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Was 1960, kennedy versus nixon. it was very close right at the end, and people thought chicago graveyards voted heavily that year and it was a big deal that it was stolen from richard nixon. nixon said we should not pursue it, we should call it a day. even richard nixon understood the importance of accepting the integrity of the process and not convincing people that is legitimate. [ inaudible ] [ crowd noise ] >> -- every persons hand writing was the same in that and what they knew is how many ...

One week before american voters went to the polls in november 1964 to choose between lbj and barry gold water. >> you and i have a ran day view with destiny. preserve for our children the last best hope of man on earth or sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. >> even if you disagree with the political philosophy, even if you disagree with the case he laid out in that speech, its funny, going back and listening to it now, i forgotten how snarkky and snide it was. ...

The man that put him on the conservative map coast to coast and layed the groundwork for first resounding huge win in 1966 was this: this is two years before he won that governors race so hugely. two years almost exactly before he won that race. this was october 27, 1964. it was exactly one week before the 1964 presidential election. now, people who love ronald reagan, love this speech. honestly, people who just love american politics love this speech. this speech from ronald reagan a week befor...

Texas far away let alone a blue. what do you see on the ground that saubstantiates or backs these numbers? >> i think whats going to be happening in texas is something really foreshadowing of whats going to happen in texas over the next generation which is that that state is changing. certainly the demographics are changing. you have an educated workforce in a lot of different parts of texas and people are going to be looking for something different from politics. im not sure whether texas is go...

Your candidate says there is a larger scale of fraud before the election day. what proof does he have? >> lets face it. voter fraud has occurred in the u.s. especially in presidential elections. we saw it in the 1960s election and lbj in texas and resaw it in the 1997 miami election for mayors where they had to toss out the results because there were 5,000 fraudulent absentee ballots. chris matthew has talked about how much voter frauds there is in philadelphia, and democr. why is it controversi...

Been knowledgeable and hard working and she also kind of cares about blocking and tackling of lawmaking and policy and touching members of congress and working with them in a way we saw in the last few years the current president lost his taste for it. >> we havent had it in 20 years. didnt have it with george w. bush. didnt have it with barack obama and people like bill clinton understood, nixon understood, lbj understood. >> its something that donald trump of course is totally foreign to him. ...

House to work for president? >> i want to ask you. this is accurate that we havent seen this audio about a candidate, but there are trump supporters and historians argue that there are other presidents, nixon and lbj come to mind who had recording devices in the white house who had very objectionable things on tape said about different groups of people and about women and about jews and about african-americans. >> sure. >> a range of horrors. i dont know how much politically that would help dona...

Social media certainly has exploded. but george bush let people sit on their roof tops, people died in katrina. >> do you think the first black president could have brought the light to this? >> absolutely. >> do you think the president has been too conscious of his own skin color, not wanting to get the blowback of making things a race thing. >> hes been boxed in by his own race, and theres so much more he could have done. the debate will be, again, could he have done more or did they tie his...

Social media certainly has exploded. but george bush let people sit on their roof tops, people died in katrina. >> do you think the first black president could have brought the light to this? >> absolutely. >> do you think the president has been too conscious of his own skin color, not wanting to get the blowback of making things a race thing. >> hes been boxed in by his own race, and theres so much more he could have done. the debate will be, again, could he have done more or did they tie his h...

People very close to those sources is that if hillary loses in iowa to bernie sanders, a guy that most in the democratic establishment do not think she should be close to right now and then she loses in new hampshire, you have messrs biden -- >> why cant they get behind sanders and support him? >> its the same thing bobby kennedy did in 1968 after lbj showed weakness. >> are we making the same mistake that people have made about trump?