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senator ted kennedy of massachusetts will make the offical announcement. kennedy is 52 years old. he works as a health-care lawyer right now. he is running for the seat of democrat edward meyer who was going to retire. >> this video and just into kron4 of the forest fire that is born in new jersey. so far, the fire has burned about two square miles. people in new york city, 90 mi. away can smell the smoke. crusaded they had about 50% of this fire contained. >> it just a few minutes ago, the u.s. supreme court turned down the appeal of a new mexico photographer who objects to taking pictures of same sex weddings. the justices let a supreme court

kennedy and saying the only reason we know king was a communist was because ted kennedy's brothers ordered surveillance on him because that is what they believe that he ended up getting a tobacco deal and backing down which people suggested was his motive all along. .. >> bob dole and others pulled reagan to a pretty strong support and all along the republicans and others who oppose the king holiday mostly did so on the this is a very boring reasons that did not meet good copy. if it would be expensive very and economic crisis to give the whole nation's workforce another day off. they calculated that that would be quite costly. ill advised as well. and they said that not enough time had passed for the nation to get enough distance and i had conservatives like strom thurmond landed of voting for the king holiday. and it is established by those who testified with those for the holiday. the very existence shows that not enough has passed for us to get the proper distance for deciding whether this is a person who we really want to angle out more than george washington carver order to the roose

kennedy -- very close partnership with ted kennedy on the no child left behind act. and bipartisan medical reform, all in that first term. relationships had deteriorated, but there was still warm -- still room to work on immigration reform. bush's close partner on immigration reform was ted kennedy. it was a fantastic partnership. both men knew how to put aside bitter disagreements on other issues to make accommodations on areas where there could be disagreement. but there needs to be give and take at both ends. the situation i think president obama faces today is one in which the leadership of the other party in the congress sees of simply pulling the president down. overcome thatd to short term instinct. going to happen is that willycle of retaliation just continue on. they need to put that aside. where they can agree and accommodate, they need to do that. >> the vitriol i see among some republicans to president obama is extraordinary. it makes it difficult for him to want to reach out to the republicans in congress. in the same way, there was similar vitriol by th

kennedy and saying the only reason we know king was a communist was because ted kennedy's brothers ordered surveillance on him because that is what they believe that he ended up getting a tobacco deal and backing down which people suggested was his motive all along. .. took control of the senate in 1980 but what happened is you have republicans brought over to the pro-king holiday site and ultimately ronald reagan who heads sort of nudged and winked that he agreed with the anti-communist line that ashbrook and others had taken without being explicit but don't get me wrong. the republicans were polled around mostly by moderates the party leadership by bob dole howard baker in tennessee pullep reagan and the republicans around to pretty strong support and all along the republicans and others mostly did so on the basis of really boring reasons it did not make good copy. t opy. if it would be expensive very and economic crisis to give the whole nation's workforce another day off. they calculated that that would be quite costly. ill advised as well. and they said that not enough time had passed

kennedy -- very close partnership with ted kennedy on the no child left behind act. and bipartisan medical reform, all in that first term. by i time i became chief of staff in 2006, the relationships had deteriorated, but there was still room to work on immigration reform. president bush's close partner on immigration reform was ted kennedy. it was a fantastic partnership. both men knew how to put aside bitter disagreements on other issues to make accommodations on areas where there could be disagreement. but there needs to be give and take at both ends. the situation i think president obama faces today is one in which the leadership of the other party in the congress sees advantage of simply pulling the resident down. that's bound to get bad before an election, but both sides need to overcome that short-term instinct because what's going to happen is that the cycle of retaliation will just continue on. they need to put that aside. where they can agree and accommodate, they need to do hat. >> the vitriol i see among some republicans to president obama is extraordinar

by the time ted kennedy quit stamorring, he was handicapped. she looks to me as not formidable. >> then there is jeb bush who was asked this week what his immediate plans are, and he said this. put it up on the screen. i'm thinking about running for president. while there were no cameras there, there were cameras a couple of weeks ago when bush talked about his approach to illegal immigration. take a look. >> yes. they broke the law, but it's not a felony. it's kind of -- it's an act of love. it's an act of commitment to your family. >> someone who has spent a fair amount of time in the bush family is swreb running and how do you think his kinder, gentler approach to immigration reform is going to sit with the republican base? >> well, first of all, i don't know, and he is thinking about it, but i know one thing, he is a very disciplined person. he is going to think about it and make a decision neck year and nothing in between now and then is going to force him to make a decision. of all of the bushes, i suspect he is the most stubborn, except

. -- e-mail address is --ki@ ted kennedy said, we are american. reachedwhat we do we the moon. we scaled the heights. i know it. i have seen it. i have lived it. we can do it again. his vision of an institute for the united states senate was that if we all of immersed ourselves in our nation's history, and relive the great debates of our time, we would be reminded of the great problems we tackled and great things we achieved because we all came to the table. we would be renewed and reinspired to be involved and to do it again. that is very much the same spirit that brings us here today. the bipartisan policy center was founded by four senate majority leaders. two democrats, tom daschle and george mitchell, and two republicans, bob dole and trent lot. as the only washington dc based think tank that promotes worksisanship, the bpce to address key challenges addressing our nation. the bpce created the clinical reform, bringing together national leaders as well as voices for many other sectors of american society. volunteer leaders, religious leaders, as this executive -- business

is there a young senator someone who seems like a prospective ted kennedy? >> lamar alexander. >> lamar alexander? >> i would agree. >> and the other nominees? >> no. >> it would be easier for you had a list to look at. >> can i give you a name that will surprise everybody? chuck schumer. i was the ranking member of the rules committee and chuck was the chairman. everybody said to me this is going to be terrible. before it was dianne feinstein and diane is wonderful and we worked everything out without difficulties or problems and she was wonderful. he said no, diane has moved on to intelligence and you have chuck schumer and he is tough and is just going to be awful. i never asked chuck for anything that he didn't give me. i made sure all of my requests were reasonable but okay this is reasonable and i would go to chuck and sit down and chuck would say yet okay. we can work that out. i know he has a reputation of a brass knuckles, brass knuckles back alley fighter and he is as tough a partisan as you are going to come across but chuck is transactional. he c

there wase house, tremendous respect on both sides for ted kennedy because of the way he operated. i guess in speaking in broader terms of out people that used to be in the senate and the house that operated from that vantage point, where they really wanted to get the right thing done and, if they couldn't get their way, they were not going to lay on the tracks and call a news conference and stomp their feet and try to get you in their next election. he never did that. and i think that is best just to build on what olympia is saying -- was one of the great things about him. someone who is kind of a master legislator respected on , has a strong point of view but is willing to work -- is there a young senator or someone who seems like a prospective ted kennedy figure? >> lamar alexander. >> i would agree with that. >> any other nominees? >> it would be easier if we had a list to look at. i give you a name that will surprise everybody? chuck schumer. member of theing rules committee when chuck was the chairman. everybody said to me, this is going to be terrible. feinstein was dianne d

so i had ted kennedy to the -- that's why he had ted kennedy to the white house so many times, even though ted kennedy would go out and bash him every time he'd been over. he's a gracious man. and he thought it would be a gracious act, from what i understand, to allow the obama administration to get the credit for finalizing the status of forces agreement with iraq. ut then the brazen attitude by the new administration not only didn't sign the status of forces agreement that the bush administration had teed up, they didn't get any status of forces agreement. mitt romney was not very eloquent in the way he pointed it out, not very effective in the way he pointed it out. but he did bring it up in one. debates. you can even -- in one of the debates. you can't even get a status of forces agreement done with iraqment and it is something that this administration -- iraq. and it is something that this administration should have been embarrassed about. after all we had done for iraq, under this president, this administration, we just crept ut of iraq with nothing even in the way of a thank you agr

and by the time ted kennedy quit stamerring, he was handicapped. she looks to me as not foremidable. >> then there is jeb bush who was asked this week what his immediate plans are and he said this. put it up on the screen. "i'm thinking about running for president." while there were no cameras there, there were cameras a couple weeks ago when bush talked about his approach to illegal immigration. take a look. >> yes, they broke the law. but it's not a felony. it's kind of -- it's a act of love. it's an act of commit. to your family. >> carl, someone who spent a fair amount of time around the bush family, is jeb running? and how do you think his kinder, gentler approach to immigration reform is going to sit with the republican base? >> first of all, i don't know. and he's thinking about it. i know one thing about it. he's a very disciplined person. so he's going to think about it and make a decision next year. and nothing between now and then is going to force him to make a decision. of all of the bush's i suspect he is the most stubborn except for

kennedy, 10 user begins a really big advocate advocate for arguing very close to our union. he said a lot of people come to washington dc and work about this they serve term after term and never get anything done. he says, people want me to be president but one thing that i do as a senator i build alliances and him effective and i can work across the aisle. i build alliances. that's very important to be able to do that. you can take the negative role and say somebody does give [inaudible] that's true. sometimes you have to figure out a roadblock how you get around it and be effective in getting the gimp and build alliances with people that have the experience or talk to people i was watched people that are successful and i watch what they do. i learned what they do because it helps me. you don't want people that are failures, with 80. you watch people that know what they're doing, who are effective, and how to get things done. so i appreciate your comments. i'm hoping as a commissioner will continue but one thing that i want to see is , i want people that are qualified but i don't c

in 1980, carter defeated ted kennedy in a hard-fought primary, and went on to win the greatest title of all, the man who lost to ronald reagan. ronald wilson reagan was born in tampico, illinois -- what? still not doing reagan? fine. deal's a deal. after his loss to reagan, president carter became "former" president carter, a title he has successfully defended for 33 years, including a 1987 split decision against hector "macho" camacho. i lost a "lot" of money on that. within years of leaving office, jimmy carter founded the carter center, a humanitarian organization which has fought for human rights and disease prevention. and for three decades, he has worked with habitat for humanity, building houses for the poor all over the world -- in an obvious attempt to launch his hgtv show, "nail to the chief." [ cheers and applause ] in 2002, jimmy carter was awarded the nobel peace prize, making him the only native georgian besides martin luther king to have won the award. but good luck next year. hulk hogan. in summation, when talking about our nation's presidents, history will recognize

kennedy is the son of the late u.s. senator ted kennedy. the republican who briefly took ted kennedy's seat in the senate is also making political headlines. scott brown who formally enter had the race in new hampshire thursday, though brown is from massachusetts, he spent summers in new hampshire and moved to the state last year. >> for the second time in four, years, the uconn huskies are the national champions of men's college basketball. last night against kentucky, uconn never trailed. they led by as many as 15 points in the first half, then fought off several kentucky rallies before claiming a 60-54 victory. their coach paid tribute to his players who stayed with the program despite being banned from the tournament last year. >> just a wonderful feeling to hold that trophy up and do it the right way. and i think we did it the right way for 18 months and we did it the right way in this ncaa tournament. >>> uconn, sports men's hoops titles, thousands of students back on campus watched the game at a packed arena. numerous alcohol-related

kennedy, 10 user begins a really big advocate advocate for arguing very close to our union. he said a lot of people come to washington dc and work about this they serve term after term and never get anything done. he says, people want me to be president but one thing that i do as a senator i build alliances and him effective and i can work across the

lee ted kennedy jr the nephew of the soft light to preston's joan kennedy has announced he will run for seats in the connecticut state senate his first run for political office. running for office really feels like a natural continuation of my life's work in my wife's goals on from an early age i learned from my family. then on every person can and should make a contribution to their community and i believe the service is an important part of our civic duty and i'm proud of my family's legacy of standing up for working families for social justice and for political and economic fairness and it is with great pride that tonight i announce my candidacy for the connecticut state senate an enthusiastic three hundred strong crowd mostly consisting of democrats polled in the fifty two he wrote at the buxton my freaking traffic stats tell me you hate them when he has lived with his family for more than two decades kennedy who lost his right leg to cancer as a child is found in preston's of them all with great financial services consulting firm focused on health care that its headquarters in new

even in the house, there was tremendous respect on both sides for ted kennedy because of the way he operated. i guess in speaking in broader terms about people that used to be in the senate and the house that operated from that vantage point, where they really wanted to try to get the right thing done and, if they couldn't get their way, they were not going to lie on the tracks and call a news conference and stomp their feet and try to get you in their next election. he never did that. and i think that is one of the -- just to build on what olympia is saying -- was one of the great things about him. >> is there a ted kennedy in the senate now, someone who is kind of a master legislator respected on both sides, has a strong point of view but is willing to work -- is there a young senator or someone who seems like a prospective ted kennedy figure? >> lamar alexander. >> i would agree with that. >> any other nominees? no. >> it would be easier if we had a list to look at. >> can i give you a name that will surprise everybody? chuck schumer. i was the ranking member of the rules committee when c

kennedy and saying that the only reason we know king was a communist is because ted kennedy's brothers ordered the surveillance on him because that's what they believed, and he ended up getting a tobacco deal and backing down, which people suggested was his motive all along. but ashbrook is interesting because the official position of most republicans in congress initially was against the king holiday, and it was emphatically the position of ronald reagan, who was elected president in 1980. remember, the republicans took control of the senate in 1980 also, but what happened was you have republicans brought over to the pro-king holiday side and ultimately even ronald reagan, who had sort of nudged and winked he agreed with this sort of anticommunist line that ashbrook and others hat taken, without being explicit about it. don't get my wrong. but the republicans were pulled around most live by moderates in the party, like bob dole, howard baker of tennessee, pulled reagan and the republicans around to pretty strong support, and all along, the republicans and others who opposed the king h

. >> if you look at the most recent bush presidency working with ted kennedy to get an education bill done, before that bill clinton worked with republicans to pass the free-trade agreement, nafta, and before that, you had to go neil working with reagan to pass legislation. and you are just not seeing that anymore. you asked about the president's influence. the presidents in those cases made a special effort to have those relationships with the congress and vice versa. for some reason, that has stopped. when you have to sit next to someone in the white house or on capitol hill, look them in the eye, and talk about an issue, you feel it more. and if you have a difference, it's going to be a true difference before you go make a speech before the tv cameras. that is different than looking at someone in the eye who sincerely comes to you to try to work out some agreement. it sets the table for something to actually get done at the end of the day versus each one individually racing out to the podium to make a speech that is going to look good on television. >> president obama does not, it'

the idea of subsidies of private insurance then when he gets to be president he is negotiating with ted kennedy about how to come together on a comprehensive health care reform bill than they were this close that they could agree to send with typical washington region and there was a scandal. with the and exotic consider he is disgraced and forced off the chairmanship and watergate's overtakes and it goes away. also liberals and unions at that time did not want to have the deal they wanted single payer lint they've withheld their support. there is a combination of scandals which put the cabochon the bipartisan agreement and over 20 years until bill clinton we did not have another reform then clinton comes and wants a market-based reform to propose the health security act and unfortunately there are other things that overtook the focus. pass the tax increase the nafta bill and i the time the stage was clear for health care the bill was defeated you did not even get one bill passed out of committee. for 15 more years it had become so onerous that is what i called up passage of the afforda

even in the house, there was tremendous respect on both sides for ted kennedy because of the way he operated. i guess in speaking in broader terms of out people that used to be in the senate and the house that operated from that vantage point, where they really wanted to get the right thing done and, if they couldn't get their way, they were not going to lay on the tracks and call a news conference and stomp their feet and try to get you in their next election. he never did that. and i think that is best just to build on what olympia is saying -- was one of the great hings about him. >> someone who is kind of a master legislator respected on both sides, has a strong point of view but is willing to work -- is there a young senator or someone who seems like a prospective ted kennedy igure? >> lamar alexander. >> i would agree with that. >> any other nominees? no. no. . . >> he was certainly a very -- >> it would be easier if we had a list to look at. >> certainly a very singular figure. >> can i give you a name that will surprise everybody? chuck schumer. i was the ranking member of the rules

. >> ted kennedy jr. is now planning to run for state senate in connecticut. staffers say that the son of the late u.s. senator ted kennedy of massachusetts will make the offical announcement. kennedy is 52 years old. he works as a health-care lawyer right now. he is running for the seat of democrat edward meyer who was going to retire. >> this video and just into kron4 of the forest fire that is born in new jersey. so far, the fire has burned about two square miles. people in new york city, 90 mi. away can smell the smoke. crusaded they had about 50% of this fire contained. >> it just a few minutes ago, the u.s. supreme court turned down the appeal of a new mexico photographer who objects to taking pictures of same sex weddings. the justices let a supreme court ruling that the photographer violated mexico's law. >> for teenagers shot at a house party in fairfield. police say that there are still no are arrests. kron4 philippe djegal spoke with neighbors will describe what they saw. >> neighbors said that a fight broke out on the yard and then someone shot a g

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but remember she succeeded a guy named kennedy, who was very effective but ted kennedy made no bones about where he stood on things and often broke with members of the senate including democrats. so she's following on what i think is a fairly familiar path. she has remarkably good political instincts. i remember when i sat down with her at the beginning of the campaign and talked about how this had to be a large campaign, every precinct, and she did it. i had great grass roots organizations, but hers was the best i've ever seen and she gets it. i don't think there's anything unusual about this. she's not going to run for the presidency. she shouldn't in my opinion. she has a lot to contribute. and remember one other thing. when it comes to her effectiveness, she's already been very effective even before she got into the senate. the consumer protection protection agency was her creation. and she got it done. she's not just making speeches. she can be very effective and i think she's going to be an effective player in the senate. and i have e enormous respect for her. >> we're going to

a candidate with name recognition like none other in new england, the namesake son of the late ted kennedy announced he's running for state senate. he opted against running for his dad's old seat in massachusetts in 2012. if he wins, this would be his first elected office. does a lot of work in business. >> next up, beth bye. she and her partner were the first same-sex couple to be issued a marriage license. and to rhode island, gina raymondo is the state treasure who could be the first woman governor. she led a pension overhaul in 2011 but now it's hurting her and unions still royaling for that push. and her opponent could be the state's first latino governor. he closed most of the state's $110 million deficit and improved education. >> dawson hudson -- hodgeson is trying to oust a democratic incumbent who reportedly has a war chest seven times his own. it's going to be a heck of a fight. our other rhode island republican is state representative brian newbury. after three years in the statehouse, he was the highest minority leader becoming governor in 2011. >> and last year robin is now t

to answer that question, being able to answer the simple question, it's hard not to be reminded of ted kennedy, who back in 179 who had this memorable rambling and incoherent response when asked a seemingly easy question. >> why do you want to be president? >> a well, i'm -- i would like to make the announcement to run the reasons i would run is because i have a great belief in this country we're placing complex issues in this country at this time. but we faced similar challenges at other times. and the energies and the resourcefulness of this nation, i think, should be focused on these problems in a way that brings a sense of restoration in this country in dealing with the problems we face. it's imperative in this country to either move forward. it can't stand still otherwise it moves backward. >> joan, obviously, that was november right before the election year. we're still a few years out. hillary clinton has plenty of time to answer this. i guess the question is, secretary of state is not normally in modern politics a launching pad for a presidential campaign. what do you see, thou

there wasn't anybody who had stronger principled opposition than ted kennedy and many of the positions the republican presidents took and andy was very outspoken about it. i go back in history. the ratification of the constitution was one of the most bitter, divisive fights we have ever had. everybody thinks they came out to philadelphia and we waved this marvelous document and there we were. no, they came out of philadelphia into a massive opposition in the fight for ratification of the constitution state-by-state was a bloody fight. the two states that were the bloodiest were the two states we had to have been a union or we would not have had a country and that was virginia and new york. all of the other states could have ratified and virginia and new york had stayed out we wouldn't have had a country. it was a very narrow thing in both states. james madison fighting the fight in virginia was opposed by edmund randolph the member of the constitution convention who put forward the virginia plan to begin with and then voted against it in the convention and came home to virginia and cam

today bob dole faces off against ted kennedy. that's a primetime game. go to rundown@msnbc.com to vote. back with more tdr. she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ (mom) when our little girl was my mwe got a subaru. it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the 2015 subaru forester (girl) what? (announcer) built to be there for your family. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> the 2016 election may be 936 days away but you wouldn't know it from the fight that's shaping up on the right where two tea party titans are working to win the hearts and minds of the grass roots. kentucky senator rand paul has been putting to the a network in all 50 states, courting the establishment, including high-profile help from fellow kentuckyian mitch mcconnell, staging a 13-hour filib

ted kennedy jr. are run for state senate up in connecticut. he'll make the formal announcement tomorrow. and no surprise here, former massachusetts u.s. senator scott brown is ready to run in new -- new hampshire. he'll announce his candidacy thursday. we'll be right back. >> will compassionate illegal immigration fly in the primaries? jeb bhush said that in a commemoration of his father's presidency. he announced he would make a decision about running for presidency by the end of this year, but also laid out this vision on how he would run a presidential campaign. he did so by testing his immigration attitude. aun popular issue with the gop base, of course. even prefaced his remarks by saying i know this is on tape, acknowledging how controversial his position is. let's listen to jeb. >> i'm going to say this and it will be on tape and so be it. the way i look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn't come legally, they come to our country because their families, you know, a dad who loved their children was worried tha

kennedys who were supposed to win the nomination. >> chris christies. >> and politics is a crazy game and that's why we're in it. we love it. >> the interesting thing when we have rand paul on this one is the compare of rand paul and jeb bush. nonparty republicans prefer jeb bush, tea party republicans are basically the base of rand paul. >> the thing about mrs. clinton and bush is he can't run against her, or whoever, unless he wins the republican nomination. i would say these numbers suggest he is maybe the front-runner in the magazines but in the heartland he may not be. >> what's interesting about hillary clinton, i was comparing them to barack obama's, she's basically a ahead of him among whites, ahead of him among hispanics and only slightly behind him among african-americans. if she's got that coalition going in, seems like that's a better place to be now than in ' 6, right? >> that would be good. >> now to developing news on the dangerous weather that's been hitting a large part of the country, including down in florida. governor rick scott just declared a state of emergency i

six seed ben franklin, the big surprise, faces three seed ted kennedy. then there's bobby kennedy. the on number one seed to make it to our final four goes up against a two seed in hillary clinton. go to our web site to see if you are going to vote for an all-kennedy final or whether you want to have some multi-century matchups between ben franklin and hillary clinton. back with georgia gubernatorial hopeful and presidential grandson. (mom) when our little girl was born, we got a subaru. it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the 2015 subaru forester (girl) what? (announcer) built to be there for your family. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> democrats in georgia are banking on two famous names in 2014. jason carter is running for governor. it's an office his grandfather, jimmy, used as a spring board to the presidency back in 1976. jason was not even 2 years old at the time when jimmy carter was sworn in as th

kennedy and with a young senator barack obama. they are stories about freshmen senators guys like howard baker, john kerry and joe biden when they first showed up on the foreign relations committee in the senate where i was the leadership staffer working for the committee. and there are stories about people that i came to know in different aspects that i had have encountered previously people like nancy pelosi and juli nixon eisenhower became one of my true heroes and someone i greatly admire. so you have stories about presidential campaigns and intelligence leaks and investigations of nuclear weapons proliferation stories about leaking stories to the "washington post" in "the new york times" and try not to get caught doing it. most of them i confess i have never intended to publish and i blame it on you guys. i blame it on my students but when i stand up in class they say tell more war stories. tell us what really happened. don't give us the organizational chart. tell us how things really get done. so i have sought to include som

reminiscent of when roger mudd asked ted kennedy, where are you running in and when he quit stammering, he was handicapped. she looks as not formidable. >> there is jeb bush asked this week, what his immediate plans are and he said this. "i'm thinking about running for president." there were no cameras there, there were cameras a couple of weeks ago when bush talked about his approach to illegal immigration. take a listen. >> they broke the law. it is not a felony. it is an act of love. an act of commitment to your family. >> as someone who has spent a fair amount of time around the bush family is he running? and how do you think his kinder and gentler approach to immigration reform is going to sit with the republican base? >> i don't know. he is thinking about it but he is a very disciplined person. he will think about it and make a decision and nothing teen new and then will force him to make a decision. of all of the bush family, he is the most stubborn but for one and we know who she is. >> if you had to bet? >> if i bet? i don't know. >> the rules of the associate association of p

speaking of legends, nearly 50 years ago today, senator ted kennedy gave his first speech on the senate floor, urging support of the civil rights act of 1964. here's what kennedy said at the time. my brother's heart and his soul are in his bill. in this life and death if it had any meaning, it was that we should not hate but love one another. we should use our powers not to create conditions of oppression that lead to violence but conditions of freedom that lead to peace. much more from the lbj library ahead, first a quick trivia question for you. other than lbj, name the men who served as congressmen, senator and vice president before becoming president. the answer is coming up on this special edition of "the daily rundown" right here on the campus of the university of texas here in austin. >>> it's time for the "your business" entrepreneur of the week. designers who started makerhaus in seattle allows aun pra pra nuers steeped in the economy to have access to sophisticated prototyping equipment from woodworking and metal shop tools to 3d printers. for more watch "your business" 7:30 s

famously hard for ted kennedy to answer that when roger mudd asked him many years ago. gave a garbled response. hillary clinton has got to figure that out as well. she talked about that as well. last week said, the biggest thing is figuring out what you would do. why you would run? what you wanted to do in that office? we'll see what she comes up with. i think the first argument will be what she comes up with in her book which is coming out in june. we'll all be reading it perhaps on the beach. yeah, she has to figure out what her argument is to the american people for a clinton presidency. she does have an advantage over biden. the folks who might be on the other side of the aisle as well. she has run before. biden has run twice. pretty much dropped out, pretty early. >> not exactly. >> yeah. >> not -- not close in the delegates. and you raise yet another question here with the book coming out which is who will post selfies of themselves reading the hillary clinton book. >> please no one i hope. no more selfies. i'm done with selfies. >> thank you both for joining me t

ted kennedy became your angel, tried to lead this thing through. you went to first lady hillary clinton who -- encouraged her husband to veto it. in your last book, you wrote that after hillary as new york senator reversed her stance on that, you wrote, it seems that hillary could not afford such a principled position as senator. what's your relationship with her now? >> i think hillary is terrific. she's out there doing a lot of good work. >> you signed a letter along with other lawmakers encouraging her to run for president. why don't you want to run for president? >> now, i'm not running for president. i am working right now on the issues i talk about in this book. america's middle class has been hammered for a generation now. my life's work has been just to try to level the playing field. washington works for those who can hire an army of lobbyists and an army of lawyers. not so much for regular families. so i have had one fight after another, that's why the book is called "a fighting chance," in order to get out there it fight for these famili

could buy private insurance and then when he gets to be president in 1973 and 74 he he negotiates with ted kennedy and the senate and wilbur mills in the house about how to come together on a comprehensive health care reform bill and they were this close to a bill that they could agree to and then a typical washington, as typical washington scandals broke out. wilbur mills with a fanny fox scandal where an exotic dancer falls into the tidal basin is or stop the chairmanship of the ways & means committee. watergate overtakes nixon and it all goes poof. we also need to say that liberals and unions at that time did not want to have a deal that would have private insurance continue. they wanted single-payers and they were resistant to making a deal with nixon and they withheld their support. so you have accommodation of scandals which mainly put the kabash on this bipartisan agreement with the unions and liberals opposing it. for 20 years after that until bill clinton we didn't have another reform and clinton comes in and wants a market-based reform, proposes his health security act and unfort

ted kennedy became your angel, you went to first lady hillary clinton who encouraged her husband to veto it. in your last book you wrote that after hillary as new york senator reversed her stance on that, you wrote, it seems that hillary could not afford such a principled position as senator. what's your relationship with her now? >> i think is terrific. she's out there doing a lot of good work. you. >> signed a letter along with other lawmakers encouraging her to run for president. why don't you want to run for president? >> i'm not running for president. i'm working right now on the issues i talk about in this book. america's middle class has been hammered for a generation now. my life's work has been just to try to level the playing field. washington works for those who can hire an army of lobbyists and lawyers. not so much for regular families. so i have had one fight after another. that's why the book is called a fighting chance, in order to get out there to fight for these families, to fight to level the playing field. that's what i'm working on right now. >> but my question is les

and then when he gets president in 1973 and '4, he's negotiating as president with ted kennedy in the senate and wilbur mills in the house about how to come together on a comprehensive health care reform bill. and they were this close to a bill that they could agree to, and then in typical washington arrangement, scandals break out. wilbur mills has the fanny fox scandal where an exotic dancer fall into the tidallal basin. he's disgraced. watergate overtakes nixon, and it all goes poof. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. >> watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers, watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> ann scott tyson tells a story of special force toes major jim gant who in 2009 gained the support of general david petraeus to embed special forces soldiers in afghan villages and to have those soldiers fight alongside afghan soldiers against al-qae

kennedy and with the young senator barack obama. they are stories about freshmen senators, guys like howard baker and john kerry and joe biden when they first showed up on the foreign relations committee in the sense where i was the leadership staffer working for the committee. there are stories of people but it came to know in different aspects, people like nancy pelosi and julie nixon eisenhower who became one of my true heroes and so i greatly admire. so you got stories about presidential campaigns and intelligence and investigations of nuclear weapons proliferation. stories that leaking stories to the "washington post" and "the new york times" and trying not to get caught doing it. most of them i confess i had never intended to publish and i blame it on you guys. i blame it on my students. when i stand up in class they tell -- basic tell us more war stories. tell us what really happened. don't give us the organizational chart. tells how things really get done. so i sough i have sought to ince of these specific illustrations and

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