Talking about not having "guts" Chris I have been after you and your team to have middle east experts, Iran experts, former Bush administration officials Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett on your program to discuss facts on the ground or underground in Iran for years now. Asked you in person at the Libby trial and at the Dem convention in Denver. Hey Christiane Amanpour beat you to it. But there is still time to dig deeper into the claims that about Iran that keep being repeated. Still time for you to show some courage. Have the Leveretts on. Better late than never. Or do your owners forbid the Leveretts on MSNBC?

This is an incredible special on CNN. Finally catching up to what Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett have been saying for at least seven years.

Christiane Amanpour starts this documentary with “what the experts know and don’t know may surprise you” An individual would not be surprised by what you hear on this program if you have been following over at Race for Iran. link to raceforiran.com

Finally some truth telling on CNN. MSNBC has not gone near the truth about Iran. CNN…better late than never.

Really worth the watch. All three segments. To think Christiane had Hillary Mann Leverett on. Will miracles never cease.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION – A Nuclear Iran: The Expert Intel
link to amanpour.blogs.cnn.com

The fourth person interviewed who claims “we know” and on and on about a program existing was not identified like everyone else.

Thank you, Chris, for your wonderful and factual defense of a great president and a great man, Jimmy Carter.

I am a grandmother and I tell my grandchildren that Jimmy Carter simply had too much integrity for Washington.

For the first time in American political system"REPUBLICAN"true conservatives have at present made up their mind,that they cannot WIN with"MITT" as their CANDIDATE,and hated SUPREME COURT so bad on their decission on ELECTION,shifted to favor"A 1%CASH MORMON"FLIP-FLOPPER".@.A Total political double-standard election VIRUS.@

Thank you Chris. I am so tired of Romney's cheap shots. Coming from a man who stands for nothing, poking at people who do have convictions such as our past presidents, Carter and current president Obama is deplorable. His tactics might
have purchased his party's nomination. I shudder to think it could purchase an office he shows so little respect for. I just watched the special on Obama's decision making and the bravery of the military. What leadership is Romney showing based on his actions of the past year?

I commend you also for reminding the nation that at one time, we all sacrificed during war time.

Our pride as a nation held us together until recently when our young people were sent to war, the people were handed tax cuts and told to shop.

I hardly recognize the country I grew up in during the tumultuous years of the 1960s and 1970s during what could only be considered a time of deep divide on important
social and political issues that far outweigh the greed of worrying about the rise in gas prices in a nation with some of the lowest gas prices in the world.

In the past few years I look up from raising my family to find my nation has stalled. Even worse in the past three years I see some trying to re-ignite "battles" I thought we had put behind us.

To add injury to insult, I find the problems people like President Carter so nobly tried to get the country to face and solve such as the fact that fossil fuels are finite and this nation's foreign dependency on war as a means to protect corporate interests perpetuated by the same corporate interests is not sustainable; especially given only the working poor and middle class pay the price.

I may as well been in a frozen state, waking up to find the world devolved around me. I grew up in a Republican household though Kennedy shaped me, personally. My earliest extended memory is of my mother and father arguing because my mother planned to vote for Kennedy, which angered my father who said that if she did so it was cancelling his own vote.

I remember walking up the shaky stairs into the trailer where my parents cast their votes. I do not know who my mother did vote for. She would not tell. She passed away 10 months after President Kennedy -so I can never ask her.

The president and his family "taught" me not only the importance of civil rights, the honor of working for something outside oneself, the pride of conviction and the importance of courage in the face of adversity, the last of course, a lesson I learned watching the president's funeral with my mother, a lesson and a fortitude she and I would soon need.

When I look at Romney and the cast of the Republicans he mowed over these past months, I see nothing but a vast void of what it meant at one time to put country, family, honor and civility before self-interest. That is what most of our leaders once showed us, right and left. Not this crew. This is not the future I want for my own children and theirs. It is a present and, I fear, a future nothing as I once imagined, even after I was too old too, too cynical to believe in Camelot.

Are these my father’s Republicans? Is this the present and future my own father would have knowingly passed on to my children? I pray not. But then again, I can’t recognize the God
I was introduced to as a child either when I turn and attempt to face the right.

Hey, Kim,

Our sentiments exactly! You did a wonderful job in putting your thoughts and feelings together.

What a waste of time and money being put into this presidential campaign with so much negativity and not a whole lot being said about a platform.

We heard President Carter give a Sunday School Lesson in Plains, GA He is one of the best speakers we've ever heard and so personable. He's a great humanitarian and is one of the best presidents we've ever had. We also visited Carter's Center for Peace in Atlanta, GA. And, of course, Rosalynn and Jimmy's work with the Habitat for Humanity is another testimony to their commitment to humanitarian projects.

Also President Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Quite an accomplishment.

To find out how the Carters with the help of their Foundation, are eradicating Guinea Worm Disease in Africa, use the browser, MSN.com and click on the link to Jimmy Carter's work in Africa - Guinea Worm Disease.

I urge you to visit the the Carter Center in Atlanta and take a trip to Plains, GA. to meet this wonderful President and his beautiful, dedicated wife, Rosalynn. It's easy to get all the information you need to visit Plains and Atlanta, GA on the internet.

If you can't visit, at least send a card or letter to them letting them know how much you appreciate them.

Also thanks to Chris for his commentary - great job!

Toni and Rod

Well said, Kim.

We're both huge Jimmy Carter fans. Went to hear him give a Sunday School talk at his church in Plains, Ga and also visited the Carter Center in Atlanta.

Both Jimmy and Rosalynn are great humanitarians and provide the leadership needed to fight disease, hunger, poverty, conflict and oppression in the world. Look up MSN.com Jimmy Carter's Work in Africa, Guinea Worm Disease. The disease no longer has a grip on millions of people because of the Carters.

Look up the Carter Center to see and share the vision.

We don't think that any other exPresident has done so much work in so many areas as Jimmy Carter has.

Any information you need on the Carter Center or the Sunday School speaking schedule is available on the internet.

If you can't go visit, write a card or letter expressing your gratitude that President Carter served us so well as the 39th President of the United States and that he and his lovely, dedicated wife, Rosalynn, continue to serve us as a nation. They are such good role models, so few and far between in this day and age.

Also, thanks to Chris for bringing all this information to our attention. Well done!

Rod and Toni

Jimmy Carter deserves a lot more respect than he gets. He put solar panels on the White House in the 1970s and Reagan took them off. What blood and treasure we could have saved had we not followed Carter on establishing a smart energy policy. Today we're owned by OPEC and the oil companies because WE failed, NOT Jimmy Carter.

Romney is the king of the panderers. He will say anything to any group on the right, and has no sense of morality or courage. Carter for all the reasons you stated was truthful to the country that didn't want to hear that they needed to sacrifice. If we started on Carter's path we would now be energy independent. Detroit would have made high mileage cars decades ago. The Mid east would have seen an honest broker, and not just a pro Israeli president who would pander their right wing.Romney can't even stand up to his own party. How do we expect him to stand up to anyone?

We all know it was easy to bomb Iran back into the stone age as oppose to risk what turned out to be a failed rescue mission in the dessert of Iran. I had fellow Marines who participated in that covert effort and they tell me the failure of those choppers where an act of God.These were checked a million times before the actual event occurred. Sure Romney can sit up high on his golden perch and criticize events that occurred thirty three years ago. Now Mr which ever way the wind blows insults a former president with 20/20 hindsight as though if he made the call and things went wrong his political future would have panned out any better. This man is a joke and unworthy of the Republican nomination. Let's see how well his mouth does during this election. Oh he can jump on Obama for loosing a Predator drone to Iran and loosing a helicopter in the raid to take out Bin Laden.

Chris,

Thank you for defending President Jimmy Carter. And thank you for the refresher course on all President Carter accomplished during his administration. I would like to add one more item. When President Carter announced his candidacy for the White House, he made promise to the American people, "I'll never lie to you." President Carter kept his promise he never lied to us. And yes, Deborah he had to much integrity for Washington.

I'm so tired of President Carter getting a bad rap. Besides the many accomplishments that Chris Matthews shines a light on, under the short four years of the Carter Administration, The Department of Energy and Department of Education were created, and as an Executive Order, Carter created FEMA. In my humble opinion, over the past fifty years, Jimmy Carter was the last real president this country has had because he showed the guts to take the blame when the attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran went awry. A truly, "The buck stops here" leader. Kudos to Matthews for reminding the American people of what type of man Carter is and what great work he did as president and shame on Mitt Romney for his disparaging remarks.

Wow! I am glad/relieved to see so many others on blog today, and all with insight, please continue to contribute on this blog!