carson: she is my best friend. she even learned how to play pool because she knew i was a good player. [laughter] dr. carson: most of the times i beat her. there are media here and their headline will be that carson admits he beats his wife. [laughter] dr. carson: if you guys would not mind sitting down, so that i can introduce our son -- my oldest son, murray and his wife are right here. stand up, please. [applause] dr. carson: murray is an engineer and his wife is an analyst. my middle son cj and his wife marlen is right here. [applause] dr. carson: he is an entrepreneur and merlin owns a company that does placements and they do a lot of things. they own a lot of stuff. very cool. my youngest son is right here. his wife is at home with the baby. [applause] dr. carson: royce is a cpa and they all three got married in 2011. [laughter] [applause] dr. carson: now, i have introduced my family. you say, who are you? i am ben carson and i am a candidate for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] thank you

kit carson joins the yankee fight. as colonel of the first new mexico volunteers and helps fend off the texas confederates. with the rebel threat largely contained, commanding officer general james carlton decides to go after them while the union army was preoccupied. >> these navajo savages, they are far past the point of talking to. they need to be whipped and they need to fear us. >> carleton believed the indians, particularly the navajos, had to be put on a reservation, essentially turn them into farmers, educate their kids, bring them into american civilization. >> the general selects a parcel of land in southeast new mexico called round forest for his grand experiment. if the navajos refused to move, carson is to kill them on site. >> can you handle that? >> to take people from the land that they know and to put them in a land that they don't know is disastrous to the way that people live. they are not able to hunt the same kind of game that they usually hunt, they are not able to cultivate the same food. a lot o

carson was a rye sense of humor, always giving someone else the credit. >> wi >>>> with carson's help he has a wagon route through the rockies. >> they became natural scouts. the government would go to just to know what's out there. they are walking palaces of the united states at that point. >> carson. >> look at that land. as far as i can see. >> by may 1846 fremont and carson have become national folk heros. after two successful expeditions to blaze the oregon trail. >> they were the first people to figure out where they could fort rivers, the safest route where you didn't have to climb mountains and they led them out to populate and tame the wild west. >> the path finder and kit carson his trusty scout. >> john fremont is a media darling. the truth path finder is kit carson. together their exploits fuel the nation's hunger for stories of national expansion. to soon the missions to map the territories to greate significance. >> on their third outing an unexpected dispatch arrives from the white house. >> friends president and secret war. >> california. it says we are to continue ou

carson. we have a number of calls already on the line. we go to donna on the republicans line. caller: wonderful. we have been supporting dr. carson. his speech was fantastic. i'm grateful to c-span for running the speech. our family will be watching it again at 7:00 tonight. host: what did you like particularly about what you heard? caller: he speaks to the american people not like they are five-year-olds as a lot of politicians do, but as people who can understand what he is saying. what his policies will be based on facts and not political rhetoric. host: are you worried he is not a political person? caller: i think that is one of his strengths. because he is working the real world most of his life -- he spoke about how you can learn all kinds of skills. i experienced that as a wife and mother. i think politicians get up sometimes that are just career politicians. host: donna in oklahoma. owing to go on to brooklyn, new york. eleanor is on the line. you're on the air. caller: i was very im

, carson, carson, carson. >> former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina announced her candidacy for the republican presidency monday. here is the video she released. carly fiorina: -- hillary clinton: i am getting ready to do something, too. carly fiorina: our founders never intended us to have a professional political class. the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it. i am carly fiorina and i am running for president. if you are tired of the soundbite, the ego, the corruption, if you believe it is time to declare the end of identity politics, if you believe it is the time to declare the end of lowered expectations if you believe it is time for citizens to stand up to the political class and say enough, then join us. it is time for us to empower our citizens, to give them a voice in our government, to come together to fix what has been broken for too long. because we can do this together. >> presidential candidates often released books to introduce themselves to voters. here is a look at recent books by declared and potential candidates. hillary clinton l

carson! >> and joining me now dr. ben carson presidential candidate. dr. carson great to see you. congratulations on your announcement and what an incredible story that i think many people may not have known had they not read your book. let's start with what happened with your father. he was a bigomist and your mother left him, or they separated when she found out. how did that affect you? >> well obviously i was devastated. as any child would be. and prayed every night, please help them to get back together. not really realizing why the divorce had taken place. and it was really some years later before my mother really gave us the full story of what had happened because she didn't want to demonize him in our eyes. >> did you ever see him again? >> yes. the last time i saw him was the day that i got married. he died many years ago. >> wow. and did you ever have any contact with the other family? >> i did, but i didn't know who they were. >> wow. >> so sometimes on sunday morning he would take us and we would visit these people. i didn't really know who they were until much later.

carson: there are many people who are critical of me because they say carson wants to get rid of all the safety nets and welfare programs even though he must have benefited from them. this is a blatant lie. i have no desire to get rid of safety nets for people who need them. i have a strong desire to get rid of programs that create dependency in able-bodied people. [applause] we are not doing people a favor when we pat them on the head and say there, there you poor little thing, we are going to take care of all of your needs. you don't have to worry about anything. you know who else says stuff like that? socialists. their programs always end up looking the same, they want to take care of people from cradle to grave and they want to be involved in every aspect of their lives, and they want most of their earnings. but they say it will be a utopia and nobody will have to worry. the problem is all of those societies and up looking the same with a small group of elites at the top controlling everything, a rapidly diminishing middle class, and a vastly expanded dependent class. that was no

carson: we had a vigorous argument. i suggested maybe we can resolve it at the level of the supreme court, which seemed bold and reckless. it really wasn't. i knew the next week i was going to the supreme court to receive the jefferson award. i figured i would ask while i was there. sandra day o'connor say they were with us. there was no violation. people who say silly stuff like that, what do they know about our country? our founding document talks about certain unalienable rights given to us by our creator, the pledge of allegiance says we are one nation under god. many courtrooms say in god we trust. every coin in our pocket. if it is in our founding documents, it is in our pledge it is in our court, it is on our money. we are not supposed to talk about it. what and the world is that? in medicine, we call the schizophrenia. [applause] dr. carson: does not explain a lot about what is going on in our nation today? we need to make it clear it is ok to live by godly principles of loving your fellow man, of caring about y

carson: thank you very much. [applause] dr. carson: thank you. we have limited time. thank you. thank you so much for that warm welcome. this is my wonderful wife candy. [applause] dr. carson:

ben carson: i should be careful because there is media and here and the headline would be "carson eat his wife -- beats his wife." if you would not mind sitting down so i could introduce my son. he is my oldest son, murray, and his wife and they are right here. stand up please. [applause] murray is an engineer and she is an analyst for a polling company. my middle son and his wife are right here. [applause] and he is an entrepreneur and she owns a company that has placements and they do a lot of things. a lot of stuff. it is very cool. my youngest son royce, is right here. his wife is at home with the baby. [applause] royce is a cpa and they all three got married in 2011. [applause] dr. ben carson: now i have introduced my family. you say, who are you? i will tell you. i am ben carson and i'm a candidate for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] dr. ben carson: thank you. thank you. america remains a place of dreams. and a lot of people are down on a nation. they want to point out all the bad things that have happened here. but have you view a notice that -- have you e

carson: thank you very much. [applause] dr. carson: thank you. we have limited time. thank you. thank you so much for that warm welcome. this is my wonderful wife candy. who is also a detroiter. [applause] dr. carson: even though we are both from detroit, we had to go to new haven to meet each other. kandi has been by my side for 40 years. [applause] dr. carson: it is my best friend -- she is my best friend. she even learned how to play pool because she knew i was a good player. [laughter] dr. carson: most of the times i beat her. there are media here and their headline will be that carson admits he beats his wife. [laughter] dr. carson: if you guys would not mind sitting down, so that i can introduce our son -- my oldest son, murray and his wife are right here. stand up, please. [applause] dr. carson: murray is an engineer and his wife is an analyst. my middle son cj and his wife marlen is right here. [applause] dr. carson: he is an entrepreneur and merlin owns a company that does placements and they do a lot of things. they own a lot of stuff. very cool. my youngest son is rig

ben carson 4.8%. mike huckabee is in 6th place at 8.3% and led earlier in some of the national polls. but they are long shots. carly fiorina said we don't need people who held public office. the last time the republicans nominated somebody who had not been an elected office holder or commanded the american military in a war was 1940. and you have to go back a long time before you get to somebody who had no elective responsibilities before they became president. on the other hand she proved to be a very adept campaigner. she is energetic. she focused on iowa, north carolina and new hampshire a like. she came with the line that clinton boasts she traveled to all those countries and she said flying is an activity, not an accomplishment. similarly ben carson who is a physician, a newer so surgeon brain surgeon at johns hopkins with a wonderful story took on president obama over obamacare. an has been a rock star. everybody has gotten a moment and a bump. generally when they announce. but his bump was earl

then: i am ben carson and i'm the candidate for -- ben: i am then carson and i'm a candidate for president. sam: today, when asked about racial tension in america, he tied it back to the economy. ben: the deteriorating situation that we see, people wrongly ascribed to race. i think the real problem is economics and loss of hope that people have which causes a great deal of frustration. sam: carson spent 35 years of his life in baltimore. he says baltimore's problems are everybody's problems. ben: baltimore is like many cities undergoing great decay. we have been throwing money at it for decades. sam: in order to fix it, he says it comes to jobs. ben: we should get the right kinds of jobs, not these chicken jobs, no benefits. sam: before heading into the national day of a are, we asked dr. carson about his views on homosexuality. do you sincerely believe that, sexuality is a choice? ben: i cannot do a yes or no on that, it is a complex issue. sam: dr. carson is one of eight confirmed republican candidates running for president. in the coming weeks, it is expected that several more will join

. >> carson was the best show. jay created the anti-show. >> i have more memories show than my own life from that time. >> before kimmel, conan, seth, or fallon, there was dave. the king of quips. stupid pet tricks. and outrageous pranks. >> it is hard to say what his influence is not. >> but behind the scenes, it wasn't all laughs. >> he was devastated. >> nbc has no use for you people. wash up and get out. >> oh, this is blackmail. >> a late night legend signs off. >> what this means now is that paul and i can be married. >> a cnn special report, david letterman says good night. >> i still have to do things like answer viewer mail. >> viewer mail. >> what is the deal with the sneakers? we decided this should be answered in person. >> the trademark bit. it was 196-and steve o'donnell was a writer for dave's show. >> if we got a letter that was provocative enough, we would seek them out. >> just one example of how dave changes the game. >> let me see if colleen is home. five years in the run. it was clever and unco

carson: we had a vigorous argument. i suggested maybe we can resolve it at the level of the supreme court, which seemed bold and reckless. it really wasn't. i knew the next week i was going to the supreme court to receive the jefferson award. i figured i would ask while i was there. sandra day o'connor say they were with us. there was no violation. people who say silly stuff like that, what do they know about our country? our founding document talks about certain unalienable rights given to us by our creator, the pledge of allegiance says we are one nation under god. many courtrooms say in god we trust. every coin in our pocket. if it is in our founding documents, it is in our pledge it is in our court, it is on our money. we are not supposed to talk about it. what and the world is that? in medicine, we call the schizophrenia. [applause] dr. carson: does not explain a lot about what is going on in our nation today? we need to make it clear it is ok to live by godly principles of loving your fellow man, of caring about y

carson was the show. dave created the anti-show. >> i have more memories of the letterman show than my own from that time. >> before kimmel, conan, and seth or fallon, there was dave. the king of quips. >> and welcome to the damn show. >> stupid pet tricks and outrageous thanks. >> behind the scenes it was not all laughs. >> he was devastated. >> nbc has no use for these people. >> this is black male. >> a late night legend signs off. >> this means paul and i can be married. a cnn special report, david letterman says good night. >> i still have to do things like answer viewer mail letters. >> what's the deal with the sneakers? we decided this letter should be answered in person. 1986 and steve o'donnell was a writer. >> we would seek them out. >> this is a house right here. one example of how dave changed the game. >> let me ring the bell. >> late night was both deliver and unconventional. can you show us your sister's stuff? >> he showed us the girl's room and took us to where she worked at the mall. >>

carson the mother sonya, you mentioned in the piece, is very ill. our thoughts and prayers go out -- >> he's not going on the campaign trail, going to texas to be with her. >> best of luck to her and thoughts and prayers with them. >>> a deeper dive into the white house race. cnn political common dater, donna braz zimile joins us and also bill what do you make of either fiorina or carson? like them both? >> like them both add a lot to the race. >> what will they add to the race? >> ben carson actually is a leading neurosurgeon in the country, knows a lot about health care impressive life story, he can reflect on. carly fiorina, ceo of a major company, articulate spokeswoman for conservative views. good we have -- democrats should have conversety. a bunch of people between 65 and -- >> a lot of diversity. >> white people between 65 and 70 a problem for the democratic party. >> donna, in carly's spot trying to position herself as the anti-hillary and in fact recently told and interviewer she can take on the former secretary of state clinton because, i

after the show he said, do more of that. >> i've watched johnny carson, and you are no johnny carson. >> sometimes we had a bigger audience than "the tonight show." then he started a routine with you where he would talk to you during the show. >> yeah. >> hal? hal? good lord, hal. hal? >> hilarious and innovativinnov. everyone was along for the ride. there was guest cams and monkey c cam. >> they had a 360-degree show once where the show slowly over the course of the hour rotated. that was ridiculous. >> we had achieved 180 degrees. >> they did a show on a plane. i felt almost like it was somehow for me, like the heavens had opened up. >> letterman fan boy yijimmy kimmel. >> there's a picture of your 18th birthday. >> the cake was late night by letterman. my mom had a letterman jacket made for me. i played no sports, yet i wore a letterman jacket to high school every day. my license plate said l8 nite. it was the most formidable thing in my young life. >> thank you. >> i just remember like dave walking all the way down the hall with one camera following him, and it's live. >> don't ge

after the show, he said, do more of that. >> i watched johnny carson, and you are no johnny carson. >> sometimes we had a bigger audience than the tonight show. >> and then he started a routine with you where he would talk to you during the show. >> hal? hal? >> hilarious and innovative. everyone was along for the ride. there was guest cam and monkey cam. >> they had a 360 degree show once where the show slowly, over the course of the hour, rotated. that was ridiculous. >> we have achieved 180 degrees. >> they did the show on a plane. and i felt almost like it was somehow for me, like the heavens had opened up. >> letterman fan boy, jimmy kimmel. >> there is a picture i have seen from your 18th birthday. what was the cake? >> late night with david letterman. my mom made the cake. my mom had a letterman letterman jacket made for me. i played no sports. i had a letterman jacket i wore to school every day. my license plate says l8night. it seemed like such a waste of network television time. i loved it. they started a new kind of humor. >> get off the elevator.. i'm serious. and here is

carson: you consider two kinds of activists. i am personally not a believer in the financial engineering kind of activist who says buyback, issue debt to do it, i think that is extremely short-term. i don't think that is helpful to the economy at all. but there are companies that have functional boards and managements that are dysfunctional governance. and when you have activists come in and hammer away at that, i think that is very healthy for the economy. it is really about what the individual activist investor and what their even -- what is their egthothos. in terms of shortselling, could you end up changing your tune? does noble see you as a threat and could you actually go from a short to a long? is funny for noble, and to as a question, in theory, yes, we could go from a short to along at a certain price. noble is not going to be the case. noble says it is improving transparency. they are not releasing anything that is substantive in terms of information. it is frustrating but typical to watch. analysts are typically tour

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penn carson -- dr. ben carson will announce today. governor huckabee has plans. maybe that is tomorrow as well. we want to know about the comcast share buyback. let's do it did a check. we look at equities, -- let's do a data check. we look at equities, bonds, currencies. the euro goes from 1.12 down to 1.11. on to the next screen, if you would, please. showing the good feeling inequities, and the euro yen was at 1.34. i will call that a churn, elevated euro. that is what the pros look at a lot. greece yields are in. that is important with the dialogue wednesday, one of our themes -- bring crude not up to 70 yet but quite a recovery for oil. let's go to the bloomberg terminal. this is the thursday weekly jobless claims, back to well before the 1970's. here is the ugliness of the 70's -- of the 1970's with the inflation. what i have done is population adjusted this for a bigger america. here is the improving trend in claims. there is a small business next that gets in that there is a small business mix that gets in the way. we are down to a record low population c

charlie: carson meant what to you? david: for a person in that situation, everything great -- everything. it was not like it is now. the door to being a standup comedy or television success was "the tonight show." he meant everything to me, he meant everything to everybody else out there doing standup. it was a time when you could be on that show do well on the "tonight" show. the next day you would get calls about having your own show auditioning for william morris wanted you, and they are going to put you on a show, and there's a movie and this. on those days people would go out on tour for 6, 8 months, and they would have an opening act. it was really the employment placement office. more often than not, if johnny liked you, you are going to trend upward. charlie: the most powerful influence on your life, you think? david: first for that reason and second he was the gold standard. i used to think as a kid watching him in the midwest and indianapolis, and my dad would be there in his underwear and i would be there in

david: the johnny carson show, a couple of times. it went pretty well, but it was no real surprise because i had four or five years, and i had 20 minutes of material. i had it divided into four "tonight show" shots. and you've memorized it. everything. i knew the first one would go pretty well, and it did go pretty well. to me that was, and is the biggest thrill i've had since i've been doing television. charlie: what did he say to you when you sat down? david: i have no idea. i can remember at the time i was sitting there. i left indianapolis in 1975. in 1978, i'm sitting next to johnny carson. it wasn't rich little. johnny was there that night. it was not hugh downs filling in for johnny, it was johnny. forgive me if it is clumsily articulated, but my reaction was, all your life you see a five dollar bill. and then suddenly you see lincoln. oh, my god, it's honest abe. that was the reaction. i was just completely wired for days and days after that. that was for me the single most important, but also the single most thrilling experi

we heard ben carson in his announcement. he directly referenced, i believe he referred to as broken economy. he said it needs cleaning up. referenced american debt surpassing gdp within a year. made it a very very big talking point of his speech, the economy. of course carly fiorina running a company like hewlett-packard has a pretty good idea how the economy works. obviously there is many, kirsten sat on this sofa, questioned her track record running a company and many are, but she does know how it works. she knows what it takes. so people are saying, that ben carson and carly fiorina they don't have the political background. andrea i don't know that so much matters everyone when it comes to the pocketbook. what we know that drives a lot of voters to the polls is somebody who really, is going to promise them a better economy rand better situation for their family at home. >> jedediah, i want to go to you first first your thoughts on ben carson because we heard him announce today, and then fiorina. to sandra's point. the fac

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neurosurgeon turned republican darling ben carson, opened with a tune no one who would vote for him has heard of! ♪ you better lose yourself in the music, the moment you own it you better never let it go. you only get one shot. do not miss your chance to blow this opportunity comes once in a lifetime ♪ >> jon: ben carson's palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, there's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti! he's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs ♪ ♪ you better lose yourself in the music, the moment you own it, you better never let it go ♪ (rapping) ♪ nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin' to say but nothin' comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of jibberish and (bleep) act like they forgot about dre ♪. ♪ you better lose yourself in the music, the moment you own it, you better never let it go ♪ >> jon: anyway i switched songs. i didn't know what else to do. but post gospel choir precandidate was this surprisingly long video.

carson jindal and an exclusive. >>> plus hastert hush money. the indictment against the former house speaker. what was he really trying to hide? >>> from abc news "this week" with george stephanopoulos begins now. >>> so much to get to this morning. we begin with that breaking news from europe where secretary of state john kerry has been hospitalized after a bicycling accident in france. abc's hamish macdonald has all of the latest from london. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, george. the state department just releasing that information, the secretary of state has in fact broken his leg, a fractured to the right femur, he's traveling directly back to boston for treatment. did doctors are concern because this injury is very close to previous hip surgery. now, the accident happened while secretary kerry was biking through the french apples outside of a town called scionzier, near the swiss border he was there as part of a four-country tour. doctors and paramedics were on the scene immediately. he was flown to geneva university hospital. h

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he paid tribute to carson first. what was it in the end that johnny carson did? david: he had a weight of listening. what i call, and deep listening. you have that as well. you know where something is interesting and where i should leave it alone. it is rare. you had that, johnny had that. jonny had it for comedy. he knows where to go with a comedian or author who is funny. be able to pull back. he would wait and wait and just give you one line that would be funnier than anything anyone said. charlie: talent and experience and timing. david: also what you love. people get to know you from watching you. know who you care about and who you did not. johnny was wide open about that. he was fun. people talk about the dark so he might have had and all that. i keep saying, if you see a guy for 20 years every night for an hour, don't you think you know him pretty well? who could hide that much? he had his favorites. newhart, he loved newhart and me when we failed. he would laugh the hardest at anything i said when it was not working. charlie: he laughed at it because he

ben carson and business woman carly feeiorina have joined the presidential field. the clintons continue to deny any improprieties regarding their charitable foundation. we have fox coverage. and brit hume is here and mike emanuel. we begin with chief political correspondent carl cameron in detroit tonight where the doctor definitely is in. good evening, carl. >> reporter: that's right, bret. more are making it official. by this time tomorrow night, the field of republican presidential candidates would have doubled of officially and formally declared candidates. >> reporter: ben carson launched his campaign in native detroit even though he lives now in florida. >> people will say, who are you? i tell you, i'm ben carson and i'm a candidate for president of the united states. >> reporter: dr. carson became an overnight darling of the right at the national prayer breakfast two years ago and sparked a grassroots draft movement. they hope he attracts more minorities to the party. >> stop being loyal to a party or to a man and use your brain to think for yourself. >> rep

ben carson is now a politician. he does not have the experience fielding questions and being caught off guard on things and the range of issues that you have to address. it's a real crucible. it's no bigger crucible than running for president. it sounds good to say we when outsider, the reality is it's nearly impossible. host: here is carly fiorina's announcement from yesterday. >> our founders never intended for us to have a professional political class. they believe that citizens and leaders needed to step forward. we know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it. i'm carly fiorina and i am running for president. if you're tired of the soundbites, the vitriol, the ego, the corruption, if you believe that it's time to declare the end of identity politics and you believe it's time to declare the end of lowered expectations, if you believe it's time for citizens to stand up to the political class and say enough, then join us. it's time for us to empower our citizens and give them a v

ben carson and business woman carly feeiorina have joined the presidential field. the clintons continue to deny any improprieties regarding their charitable foundation. we have fox coverage. and brit hume is here and mike emanuel. we begin with chief political correspondent carl cameron in detroit tonight where the doctor definitely is in. good evening, carl. >> reporter: that's right, bret. more are making it official. by this time tomorrow night, the field of republican presidential candidates would have doubled of officially and formally declared candidates. >> reporter: ben carson launched his campaign in native detroit even though he lives now in florida. >> people will say, who are you? i tell you, i'm ben carson and i'm a candidate for president of the united states. >> reporter: dr. carson became an overnight darling of the right at the national prayer breakfast two years ago and sparked a grassroots draft movement. they hope he attracts more minorities to the party. >> stop being loyal to a party or to a man and use your brain to think for yourself. >> rep

ben carson is well-liked in black communities. and i think he's going to campaign and convey a message to them that really needs to be heard. needs to be heard by people who have been voting democratic all their life. pretty much out of habit. and i think ben carson is going to go out and talk to them about republican values. conservative values. in a way that i think will be very credible. because he's a very credible spokesman for his own beliefs. melissa: byron, that is a really interesting point. what do you think about that? >> it will be a very unconventional candidacy. if you listen to the half-hour speech today listening to carson is kind of like hearing a ted talk than a political address. he's talking about himself. he's talking about his values. he's very very vague in terms of what he would actually do if he were elected president. we're going to have to see how this goes in a competitive field. melissa: thanks guys. how will this shake up the political field? with this week's power index. and one person we see moving

carson and his wife stood side by side at the detroit you music hall. carson was born in detroit. hehe said he was not anti-government but felt that they need to follow constitutional powers. >> i'm ben carson and i will bid for president of the united states. i feel its time for the people to take government back. >> carson is sore far the only african-american to enter the race. but the nomination he has has never run for any public office before. carly fiorina announced her own bid for the white house. the former ceo of hewlett-packard. in 2010 she ran unsuccessfully for the senate in california. fiorina made her announcement this morning online. >> i'm carly fiorina. i just announced that i'm running for president. we need to restore possibilities for every american regardless of their circumstances. >> fiorina has scheduled the event to talk more about her plans. that event will take place later this afternoon. >>> an italian naval vessel picked up almost 800 migrants in the mediterranean sea. they're now in southern italy going through medical examinations. it follows 5800 m

carson. i know he was looking at what is happening in baltimore, maryland, and called for the leadership not just there but for the whole country. >> that's right. he's calling for new leadership and says he's not deterred from the big field of republicans running for 2016. it could be as many as 20 candidates or so. he says there's a critical time and the american voters need to hear from a variety of folks and you've got a guy who ran eight years ago, mike huckabee due to run in hope arkansas. >> we didn't slash, hurt people. we empowered people. >> i'm not a republican because i grew up rich. i didn't want to spend the rest of my life waiting for the government to rescue me. >> huckabee ran in 2008. harris? >> all right. just to quickly talk about the democrat side of things here vermont's bernie sanders who announced that he wants to run now for the democratic presidential race wants to run against hillary clinton. >> that's right. he groups hillary clinton in with wealthy, well-known rep

actually, you remember carson. but johnny carson was extraordinary. dave somehow managed to be more influential. >> to your point carson was prolific, but he didn't change the map of the country. letterman was our voice for a generation. just his cynical but yet still at the same time he was establishment and anti-establishment, which is kind of what the boomers are. and he was more than anybody the voice of the boomer generation. >> and to position how bigthink how big he stayed when media broke into a million pieces. carson had his turf, but it was a much small are playing field. >> johnny carson had a monopoly. dave did not. and yet i love the tina fey line that every guy she ever dated had some of dave's personality in him. guys learned how to joke how to talk, how to act from watching dave letterman at night. certainly the humor side of things. >> he made irony a national way of speaking about culture and politics and everything else. >> let's toss to some of the moments from last night. >> i want to thank my own family, my wife, regina and my so

by carson. if you want a woman to take on hillary clinton, you have carly fiorina. what is carson's appeal to the republican population and what will propel him to be a serious candidate? >> i think he is leaning heavily on the outsider. not a career politician. something really interesting. our heart goes out to dr. carson. his mother is really sick. he is having to cancel his events scheduled. >> he was supposed to be in iowa today, but we found out he is doing the announcement in detroit and going to see his mother in dallas. >> that mother key to his personal narrative. he was raised in detroit. the mother told him you could not watch tv. got him off the streets. made him write weekly book reports just to get him through. he has a remarkable personal story. carly fiorina. the former ceo of hewlett-packard hewlett-packard. she barely registerings on any polls. >> she has really fashioned herself as the republican woman ready to take on hillary clinton. she has come out and explicitly said if

and we would be watching johnny carson. and johnnie was like oh jeez, you know i love my dad but johnny is a little hipper than my dad. and so johnny kind of became a guy, an this is what you do if you are a guy. >> when is the last time you saw him alive. >> it was years ago. he and his wife were in town on their boat. and they invited me and my wife to have dinner with them. and we sailed up and down the hudson. we went under the george washington bridge turned around and came up and back past the lower-- looked right at the statue of liberty and then up the east river, turned around and came back. and it was all at sunset. it was magical. >> rose: he walked a which from it. could you walk away from it? >> yeah yeah. >> rose: you think so? >> yeah, i think you would always, i know johnny missed it. because like six months after he retired somebody had a big party for him in new york. and he had won some sort of an award. and people got up and did material and i had to get up and do material. and that damn ted koppel was t

. >> carson after being known from the prayer breakfast. we have to roll. >> we will turn it over to "happening now" because they are getting started now. have a great day, everybody. >>> and we begin with a fox news alert. police about to hold a news conference any moment on the dramatic shootout in texas. good monday morning to you. i am jon scott. >> and i am jenna lee. we will go back to detroit as news started there. two men opening fire at a conference center outside of dallas. >> we will have more on that coming up. stand and his wife are here. ben, jr. and he is an entrepreneur and owns a company that does placements and they do a lot of things and own a lot of stuff. very cool. and then my youngest son, royce is right here and his wife is home with the baby dreams for my mother. my mother came from a large rural family in tennessee. and was shuffled from home to home. she always had a desire for education. she never got beyond third grade and married to escape a situation. she and my father moved here to detroit and he worked in a

ben carson also threw his name in the ring. tomorrow former arkansas governor mike huckabee is expected to add his name to the race as well. now you have to see this picture. president obama fist bumping a four-year-old here. the little boy was wearing goggles and a superhero suit. he's the son of a photographer in the white house press corps. of course we're also all talking about another little girl, the royal princess and, well a gift she has now received. pretty big one, the australian government donated $10,000 in her name to a group that protects the endangered mountain pygmy possum. the government also gave her a wool blanket. looking for one of these? yoplait. smooth, creamy, and craved by the whole family. >> hope and heart break has search crews comb through rubble in nepal. three people were pulled alive in a small town outside the capital. police found the bodies about 100 trekkers buried in an avalanche set off by an earthquake. the entire town was wiped out. so far 7200 people are confirmed dead. customs inspectio

ben carson is speaking right now. [laughter] ben carson: if you guys would not mind sitting down so that i could introduce our sons. my oldest son, murray, and his wife are right here. stand up, please. [applause] murray is an engineer and his wife is an end -- analyst for a polling company. my middle son, dj, is right here. [applause] dj is an entrepreneur and they own a company that does placement and a lot of things, they own a lot of stuff, very cool. my youngest son, royce, is right here. his wife is at home with the baby. [applause] royce is a cpa and they all three got married in 2011. that's fantastic. [applause] ok, now i've introduce my family , you are saying -- who are you? i will tell you, i'm ben carson and i'm a candidate for president of the united states. [applause] thank you. thank you. [applause] now america remains a place of dreams. and a lot of people are down on our nation and want to point out all the bad things that have happened here. have you ever noticed that there are a lot of people tryin