president barack obama not visit hiroshima during his trip to the country two years ago. the information was in diplomatic cables from the u.s. embassy in tokyo to washington in september 2009. the cables including exchanges between then japanese vice foreign minister and u.s. ambassador regarding the trip that year. said that unless obama was going to apologize for the atomic bombing, public expectations should be tempered. the cables quoted him as saying it would be premature to include such a program in obama's trip. in april 2009 in prague, obama resolved to achieve a world without nuclear weapons. after the speech there were growing expectations among the survivors from the hiroshima and nagasaki bombings and others that he would visit the cities. the japanese and u.s. governments explained later that the president's visit would be shelved due to a scheduling con flekt. the foreign ministry says it's regrettable the documents were leaked illegally. it said it will not comment on nor confirm the documents. >>> in syria, government websites have been attacked by a grou

on august 6, 1945, i blessed the bomb that they dropped on hi hiroshima. i took a deep breath staring at the photo, then looking away, then looking at him. his dark eyes seemed even darker now. i was the chaplain of the e knoll la gay. i said pass for them before they flew and dropped the bomb with my blessing, with the blessing of jesus christ and the church. i did that. i didn't know what to say. he continued. and three days later i blessed the crew and the plane that dropped the bomb on nagasaki. nagasaki was a catholic city, the only majority christian city in japan. the pie rot of the plane was -- pilot of the plane was catholic, and we obliterated the lives of 40,000 on that day, 73,000 people in all. there was now a mist in his eyes as he told me of this horror. there were three orders of nuns in japan, all based in nagasaki. every last single one of the nuns was vaporized. not a single nun from any of these orders was alive, and i blessed that. i didn't know what to say. i reached out my hand and put it on his shoulder. george, you department drop

he was one of the first americans to see the devastating effects of the atomic bombing of hiroshima. later he served in french indo- china where he saw economic disparities that would later lead to war in southeast asia. those images remained with him throughout his life, acting as a touchstone for his belief that the world should be a safer and more peaceful place. it was senator hatfield's belief, those beliefs that served as the foundation for his career in the senate and for his opposition to the vietnam war and to the proliferation of nuclear weapons. so senator hatfield was a major player on the national stage. at the same time he never forgot our home state or strayed very far from his approach of trying to bring people together. i see our friend, senator alexander, on the floor who's also had a lot of experience on natural resources issues. and i can tell my friends on both sides of the aisle, that watching senator hatfield champion the need for family-wage jobs in the forest products sector while at the same time being a champion of environmental protections of wilderness ar

for every whipping he'd given himself over hiroshima and nagasaki, he had the catholic church to give him a chance to redeem himself. he was still a priest. he could still do good with that, and maybe in his mind if he did enough good, he would be forgiven on judgment day. i looked at this old man and understood the demons he still carried with him. i wasn't offended that he thought i needed some sort of saving. it was an easy thing to forgive him for. .. [applause] thank you. thank you. let's open it up to some questions. if you could wait for the microphone and keep the questions short because of the time limits and constraints here so it will all work out just fine and bar will answer any thing you want to ask me. the first man is right there. >> thank you for all the heart and vision. what are your thoughts on the field of gop contenders? >> i feel sorry for the old school republicans like my grandfather who believed in a basic conservatism. there are a lot of good ideas in that. i think the thing that amazes me about the current crop of candidates is under than john huntsman who

you can say that i didn't know anything before hiroshima or what the bomb would do, but what about three days later? i knew then. .. knowing full well they were anything but pacifists themselves. i will have much to answer for when i meet st. peter at the skates, he says. i am hopeful he will be merciful to me. father george went on an 8000-mile walk from seattle to the holy land. that took him two years. when he returned, he came to see me. michael, i've been thinking for some time and wondering, why did you come to the seminary? why didn't you continue want to be a priest? well, i said, a number of reasons. i was only 14 when i went. at 15 the hormones kicked in. plus, i didn't and don't care for the institution and its hierarchy and what the institution says it stands for has little to do these days with the teachings of jesus christ. and they also told me not to come back. he said, i've been reading some of your comments about the church of the pope in your newspaper and it just worried about your soul. i laughed, george, you don't have to worry about me or my soul. i'm doing just fi

i remember that day thinking that i was in nagasaki or hiroshima. it was just a wasteland.ion. i lost so many friends and neighbors that day. to be honest, i was wondering if we could come back, but we have come back stronger than ever. this is absolutely beautiful. it means so much to so many families here. tomorrow i'll be meeting with families today and tomorrow. in many ways september 11th, as tragic as it was, it was america's finest hour in many ways. it shows that that american spirit cannot be put down, that we will fight and fight and come back stronger than ever. thanks god for the police, the firefighters who started that comback that day, and since then all our service men and so many people. really in the country and the national spirit. in new york, we take pride in saying that the spirit that really eminated right here from the flames of ground zero. >> yeah. we're also thankful for our political leaders, our elected official who's helped see us through as well. thank you so much, representative peter king. >> alex, thank you very much. >>> next, the story of

hiroshima, world war i, katrina, nixon resigns. kuwait. >> the start of world war 1. >> yeah. the whole, i'm not sure what it is, just because it's hot or people are planning? the fall becomes season before the winter, it's hard to say. but, i think the president would like to go back to, i think he would like to go back to august, 2008, actually. he would like to be back in denver. what's the number, 39% approval? 54% disapproval? nothing seems to be breaking his way. as small as the boehner scheduling thing is, you know, these little things to shed light on bigger things. you know, the president can't get a speech scheduled. so, does that make the speaker look bad, or does the president look happenless? >> it shows they have no fear of the president. nobody right now politically has fear of this president at all. it's better to be feared than loved. people come on this set all the time, mike barnicle, over the past month at least and when ever you talk about the president's jobs program, they sort of laugh. oh, he's not going to get that through. >> the president of the unit