he is the son of dan ellsberg.n the united states bishops' 2012, conference endorsed the canonization of dorothy day to be a saint. also with us here in new york is martha hennessy. she works at the maryhouse catholic worker in new york. she's been fasting and praying and holding a vigil at the united nations since tuesday evening. she is the granddaughter of dorothy day. we welcome you all to democracy now! let's begin with martha hennessy , your response to the pope's first-ever visit to the united states? there were a lot of first. the first time the pope will address a joint session of congress, happening today, then he comes to new york later today. he will be speaking at the 9/11 memorial. he will be addressing the world body, the united nations, as central part then he goes on to philadelphia. central park, then he goes on to philadelphia. >> he is the pope we have been waiting for. he is very much like dorothy and how he is eating about world issues. i think he is the most competent leader we have seen on t

if you're wondering about the last and, yes, he is daniel ellsberg's son.hen we come back, climate change. we're joined by kumi naidoo, head of greenpeace international. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: for our radio audience and for our tv audience, we were just showing live images of the pope at the united nations as he sits and next to him is the yuan secretary-general ban ki-moon. you can go to democracynow.org to see those live images as we broadcast this show. he is about to address the yuan general assembly. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. been alimate change has key focus of the pope's visit to the united states. during his address to congress thursday, pope francis called on congress to address climate change. >> i call for courageous effort to redirect our steps and to environmental deterioration caused by human activity. i am convinced that we can make a difference i'm sure. [applause] and i have no doubt that the united states and this congress have an important role to pl

and dean told us that this same group had broken into the office of ellsberg's psychiatrist., oh, your jaw just dropped beneath the floor. >> in 1971 daniel ellsberg had been a defense consultant, decided that the war was wrong and so he took this vast volume of secret papers and he leaked it to the "new york times." >> i felt, as an american citizen, i could no longer conceal this information from the american public. >> names on paper never mentioned the name richard nixon, but its leak drove richard nixon nuts. >> i think it is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in the newspapers. >> this is a product of the president's paranoia about his ability to control his own government. >> they actually broke into the psychiatrist's office of ellsberg. now, come on! somebody's psychiatrist's office files are raided by people who are commissioned by the white house? >> it's one thing to disclose breaking into the offices of the democratic national committee. it's another to have broken into the offices of a person's psy

he was described in the annunciation of ellsberg he keyed his performance to start up next in's various resentments and he looked at him she looked at him as a liberal and hedonistic subversive promiscuous and privileged -- he's now married a very rich girl, kissinger told nixon and nixon was fascinated earlier. henry got nixon cranked up and then he started cranking each other up. kissinger told nixon that shows that you are a link weakling mr. president. so crimes lead to more crimes than he was involved in the early plotting including the wiretaps and and associates, surveillances and meetings where the nation's highest officers were smearing antiwar dissidents on both treasonous allegiance is where they were plotting to block mail former presidents and throw up. couple of states and the institute and give orders to run the paramilitary operations that led to watergate. even as vietnam and watergate were beginning to break up the old national security state, kissinger who had survived and we can talk later on in the questions about how we manage to survive watergate and continue on u

they want the fbi to dig some dirt on ellsberg.e editor hoover partly because of this shrewd politician that he is can see the wind is changing they are starting to be lawsuits about the illegal tapping and the court, the supreme court, the law is starting to change. hoover has been running this whole empire all these years. i think i'm going to get out of this business because we are all going to get caught read what that meant is that since the fbi wouldn't do any more nixon went in the house and he created the plumbers as an in-house operation. and that all sounds terribly sinister but the one thing about the plumbers is the day were clumsy. they were bad at it. ..

they want the fbi to dig some dirt on ellsberg. she editor hoover partly because of this shrewd politician that he is can see the wind is changing they are starting to be lawsuits about the illegal tapping and the court, the supreme court, the law is starting to change. hoover has been running this whole empire all these years. i think i'm going to get out of this business because we are all going to get caught read what that meant is that since the fbi wouldn't do any more nixon went in the house and he created the plumbers as an in-house operation. and that all sounds terribly sinister but the one thing about the plumbers is the day were clumsy. they were bad at it. .. very tender and moving from the early years. both of them started drinking too much. they really stop talking to each other and a guy named frank gannon who wrote nixon's memoirs and was around then set it down or they would not talk about the main thing. they would talk about anything but the main thing but at night they would pass a note to each other and leave n