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Was. a lot of people think theyve got to punch up, ive got to punch at joe biden, ive got to punch at elizabeth warren. sometimes the smartest strategy is to punch at the person next to you and clear out the space to give you the elbow room that everyones talking about you the next day as they talk about elizabeth warren and everyone else. >> and you can always tell, you can tell last night a lot of people got up there and it was like its writing down the double skrjeopardy. ive got to remember ...

Accidentally or on purpose. something said from a vietnam medal of honor recipient bacon said we dont wear the award for ourselves, we wear it for all of those who cant. another one of three living recipients from the second world war, still alive, woody williams from iwo jima. the award is not mine. i just hold it in trust. >> for all these people who are not here. lets talk about what this young man did, in november of 2004, the second battle of fallujah, they were clearinghouses and reached t...

With donald trump less legit my somewhat? >> no, it means i lead an adventurous life. im out among the men. you know, i dont think its that unusual. i do not think someone who was born during world war ii like me and started their careers in the 60s and 70s, you cannot walk down the street in the 60s without getting hit it. i left the house in the 60s, 70s and 80s. try to go down to the subway in 1968 and you could not do it without being pinched. >> you have seen it all and life has changed in ...

Home state of california. that said, i have tremendous respect for senator warren. i think shes offering great ideas. and i actually think this race may come down, like 1968, where you had two progressives, robert kennedy and gene mccarthy, competing until unfortunately senator kennedy was assassinated. you may have two progressives, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, ultimately competing for the nomination. >> what about you say you may have two progressives ultimately competing. doesnt sound...

Amos? >> what do you see in the way of the vehicle in which we travel to space in the next 35 years? already in the last 15 years weve built up this system of rockets to the point that your model doesnt even fit in the roof any longer. are we going far beyond saturn 5? >> i think that would be a continued need for some such a work horse. and it is rather arbitrary how big it will be as long as it is big. >> the satyr 5 was the human audacity. it was a mind blower. >> saturn 5 was three big rocke...

>> we interrupt to program to present another in a series of on-board television transmissions from the apollo 8 space capsule brought to you by tang, the instant breakfast drink chosen by gemini and apollo astronauts. 175,450 miles from earth. the astronauts have truly left the earth and its gravity. for the second tell i cast, frank foreman has turned the television so it faces the earth. here are the television pictures coming through from apollo control. >> what you are seeing is the western...

>> god said, let the waters of the heaven be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. and god called the dry land earth. and the gathering together of the waters called he seas. god saw that it was good. and from the crew of apollo 8, merry christmas and god bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. >> the far side of the moon and the earth rise for the first time seen by humanize as well as that television broadcast from in orbit around the moon -- im so...

What is your specific appeal to southern and african-american voters nationally in your opinion. >> a freedom dividend of $1,000 a month, which will be transformative for many people in the south and would go a longer way in communities that have lower access to capital and to job opportunities which unfortunately overlaps with many black communities both here in south carolina and around the country. and the freedom dividend is something that martin luther king was fighting for in 1967 and 1968...

It. theres an asian man who is running for president who wants to give everyone $1,000 a month. have you heard that, south carolina? and the first time you heard that, it sounds like a gimmick, too good to be true, but then you dig into our countrys history, and you find that this is an american idea that is as old as the country itself. thomas paine was for, he called it a citizens dividend. martin luther king jr. whose birthday we celebrate every year. he called it the guaranteed minimum incom...

There was a nacent but growing homophile movement as they called it. so the first part of the series looks at the movement and what set the foundation for the stonewall rebellion. >> we talk in shorthand so much. my 15-year-old daughter is watching. what was stonewall? >> stonewall was a riot. we celebrate it right now but understand it was a riot and it was a fight for our lives. it was a fight against institutions that ignored us, against the systems that discriminated against us. it was a fig...