. >> reporter: for more than 40 years daniel ellsberg has been known as the man who exposed the u.s.ernment's secrets about the vietnam war. >> i did this clearly at my own jeopardy. >> reporter: but there's an even bigger secret he's been keeping about his involvement in planning for an even bigger war. you said "i was part of a plan that should never have been made that was a crime against humanity." >> yes. >> what was the plan? >> the plan was to hit every city in the soviet union and every city in china. there was no plan for fighting soviets that did not also involve annihilating the chinese population. the result was a readiness to annihilate 600 million people. 100 holocausts. when i say crime against humanity, it was actually a crime against the existence of the human species. >> this is the end of days. and that was the plan. >> yes. >> i pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity. >> reporter: in the 1960s it was ellsberg's job to update the nuclear plans left by president eisenhow eisenhower. >> you've said this was the most evil plan that ever e

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for more than 40 years daniel ellsberg has been known as the man who exposed u.s.ardy rainfall there's an even bigger secret he's been keeping about his involvement in planning for a bigger war. >> you said i was part of a plan that should never have been made that was a crime against humanity. what was the plan? >> the plan was to hit every city in the soviet union and every city in china. there was no plan for fighting soviets that did not also involve annihilating the chinese population. the result was a readiness to annihilate 600 million people, 100 holocausts. when i say crime against humanity, it was actually crime against existence of the human species. >> this is the end of days, and that was the plan. >> i pray the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity. >> in 1960s it was ellsberg's job to update nuclear plans left by president eisenhower. >> you said this was the most evil plan that ever existed. and yet the people you knew who drafted this plan, were they amoral? >> no. what this revealed to me was something about our species i've had t

ron paul called the book important and dan ellsberg said it was excellent. so let's give a warm pennsylvania libertarian welcome to scott horton. [applause] >> thank you very much for having me. i really appreciate it a lot. tell funny joke. encore laughter. did that work okay? that was my joke. i hope you like it. blowback, the term blowback actually i'm quite grateful for the fact that it's worked its way into popular culture and tv and it has become another synonym for consequences basically, negative consequences but the real definition is actually a little bit more precise. the word was coined by the cia back in 1953 in the after action report after the coup in iran. the way it was defined in the paperwork was blowback is the consequences of secret foreign policies over the long term that when they come back to haunt the american people they don't understand the context and don't have a way to explain what's really going on and that leaves them susceptible to false conclusions about what's happening. for example, iran when the revolution came in 1979 it

daniel ellsberg had some interactions with -- darpa was funding rand to do social science work in vietnam. the second thing was that nixon wanted to basically retaliate against the defense department so started cutting billets. didn't trust the office of the secretary of defense. so what the bureaucracy do when under attack? they protect themselves. the myth with darpa was the d was added and became darpa -- what the pentagon did to protect bullets being cut was they made all of these agencies independent agencies that weren't -- the numbers wouldn't be counted. so you had the advance research projects agency, the defense advance research protect agency that defended it from cuts. that's why the d was add he, not any redirection of the agency that was about it. i think darpa was under nixon's radar, signs and technology did not occupy a lot of his time, at least not at that granular level. >> well, i'm going to shift gears a little bit. many who live through the eisenhower years tended to see him as a -- yes, great general, an amiable grandfatherly figure, kind of distant and removed, per

center at cancercenter.com/philadelphia >>> tomorrow morning on "cbs this morning: saturday" daniel ellsbergm war when he reveals government secrets in the pentagon papers. in a new book he's sharing his insider view of america's doomsday plan and what we might learn about the arms race today. our conversation tomorrow on "cbs this morning: saturday." >>> that does it for us. as we leave you, let's take a look back at all that mattered this week. have a great weekend. >> one student told us the principal went over the p.a. system and said we are eagles strong. today we reclaim the nest. >> i think everyone's a little bit nervous to go. >> i see the beginning of change and we will be the people to do it. >> are you ready to go back to school today? >> i am ready to go back to school, but i'm feeling a little scare and a little nervous. >> president trump wants to move on at least some gun restrings. >> you know why? you're afraid of the nra that i think you underestimate the power of the nra. >> they have great power over you people. they have less power over me. >> this was tough for hope hi