j. edgar hoover decided that the way to determine whether it was true -- j. edgar hoover has its own complicated sexual history -- but for each of them to interview these young california guys, blond haired california guys and ask them about their sexual preference -- i nearly fell over in my chair. all you can hear is the stammer -- i'm trying not to express my surprise at this story, which frankly i had never heard before and i have not seen anywhere else. so there it is. >> he was in his 20's then -- he was assistant to the president and went to prison. what is he like today? >> what a story. mr. chapin, who added that no before, was unlike -- i did not know before, was unlike charles colson. he was charming, and i think candid. he came to the interview which we did in new york -- ready to talk. and to preserve his story. some will say that he was just going to defend himself at the expense of the president, but he had remained close with the president. president nixon interacted with him after the president left the white house. he felt he needed to tell s

j. edgar hoover. he asks all of the questions -- and the transcript of this was provided to jack anderson. that is how it was stopped. >> and hoover was planning to give this to anderson? >> no. anderson was going to go with the story -- jack anderson, the columnist. you're familiar with him? he was the one who is going to put the photographer down there and -- i have always thought, if i ever see brit hume i will ask him, because he was working for anderson at the time. so anderson is getting ready to go for the story. anderson calls cline. cline calls and tells mitchell. mitchell goes and sees nixon, meanwhile, tells haldeman, i want to meet with all of you as a group. the president says, i want you to get to the bottom of this, john. john comes up with the idea of how to get to the bottom, brings j. edgar hoover over and has us deposed. has this to pose with the cabinet with j. edgar hoover during the questions. what these relationships were. >> i should mention this before -- what happens is jack a

j. edgar hoover. >> i am a great j. edgar hoover fan.he fbi going through the archives. i had in my possession 100,000 pages of fbi files. the freedom of information -- fbi agents in the room -- elizabeth bentley when she went to the fbi, this is where she went to the fbi, right here. she was the other major witness against all these suspects. hoover was the stalwart patriot, no question about it. he was meticulous in recordkeeping. anybody see the movie that came out, a marvel of casting, leonardo da capriole as j. edgar hoover. whoever came up with that i would have preferred brad pitt for that role. it is a pastiche of falsehoods but most of what we're given as alleged history present company excepted is that. i am reminded what mary mccarthy said. every word she writes is a lie including and and the. that is my jaundiced view of what is out there about hoover. he has been smeared for the same reasons whittaker chambers was smeared. finally hoover himself was very skeptical of chambers. these fbi guys didn't just accept anybody tellin

j. edgar hoover. >> i am a great j. edgar hoover fan.i spent untold hours at the fbi, going through the archives there. i have in my possession over 100,000 pages of fbi files, which i got legally through freedom of information. [laughter] fbi agents in the room -- elizabeth bailey when she went to the fbi, this is where she went to the fbi, right here. she was the other major witness against all these suspects. hoover was a stalwart patriot. no question about it. he was meticulous in record-keeping. database even movie that came out, marvel casting of leonardo dicaprio as j. edgar hoover. who came up with that? i would have preferred brad pitt frankly for that role, but -- [laughter] but in any event, the movie has lots of falsehoods. but most what we're given as alleged history, i'll present company excepted, is that. i am reminded of what mary mccarthy said about william holmes. every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. [laughter] and that's my view, of what is out there about who. i think he -- for the same reasons chamb

j. edgar hoover, get all those files showing what commie king is and his immoral life, and i want you to take them to carl roun, a black newspaper columnist, a former member of the administration, and five days later, the onslaught started with a rowan column, and they were in a war from then on. >> question here. yes, sir. get a microphone over there. >> i want to congratulate you on the book. when i look at how you have covered the passage of the '65 vote rights act, and you talk about the -- you identify congressmen mccollum of ohio who was involved in the '64 act, the '65 act, and was the key man who, when we brought the congressional challenge, was able to face both sides. we have chase, we can strike the voting rights act or we can unseat the congressional delegation, and it was he took the mother applied on mid mist d. mississippi and turned it into section 5 of the voting rights act, without that a lot of people wouldn't have been elected. i think you have done a tremendous piece of work and i'm very proud how you handled the mississippi democratic party. i could not have done a

j. edgar hoover is -- and his f.b.i. campaigns to drestroy king, politically at least, was far more vicious, far more relentless and cruel that public officials in the united states would do. how did i learn that or how did i come to that conclusion? after a two- three-year battle with the f.b.i. and with my friends in the l.b.j. library, part of the national archives, i was finally able to put together a mosaic of hundreds of f.b.i. memos that went to the president. i saw how the president reacted to them and didn't react to them. and even though great reporters have covered this story well starting in 1975 with the church hearings, i was appalled about that. i don't want to be a total alarmist when i see what the f.b.i. has been empowered to do again in investigating citizens, i have great pause. >> and how did you change your mind? did you change your mind on anything? >> i changed my mind on the -- on really, the central idea of the book. when i started out a lot of very well meaning, bright, dedicated white house ai

j. edgar hoover building on pennsylvania avenue with another property.ver takes the hoover building would have prime retail office or residential opportunities. >>> yesterday's announcement that more than a dozen d.c. schools will close met some strong opposition last night. with bull horns, signs and chants, a big group protested outside the home of chancellor kyiah henderson. she announced the closure of 15 schools next fall. that's five fewer than originally planned. but 15 too many say parents and children affected chtd henderson said closing the buildings will save $20 million to put back into other programs. >>> the nationals and reliever drew storen reached a deal in a one-year contract. he'll be paid $2.5 million. storen was eligible for salary arbitration if the two sides couldn't come to an agreement. he missed more than half of last season because of an elbow injury. he finished the season as the nationals closer, but his role may change this season. the nats just signed former yankee closer, rafael soriano to a two-year deal. >>> the lockout

j. edgar hoover building with several satellite offices throughout the region.re virginia site will be located next to franconia- springfield metro station. >> the first of five budgets forms will be held today in montgomery county. the county executive will announce its budget. is asking for input from residents. my discussion will be at the mid-county community recreation center at 2004 queensguard . at 7:00 >> coming up, do you want to dress like nicki minaj? which local retailer has teamed up with the rapper for clothing line. >> and on "katie" there's a 20- year-old woman trapped inside the body of 01-year-old, along with a teenager who does not feel any >> welcome back. 4:52. we are excited about these temperatures. >> a phenomenal start, jacqui. >> start getting excited about the weekend, because of corn to be really good. we have had a quiet a few clouds over night. trying to clear things out a little especially towards the mason-dixon line. it will become variable over the next couple hours, but i do think we will get a fair amount of sunshine later on

j. edgar hoover bust a covert counterintelligence operation against the black panthers. organization he described as the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. may turn around and squash those. from his last intent the chapter founder alpinist bunch e-card and john huggins were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. black student meet while black panther found issue a new and bobby seale faced arrest and libby jail sentence. in a few short years many of america's most influential. black leaders and either been incarcerated. or sas. they ran him down and chased him down and out of the down a murdered everybody they could and made their body else either go to exile or to lock them up in a penitentiary and when all that was over with a new development rose the call the crips. you see. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and the black cop playgrounds of fremont high school emerged this new order led by south l.a. teenager raymond washington generally credited as the crips founding member. in response number of rival gangs formed an alliance calling themselves bloods m

j. edgar hoover building in d.c. is no longer suitable home says the fbi.o political leaders in virginia and maryland are making their pitches to get the bureau to locate on their home turf. one of the spots being proposed now the old gsa warehouse if springfield, virginia. -- in springfield. virginia. congress is going to decide on the site requirements and then the gsa along with the fbi will decide on where the new site will be. >>> 2013 oscar nominations are out and "lincoln" whoo talk about nominations. >> it's a great film as bigad shaban says though a series of oscar snubs has people talking today. >> reporter: february 24th could be a monumental night for "lincoln." >> shall we start this bleeding? >> reporter: steven spielberg's civil war epic received a dozen nominations including best picture. daniel day-lewis is among the front runners for best actors, sally field and tommy lee jones got supporting nods. the ship wreck adventure received a rack of nominations 11 in all. the drama silver linings playbook is up for eight top prizes including best

j. edgar hoover by question is for m. as a figure who has a great reputation against the battle of mccarthyism how to use the hoovers role? with your research with the relationship of other figures and where you come down? >> i am a great fan. going through the archives going over 400,000 pages that i got legally through the freedom of information act. [laughter] with fbi agents in the room? and also the of their major witness against all suspects. hoover was a stall war patriot. no question. and meticulous of record keeping. did anybody see the casting of leonardo da capriotes? who came up with that? i would have preferred brad pitt. [laughter] the movie has falsehoods' but most of what we're given negative present company reminded what mccarthy said every word she writes is a lie including a and and it's up. that is my jaundiced view. [laughter] i think hoover has been smeared the same reason chambers was speared. the fbi guys did not expect anything they spend a lot of time backtracking and basically to checking up on

j. edgar hoover building with the property in maryland or northern virginia. they say the hoover building could make for prime retail office and residential space right on pennsylvania avenue. right now, prince george's and fairfax counties are frontrunners to house the new headquarters. >>> lawmakers in maryland have come up with a compromise about who is responsible for injuries from dangerous dogs. a new bill would address the impact of last year's court ruling that pit bulls are inherently dangerous. that decision made pet owners and landlords liable for dog attacks. the new law clarifies responsibility and would apply to all breeds, not just pit bulls. and it puts the responsibility on the owner to know if a pet is likely to be a present danger. landlords would only be liable if they knew or should have known that a dangerous dog was being housed on their property. >>> 6:37 is your time. 37 degrees. on her birthday, the first lady debuts a new look. >>> plus, for one day only, why it will be a little less expensive to catch a cab. >> the point a virginia

j. edgar hoover building and counties in virginia and maryland are providing options. one of them is the federal gsa warehouse site near springfield mall. bipartisan group of northern virginia politicians is united in the quest to convince the fbi to come to the old dominion. >> if the decision is made on the merits, the merits being what's best for the country, what's best for the fbi. what's best for the fbi employees. i think it will be in virginia. >> congress will decide the site requirements then the gsa along with the fbi will make the final site decision. the process is expected to take several months. >>> the countdown couldn'ts, the presidential -- continues, the presidential inauguration is a month away. >> and one local company is pumping up in high gear. >> birthday time. let's see who's celebrating today -- >> happy birthday if it's your day too. ♪ >>> good morning, welcome back to 9news now. 5:45. we're talking about the weekend. some of the things that are happening, the b. e. t. honors are going to take place on saturday. they could. halle berry is goi

j. edgar hoover building with a property in northern virginia. they say it's prime retail space on pennsylvania avenue. prince george's and fairfax counties are frontrunners to house the new headquarters. >>> we're learning more this morning about the plan to build a new casino in prince yornl's county. the baltimore sun reporting the maryland commission in charge of awarding a casino license will call for proposals the end of the month. the proposals could be due in may and the commission could make a decision no later than the end of the year. mgm resorts will likely submit a proposal to build a casino near national harbor. penn national which owns road cross raceway has not decided whether it will go after the license. >>> let's take a live picture in north carolina. this is canton, north carolina, which is about two years west of charlotte. there's snow on president ground. snow-covered cars. so this storm came very close to hitting us. and we kind of missed out on the snow. i'm not disappointed. but i know there are snow lovers, including my

j. edgar hoover and hoover is telling robert kennedy that his brother had been hit and was probably killed. so on this plane johnson went into president kennedy's bedroom and made a call to robert kennedy and asks him for the details of being sworn in and the exact wording of the oath he should take as president. now you say is johnson taking revenge for all the accumulation that robert kennedy inflicted on him when he was vice president? or was there some other motive? we don't know. i certainly don't know but robert kennedy at his and his deputy, nicholas katzenbach to this pool. he spoke to him and katzenbach says anyone of 100 officials could have given johnson that information. i could have given him the information. he should have made that call. i asked marie famer who was on an extension taking down the words of the oath and she says what rather voices like? she said katzenbach's voice was like steel. robert kennedy's was when he started but then it wasn't. and then stopped and said to me he shouldn't have been talking on that call. not that lyndon johnson ever won it all against r

j. edgar hoover was trying to get him to get rid of. dr. king committed himself to birmingham. it was segregated by race and stratified by gender and condition of life and in every other way you might want to think. there were few female students at the university of north carolina. they had to be nursing students. there were none at yale and westceton let alone las point. in that same month 50 years ago, george wallace took office in alabama with an address pledging segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever, looking at a world that was segregated by race down into the state constitution's ban had defined partisan politics in the united states such that the democratic party was the party of segregation throughout the seven states. not one single member -- no republicans. i grew up in atlanta. republicans were as scarce as polar bears. everybody else was a democrat. the democrats had ended reconstruction and were the party of solidarity. since then, this movement transformed politics, transformed our world in ways that we suppressed because we have a terrible

j. edgar hoover was trying to get him to get rid of. dr. king committed himself to birmingham.ated by race and stratified by gender and condition of life and in every other way you might want to think. there were few female students at the university of north carolina. they had to be nursing students. there were none at yale and princeton let alone west point. in that same month 50 years ago, george wallace took office in alabama with an address pledging segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever, looking at a world that was segregated by race down into the state constitution's ban had defined partisan politics in the united states such that the democratic party was the party of segregation throughout the seven states.-- southern states. not one single member -- no republicans. i grew up in atlanta. republicans were as scarce as polar bears. everybody else was a democrat. the democrats had ended reconstruction and were the party of solidarity. since then, this movement transformed politics, transformed our world in ways that we suppressed because we have a ter

j. edgar hoover. she was very -- very specific. that was -- maybe it was foreshadowing.hat one question. >> she devised the whole ruse around that. >> stephanie: she had no clue. i didn't have any clue. i was dating a football player at usc. i had no clue. see how things have changed. it is a love story on how things have changed. i didn't know it was a smoke screen. >> oh, come on. >> stephanie: he was the one who went left, remember? it was like a designing rod for my political leanings. i voted for reagan. but obviously it bent left. listen, ladies and gentlemen my point is how things have changed. did you see this story? >> it went around facebook a few days ago. >> stephanie: i was sick! >> and you're not on facebook. >> stephanie: i can be late. >> you miss so much. >> stephanie: i saw the kitty with the eyebrows. sam has eyebrows. he looks so surprised. >> you miss so much not being on facebook. >> stephanie: i don't know what a meme is. >> you don't know about condescending wonka. >> stephanie: can we break early? girl comes out to parents with help from a cake.