Aroundrecommend that that might overshadow tomorrow. Guest this is something john bennett will have to address on camera. Hes put out statements supporting Steve Scalise who spoke to a racist group and he acknowledged in 2002 also majority leader kevin mccarthy, republican from california has also supported scalise. Scullys has said he regrets talking to that group back then that he wasnt sure he was talking to that group at one point blames staff on it. He has been able to weather the storm because while the have been a democrat whether the calls for him to step aside as the leader, republicans have not. Anytime you get into this type of controversy as long as your team, members of the kindle call for you to step aside, then youre probably going to survive. At the same time it is something reporters will be asking about this week. Host the headline track issues of lacking the republican, the first one in the caucus so that she would not publicly defending scalise. Up and democrats hav
Election between literature and were media and religion. She attended the conference hosted by the university of colorado. We will have that the clock eastern tonight. Then the Clinton Foundation will be hosting a discussion about the abuse of Prescription Drugs by young people. One of the speakers will be congressman Patrick Kennedy of rhode island who has spoken about his own struggles with addition with addiction. Here some of what he will have to say tonight. We need to reorient our culture. To stopure needs keeping silent about this because the biggest enemy is the silence. Beingthe pathology of not able to talk about the elephant in the room. Mom suffered from severe and persistent mental illness. Is pretty progressive, liberal minded, and never breathed a word about it. Then she disappeared to go to treatment. David writes about it in his books. The Biggest Challenges we need a conversation. I love the fact mtv is trying to break these barriers down, but it is the stigma that is
Host again, thanks for joining us this president s day. Going to get straight to comments from facebook on our topic, who is your favorite president and why . Lincoln. Tes abraham he was a common man, not highly educated or from a wealthy family. I believe he was truly saddened when we became involved in the civil war which killed so many of our people. He had a caring heart and wanted what was best for citizens of our country. He was truly a great man. , t below him, manny writes too surprising choices. James k. Polk, set up for your platform and a compass 100 of it. And chester a arthur, a new york patronage stalwart who worked to eliminate it in his three years in office. First call from new york to a is on our line for republicans. Caller my favorite president is Ronald Reagan and i feel the country was at its strongest when he was president does 8 years. At its strongest since maybe the 50s. Before him and after him the country was in that strong. And no one messed around with us
Years. Storiesybe one of those that is too good to investigate, to she knew what she wanted do. Let me introduce you to a couple of people here as we wrap up the introductions to key Staff Members involved. Yeta who is running camera. She doesnt look like it right now. These days it is done with joysticks and things that look remarkably like ipads. That is that johnny . He spent much of the series giving me cues, telling me to move along when im supposed to. The role of floor director and one person who declined to be on camera. Terry murphy the Vice President none of using and would be doing this if we didnt have his involvement. As we end our project here, end the series, i will turn to each you and ask so long look across this history of first ladies who are the ones that really made the role asce in change the we know it today . A question we started with early on. Lets wrap that way. Richard . If Martha Washington would not have been as successful defining what a president and lad
This i is an hour. Congratulations on the new book its generating a lot of interest. Whats interesting to me as a person that covered fox for many years in new york and also because i was on a Fox News Program i want to ask you first of all what attracted you to writing a book about roger ailes . Test code that is a great question. Ive covered the media for a decade now and ive been fascinated by the media and politics that covered the New York Times, washington post, msnbc and i wanted to do a bit about the history because the network revolutionized cable news. With the most dominant cable news that would double that of msnbc. Very early into the reporting of the book i realized the weight of the stories the life and career of roger ailes because it is a complete expression of thet worldview. The network is shaped in his image and without the talent i dont think fox would be the success that it is commiserate with developed into a portrait of fox news is the culmination of everything