he is opposed by bobby kennedy, jr., yoko ohno and matt damon. those four people are listed as the primary opponents of new york. >> governor cuomo, andrew cuomo will not stand up to them. even despite the economic benefits to a new york upstate in particular. this is a way for new york city that has been on hard economic times for a long, for many years. >> i'll tell you, palm, some of those towns up in upstate new york look like east berlin during the cold war. they are devastated. they are dyeing to try to get access to this energy. >> all right. a sad story. we have to take one more break when we come back, hits and misses of the week. ugh! actually progresso's soup has pretty bold flavor. i love bold flavors! i'd love it if you'd open the chute! [ male announcer ] progresso. surprisingly bold flavor for a heart healthy soup. . >> it's time now for hits and misses of the week. bret, first to you. >> this is a hit for pope frances who this week took possession of the new popemobile. it has 186,000 miles on it. it's a 1984 renault, the gift of

when bobby kennedy was shot by certificate sirhan sirhan.y said this could have to do with the middle east. maybe this has something to do with world politics. no it was just a tragedy left to conspiracy theorists. then the boston marathon bombers, nobody puts together they're islamic terrorists and chechnya versus moscow, common enemy. putting it together and possibly a route to the opportunity for putdin and his own russian interests to help us with syria. >> there's a whole raft of self-interests guiding vladimir putin in this and certainly concern about islamic extremism at home is one of the self-interests that are driving him. there's more to it, i think, with great respect to the professor than simply a desire for stability. there's also a desire to project an image of russia as a major player on the global stage. that is what has been driving vladimir putin from the very moment that he became russian president. it is a desire to be seen as sharing equivalence with the united states. both in terms of refusing to accept that american d

when bobby kennedy was shot by a palestinian, by sirhan sirhan nobody said wait a minute, this mightave something to do with the middle east. and our position supporting israel. and maybe this has something to do with world politics. no, it was just a tragedy and a conspiracy theory. here when we have the boston bomber, nobody puts together, the chechnians are islamic terrorists. common enemy. putting it together and possibly a root to the opportunity for putin in his own russian interests to help us with syria. >> there's a whole raft of self-interests guiding putin in all of this and certainly concern about islamic extremism at home is one of those self-interests driving him. there's more to it i think with great professor than simply a desire for stability. there's also a desire to project an image of russia as a major player on the global stage. that is what has been driving vladimir putin from the very moment that he game russian president, it is a desire to be seen as sharing equivalents with the united states, both in terms of refusing to accept that will american democracy is

>> well, andrew cuomo will not lift the moratorium, the governor, he is opposed by bobby kennedy jr., yoko ono, lady gaga, and matt damon. and they are listed a as the primary opponents of fracking this new york. >> and governor andrew cuomo will not stand up to them, despite the benefits to new york city, who has been on hard economic times for many years? >> and some of those towns up in upstate new york look like east berlin during the cold war. they are devastated. they are dying to try to get access to this energy. >> all right. very sad story. we have to take one more break! when we come back, hits and misses of the week. ♪ don't tell mom. don't tell mom. don't tell mom! don't tell mom. okay. don't tell mom. don't tell mom. don't tell mom? yeah. the best stories you'll ever tell start with, don't tell." don't tell dad. start yours in the new santa fe. from hyundai. >>> time now for hits and misses of the week. brett, first to you. >> this is a hit for pope francis who this week took possession of the new popemobile. it has 186,000 miles on it. it's a 1984 renauld. a gift of a pr

but that what bobby kennedy stood for, for me, so i called gene mccarthy, hardest thing i had to do, gene, i'm sorry to say i'm going to drop my support. i'm going to support bobby, and i think -- i said i think he's the only man who can get the vote in the cities i know of both blacks and white ethnics. he can bring them together because nobody else will, and gene said, i'm sorry you think that. but it was true. then beeny asked me to go up to attorney campaign for him, and i did, and they lost. the first time a kennedy lost an election. and in later years the republicans gave me an award, as the republican's favorite democrat, providing i never worked for a republican. and anyway -- and then i did some things with bobby in california the next week, and he'd explain to me that it all depended on mayor daly, who won the election in illinois, and he said, daly doesn't trust me yet. and he told me, you in california, we can talk. i said, bobby, we got to win california. and i guess he told a million people that's why i need you. anyway, the most impressive thing was he called me on the

but that's what bobby kennedy stood for, for me. so i called gene mccarthy, the hardest thing ever to do, instead i'm sorry i'm going to drop my support and i'm going to support bobby. i think, i said i think he is the only man who can get the vote in the cities i know of both blacks and whites next. he can bring them together as nobody else will. and he said i'm sorry you think that, but it was true. be as integral to oregon to campaign for him, and it did come and they lost. first time a kennedy lost an election. in later years they gave me an award, the republicans favor democrats, providing i never worked for a republican. every time your for democratic, they -- [laughter] anyway, and then i did some things with bobby in california the next week, and he'd explained to me in that first visit it all depended on mayor daley who won the election in illinois. and he said, mayor daley doesn't trust me that. and he told me, you in california, we can talk. i said bobby, we've got to win california. and i guess you don't a million people

bobby told me this on more than one occasion when kennedy had power, not just being president, but maybeed for certain he'd be okay, he was going to disband the central intelligence agency. he was going form a new intelligence agency which would do what harry truman wanted the cia to do when he formed it and that was not to be an operational organization but be an organization which examined the facts and made those facts available to the president, not to ever take position that was involved in an operation. >> your final word on whether or not you think 450 years la50 ye 100 years later we'll know what will happen. >> i think it will happen. i think another generation or two will have to deal with the progeny, great grand children of the people in charge and i agree with mark it was a cia related people. they weren't going to follow five more years of john kennedy and then bobby kennedy. 13 years is a lifetime. i think it's going to happen. i used to think it would happen in my lifetime. i know now that's not going to occur. i want to point out one final thing that we're part of an 85%

bobby told me this on more than one occasion when kennedy had power, not just being president, but maybe certain he'd be okay, he was going to disband the central intelligence agency. he was going form a new intelligence agency which would do what harry truman wanted the cia to do when he formed it and that was not to be an operational organization but be an organization which examined the facts and made those facts available to the president, not to ever take position that was involved in an operation. >> your final word on whether or not you think 450 years la50 ye 100 years later we'll know what will happen. >> i think it will happen. i think another generation or two will have to deal with the progeny, great grand children of the people in charge and i agree with mark it was a cia related people. they weren't going to follow five more years of john kennedy and then bobby kennedy. 13 years is a lifetime. i think it's going to happen. i used to think it would happen in my lifetime. i know now that's not going to occur. i want to point out one final thing that we're part of an 85% m maj

bobby kennedy is saying, why are you asking me this?, whether it was the chaos of the day. >> there was a call to the president's mother. >> there was a call to rose kennedy. johnson doesn't know what to say. rose clearly wants to get off the phone. there's another phone call where johnson and lady bird called governor conley. >> i remember many stories from jack pawlenty who was in that picture. chris jones, incredible piece. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >>> for the first time in its 59-year history, a woman is now the top commander at the u.s. air force academy. lieutenant journal michelle johnson is taking over. jan crawford was with her. >> good morning. it's a career that has taken her all over the globe, and now, she's landed in colorado springs. we went out and visited with her during her second week on the job and she is just a force of nature. i've got to tell you, she's had this remarkable life story. and now facing big challenges, including that growing problem of sexual harassment in the military. >> carry on!

back when bobby kennedy was shot and killed. i wrote a letter to my congressman. nothing happened.ot just because i wrote one but i imagine hundreds of thousands others wrote letters. something really stops us from gun safety measures. what is it? you tell me. you've got a minute here. what causes us to avoid real gun safety measures which ron says are common sense in any other culture? >> because we have lobbying groups like the nra which even go against their own memberships. these are real regulations and what the groups say obama is getting your guns. forget it. and even scalia said the right to bear arms while individual does not mean you have the right to any type of firearm at any time. magazine size reductions and waiting periods are reasonable regulations that congress should take the word of the american people on and they won't because it's done on a district by district basis where the nra pumps a lot of money in. >> you can argue that. here's what i say. people say like they teachers, don't like teachers unions but the unions are representing the teachers. they say apa

and needless to say bobby kennedy was shot. that was just the beginning. he proceeded to tell him that if the u.s. had gotten involved in a war with cuba he would not fight. the attorney general was aghast. this concept of conscientious refusal for military service was a little bit foreign to him. he looked around the room at the older members of this gathering for a little bit of support. he wanted them to put the young man in his place. they nodded and said, that's right. he is speaking what we want. this meeting lasted three hours. at the end of it robert f. kennedy walked out physical shaken. so did james baldwin, the author who organized the whole event in the first place i talked with a man who took him to a tv station for a live interview, henry morgenthau. and he told me that james baldwin was so shaken up, so physically to stir that he just said, henry, you need to take me to a bar and we need to get a drink. in refused. when need to take this interview. and in the interview fall plan was still physically shaken out. this was a pivotal moment for

kennedy. he questioned lincoln's voracity. writing when he informed bobby of the account. bobby insisted his brother never intended to replace johnson saying can you imagine the president ever having a talk with him about a subject like that? historian writes that the dismissal of the johnson story, is quote, in line without given invirtually all book on kennedy or johnson and recounts interview with them in which they told him that lincoln was, quote, a flight rather real estate-brained woman. so much for earning a ba from george washington university in the '40s when being the daughter of a congressman and having two years of law school. two more years than kennedy had, by the way. what is the truth? i was skeptical at first. then i found in box 6 of lincoln's personal paper in the jfk library, her notes her shorthand notes. she wrote it down in her diary. it was somewhat scattered brained. she would write anything at hand. piece of memo paper. an engagement bank. book. two found two sheets. head of the white house washington dated november 19th. 1973, and there it is th

when bobby kennedy was shot by a palestinian, by sirhan sirhan nobody said wait a minute, this mightave something to do with the middle east. and maybe this has something to do with world politics. no, it was just a tragedy and a conspiracy theory. here when we have the boston bomber, nobody puts together, the chechnians are islamic terrorists. common enemy. putting it together and possibly a root to the opportunity for putin in his own russian interests to help us with syria. >> there's a whole raft of self-interests guiding putin in all of this and certainly concern about islamic extremism at home is one of those self-interests driving him. there's more to it i think with great professor than simply a desire for stability. there's also a detire to project an image of russia as a major player on the global stage. that is what has been driving vladimir putin from the very moment that he game russian president, it is a desire to be seen as sharing equivalents with the united states, both in terms of refusing to accept that will american democracy is a superior political system to the

and i was reminded of bobby kennedy in the cuban missile crisis when they got a very hard message froms chauv and a soft message at the same time. a woman would drop a handkerchief at the dinner table and when a man would pick it up, she would say, yes, i will accept your proposal of marriage, and they didn't want to hurt their feeling so they got married. he said, skip the hard message, go to soft message and see if we can build that. you have the russians and apparently the syrians say and the secretary of the united nations saying why don't we have the u.n. take control of the syrian stockpile? this is an opportunity potentially for the president to have an enormous victory. >> an enormous victory for the president because he could hear as we heard tony blij nken his national security adviser saying if this could happen, not only control all of the syrian chemceche chemical weapons and there's a lot of them, but destroy them at the sime. if the united states security council would pass that, the president could legitimately say thank you very much. it was the threat of u.s. force. b

was assassinated two weeks earlier and bobby kennedy and harry went to lyndon johnson then president a week after kennedy was killed and said we want to go ahead with this this plan to invade cuba and castro. l.b.j. at that point in time thought and this was before vietnam and l.b.j. at that point time thought that maybe castro played a role in killing kennedy and he just went nuts according to what he told me personally he said l.b.j. started screaming about those blank and cubans and all this kind of stuff and he said i'm going to make my stand against communism as far the hell away from those countries i can get i'm going to do it in south vietnam. and that was like this obligatory thing if you were a democrat you had macho the republicans on communism back i'm wondering if you think that the heart of this is something very similar to that which was when obama had his macho moment he said you know we're drawn a red odd drawn a red line rather than the united nations is drawn a red line you know i think look this is a very popular in congress as is becoming known the people been pu

it, if they saw hoffa leaving too soon out of the -- bobby kennedy said, i want around the clock, get hoffa. >> doesn't it feel like there is an around the clock, get jim may. >> let's hope he doesn't end up under the bleachers in the meadowlands. >> those are about as good of seats as you want for the giants. >> the old meadowlands. >> at least you don't have to watch what happens. >> the headline in the posts, disgraced. >> carl banks said at one point, this is insanity. one of my absolute favorite anal sifts. >> you are going to try for the offensive line next week. you might do a better job. >> i have won the waiver wire in fan s fantasy. >>> blackberry sharing moving lower. you have probably heard the smartphone maker warned of a much longer than expected loss. it plans to cut up to 4,500 jobs. blackberry's former ceo has reached out to private equity about a possible joint bid. the price target is $8. they are both narrow to neutral. they are both now saying their risks are played out and we are left with a sum of the parts situation. >> when you listen to what we're saying abou

bobby. jack kennedy, as president-elect, believed that his father would want to have a role in naming secretaryreasury. jack was wrong. the only appointment of the father pushed on the sun was that bobby be the attorney general. it got to be so that the body didn't want to be the attorney general. and he asked clark clifford, a washington and a lawyer of immense reputation to please go see joe and explain to the father why one son didn't want the other to be the attorney general. he met with him and he laid out all the arguments. the patriarch listen very carefully and said, mr. clifford, thank you so much for coming in to see me. i have only one thing to say. bobby will be the next attorney general of the united states. and neither on this issue is willing to oppose their father. once again, the father was right because after the bay of pigs, jack kennedy relied upon his brother more and more because his brother was the only one whose opinion he trusted. everyone else had a secret agenda, he thought. his brothers only agenda was loyalty to kennedy presidency. >> host: a win in mclean, virginia

and needless to say bobby kennedy was shot. that was just the beginning. he proceeded to tell him that if the u.s. had gotten involved in a war with cuba he would not fight. the attorney general was aghast. this concept of conscientious refusal for military service was a little bit foreign to him. he looked around the room at the older members of this gathering for a little bit of support. he wanted them to put the young man in his place. they nodded and said, that's right. he is speaking what we want. this meeting lasted three hours. at the end of it robert f. kennedy walked out physical shaken. so did james baldwin, the author who organized the whole event in the first place i talked with a man who took him to a tv station for a live interview, henry morgenthau. and he told me that james baldwin was so shaken up, so physically to stir that he just said, henry, you need to take me to a bar and we need to get a drink. in refused. when need to take this interview. and in the interview fall plan was still physically shaken out. this was a pivotal moment for

and john kennedy relied hugely on bobby during his own administration. so, that's as far as i can take it. sorry. host: talk a little bit more about the original reporting you have in this piece and how did you go about culling this, and your decision of what to put in? yeah, from "the atlantic'" archives, or from the era, i should say. guest: we were looking for pieces from great writers that advance a provocative point of view, but we were also looking very much to see how the tenor of the -- of our own coverage, how would change. how are own approach to the administration chains contemporaneously. and those years "the atlantic" publish something called the report on washington which was a monthly summary of what would later be called "beltway inside" which was an inside opinion of what the president is doing. something that would not necessarily happen today with everything on twitter. and in those days a monthly magazine could update readers on with the beltway opinion was. what you see is a very familiar arc of coverage. we started out and these ano

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ended up being advisor to bobby kennedy and monitoring the martin luther king movement to make sure itwasn't sabotaged or subject to inclusion by the communist party to overtake it. so i try to teach young black boys about how to react to police authorities across this country. for more than ten years i teved as a prosecutor for the u.s. attorney's office and the justice department. then they became the first african-american united states magistrate judge in the hiss history of the nation. i often look back and say how many young black boys lives were lost who could have had a promising career like i had. then, served on the superior court for 25 years. after about 10 or 11 years on the superior court, marian wright edleman per sbad -- persuaded me to retire. and then went on to help found the national african-american drug policy coalition to the creation being the national bar association to create a conglomerate of black american organizations working together in unison and today we're 25 organizations strong representing over a million black professionals to deal with the problems

i ended up being advisor to bobby kennedy and to the martin luther king movement to make sure it wasn't sabotaged, or that it was subject to intrusion by the commons party to overtake it. so i tried to teach young black boys about how to react to police authority across this country. 14 years, or more than tenures, i served as a prosecutor for the u.s. attorney's office at the justice department. and then age 34, became first african-american united states magistrate judge in the history of the nation. serving as deputy judge in handling the watergate cases that led to the impeachment of nixon. i also look back and say how many young black boys lives were lost who could've had a promising career like i had? then served on the superior court for 25 years. after about 10 or 11 years on the superior court, i was persuaded to retire to become the judge in resident. i then went on to help found the national african-american drug policy coalition, the catalyst for his creation be the national bar association, to create a conglomerate of black american conglomerate of black american organizati

only a soviet agent whom robert kennedy had befriended told the americans the truth. he told bobby that there would be a tough meeting and khrushchev was going to be hard on berlin. kennedy replied, bobby replied on this one the president is hard said. he is not going to pull out the troops. so bobby said to jack we are going to have trouble. but nobody else did. as it turned out they were right. when the summit began kennedy began with two ideas. the first idea was to divide the world and particularly to divide europe. he said to khrushchev, and this is in the record, as far as i'm concerned you can maintain your position in east berlin and you can maintain your position in eastern europe. we want to maintain our position in western europe and we want to maintain our position in west berlin. khrushchev absolutely and totally rejected that. he said you cannot prevent the people from acting as they want to ask. then kennedy based on briefings briefings and wishing tim said to khrushchev you know, will have nuclear weapons now. we have to make sure we avoid miscalculation and we avoi

and john kennedy relied hugely on bobby during his own administration.o, that's as far as i can take it. sorry. host: talk a little bit more about the original reporting you have in this piece and how did andgo about culling this, your decision of what to put in? atlantic'""the archives, or from the era, i should say. guest: we were looking for pieces from great writers that advance a provocative point of view, but we were also looking very much to see how the tenor ,f the -- of our own coverage how would change. how are own approach to the administration chains contemporaneously. and those years "the atlantic" publish something called the report on washington which was a monthly summary of what would "ater be called "beltway inside which was an inside opinion of what the president is doing. something that would not necessarily happen today with everything on twitter. and in those days a monthly magazine could update readers on with the beltway opinion was. what you see is a very familiar arc of coverage. theserted out and anonymous pieces that were writ

and john kennedy realized hugely on bobby during his own administration. that's as far as i can take it. sorry. host: talk a little bit more about the original reporting that you have in this piece and high did you go about -- how did you go about calling this and your decision what to put in? from the "atlantic's" archive's or from the era. guest: we were looking for pieces by great writers that advanced provocative points of view, which is what we try to do, but we were looking very much to see how the tenor of the atlantic's own coverage changed. one of the things that fascinated me about it was the way our own approach to the administration changed contemporaneously. in those years the atlantic published something called the report on washington which was a monthly summary of what would later be called beltway insider opinion of kind of how the new president was doing. something that wouldn't exist today by the way when everything is happening on twitter and minute to minute. in those days a monthly magazine could update its readers what beltway opinio

only a soviet agent whom robert kennedy had befriended told the americans the truth. he told bobby that there would be a tough meeting and khrushchev was going to be hard on berlin. kennedy replied, bobby replied on this one the president is hard said. he is not going to pull out the troops. so bobby said to jack we are going to have trouble. but nobody else did. as it turned out they were right. when the summit began kennedy began with two ideas. the first idea was to divide the world and particularly to divide europe. he said to khrushchev, and this is in the record, as far as i'm concerned you can maintain your position in east berlin and you can maintain your position in eastern europe. we want to maintain our position in western europe and we want to maintain our position in west berlin. khrushchev absolutely and totally rejected that. he said you cannot prevent the people from acting as they want to ask. then kennedy based on briefings briefings and wishing tim said to khrushchev you know, will have nuclear weapons now. we have to make sure we avoid miscalculation and we avoi

connor losing it on may 3rd and the world owes him greatly as president kennedy once said, bobby kenday say it too, actually. that the movement owed connor for finally losing it and becoming a prop within the movement drama that would awaking, the nation. the eight clergy men who ended up criticizing king may not have liked tension, in fact within one day -- the next morning after the dog was biting that black young man, it was on the paper -- the front page of the "new york times." kennedy was sending assistant u.s. marshall. they were thinking we may not be able to avoid this as a moral issue. we may need to think about a civil rights issue all that have begins. american democracy wasn't vanquished -- wasn't vindicated in birmingham but a start of movement in changed the world we live in. now, i'm not going say much. i'll say one sentence. king in the letter is talking about the gospel of freedom. i have brought the gospel of freedom like the eighth century bc -- or like paul going through the greek or roman world and answering the mas done began call. it's not just for the hometow

connor losing it on may 3rd and the world owes him greatly as president kennedy once said, bobby kenday say it too, actually. that the movement owed connor for finally losing it and becoming a prop within the movement drama that would awaking, the nation. the eight clergy men who ended up criticizing king may not have liked tension, in fact within one day -- the next morning after the dog was biting that black young man, it was on the paper -- the front page of the "new york times." kennedy was sending assistant u.s. marshall. they were thinking we may not be able to avoid this as a moral issue. we may need to think about a civil rights issue all that have begins. american democracy wasn't vanquished -- wasn't vindicated in birmingham but a start of movement in changed the world we live in. now, i'm not going say much. i'll say one sentence. king in the letter is talking about the gospel of freedom. i have brought the gospel of freedom like the eighth century bc -- or like paul going through the greek or roman world and answering the mas done began call. it's not just for the hometow

kennedy and her uncle senator bobby kennedy pleaded sterilizing that relationship in a time of crisis. their efforts enhanced bilateral relations on a personal, cultural and diplomatic basis and helped solidify the pride between the countries that have lasted to this very day. and a half a century later, mr. chairman, i am fully confident that caroline kennedy will help nurture those ties built by her father and uncles and no doubt, strengthen relations to come. we know japan remains one of our important allies in the asia-pacific region. it's a critical partner as we continue our economic strategy in the pitch to the region and its entering one of the most exciting. in its history because japan is launching a bold economic program that includes a focus on women in the workforce. what has come to be called womanomics. she will serve as a role model especially in light of the fact that if confirmed, she will be the first woman the ambassador to japan, something that makes me and senator jalabert and very, very happy. her appointment would be a reaffirmation of the importance that we pl