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>> setting aside the politics that we would like the americans and the israelis and the arabs, what do you personally feel would be the equitable solution israeli .. never going to be a perfect solution. these are two peoples that have been there for centuries. they both have legitimate claims to the land there. they're going to have to find ways to share it. and as i said. it's not incompatible. israel needs -- the one thing israel really needs is security. and they deserve it. the one thing the palestinians need and deserve is a viable state. you can have both of those things but i...

social security was what? 65. what is it now? 66. it is going up to what? 67. when did that happen? i suspect nobody in this room knows when that law was changed. do you know y? why? they did it 28 years ago. they did it long before any of you were at or near retirement so you would not blame them for doing it. when they passed its bank, they said in 20 years, we will move the retirement age up and all of you folks who were 45 and younger would not care. and guess what? it worked. paul ryan and all of these folks have learned by that lesson. if you make the changes out far enough you...

[applause] >> it was 1972, 2:30 in the morning when george mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. a few months later, he would lose badly to president richard nixon. tonight, the candidacy and legacy of george mcgovern. we are live from the mcgovern museum in mitchell, south dakota. joining us is presidential author scott farris. it was 2:30 when he delivered the acceptance speech in miami. why? >> it was emblematic of the whole mcgovern campaign, which was it was an insurgent campaign run against the establishment. what happened was, as you heard from senator mcgovern, he was ver...

possibly rolling it into one little holiday package -- the extenders, the u.i. benefits extension, as well as payroll tax cuts -- just do it all at once, christmas tree it. is that something that you think is feasible -- >> again, i think that's getting ahead of the process in terms of what the sausage-making might look like in these next several weeks. i think we're focused on a number of things, principally the payroll tax cut extension and expansion, but also these appropriations bills and getting all of the work that needs to be done by the end of the year done in a way that ensu...

if ever. one person said, let me tell you why george lost the election. america is a great country. it has faults, but george acted like he was angry at the country. you cannot talk about the nation's faults and expected to be elected. george thought that was not true. he thought that patriotism was pointing out the country's false and trying to improve them. many people interpreted it as him tearing down the united states by talking so graphically about the cost of war, our conduct their, and even why we were there in the first place. >> so, how does george mcgovern overcome this an...