. - walter mondale was driving l down the establishmee, believing that he had all of the politicians he had all the money, all of the basic democratic constituencies. he had the support of organized labor, the naonal organization for women. - how you doing? - vice president mondale was very popular in the pay. the polls regularly showed him at 50%, ,d the all the pundits sa he's got it wrapped up. [laughs] i saw the glass as half empty. i said, "if he is so well known," and he was, "why are 50% of the democrats looking for someone else?" so i set out to be someone else. [dramatic hip-hop music] ♪ - i am a candidate for the presidency of the united states in 1984. [cheers and applause] - member december-- at that point that was two months before the iowa caucuses. we go to a small town, and there's 20 people in a cafe. well, he's running for president of the united states, but what we knew is that out of those 20 people, we would get ten precinct captains. you spend an hour in a room with gary hart at that stage, you're gonna walk away saying, "this guy's rely impressive. we want hi

it appears tonight that senator gary hart is on his way to a clear-cut victory over walter mondale. >> i look forward to a vigorous debate about this party's future. >> now, okay, here is an alternative to walter mondale. it is one of the biggest upsets in american politics at that point and the contrast, it was so stark, there is less than ten years difference in their age, they look 30 years apart. >> the mondale people responding to their, of the shocking loss, in new hampshire, naturally went on the attack. >> the assault began at a presidential debate in march of 1984. >> let me describe your position. mr. mondale's hopes were quick and decise ive lead in all of t hasn't been fulfilled and i believe i heard him use the word clobbered in a defeat and mr. hart has done well and a man with ideas for the future and his opponent says that is just tinsel, glam wer no substance. on to the substance, ladies and gentlemen. >> mondale stole a page from hart's new age script by using popular culture to land a telling blow. >> i think that the dedication of the democratic party to minority p

. - walter mondale was driving down the establishment lane, believing that he had all the politicians, he had all the money, all of the basic democratic constituencs. he had the support of organized labor, an the national orgation for women. - how you doing? - vice president mondale was very popular in the party. the polls regularly showed him at 50%, and the e pundits said, he's got it wrapped up. [laughs] i saw the glass as half empty. i said, "if he is so wel "why are 50% of the democrats looking for someone se?" and so i set out to be someone else. [dramatic hip-hop music] ♪ - i am a candidate for the presidency of the united states in 1984. [cheers and applause] - i remember december-- at that point that waswo months before the iowa caucuses. we go to a small town, and there's 20 people in a cafe. well, he's running for president of the united states, but what we knew is that out of those 20 people, we would get ten precinct captains. you spend an hour in a room with gary hart at at stage, you're gonna walk away saying, "this guy's really impressive. we want him to be president

will term on dell-- walter mondale, senate vice president candidate and george mcgovern and also food for peace program presidential candidate. what i noticed a listing this as i look back, mccarthy, mondale, mcgovern and humphrey all ran and none of us on. what can i say? they never made it to the white house. nation's loss. humphrey was not an angel. he was a liberal anti-communist, gold cold war your early on, supported the truman doctrine, marshall plan, intervention in korea in 1950. he supported the eisenhower administration support for the french in indochina when jfk engineered the bay of pigs humphrey called it a fiasco, but still supported the president. he was adamant in his support for kennedy during the cuban missile crisis and early on he supported the vietnam policy of the united states. he also admitted-- something politicians rarely do today-- that he could have been braver in facing down joe mccarthy, although if we recall the only man in the senate to do it was margaret jenkins. of the rest of them .-dot. he voted for the mccarron internal security act, which forced

i am also especially honored to be here in what is called the joan and walter mondale commons. senator mondale was one of my two senate seat mates and one of my tune of closest senate friends, and i'm especially honored also to be here at the humphrey school. hubert humphrey was my very close friend. senator mondale and i were his cochairs, cochairs of his campaign when he ran for president. and we were, of course, humphrey's senate colleagues when he later returned to the united states senate. i have been asked to speak today about the origins and operations of the kerner commission as well as where we are now on the issues of race and poverty and what can and should be done about these intertwined issues today, 50 years after the kerner report. i should mention there is an excellent recent book, separate and unequal, which details a history and inner of the kerner commission, including much of which i am about to relate. on the evening of july 20 7, 1968, my wife and i -- or 1967 -- my wife and i were gathered with a couple of invited friends in front of a television set we b

mondale. >> when i hear your new ideas, i'm reminded of that ad, "where's the beef?" >> reporter: he became the front runner in large part because of his visionary ideas. >> i saw as early as anyone else a shift of the economic base of america from manufacturing to information and technology. symbolically from detroit to silicon valley. >> reporter: you actually worried that we were heading toward a war in the persian gulf and nobody was going to diffuse the situation, especially vis-a-vis terrorism. >> or reduce our dependance on oil so it meant conservation, it meant alternative renewables, and programs such as that. >> it is a watershed election -- >> reporter: hart was considered brilliant, but a bit aloof. >> smile. [ laughter ] >> one of my problems is i can't smile and think at the same time. >> i was not a traditional politician. >> reporter: you didn't like having to be charming. >> because i found it very difficult. i wasn't born with charm the way bill clinton was. >> reporter: you essentially thought that your private life was your private life. and that n

a myr thought instead i'm vice president, walter mondale, .ould be important he could be important to my administration. mondale was in charge of the national security matters early on. he took on a more significant role than vice presidents had generally taken on before and that set the modern president. dent.ece did mondale like the way he was being treated? mr. gerhardt: he was to some extent an outsider within the carter click -- clique. he had not grown up with carter. he was probably viewed as an outsider by people closest to carter. mondale was trying to help carter realize his initiative. they would not necessarily agree. wastimes i think mondale part of a smaller network that was interacting with carter on issues. as you know because you this,d this -- studied some presidents have four or five appointments to the supreme court. he had none. what was his impact on the selection of judges beyond the supreme court? mr. gerhardt: carter is the only president to have served a full term without a supreme court judge. -- appointment. became important to carter in a way they had not

mondale, he w not they lead i will go on. the president donald trump is threatening freedom of the press ? how so? by calling them out? by exposing them? john adams, would've put in place the sedition act. he actually put some newspapers out of this and put some journalist in prison. abraham lincoln put out an executive order they shut down almost 300 papers. not only that, the great progressive leader woodrow wilson, he had the sedition act of 1918 did the same thing. put some journalist in prison and some of his opponents, donald trump hasn't donepo anything like this, he's not rounding out illegal immigrants in this country by the hundreds of thousands, he's not shutting down newspapers is not putting journalists in prison, yet they refer to him as hitler and stalin, and then we have this policy where we separate children from their parents to come here illegally not because we want to put them in cages like obama did but because we want to protect these children from coyotes, from kidnappers who got to sort them out figur

carter thought instead i'm a my -- instead, my vice president, walter mondale, could be important. he could be important to my administration. mondale was in charge of the national security matters early on. he took on a more significant role than vice presidents had generally taken on before and that set the modern precedent. brian: did mondale like the way he was being treated? mr. gerhardt: he was to some extent an outsider within the carter clique. he wasn't somebody who had known carter before then. he had not grown up with carter. he was probably viewed as an outsider by people closest to carter. on the other hand, mondale was trying to help carter realize his initiatives. they would not necessarily agree on some issues. sometimes i think mondale was part of a smaller network that was interacting with carter on issues. brian: as you know because you studied this, some presidents have four or five appointments to the supreme court. he had none. what impact did he have on the selection of judges beyond the supreme court? mr. gerhardt: carter is the only president to have served

carter thought instead i'm a my vice president, walter mondale, could be important. he could be important to my administration. mondale was in charge of the national security matters early on. he took on a more significant role than vice presidents had generally taken on before and that set the modern precedent. brian: did mondale like the way he was being treated? mr. gerhardt: he was to some extent an outsider within the carter clique. he had not grown up with carter. he was probably viewed as an outsider by people closest to carter. mondale was trying to help carter realize his initiative. they would not necessarily agree. sometimes i think mondale was part of a smaller network that was interacting with carter on issues. brian: as you know because you studied this, some presidents have four or five appointments to the supreme court. he had none. what was his impact on the selection of judges beyond the supreme court? mr. gerhardt: carter is the only president to have served a full term without a supreme court judge appointment. i think it was a tremendous disappoi

they did that with walter mondale. michael dukakis. al gore, john kerry. hillary clinton. and what do all those candidates have in common. every single one of them lost. there is a charisma key for the challengers. no old party war wa horse is going to win it. the democrats need someone new like beta o'rourke. >> to pick up on something you were saying, you were saying that democrats shouldn't try to pick a moral centrist candidate in 8020, yet tonight, you look at a lot of the losses and all of the so-called progressive candidates pretty much lost. >> that's not what i said. what i said was they shouldn't pick an establishment candidate, a so-called electable candidate. i said nothing about ideology. what they need is a barack obama in many 2008. a bill dplont 1clinton in 1992, exciting new face capable of galvanizing the electorate. it's called the challenge erl ca ris mao key, the only key under the control of the challenging party. if you're a democrat, let's not make the mistake of deciding who you think is electable and picking again a dukakis, a kerry, a gore a clin

- dean would've been the walter mondale of 2004. ouldn't have gotten 49 states, but we would've gotten a bundle. he was so crazy and so unhinged and so unmanageable rg and unruly and uanized and undisciplined. we could've had a lot of fun with him. - i was an insurrectionist, and i s a very good one. and we built this enormous movement, but people expect you to be presidential, and i wasn't. and i knew i had to make the change, and it was really hard. - politics, particularly in early primary states like iowa, like to set of the candidate, like a lot of the precinct level organizing that goes into really creating a successful iowa caucus cpaign. - our operation in iowa was not as good as it should have been, and--because we started off with nothing, and so we built it on chewing gum and bailing wirer from a--by a tfic person, but we needed the real pros. - the dean campaign was bragging about all these people that are gonna be working the caucuses for him, ged they're all wearing or hats. ,we started talking to th and then we realized that not onhem was from iowa. and if you know anyth

when i nominate the inside establishment person, jon carry, hillary clinton, walter mondale it's harder for them to build a movement. so i do think my personal bias is towards somebody who can cast themselves as an outsider, as a changemaker as a reformer. i think that is to the benefit of mobilizing the type of movement that barack obama built in 2008. trump is very good against running against people he can callous as part of a corrupt establishment. we saw that already. the second point is we need somebody who can fit that bill, and the third point is you need someone who is compelling enough, inspiring enough that they can shape and control their own narrative about who they are. because donald trump is going to try to turn anyone he runs against into a cartoon character. you need someone with authenticity, they cannot be cast as someone they are not because they are so clearly comfortable in their own skip and they have their own vision and it's immediately pattern to people. you need somebody that can create the moments of inspiration that dan speaks of. what does that lead for pe

. >> sir, walter mondale is one of those attacking you on the so called leadership issue but he goes beyond the things that you told bill about. he says you are intellectually lazy and forgetful, so forgetful that you're providing leadership by amnesia. what do you say to that? >> i'm surprised he knew what the word meant. i -- i haven't any comment to make at that if that's all he has to talk about. >> corinna, that was somebody that was better at this. his acting skills came into play. he didn't pace and huff. there's always been a tough press core. that's what they do whampt do you make to this point of e.j.'s point, that there's rules of decorum. you can't be in there unless you behave your safe the way donald trump wants you to? >> it's disturbing. i don't think donald trump understands the definition of decorum listening to him go on and on in that clip. look, it's not just about jim acosta here, it's about donald trump and his narcissism and his ego. he will do whatever it takes to destroy, to step on, to break democratic institutions and we see that time and time again whethe

being from minnesota, you know, huebert humphrey is looking down on you and walter mondale. >> you really put me in the tough place with the comrades, joe. >> that's all i'm talking about. i wanted to hear you say that and now you're going to have to go out and put your collar up. anyway -- you could be next time, anthony. >> the reality is markets don't like change. >> okay. there you go you can tie it to that, jim. it's not actually one or the other. >> there we go >> used to change in a hurry in the evening of the election. >> certainly did thanks to chase's anthony chan and jim paulsen, my buddy from the leuthold group >>> alibaba just coming out. earnings did beat estimates. although revenue falling out the figures on the screen right now are in the chinese currency, of course, rather than u.s. dollars. so do take account for that. among the metrics the street follows, saw an increase of 125 million active annual consumers. that compares to a year earlier. by the way, a total now of 601 million core commerce revenue up 66%. and by the way, we will be hearing from alibaba vice chair j

when i nominate the inside establishment person, jon carry, hillary clinton, walter mondale it's harder for them to build a movement. so i do think my personal bias is towards somebody who can cast themselves as an outsider, as a changemaker as a reformer. i think that is to the benefit of mobilizing the type of movement that barack obama built in 2008. trump is very good against running against people he can callous as part of a corrupt establishment. we saw that already. the second point is we need somebody who can fit that bill, and the third point is you need someone who is compelling enough, inspiring enough that they can shape and control their own narrative about who they are. because donald trump is going to try to turn anyone he runs against into a cartoon character. you need someone with authenticity, they cannot be cast as someone they are not because they are so clearly comfortable in their own skip and they have their own vision and it's immediately pattern to people. you need somebody that can create the moments of inspiration that dan speaks of. what does that lead for pe

mondale and edward kennedy endorsing two different opponents of a grassroots haroldte named washshington, and harold washington won, and just as then, it is this classic battle. asterisk can win when they -- organize some grassroots -- grassroots can win when they organize and fight the power. >> used to -- you are so invested in the daily grind, but you have been an absolute machine, not just in this election cycle, but for years, and you often are digging through documents. a lot of what you do, it reminds me of what another person used to do, where he would make it plain to people using official government documents, but i have never heard you ask this question, and that is, in all of this muckraking that y you are doing, what is your bigger picture analysis of what all of this means, not just this elelection result, but what is happening in this country on the issues that you're covering? lee: jeremy, i appreciate the kind words. norman, thank you for citing my piece. i dot to hold back, and have a lot of thoughts about the kind of direction of the party and politics more broadly goi