j. edgar hoover wearing a dress and being a transvestite. that story was manufactured just to tarnished j. edgar hoover by one of his enemies and has been around ever since but the problem with that story is it really distracted from the true scandal of j. edgar hoover which is that he used sex files on every congressman and senator and supreme court justice to control the federal government for 47 years he served as fbi director. this undermined the constitution using sex. that is the true scandal that we have not come to terms with. >> host: with two days of the los angeles -- we are here with larry flynt and david eisenbach and their book "1 nation under sex". next, you are on the air. >> caller: calling from the other end of america. mr. flynt legal i was executive producer of that you appeared in as you may know. the rentals affair which is one of the early american sex scandals with alexander hamilton. >> absolutely. right along with the jefferson -- those two were the first two scandals in the beginning where the founding fathers. >> h

j. edgar hoover's boyfriend. >> yeah, yeah. about. >> jimmy: are they still protecting hoover, to this day? >> oh, yeah. if you ask any, like, current, you know, agent of the fbi, you know, what -- the director is an honorable man. he is the most perfectly structured -- like, they still fear that guy like he will come out of the grave. >> jimmy: maybe he will come out. he used to go through your great grandfather's trash? >> there was definitely -- i remember stories as a kid of, like like, they went through the trash or they listened on the phone and that kind of thing and i remember thinking, all right, you guys might be fool of yourselves. but then i read the script and i was like, holy crap, maybe this did happen. >> jimmy: what great revenge you got ongaredgar, playing his boyfriend. we have a clip here from the movie. you need to set this up? >> this isn't me planting one on him? >> jimmy: no. this is leonardo dicaprio playing j. edgar hoover. >> and armie hammer, the two of them doing a scene after a senate hearing. >> ji

j. edgar hoover. over the donovan's organization was the biggest collection of amateurs he had ever seen. and actually in the beginning it was a big collection of amateurs. hoover had his fbi spy on donovan, collected a lot of information on them. they spied on oss officers. he had moles in donovan's organization to donovan spied on hoover. had moles in hoover's organization. when i was. when i was doing the research i got winded have time to spy? the pentagon at first wanted no part of donovan's office of strategic services. george marshall thought that this was a plot by donovan to take over army and navy intelligence. which by the way is exactly what donovan had in mind if franklin roosevelt would have let him do it. so marshall eventually comes to accept donovan's oss, but a senior intelligence officers never did. and, in fact, they fought donovan's organization throughout the war. at one point toward the middle of the war, his military intelligence folks even formed their own secret espionage unit

j. edgar hoover building in downtown washington. the new headquarters would cost $1.2 billion and would not be completed until 2020. ben cardin says if the new headquarters lands in maryland it would create 12,000 jobs. >> many americans will receive a horrible gift this year. there is a 20% chance dual hate of youru will hate holiday gifts. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. what's the worst gift you ever received, and what happened to it? you can share your response at wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. i have an aunt that took some and from my house -- liked it button holder fixer. two years later, it showed up as my brothers christmas gift. laughed so hard. are you kidding me? 26 degrees on tv hill. diabetic patients been no need to work as much as previously thought. >> planning on kicking the habit of smoking? >> >> welcome back to 11 news today. 5:40. 32 degrees downtown. in the 20's as you head into the suburbs. make sure the kids are bundled up. they wil

j. edgar hoover building because of problems with the facility. the fbi estimates a new headquarters would cost more than $1 billion and would not be completed until 2020, but site selection to begin next year. governor o'malley has signed an executive order outlining the first plant for sustainable growth. the o'malley's administration says the purpose of the plan maryland is to work with local government to identify areas for pitcher state investment, growth, and preservation. and has been developed over four years after meetings statewide. the governor noted that the first required preservation was in 1959, but they said the plan should have gone through the general assembly. tonight, johns hopkins has named a new leader for their hospital and medical school. in an announcement a few hours ago, paul rothman will oversee all hospitals, surgery centers, and other facilities. he is currently dean of the carver college university of medicine in iowa. the column a visionary leader and he understands the challenges facing academic medicine today. >>

j. edgar hoover building but they're looking to move because of a number of problems. the estimate that a new headquarters would cost $1.20 billion and would not be completed until 2020. senator cardin says things could proceed as soon as the funding is approved and there are several locations in maryland that would fit the qualifications. >> tonight, 40,000 pounds of ground beef being recalled in 16 states. a voluntary recall by tyson birds come a sample of the 80/20 beefed tested positive for e coli. no positive cases of human illness come in there should not be as long as it is handled properly. it does not look like although any of it was distributed here in maryland. it may feel like a bladder infection but it is not it is it painful bladder syndrome that affects women, much more often than men. what is it and how you know you have that? that is in tonight's baum"woma's doctor." question is something was wrong when she felt like she had to urinate. >> i had to go about vermont, but when i did, nothing was happening. >> although it sounds like a batter in the elect

j. edgar hoover building in washington for the past 37 years.looking for an updated building to carry out its counterterrorism and cyber crime divisi divisions. the estimated cost is $1.2 billion and be completed in 2020. >>> today the national zoo will announce a major gift to fund the giant panda program for 20 more years. fi ldavid rubenstein agreed to pay $2.5 million to keep the pandas here. the agreement with china stipulated one or both pandas could be traded for others if they could not breed. >>> tebow-mania is sweeping the nation, and two high school students are paying the price. they were accused of tebow-ing, which is imitating the quarterback's pose kneeling and praying. they organized several kneel-downs. it created a potential safety hazard. tebow commented on the incident and said, while it is funny, it's important to respect authority. >>> you might expect runaway cattle in texas, but not a runaway golf cart. this was the scene at cowboys stadium right after a high school football game. you can see the electric cart didn't have

j. edgar hoover and use any communism and you'll see what i'm talking about i want to bring up this is a i guess you could say kind of random to throw into the mix here but when we talk about our government attempting to combat terrorism and maybe in certain ways how they fail at it so poorly i have to bring up this example of so al-shabaab or now they have a new name too from somalia they have a twitter account as do the taliban as does al qaeda and so apparently now the government is trying to take that twitter account down and they call it twitter terrorism and it just seems childish and stupid to me is that that's going to solve anything the social media media may be part of the next move in for infiltrating even us in addition to the terrorists that they pointedly want to go after we're looking at some of this right now with regard to cyber security and some of the things that government is doing to read your e-mail my e-mail to capture it and keep it and you know whom we mail to and who e-mails to us and so forth right now that's fully within the capacity of the government not just

j. edgar hoover signed a bill making deputy chief of the fbi. also on march 6th, j. hat made me chief of the fbi. >> this inmate, who due to his mental condition cannot be identified, has not left his cell for seven months. >> a lot of the writing on the door is human feces and he also has combined a little mustard on it for coloring. so that's what he's writing with on the actual door. a lot of the stuff inside he is able to get a led tip or whatever. he's been here for a long time so he continually works on it. >> next, "lockup" takes you inside tower number two where female felons, prostitutes, and drug abusers are housed. [ child 2 ] i call first player. no. i already called it. [ dad ] nobody's playing anything until after we get our homework done. thank you. hello? test drive's not over yet. [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. [ louder ] hello? but we still need your signature. right now during sign then drive, it's never been easier to get the all-new passat, the 2012 motor trend car of the year, for practically just your signature. that's the power of g

j. edgar hoover if you know or have interesting to say on that point. >> i will say one thing, bill was never so energized as when going after large authority. one of his great battles, he being a loyal son of rome, was to attack popes. he just loved to get into a scrape with the vatican. when he went after the john birch society in history it looked like he was cleansing the movement of this irritant. at the time john birch society was a major player. they had strings on advertising contacts for the magazine. they had strings on distributer deals for the magazine. they contributed, their members actually wrote checks beyond the subscription fee. but bill, while he was fearless, he was also a lover of danger. you got a story time sneer >> what's the story about when he flew the plane in the dark? >> oh, he flew, as far as i'm aware, piloted -- >> the conservative movement, ended on bill somehow making -- >> i think he was still here at yale. >> he was still here and he didn't intend to fly it in the dark. >> right. >> he was surprised that nightfall came. there he was aloft. >> and howe

j. edgar hoover building in downtown washington for the past 37 years.he agency is looking for an updated building to carry out its expanded counterterrorism and cyber crime missions. the fbi estimates the new headquarters would cost $1.2 billion and will be completed in 2020. >>> today d.c. residents can hear firsthand about the city's snow removal plans for this winter. the department of public works director william holland will testify in a public round table meeting at the city council chamber. last winter was a tough one for d.c. the city got 30 inches of snow in just a few days. public works officials were criticized for not removing the snow quickly enough. the meeting is expected to begin at 11:00 in the morning. >>> the >>> our time right now is 5:41 as we take a live look, a lovely look at the skyline out there in the nation's capital. beautiful day. let's go to tom for a look at our forecast >> looks pleasant, but it's not. it's a very clear morning. heading off to work and school on this monday morning, the 19th of december. right now much o

j. edgar hoover g-men who carried the guns and made cases and arrests. the man who would eventually lead the criminal division, tom pickard, aggressively competed with o'neill for the attention of the director, louis freeh. as a former street agent himself, freeh identified with the criminal division, and tom pickard was a longtime friend. to reinvigorate the counterterrorism effort, o'neill would try to muscle his way through the bureaucracy that surrounded louis freeh. but in that struggle, o'neill's personal style got in the way. they said he was too intense, pushed too hard, had what they called "sharp elbows." >> we often talked and joked about the fact that we weren't really in the club and we really didn't care, and that was something that john and i had shared on occasion. and there is a difference between those people who spend time in an organization and are happy to make it to the top and have never rolled over a stone or created a problem or solved a problem, you know, just to carefully run through and be there and be promoted. john was not l

j. edgar hoover and whether or not he was monitored? >> not really. not in the sense that subversives were. governor wallace constantly praised mr. hoover and relied upon him, particularly for information about the so-called links between civil rights activists and communists. hoover was always leery of wallace, in part because i do not think he could control him. as a result, hoover always told his men to keep hands-off. as a result, there was a distant relationship between the two of them. >> dan carter is the author of this book. look at the picture on the cover of the book. that is from the inaugural address of 1963. the state capital, two miles from where we are right now. randall in stockton, calif., how're you doing? >> as the son of a civil rights leader who came across in 1963, i want to know why he would not let the rest of his counterparts cross the bridge? and when they did, there was national outrage. the bottom line is, was governor wallace in cahoots with the congress to conspire for us not to come across the bridge? i want to know the a

j. edgar the clint eastwood film about fbi director hoover. leonardo dicaprio made a huge transformation for that. harvey weinstein produced this. it's supposed to be amazing. also getting buzz, the descendants. that was in hawaii. it was a family drama starring george clooney. so we'll see who the big winners are and we'll update you through the morning. >> did you see the dicaprio story? >> i didn't watch a lot of movies this year. hours are tough. we'll have more coming up. >>> now a little story about a dog. a small dog back home at monterey bay area after a long and very dangerous adventure. frosty was a runaway and his ordeal included a couple of other escapes and a report that he had been thrown out of a moving car. he save end edged car. he was found yesterday laying down in her front yard with grease marks on his back and covered with ticks. >> frosty is lucky. he obviously had some street smarts to be able to avoid cars and find safe places to sleep at night. >> doctors did have to surgely cloudy remove an infected right eye but he i