major welcome back to hardball. that clip of president carter on 60 minutes revived an old rivalry. henry hurtsberg joins us. he worked with the carter administration as chief speechwriter. i used to work for rick. he joins us from new york. there you are with a beard. what makes jimmy carter just keep doing this thing, ripping off the old scab, bringing back the old fight. he could have soft-soaped this thing. yeah, it s what we used to call pure jimmy. pure jimmy. let me ask you. i want to read you something from the diary which i think everybody like you and me are going to go nuts to try to look nor the honesty of jimmy carter. quote. this is carter whether he he it was president. i think going to bed at night writing this up. quote, ken di continuing his irresponsible and abusive attitude immediately condemning our health plan. give us what was going on