my brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. those of us who loved him and will take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. as he said many times in many parts of this nation to those he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why, i dream things that never were and say why not. that was senator ted kennedy at the funeral of his brother bobby. second funeral he would have to mark and today is june 6th. david ignatius, two monumental things happened on this day, of course, the assassination and the death the assassination and the death of bobby kennedy on june 6th, 1968, a day that really marked in many ways a low point, the chaos of the 1960s and i must say also a
talking and thinking about how our world really is built on the courage and sacrifice of those people. the other thing we celebrate today, i remember vividly, i was a young man of 18 when bobby kennedy died and there was a way in which life seemed to break in that moment. he was a person whether because of his family or the change that he had gone through to an extraordinary change. he had been a very conservative guy, conservative voice in his brother jfk s ear, but he became somebody who identified with all the progressive things happening in america s civil rights movement, needing to end the vietnam war. it is true that day when he was shot, it was as if the hope that he embodied had gone away. so it s good of you to mention these two anniversaries, one that makes us happy, d-day,
it was phrased and how much the president pushed hard for this, it could become part of an obstruction probe. reporter: i think that s right. the reason this is important, obviously the president has said repeatedly, as he did again on twitter today, there is no collusion. that s why there s all this attention on these other issues, because they couldn t prove the collusion here. who knows whether they do or don t find collusion, but there does appear, based on this reporting as you confirmed by our colleagues here on nbc news, there appears increasingly to be serious questions about whether the president did obstruct justice. as the reporting goes, the president in effect pushed don mcgann, his white house counsel, to lobby jeff sessions not to recuse himself. the president was angry, he was furious after the fact. that in effect he said he wanted an attorney general who is more like rfa to his brother jfk. like eric holder to president obama, basically someone who was allied and ha