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Images, at how these protesters were brutalized in birmingham. there was the practical nuts and bolts dollars and sense matter of raising the bail money to get the protesters out of jail. he raised $50,000 himself, the unions stepped in and kicked up a lot of money. a black store workers union in new york. they sent tens of thousands of dollars to the jail to serve as bail money. with all those hundreds of children in jail, when they totalled up the bill for bail, it was staggering. something li...

Approval rating among white americans and to some degree as you pointed out earlier the republican party and conservatives have really seized on that. they seized on the racial division in this country and seized on older white voters and seized on controversy in and around race to get votes and i guess the question is, you know, how do you start to begin to put the puzzle back together. there was a sense in the 60s things were broken and need change. but even now when you talk about race its in...

Dotes in his book about the proximity he enjoyed when it came to major candidates for national office, rockefeller, for example. how close could you get previously to a presidential candidate versus today? >> well, presidential or down on lower levels of the ballot, the difference, i think, is that we were adversary without being enemies. i mean, we were on different sides much the story. we want stuff that the politicians, be they managers or candidates, didnt necessarily want out. but at the s...

Jenna: right now some crime headlines were keeping eye on for you including today being a sentencing day for a man who impersonate ad rockefeller. he was found guilty this year for a pair of murders committed in 1985. faces up to 27 years in prison. police discovered his real identity several years ago. you might remember the story when he kidnapped his own daughter. a big story out of orlando. police are searching for a gunman who walked into a cross fitness gym and shot the instructor to dea...

It. theres some governors i like. walker has been pretty good and a few others. im not here to nominate anybody. im here to say, american, its time to put nixon, ford, rockefeller, scranton, help us or were going to get our lunch handed to us again. its time to embrace constitutional covertive jim -- conservative jim because the countries in dire shape. >> neil: you hear from tea party types they would rather lose on principle than win with mediocrity. to your point. moderate type candidates. do...

>> hello? >> yes, sir. >> that was great. i must say i put an awful lot of emotion into it. i dont know whether it got through. >> it sure did. the last part, of course, was a -- was quite a work of art to be frank with you. >> it sure was. >> put that and compress it with that and say it without being maudlin, and yet to have emotion with style. >> it sure was. >> did you talk to the vice president. >> yeah, i talked to him. >> and graham? >> and graham. i talked to those three because i felt i...

Style. >> it sure was. >> did you talk to the vice president? >> yeah, i talked to him. >> and gram? >> and gram. i talked to those three because i felt i should. rockefeller called, the hell with him but it was a god damn good speech. >> that is coming through, all the way through. >> want to give me a run down? >> sure, oneil at the new york daily news said it was the most effective job youve done yet and adequately answered critics but retained the responsibility youll need in the time ahead....

Global problem and mayors have been solving these problems but everybody is kind of figuring out their own solution. so this is to take 100 cities globally and link them around the world, not only so they can share best practices, but that they can really receive a suite of services that well be providing by the rockefeller foundation. how to get innovative financing from the private sector, what kinds of big data solutions help you assess your vulnerability, what kind of land use planning and i...

Government. he ran for congress in 1960 and won in a district that went for john f. kennedy that same year. two years later ran for governor and won, again. his first year in office considered a smashing success. poured money into education and enacted a sales tax. that fleury of action led to calls for scranton to seek the 1964 presidential nomination. but he didnt show much interest in that. what scranton didnt realize at first and what almost no republican of the old guard recognized at that ...

President. >> yeah, i talked to him. >> and gram? >> and gram. i talked to those three because i felt i should. rockefeller called, the hell with him but it was a god dam good speech. >> that is coming through, all the way through. >> want to give me a run down? >> sure, oneil at the new york daily news said it was the most effective job youve done yet and adequately answered critics but retained the responsibility youll need in the time ahead. it will really get through to the american people. ...