First catholic president but he was the first catholic nominee for president. This dinner, which is a benefit for Catholic Charities here in new york city, has ended up becoming a really important thing in american president ial politics. Honestly, the biggest reason it is really important is because of its timing. There are other dinners like this. The gridiron dinner in washington or the alfalfa dinner or the correspondence dinner. There are other dinners that are fancy politics proms, essentially. Where you get a sitting president or very highlevel politician showing up in tuxedos and gowns and telling jokes and sharing stages with people they otherwise would not be sharing stages with. That happens. Right . There are those events in washington and elsewhere around the country. But this one that you are looking at right here is different. Because this one happens now. A couple of weeks before the election. And its always timed like that. Every time. And traditionally, both president
Herbert hoover in the 1928 election so al smith was not the first catholic president but he was the first catholic nominee for president. This dinner, which is a benefit for Catholic Charities here in new york city, has ended up becoming a really important thing in american president ial politics. Honestly, the biggest reason it is really important is because of its timing. There are other dinners like this. The gridiron dinner in washington or the alfalfa dinner or the correspondence dinner. There are other dinners that are fancy politics proms, essentially. Where you get a sitting president or very highlevel politician showing up in tuxedos and gowns and telling jokes and sharing stages with people they otherwise would not be sharing stages with. That happens. Right . There are those events in washington and elsewhere around the country. But this one that you are looking at right here is different. Because this one happens now. A couple of weeks before the election. And its always ti
Live in the cnn newsroom. I take the position that when youre commander in chief that you really ought to keep all options on the table. Good morning to you. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Harsh criticism from one of the biggest players in president Barack Obamas cabinet. Former defense secretary leon pa net ta now hammering his old boss on everything from isis to arming Syrian Rebels. Even going after the president s leadership style. Its all part of pa net tas new book worthy fights which releases today. He sat down with cnns chief political analyst gloria borger. I take the position that when youre commander in chief that you really ought to keep all options on the table, to be able to have the flexibility to do what is necessary in order to defeat this enemy. But to make those air strikes work, to be able to do what you have to do, you dont just send planes in and drop bombs. You have to have targets. Youve got to know what youre going after. To do that, you d
Party for Vice President was geraldine ferraro, 1984, the Democratic Party. If youre noticing a trend here, youre right. Because it was also Democratic Party in 1928 that made the first nomination of a catholic for president in this country. And that was new york governor al smith. Among the many Glass Ceilings that the Democratic Party has broken in president ial and Vice President ial politics, he was the first major catholic to be a major president ial nominee. And he got shellacked. Hubert hoover beat him in 40 states. That was at a time when we only had 48 states. Poor al smith. But he is still remembered and honored among new york catholics, most notably with this dinner they hold every year which is an Election Year turns out to always be lousy with politicians. This is al smiths greatgrandson introducing one of the candidates. Lets go to it. I was thinking about the republican nominee, donald j. Tru trump. There are actually some rumors going around that he wasnt going to show
I mean this sincerely. Everyone in attendance is doing their part in supporting our charitable efforts. And it couldnt be done without you or without the amazing support of the many devoted catholics on stage. You know, catholics like henry kissinger, howard rubenstein, mort zuckerman. Before we turn this over to our speakers, i want to address the elephant in the room. I was talking to Cardinal Dolan no, no, that was not a planned that was not a bear with me i wish id thought of that. It just happened to fall in that way. Earlier want the wikileaks emails that said certain members of the Clinton Campaign wanted to incite a revolution in the Catholic Church. I was pretty concerned. But we had a very constructive conversation with the Clinton Campaign and Cardinal Dolan said, if the cardinals and the clergy havent destroyed the church in the last 2,000 years, the democrats dont stand a chance. Of course, the donald got in a very public tiff with the pope last year. I know you discussed