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it involves not only betrayal of the spouse, but the betrayal of the voters who got him into office in the first place. when there's no abuse of power, and a politician can say, this is a personal matter and between he and my spouse and our pastor, you have to let me fail and come back from it, you have a better chance of coming back and getting reelected. >> it all depends on who you are. eliot spitzer, he rounded prostitutes, and people knew who he was. but if you are a super correct person, then you really stumble very hard. >> so megan, it sounds like how you politically brand yourself. if you brand yourself as mr. family values, and you have indiscretions opposite of that, you have a harder row to hoe coming back? >> that may be true, but it was clear that he was going on hiking trips, but they were trips to visit his mistress. and i think that the thing is don't get caught doing it a second time. and in the case of anthony weiner, don't do something reckless and embarrassing. besides the betrayal of his wife, it was very hard to get that image out of your head, and therefore, ver

a time comes when silence is betrayal. that time has come for us in relation to vietnam. >> martin luther king knew when he gave that speech that it would set off a firestorm. >> it's the speech that challenges us, and in that sense it's his most important. that we are uncomfortable with that speech tells us something. >> "why are you speaking about the war, dr. king? why are you joining the voices of dissent? peace and civil rights don't mix," they say. but such questions mean that the enquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. indeed, that question suggests that they do not know the world in which they live. tavis: with this speech, dr. king risked everything he'd worked so hard to accomplish. in its aftermath all hell broke loose. already off the list of the most-admired americans, now the mainstream media turned against him, and even civil rights leaders publicly condemned him. hello, and thank you for joining me. i'm here in the historic riverside church in new york city where dr. martin luther k

>> hatching twitter: a true story of money, power, friendship, and betrayal," is the name of the book. the author nick bilton joins us from san francisco. >> the billion dollar question. the $25 billion question if you look at twitter bot ipo. it is something that is different for everyone. it was started by four people and they were collectively trying to build something that would communicate with each other, would connect them to their friends. they all had different ideas of what it was. the genesis of it, the moment that it started, was to gentlemen. jack dorsey and noah glass. thatwork for a company produced podcast in early 2005. it was in san francisco. the company was failing. noah and jack had been out drinking. jack had this idea that you could build something that would what you to tell people you were doing in real time. , his cofounder's company, he had the idea that they would be able to share with their friends. you could connect with your friends. he was going through a difficult private time. they thought that twitter would make you feel less alone. that was the gene

. >> "hatching twitter: a true story of money, power, friendship and betrayal" is the name of the book. the author, "the new york times" tech report nick bilton who is joining us from san francisco. what was twitter supposed to be? >> that is the billion dollar question. or the $25 billion actually if you look at the ipo. twitter was different for everyone. it was started by four people that collectively were trying to build something that would, you know, communicate with each other and connect to friends. but they had different ideas of what it was. the genesis of it, the real moment, was with jack dosey and noah glass. they were two close friends and worked at a podcasting company in 2005-2006 and the company was failing. noah and jack were out drinking and jack had an idea you could build something that would allow you to say what you are doing like i am drinking, or i am eating, or i am at the park. and noah had the idea to share with friends. he was going through a difficult time, noah was, and he thought twitter would make you feel less alone. everyone had a different concept of

an act of betrayal or an act of emotion. if he was so sooeething and so angry during all those years, why did he stay? that may be the question a lot of people want to ask him. >> that emotional part, you stuc touched on something he just released today in the wall street journal. he talks about how on some of the times when he was before congressional hearings, he was so angry at the partisanship and the myopathy of the congressmen that are asking questions that just served their purposes and perhaps not the country's purposes. he said, i may be the secretary of defense but i'm also an american citizen and there is no s.o.b., i have to say, he says it full on, there is no s.o.b. in the world who can talk to me like that. i quit. find someone else. that's what he said he felt like saying and doing, folding up his briefing book and walking out of those hearings. did he ever actually belie those emotions? >> well, certainly not to the press core or publicly. every secretary of defense, every one of them that i've covered and a

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the betrayal of my position on the issue was not accurate. i said i will not support it unless our citizen's privacy is protected. >> reporter: they are investigating the posting of the flyers as a hate crime. >>> i just want to do god's will. and he has allowed me to go up to the mountain. i have looked over, and i've seen the promised land. i may not get there with you, but i want you to know tonight that we have a people that will get to the promised land. >> dr. martin luther king junior and his speech. he was assassinated the very next day in tennessee. a last minute run in ticket sales on the train from san jose to san francisco to celebrate his legacy. this was threatening future trips, but as long as people step up the train will run. the 30-year-old tradition is the only freedom train in the country and com meme commemorates his legacy. they were surprised when 200 people showed up. a lot of the schools had the day off. she encouraged kids to show up. >> you participate in a community service activity. i wanted them to remember dr. m

or what they considered a betrayal got you a number.one you didn't want because that meant that was a maximum negative numbers. all these politicians got numbers 1 to 7. and if you were a search, you were thought to utterly have betrayed her who decided. >> staff now. fair to point out here. politicians far more than the politicians themselves. these politicians recognize that today's enemy is tomorrow's ally in some cases and it's better not to take things personally and it's a burden to hold grudges. staff are often not that way. they can be often imbutterred. >> good parallel between the christie situation and these new allegations against the -- >> -- yeah. excerpt is available now. in the excerpt her name is mentioned in passing but she is not mentioned as having done. this this is being done by staff. it was pretty big deal though at one point to it occupied a wall according to excerpt in campaign headquarters out here in virginia back in 2008 which is a wall of all the endorsements they had sought and how they were doing. diagram

courage or betrayal? 55% so far say betrayal. >> the debate will continue online at cnn.com/crossfire as well as on facebook and twitter. >> join us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire." "erin burnett out front" starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm don lemon. the president doesn't believe in his own strategy. that's one part of a scathing new critique of president obama from a former member of his own cabinet former secretary of defense bob gates slams the president's leadership and commitment to the war in afghanistan. we're just getting the details tonight about what's in this bomb shell of a book. jim shuto has the excerpts and they are unbelievable. the president doesn't believe in his own strategy. sometimes he did not give the administration information about strategies for military in war because he says the white house and the administration did not know what to do with it. here's the report. >> reporter: in his new book titled "duty", the former secretary of defense delivers a scathing

most said they consider this to be a reversal or betrayal of that. another said and many actually said that a major theme was to divides the problem of the misuse of placards. not by people with disabilities. yes we have fraudulent use. that must be addressed. some suggested the responsibility for addressing that lies with the dmv and mta. they do not have in place right now for placards or for people that have died and people are abusing these. they need do that. one person referred to the fact that you can go to a placard mill and buy one. charging for parking is not going to fix that problem. one person said the dmv needs to get their acts together. several people it was about money. as you know, seniors and people with disabilities of whom there are over 60,000 in san francisco tend to have low and fixed incomes and not only is the $5 an hour parking hardship, but the $74 ticket for parking is catastrophic for many people. one disability advocate i have known for many years says she would have a difficult time coming to san francisco because of t

an explosive book, serious alleges, watch the media suggesting that him writing it is an act of betrayal> and former defense secretary robert gates takes on his old boss, the man who awarded him the medal of freedom. >> were you surprised gates wrote this book and attacked a sitting vice president? >> i think i was, i was surprised that he did it while the president was still in office. the president about award him the medal of freedom. after all. >> considering gate's place in history sitting in the white house situation room with mr. obama, biden and clinton during the killing of osama bin laden, the memoir seen by some critics as an act of betrayal. >> this is how they focus, but the revelation here is that the president sent our sons and daughters into the battlefield not believing they would win. and that both he and hillary voted against the surge. our brave sons and daughters fighting for us, for political reasons. shouldn't that be the focus? >> the double standard is astonishing. the reverse happens with republican presidents. when paul o'neill, the treasury secretary under geo

go to geneva, would be a betrayal of the syrian people.hey do not feel with a lack of undertaking made by the international community and concessions that any party that purports to represent the syrian people can go there to begin negotiations with representatives of the ram eem. for that reason they have taken themselves out of the coalition process and refuse to be party to any group that, in their eyes, in their view expressed to us is railroading the syrian political opposition, whether it wants to or not into a geneva process. they talk of outside pressures, they won't name them. we think they mean saudi arabia and the united states, who are determined that geneva ii will happen and are pushed by the countries into taking part. this, they say, they refuse to cooperate with. so what is left now, a rump, if you like, of the syrian national coalition. the group that is resigning takes away a third of the coalition, the national council is another third. earlier on they said they would not be going. they have two-thirds declared already,

absolute betrayal to reveal private conversations with a president who trusted him to give confidential advice. and gates has always been a classy guy. that's what's surprising here. how can a president rely on his inner circle in times of war and peace if they are gathering material for a best-seller? >> now, i assume your reference to a private conversation is a portion of the book and, again, the "the washington post" is reporting this. i haven't read the book and neither have you. that says in a meeting with gates both barack obama and hillary clinton admitted they were against the surge in iraq, which worked because of political reasons. is that what you are referring to? >> he primarily seems to hang that on hillary, yes. that's a prime example of what i would call betrayal. >> shouldn't american people know that the temperament of their leaders is now being dictated by politics instead of what is best for the nation? isn't gates doing a patriotic thing by exposing that? >> well, it's news worthy information but it also is an act by gates of turning on the guy who held him over fr

i think he did it because he knew the betrayal was coming. what really motivated lawrence and what he really risked his life over and over again was to try to uphold the promise is the british government had made to britain. at the end of the war, it was very clear that they were going to be sold-out. the betrayal of the british and the french was a foregone conclusion. >> my question is for regarding. this may sound like a simple question. maybe it is. you mentioned that israel should be doing to reach out to the diaspora. my question is the inverse. why should americans, jewish in america, who love israel, who don't live in love israel, but still love israel. why should we be doing to further the dialogue, the situation icc? what is our moral and what can we be doing to help? >> i have an unusual answer for a journalist. i think pretty much you are doing what you should. i think that in this, america is doing what it should and supporting israel and maintaining itself. where i am actually worried, and this is unusual for an israeli to say.

. >> there was some talk on the internet as well with a betrayal of maybe somebody is on crack.there? just a performance right now, we'll talk about the beetles. some people thought that they should have sang a song that they are known for, a legendary song when you're a legend. what did you think about their performance? >> it was tough, ringo performed first, all by himself. waiting for paul mccartney to join him, the slow point in the grammy's. >> let's talk about that performance. >> yes, amazing performances, that song, it is like, you know, the performance will come out. she didn't win any grammy's tonight. >> okay. and personally i thought that ste vicious e wonder did a great job. you want to hear more of their performance and what did you think? >> i loved that performance. and stevie wonder, i mean this is what i love about the grammy's, the music that you get. country, the soul, rap, it was just, i thought it was a great performance. >> and i love me some country also. he was out there tonight, i would say that. but let's talk about it real quick as you mentioned that

a possible misuse of public resources and the betrayal of trust. it was last week that zimmer also said that she was concerned relief funds would be withheld. rudy giuliani said this is nothing more than democrats looking to hurt the potential 2016 run for president. >> he should not be handling this investigation. it gives it no essentially credibility and it clearly is a partisan witch hunt. clearly this is a very, very well orchestrated democratic organizational effort to hurt governor christie who after all is the only republican who was beating hillary clinton in any poll at any time. >> yesterday christie deflected any 2016 chatter at a fund-raiser held at a booster for ken langone. he told the top donors that his ambitions for the white house were on hold saying come see me next year. >>> president obama's plans to shake up the nsa were a big talk on the sunday talk shows. one key issue of whether the government should control the database. leaders of both parties raised doubts about shifting control away from the government. >> i think that

sad that it has come to for you that feeling of betrayal because i think that's an expensive lesson but move on an object or two. there are so many things wrong with this exchange i don't even know where to begin aside from stuart's on the willingness to push back prince the laughs off this whole affair as an expensive mistake hell maybe blackwater's a new name can be a whitewash. a w w f a living planet report from two thousand and twelve suggests that at the current rate of consumption humanity will need two earths by the year twenty thirty just as the state itself some suggest that even if we curb consumption it's already too late it's a prediction made by my next guest. professor emeritus of the university of arizona and author of going dark his book presents a prophetic warning about the consequences of a change in climate and it unsustainable economy that's a heartbeat away from collapse now being skeptical of the sensational prediction i first asked him what evidence he has to back up this claim. the international energy agency is among the most conservative organizations on the

they voted in fair and free elections after the twenty fifth of january revolution this vote is a betrayal to the twenty fifth of january principles and it's understandable this is the return of the mobarak regime again and again the number is very similar to what we've seen in the mubarak era when all ended up being ninety nine point nine percent yes i'm just really curious about plowing egyptians lost. i'm just really curious. people. into taking the yes was it because people couldn't see what they were taking on the on the ballot sheet surely. well a lot of people didn't turn up so those who turned up actually wanted a yes that's right but the end of the day a lot of a lot of egyptians the majority of egyptians decided not to go to the ballot box because they actually have lost all hope that this military junta can actually conduct a constitutional process with foster cool let alone a real one so they knew that going to the ballot box your voice will not be counted unless they voted yes the was absolutely no reason and no. there is no reason for them to go and vote and so it's understan

such a physical guy that what he's doing he started to is body started to kind of he took it as a betrayal kind of he was kind of you know angry at the thing and he got you know the heart you know hard they want you don't oh my god that he was he did oh he loved apt and loved show business you know and i can remember him in the days of sea hunt him sitting me on his bed there teaching me all of the basics and unbowed to understand it oh and bowed to but then i think the thing that i learned most about acting from him was just the joy in which he'd approach the thing you know i kind of get a similar hit with you actually i can really know that you enjoyed doing it we loved this love it and it's kind of a when you joyous it's contagious you know and that whenever my dad you probably felt it with my dad and you knew my dad all over there when he came in and you hung out with him you said oh yeah we're alive this is kind of fun you know what where we want to go here he lived you know man i like your mom. did you ever meet my mom oh she. she whether it was a mariner she passed away while she wa

this betrayal is at the heart of the new abc mini series, the assets, a show inspired by the real lifease of aldrich ames. >> what you did you did for money? stop me if i say anything that's wrong. >> reporter: the assets takes us inside the hunt to take ames down which was led in part by sandy grimes, a wife, mother and cia agent seen here on the show -- >> you're entitled to your opinion, rick, even if it's wrong. >> reporter: and seen here today. >> he wiped out your ability to have eyes and ears on the ground in our number one enemy. >> exactly. >> reporter: she first joined the cia in the early 1970s had and had an extremely sensitive job, helping to manage the agency's relationship with it's crown jewel, a spy named general polyakov, the highest soviet officer ever recruited. >> these were human beings and you took it upon yourself to keep them alive. >> aldrich ames gave the kgb a list of every known human asset the cia had in the soviet union. that list had 20 names on it. within a year, ten of them were executed. among those rounded up, general polyakov seen here in this remar

it was tied to an issue, the betrayal of my position wasn't accurate. >> the city council member expected object of some political attacks when she entered oakland mayor's race but these flyers crossed that line. >> i'm just sorry that people in the community have to be subjected to a hateful image. >> the flyer appeared on poles sunday night. by monday morning several have taken the matter into their own hands including mark who has known her since childhood. >> she's the sweetest and nicest woman. and she's jewish. >> the second flyer says she's being tarring yitd for a proposal to create a domain awareness center with cameras throughout the city to help solve crime. >> i am very concerned we protect citizen privacy z that is what very been

it was tied to an issue, the betrayal of my position wasn't accurate. >> the city council member expected to be object of some political attacks when she entered oakland mayor's race but these flyers crossed that line. >> i'm just sorry that people in the community have to be subjected to a hateful image. >> the flyer appeared on poles sunday night. by monday morning several have taken the matter into their own hands including mark who has known her since childhood. >> she's the sweetest and nicest woman. and she's jewish. >> the second flyer says she's being tarring yitd for a proposal to create a domain awareness center with cameras throughout the city to help solve crime. >> i am very concerned we protect citizen privacy z that is what very been fighting for during the entire conversation.. >> i don't understand motive here. >> this resident didn't see the connection between the symbol and the issues. >> of all of things to pick i. >> less than 24 hours after, by the end of the day, most flyers were removed or modified. >> a fisherman swept to sea and drowned in the north bay. around n

. >> betrayal or act of emotion? if he was so seething and so angry, why did he stay? >> is there something disturbing about a former presidential advisor revealing private connections? >> yes, obviously, whether it is to sell books or to tell the truth, it is a long book, there is a lot that is favorable, but there is a lost confidential conversations that the people in involved would have hat a seasonable expectation of privacy as described bird the supreme court and now they are revealed. something could be lost in terms of the candor with which the aides around a president are feeling they can be comfortable to speak. >> how can a president conduct war and peace sensitive conversation if he thinks people are gathering material for a best seller? >> and the other question, occurred to me immediately, if he felt this strongly and thought it was being managed this badly, and that the process was this dysfunctional, why did he stay on? look, toward the end of the bush years i knew from talking to him he was dying to leave, he stayed on very reluctantly. it is not surpr

and next up we stil tell you aba deindustrial that seems almost -- betrayal that seems almost issue that master to members of the republican party. can you imagine, that president obama whose leadership has opinion so weak, so pitiful is in better shape than the lowell loyal opposition, the republican party, which seemingly cannot learn from its mistakes. tomorrow they open their winter meetings. in order to allow republican members to attend the annual march for life. and the republican party is using abortion to spokenthusiasm among -- to spokenthusiasm among its base. i am sure you caught irony that rnc, its publication will be. i am pro-life but i am also pro american, as i discuss in the book, "upheaval," republicans must understand tt wedge issues such as abortion, and gay marriage, set it aside for the good of the party, try to win an election, it would be easy enough to say that republican leader is consigning a party to defeat, but as i make clear in this book, it is you and me responsible, we're permitting the so-called leaders to make the same mistakes over and over, and put m

next up we'll tell you about a betrayal that it seems every issue matters to the republican party, whethert be about government or small immigration policy. can you imagine that president obama whose leadership has been so weak, so pitiful, is in better shape than the loyal opposition, the republican party, which seemingly can't learn from its mistakes? well, tomorrow the republican national committee opens their winter meetings a few hours later than iue in order to allow republican members to attend the annual march for life, and the republican parties using abortion to stoke enthusiasm among its base that may not even be represented at that winter meeting. i'm sure you've caught the irony that the rnc whose biggest publication is called an autopsy will be ignoring common sense and good counsel by making the march for life its incipient event. now, i'm pro life but i'm also pro american. as i discuss in the book, upheaval, republicans must understand that wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage, set it aside for the good of the party, try to win an election. it would be easy enough t

. >> it was just a betrayal. >> rose lean is a high school spanish teacher. >> do you remember the namef them? >> with her three children she is now living in a tiny apartment, it was all she could afort after sandy. >> i had lost everything, lost my car, all the furniture, the kids clothes. >> a block from jamaica bay, she lived on the second floor of this building. a year later, still not repaired. the first floor was completely washed out. there was mold, water. >> bay water met sea water met sewage. and then there was the fully stocked deli. >> we lived above the deli, there was the food that went bad. it was pretty bad. >> fema told you to get out. >> yeah, they just looked tat outside and were like why are you still here. for months fernandez and her children, forced to live in a motel. and then the red cross says they could help. i spoke to the caseworker. >> he would be eligible for money to be in a new place, and that all my household items would be replaced. >> the red crossed raised more money than any other agency to help the victims, 308. dollars. they created the move in a

what do you think, the governor was focused too much on the betrayal to him as opposed to the citizens of new jersey and the ems technicians and kids on the school buses or what was your take? >> i think that's a fair criticism. he certainly had very contrite moments that you could pluck out and string together a long video of him saying that he was sorry. but there was a thread throughout the two hours of he was betrayed. he was angry about what happened to him and he lost the sort of emphasis on the people at fort lee who suffered through this week of traffic and really did not seem eager to talk about the most dramatic part of this whole story, which is this 91-year-old woman who died after ems couldn't get to her in time. we don't know object kroviously that's why she died. when he was asked about that, he did not seem eager to dwell on it. what's happening right now is city hall, jake, i would love to be inside there. we had this mayor who didn't want christie to come and christie said i'm coming and the mayor relented and it looks like they are about to meet face-to-face there in

house just hours ago passed a trillion dollar spending bill that many of our veterans are calling a betrayal rycoff served in the iraq war and is now ceo and founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> now they have done it, they cut the cost of living increases on the pensions, saying look, we only did it for people that are working age, by the way, there i still time before it kicks in, in 2016 for us to undo what we just did. >> right, whole new level of bipartisan stupidity. it will cut the retirements for the first class retirees, so you will see an $85,000 decrease in your retirement benefits over the course of your lifetime. so congress is balancing the budget on the backs of our veterans. >> they say we can afford it. >> no, they can't, more importantly it was a promise we made with our military folks when they raised their right hand. somebody came up with this idea, and they will do it on the backs of the retirees in the military, every veteran's group has pushed back but it is not enough. we need every american to push on this, it has to get f

he would use the word sad in the opposite of happy talk about the betrayal and what would happen to noone new jersey or new york have paid to those polled said in a waterfall editor a good year friend immediately sent to be the key would day she saw was tweet teeing and for those of you who follow on twitter guy probably did 40 tweets during governor christie it went on so long but she says that is eric davis series of questions asked that i do q and a. i thought i would choose this. thinking about your recent book unhappiness what he think about governor christie's comments on human nature what to they have to do with the possibility of happiness? it is a huge impediment. but dealing with it in such a candid way is the band -- the best advice. i thought about that it is someone he loved a and trusted something he did whether a spilled cup of coffee in your lap face bill the coffee at that moment we are extremely unhappy and vocal about it. the addiction and of a child the illness of a parent or a loved one, a crime of violence as we recently returned from south america said deeply impove