on q&a. >> federal intelligence and cyber security officials, as well as state government and election board leaders testify about russian hacking and u.s. elections including vulnerabilities and recommendations to help ensure better voting security and future elections for the senate intelligence committee

didn't have much time to do work on that and lyndon johnson took over. but the hollywood must have taken up on the imagery because the movie how the west was won came out with the stars and it was a way of mythology. when i was ten we went to houston, texas for a conference. they showed this on a huge screen in houston. everything in houston was huge. but there was a scene where jimmy stuart takes a barrel of gun powder into the crowd and it all explodes. the barrel is thrown into a fire, a huge explosion and the entire screen goes blank. turns out lightning struck the building at the moment the scene was. so the whole audience of a thousand people was very dramatic. >> i think it is very true that rugged individualism is most encouragedand hospitalable with the west. but the west isn't the only frontier. john kennedy pointed to space as one example of a new frontier. and i saw the movie "hidden figures" about rugged individuals who worked hard to make it work. in the end, although they thought they had the new idea. we think social media presents new id

. >> we think of a modern day example of lyndon johnson. an outside texan and former majority leader of the senate, used to call his friend dick russell and he was popular in the polls, of course, coming out of a national tragedy and all the members of the senate were were ari of crossing it. >> we don't have that right now. >> in part of it is the president's approval rating, at 39%. more americans disapprove of his performance. that's not exact lay political threat to some of these senators. it is beyond that. it is a lack and a clear of coherent focus on a specific issue. he's not driving the message and explaining to the american people why this particular healthcare bill is powerful. another thing to keep in mind is what he had to say after the house bill. he privately said that bill was mean. that sent a signal to the lawmakers that he's not necessarily going to have their backs. >> erika, what a bus ride that must have been for all republicans in the senate down to the white house. you were in the room when the media is allowed in un

johnson. internationally of course, his leadership of the united states before and during its entry into world war i. then of course his legacy with his wilsonianism and his vision of post war world. and as scholars have pointed out more recently, along with his good, there was also bad. right? and adrian and eric in particular have pointed out some of the darker side that went hand in hand with these great achievements of wilson's, the segregation of the departments that happened under his watch, the exporting of racial imperialism that mary talks about. and so that has come to light. it's been around for a while, but more and more in the public eye recently. i would like to take a few minutes to talk i think about a related legacy of wilson that can speak to both the good and the bad. that's a legacy in the lens of thinking about woodrow wilson as a southerner, which i think gives us another lens on to him, on to his administration, and also on to his legacies. so in a sense, thinking about

lyndon johnson was in office. the beatles released "sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band." the first rolling stone magazine was published. the mod look in fashion was in full swing. gas was 33 cents a gallon and a movie ticket was a dollar 25. today on "through the decades," we're taking the hour to look back at the one year 1967. from the hit tv show about a fake band who became a real music sensation to the hippie movement. but, we start with a season that year. the summer of 1967. it is known as "the summer of love." scores of young people flocked to san francisco to be together, enjoy music, happiness, drugs and each other. there are moments in american history that divide our story into a clear "before" and "after." from lexington and concorde to pearl harbor, those moments are most often defined by conflict. but in 1967, it was defined by a lack of sexual inhibition a steady supply of hallucinogenic drugs and a new thing called acid rock. that june a tidal wave of humanity packed san franciso's "haight-ashbury" district for what came to be known as "the summer of love

watched as president lyndon johnson signed the bill into law after the country tike a giant step towards racial equality 53 years ago today. should news break out, we'll break in. great day on the dow. even better on the nasdaq. 1.5%. cavuto will have details starting right now. >> tensions escalating after the u.s. shoots down a syrian fighter jet targeting u.s.-backed forces. now russia is saying they're going to target us! welcome. i'm trish reagan in for neil cavuto. russian forces say they will treat u.s. planes as targets after a syrian jet was shot down. let's go to kristin fisher with more. >> to give you how big an ideal this is, the last time the u.s. shot down a war plane was almost 20 years ago in air-

she felt more hope then than she had felt since lyndon johnson declared the war on poverty in kentucky, right? is this president being disingenuous with these people, that their livelihood will completely turn around? >> yeah, well, i don't know if he's being disingenuous, obviously. i don't know what's in the president's mind. but i do think from just a basic economic and, frankly, political fact of life that the white house needs to keep in mind is these areas do have high unemployment rates, low labor force participation rates. they do need good jobs, and unfortunately, they don't have those jobs right now. now, you can talk about the coal industry, and obviously, it does have this symbolic importance, but unless you can actually bring new jobs, better jobs, jobs outside of the coal industry to these areas, they're still going to really, really suffer. and i think consequently, while the president may not pay a political price tomorrow, if two years from now, if four years from now people are still looking around and saying, where are the jobs, how can i find good work, either in th

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johnson and andrew jackson as two of the worst, he said. here's a quote on the subject in a piece that was put together by "rolling stone" magazine. people said my language was bad, recalled nixon, but jesus, you should've heard lbj. johnson famously consulted with cabinet members while he sat on the "blinker" with the door open. he said i do know the difference between chicken blank and chicken salad, he once had. there's a better perspective for you on things this week. have a great fourth of july with their families, everybody. great to have you on "the story" tonight. tucker carlson is coming up nex next. >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." an illegal alien from el salvador getting a six-figure payout from taxpayers current c of the city of san francisco. like many places in california, san francisco is a sanctuary city who privileges to turn illegal immigrants over to the feds for deportation. pedro figaro is an illegal alien from el salvador saying police reported him when he visited a police station two years ago. he sued

he shares his progress on his biography of lyndon johnson. >> he had passion from the beginning. i wrote in the book that ambition was the overriding consideration with him. it was only when compassion and that he coincided realizes if you wants to be president, he has to pay us the civil rights bill, that he turns to this. was he feeling falls? not at all. all his life, he had wanted to help poor people and particularly of color. next week, the senate begins debate on the health care law replacement bill, which was released by republicans.

>> reporter: presidential historian robert dalic remembers when then senate majority leader lyndon b. johnson arranged for a television network to broadcast the congressional testimony. >> johnson knew this, that once they saw mccarthy with his 5:00 o'clock shadow and having people see how rude and abusive he could be, it undercut him terribly. >> our activities in south vietnam -- >> reporter: years later in 1966 the vietnam hearings exposed a stunning admission. >> i think our military involvement in vietnam has to be recognized as unfortunate, as something we would not choose deliberately if the choice were ours to make all over again today. >> reporter: the u.s. was stuck in a war it was unlikely to win. >> it raised questions about what was the purpose of it, why were we fighting there. >> reporter: from the iran-contra affair -- >> i came here to tell you the truth. >> reporter: -- to the infamous she said -- >> i could not keep silent. >> reporter: -- he said. >> it is a high-tech lynching. >> reporter: of the clarence thomas-anita hill scandal. public hearings have become part

johnson's health care bill in part from the 1960's. sarah kliff, do you think that's a fair description? >> i think it is certainly the biggest rollback we would have seen in modern political history of health care benefits. one thing that has been surprising about the debate, one of the reasons it has been such a struggle for republicans, is that you don't typically see benefit programs taken away once enacted. it is easier to talk about hypothetical benefits and not pass a law than it is to pass a law that takes something away. it's something like the ahca were to pass, it would be a somewhat unprecedented piece of legislation. you would have an estimated fortune mode people -- 14 million people losing coverage, ending medicaid expansion, and changing medicaid financing. that would be pretty big and would really transform the program. right now the way medicaid works is that the federal government essentially has an open-ended commitment to funding the program, that they would pay a certain percentage of every enrollee's bills. under

early in the book, lyndon johnson comes back from his first cabinet meeting under john f kennedy and goes to see sam rayburn and says the quality of the cabinet going down the list of brilliant people and at the end of it he said, you know, lyndon, i would be a lot more comfortable if there was one texas sheriff in the cabinet. what he meant was a texas sheriff knew his brand new deputy at 4:00 in the morning was probably asleep and they needed to be checked on because he wasn't doing his job. in the real world, people behave in real ways. in the kennedy cabinet, you had a theoretical group with bunch of theoretical mindsets. they talked about orchestrating and up and down the letter and the north vietnamese were clear. they were going to win or die. we could have beaten them or accepted defeat which we ultimately did. they were not confused. they had been fighting for years. and this is exactly where we are today. you have all these people and this was and i was part of this. i thought there was an opportunity to profoundly rethink the middle east. i use to tell people i think we co

. >> at 10:00 on real america, a 1967 monthly film series on the activities of president lyndon johnson. >> he had remarked that one of the chief executive's most important jobs is attracting able and talented public servants to washington. the month of june would see two major appointments, first, alexander trowbridge as secretary of commerce and thurgood marshall as associate justice of the supreme court. sunday at 6:30 eastern, george washington university history professor discusses the cold war competition between the u.s. and china to influence newly independent african and asian countries. >> during the 1960's, the sino u.s. rivalry intensified and this is an important point where i think, too many american policymakers, chinese activities in southeast asia and africa start to become as or more worrisome than soviet activities. >> at 9:00, a historian talks about confederate colonel john s mosby. >> generally complained a couple general lee complained a couple of times that mosby was falling into many small groups, a decentralized way he operated did not make sense and he needed

quickly he took a direction and began seeking vice presidency under lyndon johnson. that led him to the senate and then to rebel in vietnam. and then to find his own definition of change. that's what he shared in that speech in 1966. speaking to those college students who were fighting apartheid they were in a revolution of their own and said the tiniest thing you do can change the world. >> he used to say about himself he was sardonic. his critics found him calculating, opportunistic. would he have survived twitter, facebook, high definition television lenses? would it have ended the same way in this environment? >> robert kennedy was a polarizing figure when he announced for the senate his wife noticed a button on a little kid i hate bobby kennedy because. people questioned why he visited jfk's grave. robert kennedy was definitely not beyond the personal barbs and small politics. you see the same things throughout. one thing i tried to do was to go back and look at how he was covered and how he operated as a politician and once you see that you can really start to

. >> at 10:00 on real america, a 1967 monthly film series on the activities of president lyndon johnson. >> he had often rashgd that one of the chief executives most important jobs is attracting able and talented public servants to washington. the month of june would see two major appointmentes, first, alexander trobridge as secretary of commerce and thurgood marshall as associate justice of the supreme court. >> sunday at 6:30 eastern. george washington university history professor greg burzinski discusses the cold war competition between u.s. and china to influence newly independent african and asian countries. >> during the 1960s, the u.s. rivalry intensified and this is really an important point where i think to many american policymakers, chinese activities in southeast asia and africa start to become as or more worry so many. >> and at 9:00, they talk about confederate colonel john s.mosby. >> a couple different times general lee complained to stewart that mosby was fighting in too many small groups. you know, the decentralized way that he operated didn't make sense. he needed to

you've got lyndon johnson with unemployment insurance and welfare. you move them to today where you're looking at unemployment benefits, food stamps, income support for child tax credits, and hopefully someday we'll look at the health care. but that is the social safety net which in the past has been supported by democrats and republicans. >> i hear you making that point, yes, but we've had an idealogical divide on this question for many decades, which is role of government. how much, how less? a conservative government libertarian conservative would say you're expanding government all over the place, and they would say once you give somebody these benefits, they'll never get off of it. what do you say to that? >> i would say they really have no idea of what the reality is. in terms of the idealogical spectrum, george mcgovern, bob dole, they are in hunger. they crossed this country and said, we have a problem. hunger in the united states, i talk about this in the book. and they came to a conclusion. you have had democrats and republicans on income s

operating under the priorities of fdr, lyndon johnson and barack obama. he wants to reset the priorities and the priorities are always about spending. if you want to put 20 or $30 billion in the defense, you got to take that from somewhere else. taxpayers don't want to pay anymore money and we're not going to grow for a while. liz: what about the point kellyanne conway was making the media is avoiding the fact liberal rhetoric motivated him. do you think it's the way the media is covering it? >> i think this is a terribly misguided man who did the shooting. he is an older man who basically his life didn't go the way it wanted to go. he isn't happy with the status quo and he's crazy, takes a gun and shoots -- liz: what about the media looking into his rhetoric. ed: at the end of the day, the media is there for all sides. if you want to be a right-winger, plenty of stuff to fed. if you want to be a left-winger, pick that up and run with it. we are no longer where we used to be three or four channels and three or four newspapers, it's all over and it's indiv

and he hears his progress on the next volume of his multipart biography of lyndon johnson. >> he had compassion from the beginning. but i wrote in the book, ambition was the overriding consideration with him. it was only when compassion and ambition coincided, when he was in the senate he realized if he want it's to be president, he has to pay the civil rights bill, that he really turns to this. then you say, was he feeling false? not at all. because all his life he had wanted to help poor people and particularly poor people of color. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> for the next hour, an american history tv exclusive. our cities tour visits trenton, new jersey. to learn more about its unique history. for six years now, we've traveled to cities across the u.s., to explore their literary and historic sites. you can watch more of our visits at cspan.org/citiestour. >> trenton became the state capital in 1790. trenton was selected because of its location. even though we're not in the geographic center of the state as many state capitals are. we are situated on the del

the agenda of fdr, the agenda of lyndon johnson, the obama agenda, he's going create jobs and make america great again. that has great appeal. >> the dems are on the wrong side of history, randy. history has moved by them it appears to most voters at least in all of these special elections. your thoughts. >> well, i'll add one more to the list, opening at number one today on the "new york times" best-seller list, understanding trump, about former speaker newt gingrich, bumps out of place, you know, books that are completely behind the curve. lou: has newt got you on commission or something? >> i think in fairness, and all the nice that you are newt's lawyer and have been for a long time. i hope you negotiated a deal and getting a slight piece for the book. [laughter] >> know this. donald trump is the hottest thing in america because he has ideas, he has energy and direction. it's been shown in the special election, shown in book purchases, but more importantly, it's being shown in terms of the leadership in the congress. lou, you're right. there's no way anybody thought before july 4th we

. >> and phillip whenever we turn to this subject we think of modern day example like lyndon johnson. >> yeah. >> an outsized texan, formerly majority leader of the senate used to call his friend dig russell everett dirkson. he was popular in the police coming out of a national tragedy and all the members of the senate were wary about crossing him. >> and we just don't have that right now. in part it's because of the president's only political problems. his approval rating as of today in the gal up daily tracking poll stands at 39%. so more americans disprove of his performance than approve. that's not exactly a political threat to some of the senators. but it's beyond that. it's his lack of clear sort of key heernt focus on a specific issue. he is not driving a message, not out there explaining to the american people why this particular health care bill is powerful. and another thing to keep in mind is what he had to say after the house bill. he had the big rose garden ceremony after that vote. and then he privately said that that bill was mean. and that sent a signal to the lawmaker