i believe that hubert was on point. too much focus on the media - a lot of chatter is revolving around the equipment that is issued to the inteffeduals, i agree -- individuals, and i agree with the other expert that they receive training to use the equipment. the real question and fear as far as it affects the american way of lie is is that right. should we live in that type of country where police are equipped, trained and acting like soldiers. just the phrase show of force - that is a military term. the war on drugs, the war on terrorism. we are slowly changing the men in blue from peace officers into, you know, a very - combat operations. that is something we should talk about. that is scary. we don't want cops to be soldiers. because let's remember, a soldier's mission is to engage the enemy in close combat and destroy them. a police officers mission is to protect and serve. i think that is the real question that should be on the forefront of every american's mind, what is happening to the men in blue in this countr

hubert humphrey was vice president. and now he's running for president.rey has doubts about vietnam but has been a good soldier. he's stood by johnson. >> your president made a supreme political sacrifice to promote this cause of peace. he was one of the casualties of this war. >> i don't think there was ever an overwhelming enthusiasm for hubert. the drama of mccarthy and kennedy has captured everyone's attention. >> is the key vietnam? >> yes, in a large way. in a large measure. not totally, but there's a certain degree of general protest amongst youth which i think is, on balance, a healthy thing. [ radio communication ] >> there was a lot of frustration on the part of students that the war was not drawing to a close, despite our demonstrations. so students began to become more militant. >> columbia university, students barricade themselves into university buildings. their leader is a 20-year-old ex-boy scout, mark rudd. >> i would say that we now have more support than any group about any political issue has ever held at any time. >> columbia became t

a very close race between nixon and vice president hubert humphrey.ss than a week before election day, lyndon johnson ordered a halt to the bombing of north vietnam. the public knew that in return for that, he would get the peace talks to begin involving the north vietnamese and the south vietnamese would be permitted to take part in those. the public did not know he had these two military conditions as well, which were that the north vietnamese had to respect the demilitarized zone dividing vietnam and refrain from shelling civilian populations in south vietnam. the chennault affair was the nixon campaign's attempt, a successful one, to make sure that those peace talks didn't start before election day. nixon feared, correctly, the beginning of peace talks would help hubert humphrey and possibly ruin nixon's last chance at the presidency. so through a republican fund-raiser named anna chennault, the nixon campaign transmitted messages to saigon saying, hold on, we're going to win. we'll do better by you once we're elected. lyndon johnson found out abo

so much so that vice president hubert humphrey who is in new york at the time the riots broke out was told by the secret service, we can't take you back to office on the senate side of the u.s. capitol, and we can't take you back to your office in the executive office building adjacent to the white house, because the rioters are so close to the capital and they are so close to the white house that we can't assure the safety of the vice president of the united states. that is april. in june of 1968, the assassination of senator kennedy on the night of his greatest victory in the california primary. the story about that is that kennedy had not appeared on national television to celebrate , decidedn the primary to do something different from what he usually did third usually, when kennedy would make the kind of appearance, he would --t the hall to the craft through the craft. people had begun clearing a path through the crowd. he decided that night that he was going to go talk to the assembled press. the quickest way to get there was to go through the kitchen where they're awaited a youn

. >> the man who president nixon defeated for the presidency in 1968, hubert humphrey, and burdened with the vietnam war as his principle difficulty, getting to the presidency himself of president nixon defeated him by 7/10 of one% in a very close race. hubert humphrey was interviewed in minneapolis by wcco tv. >> wishing to keep it out of partisan politics and says resignation is the right choice for nixon and the nation. >> i believe the nation needs relief from the tremendous tension under which it has been under which it's been for the last year, year and a half. there's a need of getting our country back together again, getting on with the business of government, tremendous problems facing us. the nation needs to be brought back together. we've simply got to get ourselves and restore our sense of confidence and trust in government. how do you feel history will judge the nixon presidency? >> in the field of foreign affairs judged well. in the field of domestic affairs, poorly. in the matter of the conduct of the office, particularly in these recent months, i think it will be judged h

. >> the man whom president nixon defeated for the presidency in 1968, hubert humphrey of minnesota, vice president under lyndon johnson, urgent with the -- and burdened with the vietnam war as his principal difficulty, presumably in getting to the presidency himself -- president nixon defeated him by 0.7% in a very close race. former vice president hubert humphrey was interviewed earlier today in minneapolis by rod challenger of wcco-tv. >> calling for the president's resignation, wishing to keep it out of partisan politics. but he says now that resignation was the right choice, both for nixon and the nation. >> i believe the nation needs relief from this tremendous tension under which it has been for the last year, year and a half. there is a need of getting our country back together again, getting on with the business of government, the tremendous problems facing us. the nation needs to be brought back together. we have simply got to get ourselves -- to restore our sense of confidence and restore trust in government. >> how do you think history will judge the nixon presidency? >>

so much so that the vice president hubert humphrey which was in new york when the riots broke out was told by the secret service, with cannot take you back to your office on the senate side of the u.s. capitol and with cannot take you back to your office and the executive office building adjacent to the white house because the rioters are so close to the capital and the right -- rioters are so close we cannot ensure the safety of the vice president of the united states. that is april and june of 1968. the assassination of robert kennedy on the night of his greatest victory in the california primary. the story about that is kennedy having appeared on national television to celebrate victory in that primary decided to do something different from what he usually did. usually when kennedy would make that kind of appearance, he would exit the hall and has security people had begun clearing a path through the cloud -- crowd. he decided he would talk to the assembled press and the quickest way to get there was to not go through the crowd but through the kitchen where there awaited a young im

a close race between nixon and vice president hubert humphrey.than a week before election day, lyndon johnson ordered a halt to the bombing of the north vietnam. the public knew that in return for that, he would get the peace talks to begin involving the north vietnamese and the south vietnamese will be able to take part in those. he had two military conditions as well, which were that the north vietnamese had to respect the demilitarized zone dividing vietnam and refrain from shelling civilian populations in south vietnam. the chenault affair was the nixon campaign's attempt, a successful one, to make sure that those peace talks didn't start before election day. nixon feared the beginning of peace talks would help hubert humphrey and possibly ruin nixon's last chance at the presidency. so through a republican fund-raiser named anna chennault, the nixon campaign transmitted messages to saigon saying, hold on, we're going to win. we'll do better by you once we're elected. lyndon johnson found out about what chennault was up to for a variety of rea

hubert, let me start with you. you've been at this for a long time. when did you start to see things change? and how did they change? >> well, the police started to bring in heavy equipment from what i've seen 10 and 15 years ago. they purchased it at a military. the big issue for me, ray, is not just equipment that they have, but how that equipment is used, what kind of policies are established to determine how that equipment is used, and what levels of accountability exist to ensure adherence to policy. the police may need some of this equipment in a dealing with forist situations, other kinds of unusual events. certainly dealing with riots this kind of equipment is highly problematic. >> thank you matthew, whe >> matthew, does there have to be intentio intentionality of how we're going to use it, when we're going to use it, and how are we going to train people to use these things? >> yes, i agree with the gentleman that just spoke. policy is key here. when this equipment arrives, whether it be a ten-man police department, in tennessee or a metropol

years of negotiating with militiamen and klan elders, the government will have to reassure those hubertrms that it has the capacity to fully protect them now mohammed adow, month moing, somal i can't. >>> coming up on al jazeera, fire fighters in hawaii are dealing with a wildfire but wait until you hear who started t stay tuned. ♪ good afternoon to you. wedge back to al jazeera. live from new york, i am morgan radford. these are today's headlines. breaking news out of syria where american journalist theo curtis has been released by his captors. he was captured back in october of 2012. he was last seen in southern turkey where he had plans to enter syria to teach english. also, a massive rememberance held in honor of james foley, the american journalist beheaded in syria. british intelligence officials are now reportedly close to identifying the man who killed him, and california governor jerry brown declaring a state of emergency in napa where an early morning earth quake injured more than eighty people. a 6.0 magnitude quake and the epicenter was between napand canyon. overseas icelan

they will have to reassure those hubert arms that it has the capacity to fully protect them now.ohammed ado, al jazeera, mogadishu, somalia. >> al jazeera is demanding the release of its three journalists in egypt. they have been hemmed 239 days. they are accused of helping the outlawed miss lim brotherhood. two were given seven or years sentences. mohammed received an extra three years because he had a spent bullet in his possession which he picked up at a protest. next month, fiji holds an election, the first in the pacific island country since a coup until 2006. after almost eight years in charn, self appointed prime minister is hoping to win the vote. as and drew thomas records, flyers over how democratic the process will be. fiji's prime minister promised an open forum. he would take any questions, but not, it seemed, from opponents. briana had made campaign to sydney to campaign for votes of those living abroad. will it be a fair election? the fijians living in exile doubt it? >> i don't think it will be fair. as to free, that remains to be seen because of the intimidation

hubert harrison, historical amnesia. everybody knows about booker t. washington. god bless the negro. founded the black institution. old white money, old white elite money against the unions, precious immigrants coming in, deeply proud catholic. everyone knows pulchritude washington. what about cuba garrison in the legacy of thomas paine. we could go on. another powerful, magnificent voice. who knows about the great victoria garvin? we need to know more. historical amnesia again. we reached a point where the truth has to emerge. we're going to be so hungry for these voices because we will be need full of their insight and most importantly they're courageous example. they're courageous example. at that point you are either courageous or you go under. we are not at that point now. revolutionary times. i don't think we live in revolutionary times. i wish it were. thomas paine arrived at the moment with a revolution already in place. he just drop sen. i wish we could just drop in. [laughter] help black folks and white and red and yellow already organized, already anti

what about hubert harrison? we could go on. that is why another powerful combine a magnificent force. who knows about the great victorian garden? we need to know more. but when times reach a point where the truth pastor in merger going to be so hungry for these voices. we will be needing of their courageous example. because at that point you are either courageous or you go under. we are not at that point now. psst and don't think we live in revolutionary times. i wish it were. paine arrived in a moment with the revolution already in place. i wish we could just drop in. and we can just drop been on that and then write a pamphlet. we're going to get together tonight in iraq that pamphlet. these are counterrevolutionary times where there is revolutionary awareness escalating given the defeat, the relative defeat of the left in the last 35 for 40 years with the counterrevolution tramping in the name of capital. white supremacists, even when you have black figures who are the public faces. that is our moment, and one of the reasons

as is so often the case here, civilians are the ones hubert the brunt f.civilians killed, 35 in an attack in kabul bol. fruit bats and monkeys are suspected of carrying the virus. mohammed atmaa has this report. >> selling game meet for the past 30 years. she runs this restaurant outside of lagos. nigeria's commercial capitol. on the menu today is monkey and ant lope. she skillfully prepares the meat for customers who might not come? >> few come. only one person or two come and buy. before, everybody used to buy. >> bush meat, as it's called here, is once against suspected to have been the bridge that caused the deadly disease to go from the animal world to the human. it takes a single transmission from animal to human mainly caused by handling fresh carcasses to create the game meat. they say it is the food of their ancestors. they have been consuming it for as long as anyone can remember. even at times like this, when the authorities are discouraging its cogsumption due to the ebola outbreak, it can still be found available in almost every street corner.

hubert harrison, historical amnesia. everybody knows about booker t. washington. god bless the negro. founded the black institution. old white money, old white elite money against the unions, precious immigrants coming in, deeply proud catholic. everyone knows pulchritude washington. what about cuba garrison in the legacy of thomas paine. we could go on. another powerful, magnificent voice. who knows about the great victoria garvin? we need to know more. historical s when times reach a point where the truth has to emerge, we're going to be so hungry for these voices because we are going to be needful of their insight. most importantly. of their courageous example. because at that point you either courageous or you go under. we're not at that opinion now. that's why i think one of the reasons why the folk were reclub tenant when she said revolutionary times. i don't think we live in revolutionary times. i wish it were. paine arrived at a moment when the revolution was already in place. he just drops in. i wish we could just drop in. and have black folk and white an

, neighborhood torresdale avenue right at corner of cottman avenue behind me here would be saint hubert's high school, a plus, septa depot and again folks waking up stepping out front door to light volume in the neigighborhood. septa running with some delays though 15 minute delays inbound on the paoli thorndale regional rail line all due to amtrak signal and wire problems so keep that in mind stepping out the front door, with your transpass ready to go for septa stay there we golonghorn knows what happens when you cross state lines. things get interesting. introducing new steaks across america, like the new kansas city bbq sirloin for $12.99 or the texas 3 chili pepper ribeye, drizzled with onion straws. longhorn steakhouse. you can't fake steak. fans can relax, of the bin bag bang theory. >> i was concerned. all of the main characters are sign on through the show's tenth season. simon h elberg and temple university's kunal, signed huge raises. production of the shows eighth season was delayed a week but now will resume this morning. series is set to return on cbs monday september 22nd.

as is so often the case here, civilians are the ones hubert the brunt for civilians -- four civilians killed and 35 injured in an attack in kabul. >> dilling 44 people and new jerseying at least 11 others, a bus fell off a 10-meter high cliff after hitting two vehicles. the accident happened about 90 kilometers from tibet capitol. most of the passengers were from eastern regions of china. >> fighting in eastern ukraine city of donetsk has killed at least 4 persons. they say they want to present a humanitarian catastrophe. ukrainian forces say separatists are ready for a cease fire only if rebels surrender their arms. staying with ukraine and in the eastern city of slovyansk. police are investigating crimes wh when that may have been committed when it was under separatist rule. it's difficult for the police force that was chased out of the city. emma hayward that this report from there? >> they are being given their orders for the day ahead receiving mug shots of people that the police want to find. each day, the station receives almost 100 calls from resident did reporting crimes comm

saint hubert high school on the corner. in problems at all. we have septa depot in the background.al bridge watch for construction working in both directions trying to wrap that up here before we get in the holiday weekend and then we will find construction delays on county line road at gulf road during the midday right there outside of king of prussia we're in good shape in the 50's, blue route, schuylkill expressway, even i-95 in good shape. good morning to the lehigh valley no problems on i78, 22 or 33. bridges looking good. mass transit running with no reported delays. here's ukee now with sports. >> thanks, sir. >>> all 12 taney dragons will simultaneously toss out the first pitch at tonight's phillies game against the nationals. that should ab lot of fun. the last night against the nationals freddie galvis supplied the power in the fifth. his two run home run gave phillies the lead but by the eighth it was tied and cole hamels was in the dug out a little upset. kenny giles relieved coal and struck out three batters he faced. phillies get a run and a win. judge than than papel

ringing inconvenient facts to the table, either get pushed away from the table. , the most famous story hubertmphrey gets elected vice president in november, 19 64. sworn in in january 19865. 65. in february, writes a memo to the president about how our policy in vietnam is just wrong and we should not be doing what we're doing and we should figure out how it to get out. know a lot about that memo. it has been declassified. we have the memoirs of humphrey and johnson and humphreys staff people who drafted it. johnson cut them off. refuse to let him come to vietnam policy sessions. leakedys had not anything or dissented publicly. he had not tried to build an internal coalition against the president. he had written a critical dissenting memo that did not agree with what the president was doing. so the president decided, you are disloyal. the vice president. you are disloyal. you're not coming to the meetings. it was the year of of secrets obsequiousness. if that is how it is relieved -- received at the highest level, what happens to intercept analyst? oops. i guess the final lessons of gulf of t

hubert harrison, historical amnesia. everybody knows about booker t. washington. god bless the negro. founded the black institution. old white money, old white elite money against the unions, precious immigrants coming in, deeply proud catholic. everyone knows pulchritude washington. what about cuba garrison in the legacy of thomas paine. we could go on. another powerful, magnificent voice. who knows about the great victoria garvin? we need to know more. historical amnesia again. we reached a point where the truth has to emerge. we're going to be so hungry for these voices because we will be need full of their insight and most importantly they're courageous example. they're courageous example. at that point you are either courageous or you go under. we are not at that point now. revolutionary times. i don't think we live in revolutionary times. i wish it were. thomas paine arrived at the moment with a revolution already in place. he just drop sen. i wish we could just drop in. [laughter] help black folks and white and red and yellow already organized, already anti

a very close race between nixon and hubert humphrey. less than a week before election day, lyndon johnson ordered a halt to the bombing of north vietnam. the public knew that he would the peace talks to begin involving a north vietnamese and the south vietnamese would be committed to take part in those. the public did not know he had the military conditions as well. the vietnamese had to respect anddemilitarized zone refrain from shelling civilian populations in south vietnam. campaign's attempt to make sure the piece talks -- peace talks did not start before election. he believed they would help hubert humphrey and possibly ruin nixon's last chance at the presidency. through a public fundraiser, and -- anne shenault wasnational security intercepting messages. -- cia had a bug >> imagine that. >> a few years ago, people would say, a few gaps. put a johnson had the fbi phone on the south vietnamese embassy. ,hree days before the election calls up the ambassador of south vietnam. i have a message from my boss. hold on. we are going to win

in 1968, vice president hubert humphrey who disagreed with president johnson on the vietnam war had difficultyaking from the administration. he finally did at a speech in salt lake in october. by doing so, he neither placated the critics of johnson's war policy or kept the support of those who agreed with johnson. it's a difficult dance. >> do you know who is having a difficult dance with this whole ordeal the republican party. even though it's a mess under president obama and getting worse by the day and iran coming up and that's just going to be all of the republican party's foreign policy under bush the younger in iraq and afghanistan now in hindsight looks awful. >> no it doesn't. in hindsight it looks better. >> i'm talking about the regular folks. >> oh, no, no, no, i'm not talking. >> they see the iraq not worth it. every poll shows it? >> i disagree. i think they see it as in america's strategic interest to remove the taliban and saddam hussein. what they look back and say was why are we now tossing away the hard won gains of america's military by doing what we are doing. >> you think

. >> the man who president nixon defeated for the presidency in 1968, hubert humphrey, and burdened withthe vietnam war as his principle difficulty, getting to the presidency himself of president nixon defeated him by 7/10 of one% in a very close race. hubert humphrey was interviewed in minneapolis by wcco tv. >> wishing to keep it out of partisan politics and says resignation is the right choice for nixon and the nation. >> i believe the nation needs relief from the tremendous tension under which it has been under which it's been for the last year, year and a half. there's a need of getting our country back together again, getting on with the business of government, tremendous problems facing us. the nation needs to be brought back together. we've simply got to get ourselves and restore our sense of confidence and trust in government. how do you feel history will judge the nixon presidency? >> in the field of foreign affairs judged well. in the field of domestic affairs, poorly. in the matter of the conduct of the office, particularly in these recent months, i think it will be judged ha

it happened with hubert humphrey in 1968.kd by how bad president obama is being seen on foreign affairs and how badly his foreign policy is playing out. i think she has made the decision it ain't going to get better. it's only going to get worse. as a result she is starting to do it now. she is not going to placate the opponents and critics of the president wants foreign policy and at the same time she runs the risk of alienating some of his core supporters. >> i thought interesting article that came out of the "the washington post" this afternoon they said on august ath president bill clinton had a dinner at the house here in washington and invited was new secretary of hud castro hispanic cabinet member from san antonio. i thought that was an interesting invitation. >> well, yeah. is he desperate to be considered for vice president in 2016. he maybe mayor of san antonio. his brother is in the u.s. house. and he just has been sworn in as housing secretary. but he has already got higher aspirations. these are twin brothers, bo

he sees himself more like degaulle or churchill north hubert humphrey or george mcgovern so he thinkshas value, and instead it's just smashed his legacy. >> the irony was for a while he was degaulle and churchill and -- >> that -- and he knew foreign affairs very well. the n new scholars are showing he had a big influence on eisenhower's presidency on foreign affairs. he was a student after the world. his great legacy, the china breakthrough, russia, and abms get remembered so he was also -- i wouldn't call him a person of the right or the left. he was sort of a diabolical pragmatist and would do whatever it took. >> i like that. doug brinkley, the nixon tapes. so maybe wonderful books and so men historical figures. thank you. best of luck. >> thank you, neil, as always. >> would you pay an extra 35-cents to pay for a hike in the minimum wage? one restaurant is doing just that, and starting a bit of a food fight. >> are we so glued to our gadgets we're risking bodily harm? this lady is not well. get reait's crabfest atk, dip. red lobster! the years largest variety of crab. like new cr

a close race between nixon and vice president hubert humphrey. less than a week before election day, lyndon johnson ordered a halt to the bombing of the north vietnam. the public knew that in return for that, he would get the peace talks to begin involving the north vietnamese and the south vietnamese will be able to take part in those. he had two military conditions as well, which were that the north vietnamese had to respect the demilitarized zone dividing vietnam and refrain from shelling civilian populations in south vietnam. the chenault affair was the nixon campaign's attempt, a successful one, to make sure that those peace talks didn't start before election day. nixon feared the beginning of peace talks would help hubert humphrey and possibly ruin nixon's last chance at the presidency. so through a republican fund-raiser named anna chennault, the nixon campaign transmitted messages to saigon saying, hold on, we're going to win. we'll do better by you once we're elected. lyndon johnson found out about what chennault was up to for a variety

because it's hard to remember but back in 1968 hubert humphrey after announcing a bombing halt was beginning to gain some altitude as a candidate. >> the race got very, very close. and i have to admit in the book and to you, there's no smoking gun proving that nixon was behind chenault, but there's a lot of very suggestive evidence. we know for a fact that nixon set up an ultrasecret meeting between himself, chennault because one of his speech writers kept a memo of that. nixon said he wanted to keep it a secret from the secret service agents, the guys there to protect his life. chennault said this was the meeting that nixon said you are the sole representative between my campaign and the south vietnamese government for the duration of the campaign which puts the fbi report wherein chennault saying i just heard from my boss, hold on, we're going to win, into a very damning light. >> how do you connect this to watergate and the plulers unit? >> the month nixon took office he ordered his aides to get their hands on every document related to the bombing halt. and one of the things the aide that

kennedy and hubert humphrey is a classic.show you something now something truly unique, a look at jack kennedy in the oval office in the midst of a crisis. the june 1963 sbe fwrags sb int. you see, kennedy, the president, resisting, but his brother, robert kennedy, the attorney general pushing hard for that speech. what i like here is for the only time i can recall, we catch a glimpse of jack kennedy caught somewhat off guard. >> i don't think so. it really depends whether we have something on the university. otherwise i didn't think we would at this point. >> i think it would be helpful. i think if there's a reason to do it, i think you don't talk about the legislation and talk about employment and talk about education. do it for 15 minutes i think would alleviate a lo t of problems. >> i don't think we wan to do the on out. >> i think we take away a lot of the problems we're having at the present time. >> here's another close-up look at history. justice department official preparing the two students, vivian malone, and jame

it is true, in 1968, he was very worried about hubert humphrey becoming president, and five days before the election, johnson started doing a bombing halt in vietnam, and there's some evidence that nixon wanted to not have the south vietnamese come to make any deal, all with, you know, with lyndon johnson, because vietnam was the albatross around humphrey's neck. he was vice president. and in 1972, you know, it's definitely, you see nixon hammering george mcgovern, and, you know, being for amnesty and abortion and that's what he represented and ran a touch-end derby campaign in 1972. but i will tell you, there have been tough and drty campaigns throughout american history. nixon maybe did take things to a paranoid level unseen before, where he wanted to break in, or his henchmen broke into the watergate and the whole dirty trick squad. and it is true that after nixon, people started feeling a cynicism about politics more than ever before, and nixon contributed to that, largely. host: it was june 17, 1972, five burglars arrested at the democratic national headquarters in the watergate co

listen my show you often play that nine hundred forty eight clip of ronald reagan campaigning for hubert humphrey and it has a made up story and it was so he wasn't just making up stories on behalf of the right. half of the left yeah don't worry year old guy you know going to your job because the guys there went back to work and was eating up his paycheck and inflation was all caused by greedy companies like general motors and that was that a scream is that al l. frank smith story that was made out to make smith that's made up and i mean i don't i can't tell you one hundred percent but he specifically said he got it from an associated press story and through google historical newspapers you can look at like hundreds of newspapers that carry a.p. dispatches and yet to find anything that was. that story amazing amazing so was it was america gullible and he was a really good salesman or was i mean shirtless gullible they elected harry truman because ronald reagan told them to. you could say americans you know what i'm one of my one of my chapters and it's actually more about jimmy carter th