jimmy carter gets a phone call. his face just sort of goes blank, and he looks crest fallen. >> it was a horrible blow. i don't think he'll ever get over it. >> to the defenders of those who died and were wounded, i want to express the admiration i feel for the courage of their loved ones. >> after that, whenever you went over the white house, there was this increasing air of gloom that sort of settled in like a fog. >> on august 14th, ronald reagan arrives at the republican national convention. >> reagan has this really sunny optimism in a moment when the american people are dealing with a real crisis of confidence. >> i had a dream that jimmy carter asked me why i wanted his job. and i told him i didn't want his job. i want to be president. [ applause ] >> reagan fended off george bush, one step to his white house dream. >> thank you very much. >> the primary had become quite bitter, quite divisive. >> the untold secret of reagan/bush relationship is reagan didn't much like george bush. >> but guess who he picks a

jimmy carter gets a phone call. his face just sort of goes blank and he looks crestfallen. >> a horrible blow to him. i don't think he'll ever get over it. >> to the families of those who died or who were wounded, i want to express the admiration i feel for the courage of their loved ones. >> after that whenever you went to the white house there was this increasing air of gloom that sort of settled in like a fog. >> from august 14th, ronald reagan arrives at the republican national convention. >> reagan has this really sunny optimism at a moment when the american people are dealing with a real crisis of confidence. >> i had a dream that jimmy carter asked me why i wanted his job. and i told him i didn't want his job. i want to be president. >> reagan has fended off george bush to bring his white house dream one step closer to reality. >> thank you very much. >> the primary had become quite bitter, quite divisive. >> the untotaled secret of the reagan/bush relationship is that reagan didn't much like george bush. >>

jimmy carter, his strategy in iowa back in 1976. it is a major reason why we're still talking about the caucuses today and why they could still be so important in 2020. our very own tom brokaw takes a look at the caucuses that made iowa iowa. that's next. t made iowa iowa. that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ applebee's new irresist-a-bowls now starting at $7.99. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. i had moderate-to-severes rheumatoid arthritis. i've always been the ringleader had a zest for life. flash forward, then ra kept me from the important things. and what my doctor said surprised me. she said my joint pain could mean permanent joint damage. and enbrel helps relieve joint pain, and helps stop that joint damage. ask about enbrel so you can get back to being your true self. enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders and allergic reactions have occurred. tell your doctor if you've been someplace wher

the democrats, and it is all about jimmy carter. tell us the jimmy carter story in 1976. david: jimmy carter and hamilton jordan picked up on the theme that gary hart and george mcgovern had. work hard in iowa. do well as a springboard into new hampshire to get money, momentum, media attention. so they came and raised the stakes. other candidates were coming here. it was the jumping off point and i think johnny apple was paying attention. they looked at it and said in 1972 iowa was telling us something about the war. the national media started to pay attention. you have a rolling ball. politicians came, national media came, and that meant politicians wanted to spend more time here. that really raised it to a higher profile. jimmy carter did not win the caucus but he got more votes than any other candidate. he was the uncommitted delegates actually got more votes. but jimmy carter set the template and made it work, he went all the way to the white house and that really put the events on the map. as a side note, there were also some tea leaves on the republican side, republ

carter. >> why jimmy carter? what did you see in him propelled him to the presidency? >> we were in school in mississippi and i was teaching in a newly integrated school down there and he became governor of georgia and it was very forward thinking and talking about the need to end segregation in the south and hung a picture of a large and with working in the governor's office and that was something that meant a lot to me someone teaching in a newly integrated school where issues around segregation was so when he ran for president we were back in new hampshire and went to the first meeting he had in 1935. >> the moment from his win in iowa to his win in new hampshire, what was it like back then? >> well, that was the first time i think that a lot of people paid attention to the iowa caucuses and jimmy carter had a memo from -- early on saying how he could win and become president and it focused on doing wellin iowa so he would get attention and propelling them into new hampshire and winning new hampshire and of co

jimmy carter put this on the map. host: we have some video about former president carter talking about strategy. >> it would be quite difficult now to do as we did and to campaign from schoolhouse to schoolhouse, courthouse and stand in lines and handout pamphlets early in the morning, meet with farmers, make speeches from the auctioneers desk and iowa. that is the way we ran our campaign. if i had then faced a candidate with $20 million in the bank who could dominate television in new hampshire or iowa, i seriously doubt i would have won in those states. host: do you agree? mr. yepsen: i think that is true. it has changed a lot since carter. there are some famous footage of him working on a new cooking show here in iowa, cooking a fish for dinner but the host. it was grassroots, small, much more fun, fewer reporters could hop in the backseat of a car with a candidate and drive off and have a good conversation. now the events of the years have changed and morphed and are much different than the earlier events. they ar

kennedy in 1960, so with jimmy carter in 1976. whether he makes it or not, this has given him his shot. >> the same thing could have been said, much of the leadership that did not back mcgovern four years ago -- richard: did not back mcgovern. >> did not back mcgovern, and would not have backed mr. goldwater and did not do so. so it means the primaries make it possible for people who would otherwise be ignored by the leadership are pushed aside by -- or pushed aside by the leadership to come to the foreground. it is also true that we are watching it now and all the primaries that have come along. it does in a limitation -- an elimination job. it pushes by the wayside the number of people who up until the day of the primary look pretty good in public opinion polls, but when they seek voting support, that they don't get it in the early primaries. they may never get it at all. richard: it is interesting to note that these primary elections are not just limited to the people who pay in your monthly dues to the party. any citizen under

richard: we have seen this year how they have orbited jimmy carter into position that many of the democratic establishment and leadership would never have supported, and likely as with john f. kennedy in 1960, so with jimmy carter in 1976. >> the same thing could have been said, much of the leadership that did not back mcgovern four years ago -- richard: did not back mcgovern. >> did not back mcgovern, and then to topic another person, so it means the primaries make it possible for people who would otherwise be ignored by the leadership are pushed aside by the leadership to come to the foreground. now and alling it the primaries that have come along. it pushes by the wayside the number of people who up until the day of the primate look pretty good in public opinion polls, but when they seek voting support, that they don't get it in the early primaries. they may never get it at all. richard: it is interesting to note that these primary elections are not just limited who pay in your monthly dues to the party. any citizen under most state rules can go in and register himself in a republican and

richard: we have seen this year how they have orbited jimmy carter into position that many of the democratic establishment and leadership would never have supported, and likely as with john f. kennedy in 1960, so with jimmy carter in 1976. >> the same thing could have been said, much of the leadership that did not back mcgovern four years ago -- richard: did not back mcgovern. >> did not back mcgovern, and so it means the primaries make it possible for people who would otherwise be ignored by the leadership are pushed aside by the leadership to come to the foreground. we are watching it now and all the primaries that have come along. it pushes by the wayside the number of people who up until the day of the primate look -- of the primary look pretty good in public opinion polls, but when they seek voting support, that they don't get it in the early primaries. they may never get it at all. richard: it is interesting to note that these primary elections are not just limited to the people who pay in your monthly dues to the party. any citizen under most state rules can go in and register himself

purdy is jimmy carter and gerald ford. a very bitter campaign and 66. >> it was incredibly better. they hated one another, and yet, when they both went to the funeral after the presidency is, spending a lot of time realizing they didn't like each other, and of course at gerald ford's funeral, jimmy carter spoke and said probably no two presidents had enjoyed such a close relationship as they did. they became very warm in their friendship. >> harry truman is quoted a couple different times. he was willing to speak on the record. >> he's broken the record. some of what he said was said on temporary minutes late. you know, he was unfiltered somewhat, and then a lot of it came out in 61 in the world history book by miller where he would pontificate upon earlier presidents and say i think he said franklin was a complete fizzle. he definitely had a choice things to say. >> who was he talking about when he said this and this is kerry truman again. again. hagain. he's the oldest man i ever met and he didn't give a damn personally for me or you or anyone else in the room as far as i could s

which jimmy carter probably did more than just about any other president and that's why he was a one term president.>> and a broken helicopter. [laughter] >> no president since jimmy carter has said the things that he said from the oval office. we have gotten use to a level of fiction and feel good and dubious rhetoric that i think is part of the cynicism of the public. i would say start with telling the truth and part of that means acknowledging where the public is where large part of it is. we are such a divided country that jim's message will resonate with may be 55 percent of americans but i think 40 to 45 percent might be utterly appalled by it. right away the new democratic president is going to have a major partisan battle on his or her hands. that's the nature of our politics. >> this is a marker for later discussion. i think phrased in the right way by the right people, 90% of americans could à >> that would be amazing. >> we are better than that. >> you always been more optimistic than me.[laughter] i would say to even get to the position where a president can deliver that

richard nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter. you had high inflation and high unemployment rate. if this was rolling out across the country, what was happening politically in the country? -- this was the 1970's. george: it's very important that you mention rising inflation because this was a signal moment that i see as hobbling the more expansive aims. again, going back to 1965, that law, because it was an afterthought, senators and legislators didn't think medicaid would surpass medicare. it quickly becomes a popular program, at least in the states that wanted to fund it. because of its cost-sharing structure versus medicare which was really federally based. in new york's case, when the 1965, they used medical indigence standard which was more liberal to expand access to 1.5 million new yorkers. when dixiecrats in southern states pushed back against that law and expansion the result of restricting medical indigence meant that one million new yorkers were taken off the rolls. so the wider political context of that was the johnson era and the great society was seen as an era of ex

if you have not been to our author program before, i would encourage you to go on to the jimmy carter library website, we have 2 - 3 authors, sometimes for every week and they are just fascinating, later this week we have a book called wilmington's fly, the rise of white nationalist in wilmington north carolina back in the 1880s. we have judge douglas ginsburg talking about his book, voices of the republic into tie-in with the pbs series on thursday, we have a whole bunch of wonderful authors so i would encourage you to take a look and come back and see us again. i am delighted for tonight's program, ingrid newkirk was born in england, you'll be able to tell that with the accent. she lived in europe until she was seven years old and then her parents moved to new delhi where her father worked as a engineer and her mother volunteered for mother teresa and various charities. her early volunteer experiences packing pills, rolling bandages for people who suffer from leprosy, stuffing toys for orphans, feeding straight animals, that created her view that anyone in need including animals is

we are at the end of jimmy carter. and jimmy carter i will defend and always say he was a good man , who came to washington with the best of intentions. but he did not ultimately understand washington. we had the recession. democrats needed to do something and willing to take a chance on reagan. on reaganomics, on cap-roth. kemp-roth. juan: get back to trump. [laughter] craig: the reason -- let me answer this diplomatically. people in the 1980s thought reagan would be a failure. he left office with very high approval numbers, american historians were not writing him a very high. now they're going back end looking at the reagan presidency. the last poll of american historians had met 13th, steadily going up over the last 30 or 40 years. i don't have the newspapers of eight years or four years from now to tell you about donald trump, reagan was a different man. he approached the presidency different a. reagan had different style. there is no comparison except both are outsiders and both are threats to the political syste

host: you mentioned jimmy carter as a candidate who won the caucus and the white house. he joins a list that includes george w. bush in 2000 and barack obama in 2008. california is next. david from california in riverside. hello. guest: how are you doing? host: find, thanks. go ahead. caller: i want to talk to the professor. i watched the impeachment hearings, it is not that they can beat donald trump, but they have gone so far to abortion, gay marriage -- i do not think so many americans would consider voting for people like bernie sanders. what you think of that? americans, i would argue with talk about health care, education, the economy, their day to day lives. the more any party can talk about those issues that matter on a daily basis to americans is who is going to get the most votes. there is a conversation in the party about how far left to go on social issues and what impact that will have on the election. host: overall, doesn't teach me rise -- does impeachment rise to the level that we hear in washington, d.c., pay to it? guest: it is hard to say. people know

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we are at the end of jimmy carter. and jimmy carter i will defend and always say he was a good man, who came to washington with the best of intentions. but he did not ultimately understand washington. we had the recession. democrats needed to do something and willing to take a chance on reaganomics, on kemp-roth. juan: get back to trump. [laughter] craig: the reason -- let me answer this diplomatically. [laughter] there were a lot of people in the 1980s thought reagan would be a failure. he left office with very high approval numbers, american historians were not writing him -- not rating him very high. now they're going back end looking at the reagan presidency. the last poll of american historians had met 13th, steadily going up over the last 30 or 40 years. i don't have the newspapers of eight years or four years from now to tell you about donald trump, reagan was a different man. reagan had different styles. there is no comparison. both are outsiders and both are threats to the political system. but, that is the on

and when jimmy carter wins, jimmy carter is now saying, i now can play with the big ones, i know i am now national. and new hampshire can turn someone who might have been a little-known regional candidate into a national candidate. in one night. >> all right. tim, that was a lot of fun. thank you. thank you so much. with the election right around the corner, take a look back at one of the most hard-fought presidential witnesses throughout history with our cnn original series "race for the white house" it returns sunday night, february 16th at 9:00 on cnn. >>> the other news we're following this afternoon, the first case of a u.s. citizen dying of coronavirus. we will take a look at the drastic mishes to stop this outbreak, includes cruise ship passengers describing a scene of what they described as floating prisons. (woman) no matter what business you are in, digital transformation never stops. verizon keeps business ready for what's next. (man) we weave security into their business... (second man) virtualize their operations... (third man) and could even build ai into their customer

and when jimmy carter wins, jimmy carters is now saying i can play with the big ones. i am now a national figure. new hampshire can turn someone who might have been a little known regional candidate into a national candidate, in one night. >> all right. that was a lot of fun. thank you. >>> and now as we head to break, i want to bring you a live look at beautiful keane, new hampshire. t-minus two days until the prima primary. uh uh, no way. ♪ come on. no. no. n... ni ni, no no! only discover has no annual fee on any card. how you're my rock. my diamond. for the diamond in your life, there's only one diamond store. it's the valentine's day sale. get 25% off everything. including these special deals. at zales, the diamond store. and i like to question your i'm yoevery move.n law. like this left turn. it's the next one. you always drive this slow? how did you make someone i love? that must be why you're always so late. i do not speed. and that's saving me cash with drivewise. my son, he did say that you were the safe option. and that's the nicest thing you ever said to

jimmy carter gets credit of that. what a lot of presidents try to do in that crisis, rose garden strategy, to say things are too serious on the world stage. i will not go out and campaign. that obviously took a toll on carter in addition to the poor economy. >> the u.s. recently came pretty close to some pretty potentially nasty conflict with iran over the american assassination of a top iranian general, qassem soleimani. does it seem there are any echoes of what happened between iran and the u.s. in 1980? >> well, it does. for those of us who remember the hostage crisis in '79 and '80, it sometimes feels like a bad nightmare replaying and could have an impact on this upcoming election where the incumbent president will say he's doing everything he can to stand up to iran and the democrats aren't strong enough and the democrats will say the incumbent took a chance with that assassination of soleimani for reasons that are still not quite clear. >> barbara perry, thank you so much. we'll be watching the new season of "r

jimmy carter was a born-again christian and the southern baptists loved him. you have me, a catholic, writing for the president, and episcopalian, to speak at the southern baptist convention. i consulted baptist ministers and worked up a speech and let it sit for a day, and then rewrote it, and then let it sit for a day. the art of writing is rewriting. the roosevelt speeches went through 10, 12 drafts. we did not have time for that when ford was president. we went through five drafts. the speech was done, he went down to norfork to deliver the speech and he was three sentences into the speech and he was interrupted by applause. he was not used to that and he lost his place. [laughter] dr. smith: he recovered quickly and he was interrupted by applause 13 more times during the speech and the washington post the next day said president hits homerun in front of the southern baptists and my reputation was made. from then on, i had a bigger hand in the process for writing for the president. >> how many people would check your work? dr. smith: the editor would go th

jimmy carter was a born-again christian and the southern baptists loved him. writing me, a catholic, for the president, and episcopalian, to speak at the southern baptist convention. i consulted baptist ministers and worked up a speech and let it sit for a day, and then rewrote it, and then let it sit for a day. the art of writing is rewriting. the roosevelt speeches went through 10, 12 drafts. we did not have time for that when ford was president. we went through five drafts. the speech was done, he went down to norfork to deliver the speech and he was three sentences into the speech and he was interrupted by applause. he was not used to that and he lost his place. [laughter] dr. smith: he recovered quickly and he was interrupted by applause 13 more times during the speech and the washington post the next day said president hits homerun in front of the southern baptists and my reputation was made. from then on, i had a bigger hand in the process for writing for the president. >> how many people would check your work? dr. smith: the editor would go passed,it,

and a relatively unknown georgia governor jimmy carter was winning in early democratic primaries. pacific, our weekly series on the presidency. president trump is scheduled to deliver his state of the union address next tuesday. we look forward to bill clinton's 1999 state of the is senatele he impeachment trial was underway. that is what is coming up on "american history tv". ♪ ♪ >> election 1976 a case study. , your host is political analyst richard scaman. with me here in washington today, mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution and professor howard penniman of georgetown university. this is the first of a series of programs that are going to extend over the full period of the campaign until beyond the election in november in our bicentennial political/political year -- are bicentennial political year. bicentennial put clear. what we want to do is to bring a picture of the american electoral process. we will have special programs dealing with parties and the media, campaign technique and polling and the rest. what we are really aiming to do is to give you a picture of

>> jimmy carter. exactly. he did it the old-fashioned way. he won in iowa and then here in new hampshire. he put his nose over the ground over months and months and doing retail politics over and over again and that kind of changed the landscape and it put a much bigger emphasis on retail politicking, doing house parties, going to town halls and speaking, having events. so not just big large rallies. he perfected that. it's up here considered a tradition, retail politicking in new hampshire. famous saying if new hampshire voters if you don't meet and talk to the candidate three or four times you feel cheated out. but it's a special thing. new hampshire is very proud of that tradition, of the voters being very well inform and having great access to the candidate and keeping them honest with their tough questions. >> iowa caucuses, disappointing turn out for a number of people, less than they expected from the previous iowa caucuses. what's your sense of the turn out tomorrow? how is the enthusiast there? >> in 2016 we had that wild race on the

jimmy carter was a born-again christian, the southern baptists loved him. what happens is you have me, a catholic, writing for a president who is an episcopalian to speak at the southern baptist convention. i consulted baptist ministers and worked up this speech and let it sit for a day, rewrote it, let it sit for a day, the art of writing is rewriting, always rewrite. the roosevelt speeches went to 10, 12 draft. we didn't have time for that when ford was president. we went through five or six draft. he went to norfolk to deliver the speech. he was three sentences into the speech and was interrupted by applause. he was so unused that he lost his place. but he recovered quickly and was interrupted by applause 13 times during the speech. the washington post the next day said the president hits home run in front of the southern baptist. my reputation was made it. from then on i had a bigger hand in the process. >> how many people had your work? >> basically the editor would go through it and once that passed muster, bob hartman, counselor to the president woul

jimmy carter was a born-again christian and the southern baptists loved him. what happens is, you have me, a catholic, writing for the in -- an, who is episcopalian, to speak at the southern baptist convention. i consulted baptist ministers and worked up a speech and let it sit for a day, and then rewrote it, and then let it sit for a day. the art of writing is rewriting. always rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. the roosevelt speeches went through 10, 12 drafts. we did not have time for that when ford was president. we went through maybe 5, 6 drafts. the speech was done, he went down to norfork to deliver the speech and he was three sentences into the speech and he was interrupted by applause. used to that that he lost his place. [laughter] dr. smith: he recovered quickly and he was interrupted by applause 13 more times during the speech and the washington post the next day said president hits homerun in front of the southern baptists and my reputation was made. from then on, i had a bigger hand in the process for writing for the president. >> how many people would c

iowa really makes its mark with jimmy carter in 1976. when you look to the process in 1976, there was a large number of democrats who were running. richard nixon had stepped down after watergate. gerald ford had taken over. he was not a popular president. there was a lot of competition. most of the people running were washington senators who were saying, look, we are here, we are going to clean out the corruption. we were part of essentially overthrowing the republicans who were engaged in not so great things for the country. jimmy carter comes in as governor from georgia, and he comes in after none of the above in iowa. so he places second. but like clinton's second place in 1992, it rocketed his momentum upward and he careened right through the primaries and won the nomination, which surprised a lot of delegates. made the democrats on the heels of that decide they needed to tinker with their process. that was when the added superdelegates. host: the other thing that happened in 1976 was the reemergence of nationally televised debates.

jimmy carter was a born-again christian and the southern baptists loved him. so what happens is, you have me, a catholic, writing for the president, and episcopalian, to speak at the southern baptist convention. i consulted baptist ministers and worked up a speech and let it sit for a day, and then rewrote it, and then let it sit for a day. the art of writing is rewriting. the roosevelt speeches went through 10, 12 drafts. we did not have time for that when ford was president. we went through five drafts. the speech was done, he went down to norfork to deliver the speech and he was three sentences into the speech and he was interrupted by applause. he was not used to that and he lost his place. [laughter] dr. smith: he recovered quickly and he was interrupted by applause 13 more times during the speech and the washington post the next day said president hits homerun in front of the southern baptists and my reputation was made. from then on, i had a bigger hand in the process for writing for the president. >> how many people would check your work? dr. smith: th

jimmy carter, was of course, a born-again christian and the southern baptists loved him. then you have me, a catholic, writing for the president, and -- who is an episcopalian, to speak at the southern baptist convention. i consulted baptist ministers and worked up a speech and let it sit for a day, and then rewrote it, and then let it sit for a day. and by the way, the art of writing is rewriting. the roosevelt speeches went through 10, 12 drafts. we did not have time for that when ford was president. we went through five drafts. -- maybe five or six drafts. the speech was done, he went down to norfork to deliver the speech, and he was three sentences into the speech and he was interrupted by applause. and he was so unused to that, that he lost his place. [laughter] but he recovered quickly and he was interrupted by applause 13 more times during the speech and the washington post the next day said president hits homerun in front of the southern baptists and my reputation was made. and from then on, i had a bigger hand in the process for writing for the president. >> how

carter. ♪ ♪ >> election 1976, a case study. your host is political analyst richard scanlon. with me here in washington today, mr. stephen hess of the brookings institution and professor howard penniman of georgetown university. this is the first of a series of programs that are going to extend over the full period of the campaign until beyond the election in november in our bicentennial political year. what we want to do is to bring a picture of the american electoral process. we will have special programs dealing with parties and the media, campaign technique and polling and the rest. what we are really aiming to do is to give you a picture of the way in which we select our american president. and how 215 million or 220 million americans can provide every four years a process by which leadership can be developed and transferred over these 200 years of american history. what we hope to do is to bring you discussions of these aspects of the electoral campaign and begin that discussion with a consideration of an historical overvi

jimmy carter was suddenly very religious. in my memory, as far as i could remember, he never tried to force his religious attitudes on the general public. i would be happy with somebody like him. he was able to arrange an agreement between anwar sadat and -- which is tough to do. i would be happy with somebody like him. host: continuing to take your calls. if youines, 202-748-8000 are in the eastern or central time zones. 202-748-8001 in the mountain or pacific time zones. what qualities do you look for in a president on this president's day? more from one of those events covering the release of the c-span book, "the presidents." talkingmichael gearhart about the relationship between presidents and the public. [video clip] >> one reason people think about the presidency a lot is because one thing that gets left out of in equation a lot of times thinking about great leaders is they need followers. they need the people. they need the people not just to vote for them, but to support them and they need to enjoy interacting with p

you did a book on jimmy carter. on this list, he is 26. fair? >> middle president. great american. won the nobel prize. when he passes, he is in his 90's and he is confronting brain cancer now. we -- he will look at the importance of the camp david, human rights, recognizing people's republic of china, panama canal, he is the president who officially recognized china. there is a group of things that carter did that are quite significant. but alas, one term president and there was a reagan revolution in 1980. and it went for generations there were no such thing as a card or. he does not have the political legs of even somebody like bill clinton did with his wife hillary and projecting decades down the line. >> you did a book on herbert hoover. your chapter is in here. he is 36. fair? >> hoover -- i would say hoover and william howard taft are unique in the history of the presidency. men who were fabulously successful at everything else they did, except the presidency. and that is significant. herbert hoover saved more lives, said a more hungry people during and after two world wars

under jimmy carter who donald trump has trashed before, 3.2%. under bill clinton 3.8% and the trump slump throughout the three years the trump slump puts it at 2.5% and last year after all of those tax cuts from multi-national corporations and the very richest americans in the land, the economy only grew last year by 2.3%. steve rattner, it's hard -- it's hard to sort through all the lies from last night. i know a lot of people say, well, you have to admit it was a great -- great themes. yes, great themes if you're cool with the person speaking lying all the time, but donald trump saying if we hadn't reversed the failed policies of the past administration, oh, we would never have this great economy. we are in the middle of an 11-year obama economic recovery and all the lines are going like this, whether it's job growth, whether it's gdp. it's ridiculous. steve, we've got you on so you can fact check, show us your charts and let's pick apart the lies that the president said last night to his supporters because it makes me sad that he lies this wa

you know, all those democrats who won against incumbents, from jimmy carter to a guy named clinton, a guy named obama, my good friend, guess what? they had overwhelming african-american support. without it, nobody's ever won. really. and you all know. more important, you shouldn't be able to win the democratic nomination for president without black and brown voters. too often your loyalty and support and commitment to this party has been taken for granted. i've never once in my career taken it for granted, and i give you my word as a biden that i never, ever will. if you want to know what other candidates will do in the future, the tendency is to look at the past. i left a law firm when i was a kid with a great job, at a fancy law firm, to become a public defender, to fight for the people in the community i used to work in, on the east side, because they couldn't afford a lawyer. on the county counsel, i fought against redlining. in the u.s. senate, i passed an extension of the voting rights act. the violence against women act. and i had the back of a great president named barack obam

president jimmy carter in our country announced that he had melanoma skin cancer that went to the brain that's a death sentence he was put on a drug to block the don't eat me signal on his cancer allowing ism own immune system to attack it now he's still out preaching in church educating children building houses for the poor because his cancer is under control and i think that's an achievable goal you know my life changed in the late ninety's i was a doctor at sloan kettering and i was with the head of the hospital one of the great doctors and i was his trainee and into the room walked to 25 year old with germ cell tumor in the brain the lung in the liver and in this kid the doctor told him listen you have months to live i want you to spend your last couple months with your mother because you're the son of a single mother and chemotherapy is going to make you sick this kid went and he did research this before google and he found out a doctor did an experiment we took 2 platinum electrodes and put it in a gel and said to cancer cells like electricity or not but they didn't care about the

president jimmy carter in our country announced that he had melanoma skin cancer that went to the brain that's a death sentence he was put on a dry. to block that don't eat me signal on his cancer allow an ism own immune system to attack it now he's still out preaching in church educating children building houses for the poor because his cancer is under control and i think that's an achievable goal you know my life changed in the late ninety's i was a doctor at sloan kettering and i was with the head of the hospital one of the great doctors and i was his trainee and into the room walked to 25 year old with germ cell tumor in the brain the lung in the liver and in this kid the doctor told him listen you have months to live i want you to spend your last couple months with your mother because you're the son of a single mother and chemotherapy is going to make you sick this kid went and he did research this before google and he found out a doctor did an experiment we took 2 platinum electrodes and put it in a gel and said to cancer cells like electricity or not but they didn't care about th

president jimmy carter in our country announced that he had melanoma skin cancer. that went to the brain that's a death sentence he was put on a drug to block the don't eat me signal on his cancer allowing ism own immune system to attack it now he's still out preaching in church educating children building houses for the poor because his cancer is under control and i think that's an achievable goal you know my life changed in the late ninety's i was a doctor at sloan kettering and i was with the head of the hospital one of the great doctors and i was his trainee and into the room walked a 25 year old with germ cell tumor in the brain the lung in the liver and in this kid the doctor told him listen you have months to live i want you to spend your last couple months with your mother because you're the son of a single mother and chemotherapy is going to make you sick this kid went and he did research this before google and he found out a doctor did an experiment we took 2 platinum electrodes and put it in a gel and said to cancer cells like electricity or not but they

president jimmy carter in our country announced that he had melanoma skin cancer that went to the brain that's a death sentence he was put on a drug to block the don't eat me signal on his cancer allowing ism own immune system to attack it now he's still out preaching in church educating children building houses for the poor because his cancer is under control and i think that's an achievable goal you know my life changed in the late ninety's i was a doctor in sloan kettering and i was with the head of the hospital one of the great doctors and i was his trainee and into the room walked a 25 year old with germ cell tumor in the brain the lung in the liver and in this kid the doctor told him listen you have months to live i want you to spend your last couple months with your mother because you're the son of a single mother and chemotherapy is going to make you sick this kid went and he did research this before google and he found out a doctor did an experiment we took putu platinum electrodes and put it in a gel and said to cancer cells like electricity or not but they didn't care about t

president jimmy carter in our country announced that he had melanoma skin cancer that went to the brain that's a death sentence he was put on a drug to block the don't eat me signal on his cancer allowing ism own immune system to attack it now he's still out preaching in church educating children building houses for the poor because his cancer is under control and i think that's an achievable goal you know my life changed in the late ninety's i was a doctor at sloan kettering and i was with the head of the hospital one of the great doctors and i was his trainee and into the room walked a 25 year old with germ cell tumor in the brain the lung in the liver and in this kid the doctor told him listen you have months to live i want you to spend your last couple months with your mother because you're the son of a single mother and chemotherapy is going to make you sick. this kid went and he did research this before google and he found out a doctor did an experiment we took 2 platinum electrodes and put it in a gel and said to cancer cells like electricity or not but they didn't care but the e

>> i think they do, i mean, iowa is so big, it's fun, i interviewed jimmy carter about it, he started it all, that was 1975 at the jefferson jackson day fundraiser, they had a straw pulled, of course, the democrats now disowned the founders of their own party thomas jefferson and andrew jackson because they are slave owners but they had a big straw pull, pulled upset, cover of time, cover of newsweek, won the iowa caucus a few months later in 1976 and ever since that's been the path to the presidency for the democrats. rob: since '76 they have done pretty well, for republicans picks nominee it hasn't been as good, if you look back at 2016 they had ted cruz winning in iowa and that was about all the more damage he did, he had rick santorum and mike huckabee in 2008, not nearly as successful for the republicans why do you think that is, iowa a pretty split state, they should have finger on the polls? >> quite anomaly, you can't win with it, you can't win without it in iowa, if you're like julie, bloomberg is testing that, you don't even go to iowa, you're out, you can't win the presiden

you know, jimmy carter is right. but president clinton had the power to do it. how about obama pardoning chelsea manning who was out there leaking national security secrets. obama let her off the hook. did republicans say he was an authoritarian dictator? she was just one of hundreds of obama pardons and 1,700 plus compliepluscould mutations. -- communthis man i think we h. oscar lopez rivera was head of the chicago-based cell called the armed forces of national liberation pushing for the independence of puerto rico between 974 and 1983 his terror cell killed 6 individuals and wounded dozen. but obama let hip off. i highlight this not because it was right. i don't like it one bit. but because it's aloud under our constitution. i circle back to the president's recent pardoned. it is his right as president. unless you are going to tear up our constitution which actually i realize many of these lefties do want to do these days, you need to recognize what it says and stop with theatrics. kavanaugh, ukraine, now this. you know what happened to the boy who cried wolf

in 1976, jimmy carter made this state famous but he played second to uncom fitte fit uncom. they are not expecting the same to be registered today, but this notion there are 3 tickets out of this state of iowa. john mccain proved that wrong in 2008, when he placed fourth. it got republican nomination, but by and large for democrats to win here is to well on your way to winning the nomination. the last 4 have gone that route, only one that to make it was barack obama. but it important that it start here. >> this is steve moore, so fun to grill you for once. neil: watch it young man. >> i'm concerned. some polls suggest a bernie sanders surge. let's assume for a minute, we don't know what will happen tonight but assuming bernie sanders socialist wins, i would be worried about a stock sell-off. neil: depends on what market focus on, you could flip that, say, if he looks like the nominee he would be the george mcgovern of this era. i did talk with a lot of folks in iowa, i was there about getting increasingly concerned about bernie sanders even with his popular support he would

i worked for jimmy carter as a speechwriter. i think that national politics are probably more tribalist, more polarized than they've been in a long time. the very first national magazine article i did in 1974 was for esquire for a man named charles wiggins. it was a conservative congressman from el monte. i spent a year with him. charles wiggins, initially very strongly for nixon but he came around on the evidence. it's hard to find his counterparts. the other thing that - - and i have found, at the level of everything else except national politics in american life. you find a still functioning level of society. practicality and comity and reinvention. i will just mention maybe two examples. most of the places we went ended up voting for donald trump.one of them was dodge city, kansas. scene of gunsmoke and now a majority latino place because of the meat packing industry. when the kansas state government began cutting the school funding, the voters of dodge city, majority white, past a school levy to fund their schools for a maj

carter which is increased defense spending. president took office, nato allies increased by over 120 trillion by 2024, the number will be 400 billion. [applause] those are billions of dollars american tax payers don't have to spend because allies and their citizens are bearing their fair share. [applause] increase expenditure by native allies makes them safer and makes us safer. the u.s. withdrew from the inf tweeter treaty and the defense department and our control, neighboring russia and china to negotiate a table for serious discussions and verifiable aunts reduction the first time in a generation. [applause] president trump ended the frustration has become the process of rebuilding the united states military. [applause] president trump is moving forward with his commitment to a 355 ship navy and modern air force, army and marine corps equipped with today's challenges. earlier this year, the president stood up with the forces, the space force. [cheering and applauding] with the space force, the united states will be ready fo

jimmy carter, barack obama, and bill clinton. i am anying to say, extension of that success. more so than joe biden, who has been there for 40 years. more so than bernie sanders, who has been there for 30 years. more so than elizabeth born who helped build a federal agency and served in congress. >> we are talking with ed o'kee we i want to ask about what are seeing over the last couple days. theimpeachment going on, campaign in iowa, four of the candidates stuck here during the impeachment trial. how is that affecting the race on the ground? >> for one thing, you are not here. a lot of other people from washington who would normally be here covering are not because they are consumed and forced and compelled to cover the trial. pileup will begin in new hampshire when it comes to the press corps. not until an event thursday when the former vice president in a suburb of des moines, the present starts showing up in the dozens. there have been people covering this, there has been far less time spent on the air. i am stunned at how little it has been covered by our broadcast count

carter, who had to grapple with a second wave of hyperinflation and 1979. and this led carter to push for hospital cost containment legislation that the chamber of commerce and a group called washington business group for health pushed back against. they called for voluntary rather than mandatory inflation targets. both pieces of carter legislation failed. but it showed how the end of the 1970's, this focus on cost versus equity became a bipartisan consensus. host: as you look at the overall federal budget those are the big , drivers of the federal budget. what was it back in the 1960's and do you see this trajectory , continuing into the future? 1960's, an before the number of health service administration scholars and policy experts began to see a slight uptick in medical inflation but it was not as egregious as the 1970's. this early awareness was part of the impetus of trying to rationalize medical care. nonetheless, by the 1970's, it becomes very clear that medicaid and medicare had some role in increasing health care costs by bringing more people into

he wanted to include jimmy cart carter. they had become very good friends p friends. and he wanted a journalist. the president called up tom brokaw and said will you do this as a favor. tom started out his career as a white house correspondent in the ford presidency. so he was one of the speakers. but ford when he lived in alexandria, when he was a republican house leader, his phone number was in the book. and his private number every reporter in town had it. so he used to call peter, that late gate report frert dai the late great reporter, who said that you break equal number of windows on each side. >> and to change the tone, someone asked was sense of humor considered one of the important attribut attributes. and with that in mind, where did calvin coolidge rank. >> coolidge didn't say much, but what he said was funny. grie grover cleveland who -- true story, cleveland had very few friends on capitol hill particularly in the talkative guild that calls itself the wor world's greatest deliberative bead. b b body. but late one night, she woke him and said there are th