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Challenging ourselves to reach for the stars. >> how had it come to this? some 50 years after this. >> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. >> and kennedy's goal was to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. but for jfk, it was not just about conquering the space, it was about conquering the russians, a cold war played out in the cold darkness of space. >> well, they beat us in orbit, so we were behind. we were lagging. we didn't go to the moon to collect rocks, we went to the moon to stick the flag in...

Jet to confirm we had given up on space. >> it is almost as if we are not challenging ourselves to reach for the stars. >> how had it come to this? some 50 years after this. >> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. >> and kennedy's goal was to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. but for jfk, it was not just about conquering the space, it was about conquering the russians, a cold war played out in space. >> well, they beat us in orbit, so we were behind. we didn't go to the moon to collect rocks, we w...

Constitutional tippin point. explain that for us. >> well, you know, our system is incredibly resilient. it's been through or wars and depression and civil unrest. but the system itself is based on this notion of three bodies that are sort of in orbit, that balance. they're locked together, the three branches of government. and that tripartheid system, as it's called, protects civil liberties, protects individual rights, was with it prevents any one branch from assuming so much power that it becomes dominant. well, what we're seeing -- and it's not, didn't begin with president obama, but it ce...