family does not usually want to talk about secrets in public by senator ted kennedy's younger son is revealing them. patrick kennedy writes of his own mental illness >> you put vodka in water bottles. >> i put vodka in spring water bottles and oxycodone in bayer aspirin bottles. the book has angered his family. >> i told this story about my life which i can't separate from his family's life because it's important that all of us break the silence and the shame surrounding these issues. >> patrick's brother ted kennedy, junior said in a statement, i'm am heartbroken that patrick choose to write chosen to write this. >>> a jet skier gets caught in rough waves off the new jersey shore. see the rescue. >> a new york university student is released after being korea but it's not a happy release yet. why he's being investigated in another country. in brooklyn in 1907, four courageous ladies saw the despair of the poor, old, and sick and founded what would become mjhs. today mjhs provides quality home care, rehabilitation and skilled nursing, and advanced hospice and palliative care for adult

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ted kennedy junior releasing a statement in part i'm heartbroken patrick has chosen to write an unfair portrayal of our family. his recollection are quite different from my own. patrick kennedy is now five years sober and he also details his own struggle with alcoholism and mental illness. he says he hopes that in break breaking his die sense he can change the way those illnesses are treated in this country. >> anchor: still ahead, a little life saver, a fourth grader being called a hero for springing into action when his bus driver had a medical emergency. hear from him at 5:30 >> anchor: our pattern is pretty quiet this week although those temperatures will go up and down all week-long. that's ahead. >> anchor: who wants to see great video when we come back? even bears break down from a little guard dog. you will see . >> reporter: many of us have a routine to get rid of that groggy feeling when we first . >> anchor: maybe it's just not cutting it any more. we have some tips on what you can do the night before to help out . >> reporter: we get started at >> anchor: bars you better be

paper of ted kennedy holding jimmy carter's hand. this is certainly awkward. >> he had ripped the party apart and what they needed to win that election was fuel democratic unity. >> this country needs a new administration with a renewed dedication to the dream of an america, an administration that will give that dream new life and make america great again. >> ronald reagan will call carter out for this whole idea that we live in an age of limits and say no, america's future is just as expansive as it ever was. >> next tuesday, you will go to the polls. i think when you make that decision, it might be well if you ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago? >> this is continuing abc news election night coverage. >> it is beginning to look like, well, the word is landslide for ronald reagan tonight. but they're not breaking out the champagne at the reagan headquarters now, it's only because, well, they can't find an opener. >> jimmy carter, though beaten at the polls, did not act like a beaten man. he said he didn't f

. >> it was joe kennedy who raised the issue for his uncle ted. you've i got the facts straight there. i remember everything. religion out or in, you can argue all you want, but it helps to be an evangelical or conservative catholic in iowa. we know that. pat robinson almost won out there, huckabee won there. santorum. people who can't win anywhere else win in iowa. perry? >> i think trump is talking about making the wrong case here. i don't think people are for carson because of the sort of tenets seven-day adventist. they want someone devout in their faith. carson talks about his faith all the time. he is very devout. in that way he is in the same huckabee and santorum bucket. trump you can tell is not someone who spends time thinking about religion until this campaign. i think it is a mistake to go after trump. he is not going to win the campaign. >> it's not the affiliation but the devoutness, the fidelity, whether you are a man of faith. sabrina, is that your thinking it helps to be something in iowa? >> absolutely. what it helps to be is soc

some kennedy family members are upset about the revelations. ted kennedy jr. release a statement that reads in part, i am heartbroken patrick has chosen what write inaccurate recollection of family events and ticking our parents are quite different from my own. >> patrick kennedy now 5 years sober details his own struggle hopes in breaking silence he can change the way illness are treated in america. >> now, seven weather with chief meteorologist pete bouchard. beautiful evening. don't know if you saw the think matt. i am maud from boston. hard to pick out favorite. there were so many on my twitter pictures. thank you all who sent them. all right, milder days ahead. we're staying most dry here over next few days at the end week we might see couple showers. certainly no big storms brewing. so keep breezes light. thankfully we can say the winds have eased and finished along coastline out to cape islands. it's been three-day stretch. i think we're ready to see change. temperatures in 40s already. almost ready to go into upper 30s in norwood. no big surprise here.

some members of the kennedy family voiced displeasure with the book. ted kennedy jr. says the book paints and inaccurate and unfair portrayal of the family. he hasn't spoken directly to has discomfort with the book. patrick says his mother, joan, who battled her own addictions helped him with the project. >> american apparel the latest clothing retailer to file for bankruptcy. they've struggled over falling sales and debt. american apparel announced it would lay off more than 100 workers in april. the company says the layoffs will allow them to keep 130 stores open in the u.s. >>> the c.e.o. of a major air carrier admitting his suitcase was lost business his own airline. alaska airlines chief executive says the airline lost his bag last week while attending a conference in washington, d.c. his luggage was delivered the next day and now he knows how it feels. >> christa: oopsy. the baggage handlers still have their jobs? >> jadiann: that could be dicey. >> christa: big mistake. 6:21. a man in glaucester crashes in time police say he seriously injured an officer. >> jad

ted kennedy jr. said the book paints an inaccurate and infair portrayal of the family. patrick has not spoken directly to vicky kennedy. he presumes she has some discomfort with the book. meantime, he says his mother joan who was also battling addiction issues helped him out with that project. >> jadiann: the supreme court is back in session for a new term today. all eyes are on the nine justices as they take on some controversial issues. many include topics like abortion and affirmative action. whether to take up one of the most important abortion days cases in 25 years. it is a challenge. doctors providing abortions will have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. supporters of the law say it protects the health of the patient. >> we wanted to make sure that not only those that were taking care of women's health care in the state of texas were qualified and had admitting procedures, but that the facilities they were operating in had good common-sense improvements for health care. >> jadiann: opponents say this unconstitutionally burdens the right to abortion. >> th

his older brother ted kennedy jr. said the book is an inaccurate and unfair portrayal of our family. patrick kennedy appeared earlier this morning on "morning joe" and was asked how the book has impacted his relationship with his family. >> everything's changed since this book in terms of my relationship with my brother, my relationship with other members of my family, my mother's kind of disavowed through her friend. this is difficult stuff. and as i said, when i was working on this parity law, no one wanted to be the author because no one wanted the words mental health and addiction next to their name so any story where someone is accused of having an illness, by the way, it's an l illness, my family does not want to be identified with a medical illness, that should tell you something about the shame and stigma that still surrounds these issues. however, on the positive side, a number of members of my family said i love your message that this is about breaking the silence and the shame, because all of us are saddled

senator ted kennedy's youngest son is revealing them. former rhode island congressman patrick kennedy writes of his own mental illness and addictions and looks at his parents and problems with alcohol and depression. he believes his father suffered from post-traumatic stress after two of his brothers were assassinated. he spoke with lesley stahl for last night's "60 minutes." >> because you said nobody talked about this you were like zombies. you used that word zombies. >> we were living in a limbo land where all of this chaos, this emotional turmoil was happening, and we were expected just to live through it. >> reporter: this is the first time a kennedy has been this open about the family's secret these particular secrets. are you worried about how the family is going to react? >> i know how some of them are going to react because i've already got. >> reporter: have they seen the book? >> yeah, i showed them the book. >> reporter: they are not pleased? >> no. >> reporter: they are angry? >> they are angry. >> patrick kennedy's new memo

boom, over, show over. >> ted kennedy: those of us who loved him, and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others, will someday come to pass for all the world. >> kennedy: my dad never got to grieve. he had to be there for the he had to be there for my family. he had to be there for my uncle bobby's 11 children, and john and caroline. >> stahl: tell me what's welling up in you. you didn't know bobby. >> kennedy: yeah, but i knew the pain that came from his having been killed, because i saw my desperation for most of his life. >> stahl: are you weeping for him? >> kennedy: oh, yeah, of course, i do. no, i... i absolutely grieve for him. >> stahl: to this minute? >> kennedy: yeah. >> stahl: as people across the country wept for bobby, the second kennedy brother assassinated in five years, patrick writes that the family itself dealt with bobby's death the only way they knew how. >> kennedy: if you think we couldn't talk about my mom, we couldn't talk about my uncle bobby and the fact that his murder was still so present, you know, in all of

i'm now outside the family line. >> and patrick's old brother ted kennedy jr. says that the book paints an inaccurate and unfair portrayal of their family titled a common struck that goes on sale today. >>> right now at 6:00 help arrives for the area in areas dealing with the worst flooding. >> the coast guard calls off for a search that went missing. but the search for survivors, they will continue. >>> and scary moments of passengers on board that dc- bound amtrak train after hitting some rocks that had fallen on to the tracks. >>> good evening, i'm bruce johnson. >> thanks for joining us, i'm jan jeffcoat. and their task force one and their league urban search and rescue team have arrived in south carolina to help residence stranded by historic flooding. at least nine people have died and there is concern that the number will rise when that water recede. craig is in column y south carolina. >> the floodwaters are receding in columbia, south carolina. and now leading behind massive damage. a giant sink hole that practically swallowed this tax office, while ra

i think we have every reason to believe what he has to say. >> ted kennedy jr. thought he broke the code. janet: hillary clinton is seeing her numbers is new hampshire and iowa below bernie sanders. she' s doing more interviews she' s moving to the left of sanders on gun control. had said in new hampshire. >> the gun industry and gun sellers are the only business in america that is totally free of liability for their behavior. >> in iowa. there weren' t 20,000 people at bernie sanders rally this week. i went there and i found that out. she has always been to the left of bernie sanders on control. that should tell you everything. >> it is a low hanging fruit. but she has always been there. ed: marco rubio is this week' s new shiny object among establishment republicans. he' s climbing in the polls, he' s stood out in debates. now that the spotlight and scrutiny will be focused on him, what do you see happening? >> i think it' s is more about jeb bush fan marco rubio. rubio was everybody' s favorite, he has come back again, but we are not talking about jeb bush an

patrick kennedy speaking out about his father who he says he worshiped. senator ted kennedy. and their fight with addiction. he joins us live to talk about what he calls, an ongoing battle. >> he felt that we really had no place, no place whatsoever to question him. >> that is the defensive position of every alcoholic. go mind your own business, back off. that was the message. ♪ >> i couldn't even talk about it. i was hostage to the family code that, no, don't say anything about it. anything you say it is disloyal, it is against the family code and it doesn't matter whether it is in a private therapy session. that psychiatrist could go out and tell somebody. martha: that is just one piece of a very moving interview that patrick kennedy did, the youngest child of senator ted kennedy, opening up about his father's problem with alcohol, his own alcoholism and addiction and kennedy family code of silence that he talks about. the former rhode island congressman has written a very candid memoir, called, a common struggle, a personal journey through the past and future of mental i

ted kennedy released a book titled a common struggle not only relives his battle with addiction and mental illness but battles, and released a statement saying i admire him for challenges but heartbroken patrick choose to write who is an inaccurate and unfair portrayal of our family. >>> it is important that we, all of us break the silence and the shame surrounding these issues. i don't pretend that it is going to be easy as you see, it provokes a reaction, that's what people are fearful about, is they are worried about breaking the family code, worried about being disloyal and nobody wants to be that. father is veryloving. >>> he hopes his book will encourage others suffering from mental illness or addiction to seek treatment. >>> coming upsetting the regard strait what u.s. officials are saying about the deadly bombing of a hospital in afghanistan. >>> gunfire leads to an arsenal stashed into an apartment. >>> and the voice of the red i feel too young to be this old. not her full-time job. i'm the boss of me, but sometimes i need a little help. has masshealth, call commonwealth ca

vo: ask your doctor if new namzaric >> stahl: the youngest child of senator ted kennedy, patrick heir apparent to a political dynasty. but after his father died, patrick resigned from congress and is now leading a political movement to change the way people view and talk about mental illness and addiction, that he himself suffers from. he says they're medical issues, not moral issues or character flaws. and he wants them treated with the same urgency we treat cancer and heart disease. now nearly five years sober, he has written a memoir, "a common struggle," in which he traces not only his struggles, but those of his famous father and mother, revealing details about them that not everyone in the family wants revealed and some may dispute. that when people have these illnesses, being silent about them is almost as bad as the disease. >> patrick kennedy: it's a conspiracy of silence, not only for the person who is suffering, but for everyone else who's forced to interact with that person. that's why they call this a family disease. >> stahl: and you're trying to take the stigma away. >>

out today and kennedy says his father, late senator ted kennedy had a drinking problem. he also says he believed the senator had undiagnosed case of post traumatic stress disorder following assassinations of his brother and patrick kennedy talks about own battle with addiction and calls inaccurate and unportrayal of family. >>> eye popping prices customers will be paying to get own mobile home out of the bank. >> developing at this hour historic flooding continues to ravage homes and highways in the south and still ahead warnings this morning as heavy rain continues throughout the day. >> checking traffic examine weather every ten minutes, take you 16 minutes, route 9 jammed up at 21 minute ride and on 93 from 495 to leverett connector 54 minutes. shiri? including ragweed until we i find my box of honey bunches of oats and i' m checking to see if i packaged it. world right there. >>> devastating flooding here across south carolina, more rain on the way as well. residents there being told to stay off the road and so far eight people have died and entire neighborhood under

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but brother ted kennedy jr. calls the book an inaccurate and unfair portrayal of our family. >>> 6:41 the seat is open and lawmakers are lining up to be the next speaker of the house. new at 7:00, the new republican lawmaker who is vying for john boehner's powerful position and his connection to massachusetts his connection to massachusetts. >>> and floods in south carolina. the governor is saying the worst in decades. the feet of rain that have already fallen in the area and what the forecast is predicting for today. >>> checking traffic and weather every ten minutes on the roads. long drive times on 24, 30 minutes. on 893 from 495 to the leverett connector, 51 minutes. 93 from the braintree split to the pike, 32 minutes. jammed up in all three spots. >>> we have as off 5 to 0 feet. 5 to 7-foot wave. dear fellow citizen, i get that it' s hard to say no when your kids want toys, because you' re saving for shoes. and shoes. and shoes. but i can help you figure out how to save a little with one deposit checking. s

kennedy. here is the big question everyone has been asking and no one seems a bit answer, is joe biden running for president? democrats are waiting for the current vice president will get in to their race. robert moses joins us as awake decision. >> reporter: if he runs joe biden offers an alternative to bernie sanders but hillary clinton continues to have a whole lot of momentum social and yet be harder to beat, she comes off of their really commanding debate performance. also remembers that joe biden has no campaign infrastructure joe biden appears to be hoping the third presidential run. will he won't he. anyone but joe biden is offering an answer, joe biden will run for president. story on its web site with the headline joe biden to launch presidential campaign but click on not wink and a slight tells you the story was, quote, inadvertant we published. joe biden appeared on a summit on climate change the did not shed light on his thinking. josh earnest only offered this. >> based on the fa

kennedy and president george w. bush. and it wouldn't have happened without the leadership of then chairman boehner. boy, could he run a committee. it was really his forte, that most americans don't even know. what a great committee chairman he was. he was a committee chairman's chairman, quite frankly. and he, as leader, as speaker, will go down in history as one ho cherished that process, that process was not always what he liked or what he wanted, but he sure understood it, he sure respected it, he sure loved it. as mr. rangel knows, he was sure good at it. in a bipartisan way. in november or excuse me in early 2006, we had an opening for majority leader. and i harkin back to a dinner that i was able to attend, back in like 2002, when i heard then chairman boehner said, you know, someday i'd like to be back in leadership. i looked at him like he was crazy. are you kidding me? how can you do that? you know what he did? he just worked hard, he did the right things, he played the long game. he helped people. and whe

and let's keep in mind that historically ted kennedy waited until november of '79 to run. mario cuomo had a plane famously on the tarmac in albany in december of 1991-- i'm sorry, ted kennedy in '79. and so i think that it all depends, you know, what are the sort of strategic objectives when the vice president decides to announce. >> and one of those strategic objectives might also center around this benghazi committee hearing that senator clinton will be testifying before tomorrow. but that might also be one of those artificial deadlines. we'll continue to wait with you, luis. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> coming up for us, he won't give up family time, and he won't deal with infighting. those are two of paul ryan's demands to get him to run to be the next house speaker. so has he won over any of the skeptics yet? one of those house republicans is joining us next. >>> plus, hillary clinton behind closed doors. she is now preparing to face republicans on the benghazi committee. one of those republicans says this whole thing, it's worse than watergate. this congressm

ted kennedy was on his list, thought about killing ted kennedy. but the opportunity presented itself to kill reagan so he did. why question arc he. why? he was delusional and he thought this and make him famous and jodie foster the actors would somehow respond to him. it's crazy, but again he trained himself at a gun range, he planned everything out. not some irrational babbling guy. he should never see the light of day. they are thinking about letting him out now, that would be an insult or ronald ragan, james brady and all the secret service guys who were wounded. he should never ever be allowed out. is responsible for what he did. host: ronald reagan attempted to want to call him an offer forgiveness. are you familiar with that? guest: i heard something like that but it didn't happen we then track it down. host: what about his parents, the dr. said to him not to call that it would not make things better and it could make things worse actually. his parents, i imagine he called his parents. the parents come across in your book and i think accurat

patrick, the youngest of ted kennedy's three children is going public with private heartache to help so many others who may be struggling, raising awareness about issues many families don't talk about. here is nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: they were members of america's royal family. camelot. repeatedly struck by public tragedy. and now an insider's account of the private toll. alcoholism and other addictions, mental health disorders. >> we're all held hostage by the code of silence by the stigma and shame that pervades these issues. the only way to treat that shame is by talking about it. >> in his new book, teddy and joan kennedy's younger son tells of an alcoholic mother isolated in shame. >> and no one talked about it and they blamed her for the illness. that has to change. and that is the reason i wrote this book. >> patrick writes his father suffered from ptsd after his brother's assassination. he writes, my father went on in silent desperation for much of his life, self-medicating and unwittingly passing his unprocessed trauma onto my sister and brother and me. >> what h

his mother joan, the father, late senator ted kennedy. i spoke to patrick about why he revealed so much and how it has divided his family. patrick kennedy, thank you for joining us. author of the new book "a common struggle," tell us why you wrote the book. >> we got people to tell their own stories about discrimination. part of the challenge we have more more mental health and treatment in this country is the political challenge that no one will speak up. so i can't be out there saying for others that we need their voice to be heard and yet not address the silence in my own family when it comes to these issues. >> how painful is it for you that your brother and others in the family are very upset that you have basically opened the closet on the kennedy family addictions and the pain that they caused? >> well, andrea, it's pretty painful living with these issues and not talking about them. and i think for millions of families who know what i'm talking about, we're all held hostage by the code of silence, by the stigma and shame that perva

the son of the late senator ted kennedy says he wrote a common struggle to help other families he doesn't hold back. he describes his own mental illness and addiction and his parents struggles with alcohol and depression. tonight christina hager as a closer look what this means for the kennedy legacy. >> i was hostage to the family code. reporter: out of public office and finally free it seems to tell all. patrick kennedy's new book breaks the silence around his >> i put vodka and po lab spring water bottles i put oxycontin in bayer aspirin bottles. whatever goes on we keep it behind closed doors. reporter: tom whey len has written books about the family. >> i think for a historian like myself. this is going to be a bountiful crop to harvest because if the kennedys are opening up being honest about what actually happened i think some things might be rewritten about history. reporter: mental health professionals say what kennedy is doing is critical in fact mcclain hospital is honoring him with the annual mcclain award this year for his work advocating mental health issues. >> this is a di

he talks about holding an intervention for his father ted kennedy as well as his own documented struggles with addiction and other mental health problems. >> i put vodka and spring water bottles i put oxycontin in bayer aspirin bottles. >> you can see the if you minutes right after this newscast. >>> the patriots may be off but there's lots of action on the gridiron today. >> absolutely. coming up in sports the final red sox broadcast for fan favorite don or zillow is parting emotional words for red sox fans. its not all you get. longhorn' s great american steak dinner for $12.99. perfectly seasoned sirloin with your choice of side. plus, an appetizer, or a dessert. all with fresh salad and unlimited bread. the great american steak dinner, for $12.99. tonight, only at longhorn steakhouse. you can' t fake steak. for lunch try our steakhouse burger, or any steakhouse lunch combo starting at $7. that's a big bull. i think that's old cyrus. 1800 pounds of do whatever the heck i want. take the long way, huh? thank you cyrus. lease an mkc for $299 a month we're not having a patriots game to wat

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kennedy, whose two brothers were assassinated, and herman cain and jesse jackson. hillary clinton, of course, received her campaign secret service in november 2007. though she was already under protection from having served as first lady. and yesterday, trump spoke with nbc news correspondent katy tur about what he's learned so far. >> so what have you learned for the next 118 days? >> i think i could be perhaps a little bit -- i can watch my words a little bit, maybe, be a little bit more politically correct. but to be honest with you i think one of the reasons i am doing well is because i don't want to -- being politically correct takes a lot of time. it takes a lot of effort. i can be more politically correct than anybody that you've ever interviewed. but it takes a lot of time to do it. and you're going around, in different circles, and you're never getting there. we don't have time for it anymore. >> trump also hit the campaign trail in virginia. crowd estimates were between 5,000 and 7,000 people at the richmond raceway complex where protesters briefly interr

his mother joan and his brother ted, jr. has publicly chastised him for writing candidly about his addiction, and that of his father. >> i have larger family relationship issues, and those relationships are going to be all right because they always are all right. but right now they're still frayed and i understand why they're frayed. they're frayed because people don't want to talk about these issues. sure, there's hurt in me talking. but there's also hurt in me being silent. >> and is everyone in his family upset with him? >> well, ted, jr. and joan have said what they've said. they've chastised him. he did tell me off camera that other members of the family have reached out, in one case helping him to raise money for his organization that he uses as the base for his mental health advocacy. that family has been through a lot, worse than this. something tells me they're going to make it. and he certainly is driven by the topic. >> and i think a lot of people very grateful for what he's doing. >> such an important crusade he'

. >> ted kennedy on his list. >> he was delusional. and jodie foster, the actors, that she would somehow respond to him. and hinckley train himself. he planned everything else. and he should never be allowed out. >> and we have attempted to call him an offer talk about that. >> people were concerned. it was heartbreaking. >> the pain is tremendous. and her son was alone. and he did what he did. and forgiveness is paramount. >> it's interesting that morning, you write about the morning and it was a fluke. >> and he was even uncertain. >> even at the last minute he thought that he would kill himself in front of jodie. >> delusional, lunatics, those that want to kill someone and the opportunity presents itself. .. >> >> he took a walk it was the courage and the convictions and his believed to protect america first and foremost,. day you not believe that? >> yes i do but i take we cover that with work -- margaret thatcher, gorbachev and the success of his policy toward the soviet union. we made that quite clear the way he structured his ad

we were able to hold a hearing on this issue when ted kennedy was chairman of the committee. we worked together. , a lot of people doing great work, we ended up improving wages and working conditions. people who aren in this country, they remain and are having and struggling to adequately feed their families. they came to this country to escape gang violence and desperate economic conditions. also be clear on raising an issue that is not talked about very much. that is when people come across the border, they know there are .mployers who will hire them if anyone thinks employers throughout this country do not know the workers they are hiring and in many cases exploiting are undocumented, you don't know the history of america for the last 50 years. [applause] so where do we go from here? the 2013ed comprehensive immigration reform legislation in the u.s. senate. complicated piece and it is aon, piece of legislation that can and must be improved, i believe it provided a responsible path to citizenship so individuals could in fact come out of the shadows and people can walk the

kennedy. >> kerry: canada has voted in its first new leader in ten years. they beat out the, prime minister, harper. he harper. he held the scene since 2006. the new candidate does not have term limits. at 43 years old, he becomes a second youngest prime minister in canadian history and has been likened to president obama. >> juliet: the olympic blade runner has been out of jail but could be going back. he was released from the south african prison yesterday, he served only one year for the shooting death of his girlfriend, he was only convicted of manslaughter. he will will spend the next four years under house arrest. they are appealing the conviction and month hope to retry him on murder charges. >> kerry: police are looking for a man who tried to rape a woman in union square. it happened happened on sunday in one of the parks bathrooms. the two struggles and the victim was able to fight and get away. please have the they believed to be in the 30s, short hair, a goatee. if you have if you have any information about the pictures or the scotch please call

you write in the book your dad ted kennedy was probably an alcoholic. you confronted him and what did he do? >> well, he didn't want to talk about it. that's the common struggle. all of us want to talk about this with our families. our families don't want to talk about had happened? >> it was upon an anniversary and he really didn't want to talk about it, but he knew he had to say something. and what he said was very little. and that was the message i got is that we shouldn't talk about it. >> i want to talk about this. you talk about so openly and honestly in this book sort of the shame and the silence surrounding this. you open the book with 2006 the episode you're in your mustang convertible and you crash it on capitol hill. he had no idea you were so out of it. >> no. i was out of it on so many levels. >> you were on -- >> i had been to rehab five months before for opiad addiction andself medicated with other drug and alcohol after that. i thought i was okay. that is the delusion of this illness. >> you say -- you woke up in the morning and you were

we were able to hold a hearing on this issue when ted kennedy was chairman of the committee. we worked together. , a lot of people doing great work, we ended up improving wages and working conditions. people who aren in this country, they remain and are having and struggling to adequately feed their families. they came to this country to escape gang violence and desperate economic conditions. also be clear on raising an issue that is not talked about very much. that is when people come across the border, they know there are .mployers who will hire them if anyone thinks employers throughout this country do not know the workers they are hiring and in many cases exploiting are undocumented, you don't know the history of america for the last 50 years. [applause] so where do we go from here? the 2013ed comprehensive immigration reform legislation in the u.s. senate. complicated piece and it is aon, piece of legislation that can and must be improved, i believe it provided a responsible path to citizenship so individuals could in fact come out of the shadows and people can walk the

( laughter ) why do you want-- this is the question ted kennedy could not answer in 1979. why do you want to be president of the united states? >> i want to be president because i want to build on the progress that we've been making and make it possible for more people in our country, particularly young people, to live up to their own god-given potential. and that means we've got to get back to providing opportunities. we've got to get back to making the economy work for everybody. and we have to defend the progress we've made in women's rights and gay rights and we have to protect voting rights and immigrant rights and everything else. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: but how do we do that? are you-- those are-- you know, those are noble goals and you are the fifth presidential candidate i have had on the show so far, and bernie sanders was sitting there and he said many of the same things. >> uh-huh. >> stephen: and his answers are a democratic socialist answer. and in the debate with senator sanders, you said the united states is not denmark. denmark has those thing

ted kennedy. i spoke to him earlier about his concerns over how substance abuse is treated. >> they don't wait until you have stage 4 diabetes and you have to have your legs amputated. but if you have addiction or mental illness that's when you're treated. you're not treated until you're really really sick and then you come in with the ambulance and parch people up. >> kennedy is concerned about how the health care act hadges aichandlesaddiction. you can hear more about that in my next hour. john. >> ann mari marie smith turned a promotion and gave away her fast track poks to spend time with family. now she wrote position to be wir book. patricia sabga has the story. >> by any measure, ann marie slawrt islaughter is a role mod. when she turned down a high pro time position at the state department to devote more time to her sons. >> i deliberate said, we have two teenage boys at home, this is the last year they will be home and my husband and i both want to be here with them. i could see myself fal

a lot of people, capitol hill, particularly, you go down the list, ted kennedy, others, come from abusive families. my case it was physical and verbal. in ted's case, it was verbal. but you tend to be successful until the demons catch up with you, and then eventually you become addicted. >> you come to washington 24 years old. your first residence is a whore house, tell us about that. >> reporter: >> eat elections were over, they're not hiring political consultants. i happened to be in a bar, the guy came down to the bar, offered me a drink. he had a hard hat on. he said i came here 30 years ago, couldn't get a job as a carpenter, i couldn't find one for three months. finally i stayed. i said to the bartender, is that guy for real. he offered me a job. the guy said you know bob, that's the new president of the carpenter's union. i went down to the metro, carrying boards de deepest subway spot, dupont circle, in the entire time. it was hard work and it also caused me some difficulty with some people. >> just so you don't think i made it up, you slept in a brothel that night and many nights