came on staff after frank gannon and diane sawyer. todd and i came on staff. o help them with the real war in leaders. he's an amazing guy. he led a life. sawyer role did diane play in those days? >> not there the same time she feels. principal the research editorial assistant. frank gannon was the principal of the chapters that richard was uninterested in the memoirs. you had to write a chapter on venezuela, frank is an incredibly prolific writer and talent. he and nixon were the lead on our end. great book. and diane sawyer and sam were those two. to >> was there a moment around richard nixon you had that you never talked about? told this story a couple of times but i never told it on air. my mom and dad came to when they were both alive. 1978. called over and said can i bring minute parents by to meet you. a big deal. dad was a small town lawyer and stay in the same firm for 50 years. were born in ashtabula. they had seen him in a parade but they were going to come meet a president. it was awkward as we sat down in the oval office, the nixon overlooking the

frank gannon was the principal drafter of chapters in the memoirs. frank is an incredible, prolific writer. he and nixon were the lead authors. a great book. diane sawyer and ken were backups. >> was there a moment around richard nixon you had that you never talked about? >> i have told the story of couple times. my mom and dad came to california in 1978. i said, can i bring my parents to meet you? this is a big deal for a midwestern couple. my dad was a small-town lawyer at the same firm for 50 years. they had seen him a great, but they were going to, me a president. it was awkward. as we sat down in the nixon office overlooking the pacific. my mom, god bless her, said, what do you think is going to happen with china? we left two hours later. he talked for two hours about the world with my mom and dad. he was very generous that way. i saw him do that again and again with ordinary americans who were asking important questions. he was terrible at smalltalk, but if you said to him, what will happen with brazil, you would be in the office forever. this

accurate and amazing incidence that up to seventeen people were killed in a row wedding ceremony and gannon on skis this account that i'm now on its human price of america's will it says no fee for the one who has no trust. both are now in short supply in this part of yemen. for months the class has been without its math teacher and his pupil without his father. this isn't a big shout out to check. he was still on the star of schedule now he hasn't been here since training class in january twenty thirty knots today to find anything the father of three was killed by a us drone alongside his twenty old cousin saw me in a college student who drove them in a borrowed to guillen. he picked up two strangers who turned out to be suspected al qaeda militants witnesses reported a whirring sound in the sky and missiles struck their car. and the smell of death was everywhere some of the police were burned beyond recognition. the rest were ripped to shreds and scattered all around i found a pot of saline and psychic on it. the rest was outside we recognized him by a piece of his trousers. you couldn't

game that they've been trying to play between the west and russia and that's the decision that mr gannon covered has been taken and that's where we stand at the moment and what the dynamic on the ground in kiev is going to turn out like whether it's going to be a mobilizing kind of effect again as nine years ago i really don't know that's a very volatile situation i wish that the ukrainian government will be playing it slightly smarter with the demonstrators that's for sure ok alexander would you like to weigh in there i mean we heard outside influence i suppose that means russia anything that goes wrong in ukraine is obviously russia's fault i mean that's a fault line for ukrainian politics. well it certainly is and it's what the europeans have been saying for the ever since this decision was made now i've actually read the association agreement and i have to say i am not really convinced of that my own view is that it is a far too ambitious document it requires that ukraine is sensually to convert to all the rules of the european single market within ten years on i don't honestly see h

john gannon. dr. gannon served as the deputy director for intelligence at the cia. he was chairman of the national intelligence council and served as assistant director of central intelligence for analysis and production. he led the establishment of the dci in the agency balkans task force. he headed the white house team at the department of homeland to get a transition planning office and was staff director of the house of representatives committee on homeland security. in 2004, the president awarded him the national security medal, the nation's highest intelligence toward. please join me in welcoming dr. john gannon. [applause] >> thank you, terry, very much. i would like to also join in thanking some of the wonderful folks have helped us get here and have supported us since we have gotten here. terry garner, the director of the clinton library. joe lambert, the director of cia's information management and services, and david, who has been our right hands supporter for several weeks on this conference. also, rob and dana, the archivists here at the library have be

i also want to thank john gannon from the cia, madeleine, sandy, leon and nancy, i loved the panel. i was upstairs hanging on every word. [applause] >> i presume all of you got one of these books and if you did i urge you to read it. if you read this you don't have to pay attention to what i am about to say. you will know what this day is about. i want to thank some people who aren't here. i want to thank all late secretary of state warren christopher for though work he did at dayton. i am very grateful to dick holbrooke. he was a massive force. on my birthday in 1995 i walked off of the golf course in wyoming to learn that bob frazier and belgian crew had lost their lives in the search for peace in bosnia. i think sandy for being here today.ank sandy for being here today. they were on the dangerous road because live with the milosevic would not guarantee them safe air traffic into belgrade and so they had to take that road. wesley clark and i have been friends for 45 years. we met at georgetown in 1967. i have stopped through arkansas on his way to some new duty post and i watched

now big players like gannon and pepsi have their own greek yogurt.oods, a grocery chain parting ways next year. the company says there are so many brands of greek yogurts, it has to be selective with what it carries. whole foods is actually dropping chobani because it uses milk from cows whose feed comes from genetically engineered crops. 56 minutes past the hour. bloomberg television is on the markets. we hit the record highs in the dow after the fed finally taper to $10 billion in its monthly program. futures just a little bit lower. we sought jobs claims a few moments ago spiking a little bit for the past week. out -- we are on the markets again in 30 minutes. class coming up, red lobster. we will have more on that scoop next. bitcoin. is that an issue for national security? the first hearing on the virtual currency. our guest. you are watching "in the loop" lives on bloomberg television and streaming on your tablet, ipad, and bloomberg.com. ♪ . . >> 30 minutes to the opening bell. with betty the loop" liu. the countdown begins right now. >> welco

john gannon. [applause] >> thank you very much. i would also like to join in thanking some of the wonderful folks who helped us get here and supported us since we have got here. terry, director of the clinton library, joe, the directer of cia's information management and services, and david, who's been our right-has been hand supporter for several weeks on this coffers. also, rob simmons archive is here, the library has been so very helpful, and we very much appreciate it. honor for me to be back and be seated again with people like secretary albright, nfc prominent like sandy, nancy, and leon, and, of course, general wes clark, supreme allied commander of europe, but also very active in dispensable member of dick holburg's team before and after the negotiations, taking place at the end of 1995. my key message here this afternoon from the intelligence community and having watched the drama of the bos kneian conflict unfold over three years it was most intensive, is that the bulcan task force was a success, but only because it was i

gannon's interpretation of the aca would be, and why i they would drive a stake through the heart of the aca and every federal exchanges state. it's not just that it would keep maybe 80% of the people who are expected to enroll for insurance on exchanges from being able to afford the insurance. 80%. so it would really record that part of the program. but actually it would probably just cost the entire individual insurance market, even for people who could afford insurance, to implode because it would so screwe screw of the acl calculation. so it really would drive a stick to the heart of the law in the states, and to say that congress intended pun intended to do that, i don't, it's just pretty hard to argue. >> thank you. in november 1999, 28 bipartisan members of the house wrote the attorney general a letter and expressed concern that ins was pursuing removal in some cases quote when so many other more serious cases existed. how do you set priorities -- as the president can set priorities and enforcement when there's obviously not enough money to enforce each and every provision for

officials say sam gannon tried hiding weapons in car parts sent through a shipping company.ipment and he faces now five years in prison if convicted. >>> santa claus doesn't just travel by air. oh no, he travels by sea too. scuba santa taking some time off from his toy run to take a dip in the florida keys. >>> who is normal and who is nuts? it's a question we all ask ourselves every once in a while. we all do. i guess it's a question that dr. keith ablow answers every week. he joins us now from boston. merry christmas to you, doctors. >> merry christmas. santa knows if you're normal or nuts. and i do too. >> naughty or nice? normal or nuts? our first viewer says every year my wife spends 15 hours setting unand decorating the christmas tree. it always look sensational. however each time she enters the den she has to rearrange ornaments on the tree. is she normal or is she nuts, doctor? >> the key here is the word sensational. normal. this woman is an artist. the christmas tree is her canvas. and i hope that she's toiling even now preparing for the kids to get up or for famil