tart warring magdalena carrasco -- the target was magdalena carrasco showing her next to a north vietnam flag. he resigned and is going to be sentenced for misusing public funds. >>> a man drove his car into the water at berkeley's aquatic park and i in custody. he was chased by police and drove into the water. i tried to swim away and then finally surrendered. >>> another black eye for major league baseball. some 20 athletes could be facing suspension over another scandal involving performance- enhancing drugs. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec joins us now from san francisco with details on which bay area athletes made the list. >> reporter: yeah. generally, you know, the fans i'm speaking with here at at&t park, there seems to be a sense of resignation almost that they know that this is just the way it is in the game right now. there's a lot of people on performance-enhancing drugs. it just depends on who gets caught. but there's also a lot of disappointment. >> i think it sucks for baseball really. >> reporter: that's fan reaction to the latest doping scandal to hit major league baseball.

claimed to be from carrasco's campaign but showed her photo next to an image of a flag of communist north vietnam. carrasco lost a close race to xavier campos. >> mr. shirakawa had financially supported campos in the election he was running in. >> shirakawa is set to be arraigned tomorrow. the same day he is to be sentenced for misusing public money and campaign funds. >>> for controversy at the irs. two irs employees are suspended for accepting free food at a lavish party during a 2010 conference in anaheim. acting commissioner danny werfel says it's his job to hold people accountable. he is going to testify today at a congressional hearing looking into excess every spending for irs conferences. an inspector-general report says the agency spent nearly $50 million on conferences between 2010 and 2012. >>> the dow is below 15,000 for the first time in a month. the index plunged 217 yesterday. the nasdaq and s&p are down by double digits. one of the main reasons for the slide, disappointing news on hiring. investors are also concerned the federal reserve will soon start to scale back its stimulus p

visited the terms, the democratics would join the republicans and prove the use of air power against north vietnam, which is what dropped them essentially along with the reequipping and training of the south vietnamese to accept the peace in the first place, and the fact that the vat that meze violations of the vietnamese agreement came at the time of watergate affair when the executive authority of the administration was evaporating every day, it contributed to the senate and the house of representatives cutting off all aid so there was no chance of survival, and the implications are serious. the fact is we won the cold war, and in some respects, it doesn't matter, but there are, i mean, in that, in theceps of having won the cold war doesn't matter, but there was a great many people who died in south vote yom in the killing fields of cambodia and amongst people who would not have died if the treaty that the senate ratified that mr. nixon and the collaborators negotiated had, indeed, been upheld and enforced by the united states. >> host: for the last 50 years, something you write about in "flight

the terms, the democrats would join the republicans in approving the use of air power against north vietnam which is what brought them a essentially along with the the coping and the trend of the south vietnamese to accept the peace in the first place. and the fact that the vietnamese , the violations of the agreement came at the time of the watergate affair when the executive authority of the administration was the fabricating everyday contributed to the representative of simply cutting off all aid to south viet nam so it had no chance of survival and the implications of that are serious. the fact is we won the cold war and in some respects it doesn't matter. but in the sense of the cold war there were a great many people who died in south viet nam and the killing fields of cambodia and among the people who would not have died if the treaty in the senate ratified that mr. nixon and his collaborators negotiated and had been upheld and enforced by the united states >> for the last 50 years or some is that you write about in "flight of the eagle" we give been conducting were talking about arm

white house on that level where you had a secretary of defense that was in such a hurry to bomb north vietnam that it didn't matter what the intercepts actually said. basically you tailor them to your premade conclusion. the weapons of mass destruction scandal and iraq is another example where nsa, you just had a small part of the intelligence failure. >> it was the political process that got it wrong? >> there have been examples where nsa got it right and analysts had finally gotten it wrong. for example the 1960s soviet invasion of czechoslovakia. all the evidence from intelligence and from other sources clearly indicated that the soldiers would militarily crush the czech government which they viewed as an anathema and for reasons the cia's intelligence analysts at the national intelligence level said no, the russians will rattle their sword but they are not going to do it. this became, this was written in stone and they refuse to budge no matter how much evidence. the same thing with the tet offensive in 1968. all the evidence from the collection standpoint from nsa and others clearly supp

war to help north vietnam as their correspondence reveal as there were still terrified of american artillery and air power is used by matthew ridgeway, and 100 days matthew ridgeway had retaken the city and gotten back over the 38 parallel. then he did something quite unusual, he stopped. everybody who had turned on him and said the war was lost, macarthur's an idiot said, the war is won, you have to go all the way back to china. and he said, not this time. you guys aren't up to it. that was a very controversial decision because for the next two years it would be trench warfare. as a 100 days. douglas macarthur mouth of one to many times. he did not do that. he sacked him. macarthur left to washington in his failed presidential ambitions, and matthew ridgway became the field commander, and there was an it general but in his position. the law in the story of it saved the american military and the geostrategic strategy of the united states of very, very impressive figure. i will say in the case of the flavius belisarius and themostocle

claimed to be from her campaign but showed her photo next to an image of the flag of communist north vietnamly into moffitt field this evening. he will attend fundraisers. he will stay overnight in downtown san jose where he will deliver a house care policy brief tomorrow morning. >>> good morning. marin county commute it's slower that we usually see. there was a crash approaching the central span. access to southbound 101 seeing extra delays from nevada to san rafael. westbound 80 blocking one lane. slug gibb from her cue -- sluggish from her cue lease. heavy traffic leaving milpitas closer to the lawrence expressway. >> that is one of my favorite roads in the entire bay area. folks around the bay area, low clouds and fog surging on shore. damp to the cost line with drizzle. even inside the bay the clouds will likely break up in most spots. 50s right now. this afternoon 60s and 70s. inside the bay and 80s in the valley. the next couple of days will heat things up. it will get hot on friday and saturday. some temperatures near triple digits in the valley. 60s and 70s toward the coast. >>> d.

north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates unite, and they do not like that. when i first come to prison, it will be a big thing if i went and sat with the blacks. it would be a big think if they caucasian sat with the asians. we only did that one time, where everybody got together, and we got what we wanted. when you unite, you can conquer. [applause] >> next question is for the commander. how can they community-based organization contact the task force for speaking engagements? >> if you call and ask to speak to jim miller. >> is there any effort to formalize the relationship with a community-based organization? >> right now, we do not have that effort in place. it is a good idea, it is something that we have talked about. it is important for us to understand what the cbos are doing. it is important for them to have specific training for their individuals. they should also have some guidelines and some criteria to evaluate their

it would only be the same in ellsburg ran off to north vietnam. stephanie: and jake -- i'm sorry, jim, one second. it is up to this one guy? he is more important than the president and the congress ann the supreme court? somebody made the analogy yesterday, what if somebody decided they thought the norm mandy invasion was wrong? >> but ellsburg said had he done the pentagon papers now, he would be put in jail forever under obama much like bradley manning is. >> caller: well, i would just like to caution everyone not to run to the barricade for this snowden guy, because his actions do not indicate he is patriot on hero. >> stephanie: yeah someone made the lee miserables yesterday. >> yeah something is weird. it's almost like a limited hangout or something. >> something is going to come out, and it will fall into place, but until then -- >> stephanie: something doesn't smell right. exactly. mary in texas. hi mary. >> caller: listen, spying isn't new in america. they have been doing this for years, anybody they want to check on. all they have to do i

north sending troops into the south. that's not a bad way of doing things. in vietnamcase study, in vietnam we just screwed it up totally. it was presidential action, mindlessly pursuing a policy that was clearly failing as you looked at it, but you could not accept the responsibility for the ultimate failure or loss. >> host: you write about one war korea fought to a stale mate. another war, vietnam, that we lost. how close do you think any of the presidents involved if came -- we lost all those warses without using the ultimate weapon how close were we to using nuclear weapons to try to resolve one of those wars? >> guest: well, in vietnam, richard nixon, vice president, and admiral raft, the chairman of the joint chiefs, recommended the use of three nuclear weapons again communist forces in a battle, and eisenhower, god bless him said, are you guys nuts? we just used two weapons less than ten years ago, against the japanese. you cannot do that in asia. white man -- you can't do that. and so he stopped it. johnson never, to the best of my only, never thought about th

north korean nuclear program. the minsters will spend four days talking in the capital. their agenda includes disputes over islands in the south china sea. the islands are claimed by china, the philippines and vietnam. foreign minsters couldn't agree how to handle them when they met in july of last year. that meeting was the first in history to end without a joint statement. observers are focussing on whether chinese and asean leaders can agree on rules for settling disputes peacefully. north korean foreign minster will join the talks on tuesday. observers will be focussing on what he said to help resolve the nuclear issue. leaders decided to relax visa requirements, hoping a tracking foreign travelers will play a key in revitalizing the economy. deregulation will take effect on july 1st. and malaysian tourists will no longer need a visa for short-term stays. they may receive three-year multiple length visas. the length will double to 30 days. japanese transport minster met with ambassadors from four southeast asian countries. >> we would like to promote the wonderful attractions of japan as a brand. for example, the beauty of the four seasons and delicious cuisine. >> it would be opportune for bot

vietnam serving as a platoon commander in the marine corps. in the spring of 1967, he volunteered for a second tour of duty. but on april 29th, as he led his men against a north vietnamese army contingent, david was killed by a sniper's bullet just south of the dmz. thewould have thought that life of a marine, and david's death in vietnam, would argue strongly against following in his footsteps. but many of us saw in him the person we wanted to be, even before his death. he was a leader and a role model on the fields of princeton. he was a leader and a role model on the fields of battle as well. and a number of his friends and teammates joined the marine corps because of him, as did i. i do consider myself fortunate to have survived my tour in vietnam. there were many -- men such as david hackett --who did not. and perhaps because of that, i have always felt compelled to try to give back in some way. i have been lucky to spend the better part of my professional life in public service, and to benefit from the intangible rewards that come from such service. the lessons i learned as a marine have stayed with me for more than 40 years. the value of teamwork, sacr

north carolina, democratic caller. you are first. 24 years in, about fault in two wars, korea and vietnam, and it was all men. we had women, too. they were in their place and we were in our place. i guarantee you, when i left the military in 1974, 1 reason i left is because they were talking about the new all volunteer army and the plant on having -- putting the women in the ranks. it does not work. you do not put dogs and cats in the same pen. , -- yes,f they got now women got their rights, but put them in a different work zone. -- dolet me ask you this you think, though, that those who allegedly commit those crimes, do you think they're criminals? caller: it is like this here. if i walked in the yard and the old dog bit me -- you know what i'm trying to say? host: we will go to the gym in grand forks on the north could appeared republican color. , aler: i just wanted to say few months ago we were having a debate on c-span about -- women were calling up on the airwaves saying that they are just as tough as men. don't you dare look at me as different. i can handle any kind of combat role. all of a sudden two