she died from cancer more than 50 years ago, but while she was being treated at john hopkins hospital, some cells were taken from her, and although they were taken and used without her consent, they have led to numerous break throughs in fighting cancer and polio. >> when the story was first told, it amazed people all over the world. and to amazingly beautiful portrait that really spells out her significance and to be able to have it permanently in city hall. >> her cells are continuing to live on and help with countless discoveries in 2011 morgan state university awarded lax posthumously awarded her with switched on during this evening. it's the first lighting upgrade at niagara falls in more than 20 years. it will provide twice the lighting levels and more robust color options, and it's nice to take a stroll there at night. it's a cool place. >> have you been there before? >> long time ago. >> you have to go. if you haven't, it's one of the cool things, and you're just in awe of what is happening, and nature, and just the power of the water. >> but about now, the air. >> it is occas

. >> cleveland clinic, mayo clinic , john hopkins, the three top people, the best in the world, and they were amazing and have some really good ideas, and we have to get it fixed. i have been saying we will take care of our vets, and we will take care of our vets. they were all in a room together with myself and some others, and we will make it great for the veterans. the veterans have been treated very, very unfairly. >> here here. >> i don't want to see veterans waiting in line for weeks. in many cases, they have a minor illness and it takes so long to see a doctor that it becomes a major illness, and i don't want to see that anymore, so we will see what happens. , theu look at my website doctors were expanding to me when you wait too long, it is life-threatening, and that is what is happening. people are dying. we are going to fix of properly. not like it has been done in the past. you said you wanted to dissolve your charity, but the new york ag office says you cannot do that. >> i have a foundation that has given millions of dollars to people over the years, and it has been well tho

internet and my father would stay awake dialing phone number after phone number, the mayo clinic or johns hopkins wouldn't take her, u.v.a. wouldn't take her and my dad doggedly pursued finding a place to treat my mother and she celebrated her 73rd birthday, ironically we lost my dad a few years back but that sort of determination and persistence and then when you decide something's right, that the right thing to do is , y, off z, then dam the torpedoes and full speed ahead in doing it. my first cousin ironically i think turned down baseball scholarships to go in the marine corps and people like like that had those opportunities and delayed the opportunities to serve something bigger than themselves, then when i sit in the military and looking around, again, with the women and men with whom i served, anybody who serves, you had brian mast on earlier, i agree really there's something in their lives bigger than them and worth sacrificing for and to be around men and women like that and then when you're having a bad day you think everything in perspective, it's not so bad, so those were things that

a john hopkins study looked at patients who took a large dose of magic mushrooms. the patients were less fearful of death and experienced a sense of optimism and overall better quality of life after taking the drug. even six months later, 80% say they felt less depression. still experts warn hallucinogenics should never be used outside a health care setting. >>> chocolate lovers, we've got a story for you. nestle says it's made a scientific break through. one to still let you eat your chocolate keeping your waistline intact. it has a way to change the structure of sugar using natural ingredients. nestle says it could reduce 40% without affecting the taste. the company will start using the new process across a range of products in 2018. sign me up to be the taste tester. that could be a worth while project. today is world aids day. denver is doing its part to keep fighting hiv and aids. >> hard to say when there will be a true cure. there's a lot of progress and exciting developments happening now. >> we talked to an expert about . >>> take a live look at a story ou

has had vizied been the ask investors and is current lay distinguished visiting fellow another johns hopkins university. but more to the point, and i think fortunately for all of us, he has put all of his experiences and ideas on paper in a book, and i don't know if you'res a ill schooled as i i'm on this futuristic stuff, we all know that robotics and genetics and cyber security and our ben and air were nb and isis are changing the way i live, work, communicate, govern and protect ourselves. what are the real ram fig indications -- ramifications of those industries in and is is part of the work at state but i know very important to him personally in the field, how do we harness these forces for political, social and civic good. these are the questions he poses in his well new book, "the industries over the future," and having watched alec in action i'm delighted all of his energy and creativity and innovative ideas will reach a public well beyond the seventh floor of the state department. i hope you read it's. it's an important book to understanding our world as it's unfolding now. we have

at 10:00 p.m., afterwards, john hopkins professor ellen silverdale looks at new farming methods and technologiesnd their impact on consumers and workers in her latest book -- how industrial meat production endangers workers and animals. she is interviewed by the former u.s. secretary of agriculture. people in america have not been on a farm. maybe they go to the county fair but they do not know what it is to be a farmer which it is not a romance. there is a romantic view of agriculture which i find exasperating because it makes it impossible to think about agriculture clearly. megyn kelly 11:00, talks about her life and career as a journalist in her book "settle for more." she spoke with caddy can. at 5:15 p.m., james rosen and christopher buckley, the son of the late william buckley discuss their book "a torch kept let." it examines essays on famous figures. the event was moderated by the executive editor of the national review. and at 6:15 p.m., benjamin looks at the relationship between the u.s. and saudi arabia in her book "kingdom of the unjust." notable tv.org for the complete weekend sche

sport and baseball has all sorts of weird stats, war, winds above replacement.re researchers at johns hopkins joh university have come up with awh new stat. performs when his team is way behind or way ahead in a game.e. early results from a study showed they maximized their performance even during meaningless games.me one of the top rivalries, president elect donald trumpelec will be in the stands for the annual army navy football game. it will take place at m and t stadium in baltimore starting at 3:00 p.m. the president elect will sit on navy's side for one h then switch to army's side.de. the game has attracted commanders in chiefs in the past. president obama attended in 2011. former president george w bushbh also attended while he was in office. the air force and marines are say hey, guys, what about us. >> you can't leave them out. > baseball winter meltings w going on over the at nationaltin harbor. > the nats tray turner is the future of the nats. he finished second in the rookie of the year despite playing lesp than a year. they told partners turner is off limits and they haven't wai

i teach at johns hopkins. i'm in international studies.ical school has hundreds and hundreds of very capable chinese researchers that are helping with medicine and medical discovery and so forth. you have to weigh these kinds of benefits. you i went to university couldn't go to china. at least when i was an .ndergraduate subsequently china has opened up and we can do lots more research. we understand much better how things are operating in china whether we like those things are we don't. you have to get out your ledger and reach your own conclusion anut what the net balance is different reasonable people would reach different conclusions. my own personal conclusion is we are in a much better world when we are getting along with 20% of the world's people than when we are not. the next caller is thomas on the republican line. go ahead. caller: good morning. my name is tom. i just want to say two things. the gentleman made a statement that americans don't have a choice. we have a choice to buy from china. we really don't. i'm a homeowner. i'm

. >>> johns hopkins the third and georgetown hoyas this afternoon took on xavier, hoyas trailing by just one. georgetown had no answer for the xavier back court though. georgetown falls 81-76. uva and florida state caught in a close game. wahoos led by eight in the second half early. but bacon was cooking. duane bacon, ties it at 51. he continued to sizzle. game-high 29 points for him. florida state takes the on eight seconds left. wahoos go to their guy. kyle guy. huge shot and the cavaliers take the lead back. and florida state, everybody loves bacon in tallahassee toornt. he nails the game winner. >>> it's been five years since --. blue devils play without gracen allen. hokeys spreading the floor. they jumped out to a 16 point lead at half. second half. kennard finishes with a game-high 34 points. but that couldn't stop the hokeys. virginia tech now 12-1 this year. semifinal, top seeded alabama taking on 4th seeded washington. alabama kams in with 10 defensive touchdowns this season. make it 11. it remains that way until the fourth quarter. the levee breaks. 68 beyond a reasonable dou

because of the lack of space, one patient with a serious the way to johns hopkins in boulevard for treatment. >> as -- in baltimore for treatment. >> i'd love to have more resources for my patients. we have an excellent relationship with if tertiary medical centers and it's rare we can't get a patient to them. jonathan: for those who have lowered immune system it can lead to pneumonia. maureen: the washington capitals spent their day visiting the children and spreading holiday cheer. jonathan: we were there when they brought smiles to the kids at med star university hospital. >> the washington capitals are spending time off the ice. to spread holiday cheer. signing autographs and playing games with the young kids inside the pediatric oncology clinic at the med star georgetown university >> we bring a smile. having a hard time right now. >> 4-year-old is now in remission. at 12 months old he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. today he is making the solar system out of play-do with his friend defenseman nate schmidt. >> it's nice to replace the bad memories with memories like this. we a

. >> i have three of the greatest in the world today, cleveland clinic, mayo clinic, johns hopkins, threethe best in the world. they were amazing and have some really good ideas. we have to get it fixed. >> no word from don king on his ideas for replacing obamacare. demonstrates aren't the only ones who are concerned about the repeal of obamacare. some trump voters are also worried about what the man they elected president will do to their health care. debbie mills who voted for trump in kentucky gets her health insurance through the affordable care act, and so does her husband. she told "the washington post" i don't know what we'll do if it does go away. i guess i thought that, you know, trump would not do this, that they would not do this, would not take the insurance away, knowing that it's affecting so many people's lives. i mean what are you to do, then, if you cannot purchase, cannot pay for the insurance? another voter in kentucky who worked in the coal mines for 35 years said that repeal could mean the end of a provision making it easier for miners with black lung disease to get d

a historian with ph.d from john hopkins university in military history and, you know, i said, don't be silly, i do history. [laughter] >> actually, you know, you know i was doing diplomatic and military history. >> okay, bye. and i would be done. >> 1984. it didn't happen that way. >> the original update was october 11th. eleanor roosevelt's biography until today. [laughter] >> really? >> i didn't know that. that's funny. the bottom line is over the years, joe died in 1998. she said i hate your book. of course, what she hated -- >> tell us a little bit about what you say in the book about hick that made hate it and other people agreed. >> i don't think she was a homophobic. she just hated how important it was to eleanor roosevelt. as i said in the book, it may not always be a cigar but it's a northeast and they don't know what happens. the doors are closed and shades are drawn. we know she sat before the fire at home in connecticut and just burned hundreds of letters that were too specific and we all lost of earl miller's correspondence which was a great loss. and i really think everyb

in the coming weeks on "after words," johns hopkins professor ellen silvergeld will report on industrial meat production. "wall street journal" news editor jo ann lungren. also dr. sylvia eterra will discuss new research on how our bodies react to fat. and this weekend jason brennan will weigh in on the flaws in democratic systems. >> guest: in that book he asks when presidents, when people in the public disagree about what policies to implement, say people in the tenth percentile of income, the 50 and the 90th, what do presidents do? with whom do they side? in general, presidents tend to side with people on the 9th per seen tile. george w. bush was actually much more likely to side with the tenth percentile of income than other presidents were. so when he writes this, he's a little bit horrified because he's a small d democrat, and he thinks the median voter should have a lot of influence. on the other hand, he notes that high income voters tend to be high information voters, and they tend to favor completely different sets of policies, so the high income voters tend and high informatio

and i was there, a military historian from johns hopkins in the inner-city. and you know, i said don't be silly. i do quality history. i actually, she would forgive me but i was doing diplomatic and military history so hey, she said you are wrong and he took me to hyde park and we went through papers and joe had been the good son. anything eleanor roosevelt wrote, anything she didn't want to do, she said i don't care about power. and he wrote that she didn't care about power. so then i knew, there's a little floor here. my eisenhower book was just out in 1981, i was looking for something else and i said okay, i'll do it for the centennial . and i'd be done. that wouldbe nice. 1984, that was my thought. it didn't happenthat way, right ? but . >> this year, the original update was october 11, for eleanor biography which turned out to be yom kippur. >> really quick didn't know that. but the bottom line is that joe died in 1988. he didn't read the book trudy was friends, she called me up and said i hate your book. and of course what she hated was the hick story !

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i spoke with former state department official that is now the dean of the john hopkins school of advanced studies. a few years ago aleppo was a beating commercial heart of syria. one of the most prosperous cities in the middle east. dan syria ever be rebuilt when you see scenes like that? did it the a country that is whole, unified, and lives together? a it is hard to imagine country that has unity under that current of saud regime, but the physical wreck construction -- physical reconstruction is a tall order. the gulf countries are not likely to give it the money. the international community has no commitment to the rebuilding of aleppo. it looks like stalingrad after world war ii, but there was a plan by the united states which funded the reconstruction and those cities were built back up stone by stone. that does not exist for syria. katty: do you think president of side is right, the end is getting nearer? >> it is more of a signal. with the defeat of the rebels and aleppo, northern syria for all purposes will be in his hands and the hands of the kurdish forces that have been somewha

johns hopkins team looked at 200 sam mes of those with arthritis and a bacteria what found, and although more research needs to be done it is possible the same germ could cause both gum disease and arthritis. the study is publiclied in the journal of science. >> ment of you love your dogs and cats, a woman in sacramento is share the get of giving this holiday season offering to pay for every adoption this month at the city of sacramento front street animal shelter which right now is very full. the fee is from $65 to $85 and there are 900 animals available. that is generous. more than 200 have been adopted sense she made this offer. the shelter posted this video on facebook and the video has now received more than 12 million views so far. what a nice lady. >> we are tracking breaking news in the east bay after a mess is left on interstate 680 on the scene with the big checkup job underway right new. >> flames gut a him in pleasanton and firefighters stepped in to keep the spirit of the holiday alive. all the 49ers lose. all the 49ers lose. john york >> the breaking news comes from danvill

let's speak to a professor from john hopkins. i suspect you have mixed feelings about this visit. the west virginia. prime minister shinzo abe will be visiting the ship that was right behind the ship that my uncle commanded, and he sadly was killed that day by a bomb fragment. that was on the west virginia. you say she was killed. he was of course mortally wounded, but decorated posthumously and given an honour for devotion to duty and extraordinary courage. “— devotion to duty and extraordinary courage. —— he was killed. tell us what happened. the west virginia, as you may know, was one of the first ships here that day by very aerial torpedoes. —— three. he was alerted torpedoes. —— three. he was alerted to the planes coming in and went immediately to the bridge. he was just about to leave for church. it was early sunday morning. he rushed to the bridge. the planes came in and he commanded the response. the west virginia shot down over 20 japanese planes. a bomb came into the tennessee, which was immediately next to the west virginia. bomb fragment spiralled out and hit him in th

syracuse and johns hopkins have degrees online for the same price as on campus though the internet optionsre more flexible and can also be less costly since students can work remotely after hours while keeping their job. still, 71% of academic leaders polled question the legitimacy of online learning and employers may not view internet credentials the same way as those earned on campus. khan academy is a small nonprofit with a big mission, to provide a free world class education for anywhere anywhere and it's a leader and pioneer in online education and sal khan is founder and executive director. he joins us now. sal, thanks for being here. >> great to be here. >> how did you start khan academy? >> well, it was a little bit happenstance. 12 years ago i started tutoring a cousin remotely. things started to work out. word gets around the family that free tutoring is going on and i soon find myself tutoring 10, 15 cousins every day when i get home from work. my day job, i was an analyst at a hedge fund and i started making software and videos for my cousin and putting them out there online an

study, and a second one at john hopkins, followed a total of 80 patients for six months after a single dose of yi anxiety and depression in 60% to 80% of the patients. >> i began to feel the most amazing love i have ever felt. i think my brain was rewired a little bit, and that love that i felt has done very well, very good things for me. >> reporter: there were no serious side effects. though encouraging, these results area definitely preliminary and for now, the drug remains band, except for f.d.a. is expected to consider within the next two months whether or not to approve a larger study. >> pelley: what an amazing result for dinah. jon, thanks very much. coming up next, the national christmas tree is lighted by the head of the executive branch. drastically. ? i tried hard to quit smoking. ? but when we brought our daughter home that was it. ? now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. can you say thanks nicoderm cq? every great why needs a great how. vi

andrew fine berg is a researcher with johns hopkins and one of the principle investigators of the twins. >> if you think about the area that the twin study was involved in, things like identifying what might be the epigenetic damage to the genome that might open the door with way toss mitigate that damage has practical applications for here on earth. >> by studying scott an mark, scientists will be able to identify any links between the environment and human health. there is another down side in addition to the potential long-term health effects for scott. because genetic information is part of this study, privacy could be an issue for the kelly twins and their families. before anything is published, they will have the option of withholding certain information. >> your study is going to become a well-known study. people are going to know it is you two. you are the only twins that have been in a study at that time. pry sa privacy, security of that information. how much are you worried about? >> i am not worried about it for me but i am worried more for my kids. they could see i'm suscep

then at 10 p.m., after words mac john hopkins professor looks at new farming methods and technology and their impact on consumers, the environment and workers in her latest book how industrial meat production and injures workers, animals and consumers. she's interviewed by danielshe l glickman former u.s. secretary of agriculture. >> guest: most people in america haven't been on a farm. they go to the county fair but that they don't know what it is to be a farmer. it's not a romance and so there is this kind of romantic view of agriculture which i think actually exasperating because it makes it impossible to think about agriculture clearly. sunday at 11 a.m. fox news anchor megan kelly talks about her life as a journalist in her book settled for more. she spoke with bbc news editor. .if i:15, james rosen and christopher buckley that som thf the late william buckley discuss their buck a torch kept late great lives of the 20th century which examines essays on famous figures written by christopher buckley's father. the event was moderated by executive editor of the national review. and 6:1

. >> reporter: the nyu study, and a second one at johns hopkins, followed a total of 80 patients dose of psilocybin. there was lasting reduction of anxiety and depression in 60% to 80% of the patients. >> i began to feel the most amazing love i have ever felt. i think my brain was rewired a little bit, and that love that i felt has done very well, very good things for me. >> reporter: there were no serious side effects. though encouraging, these results are definitely preliminary, and for now the drug remains banned except for research. and scott, dr. ross told me that the fda is expected to consider within the next two months whether or not to approve a larger study. >> what an amazing result for dinah. jon, thanks very much. >>> coming up next, the national christmas tree is lighted by the head of the executive branch. many people clean their dentures with toothpaste or plain water. in reality they're not. if a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture, and that bacteria multiplies very rapidly. that's why dentists recomm

. >> this weekend john hopkins ellen silverdale will report on industrial meat production. >> there's good things and bad things with everything the good things are certainly that we have a reliable accessible food supply and just as you said the cost of food in real dollars is significantly less. that is with animal -based protein particularly but also weed and milk. those are the good things. the bad things are that this is an industry that has not really, under the appropriate purview and that is because. >> the purview of hume? >> any regulatory or even until recently consumer attention. >> afterwards there's a book to be every saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sundays and appear mr. them. you can watch previous after his programs in our website, book to be.org. >> you're watching book tv on c-span to with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv, television for serious readers tonight a book tv in prime time we want to show you some programs from our afterwards series from this past year. first up senator mitch mcconnell talks about his life and politics with senator lama

. >> allow me to work for the secretary of state like word cat johns hopkins to advise the leaders around the world. i try not to forget the experience growing up in the community like guided that floundered rift globalization and i ask myself a question that said if the last 20 years were shaped in significant measure through the rise of the internet and large scale globalization what is next?f a the industry is the future is those who have done research about what is next. is a net optimistic book los to write about the future tends to be utopian the day, are written from the position. think the book is a littlet different that i consider myself a realistic idealist's that our lives tried to indescribable the world to come in realistic terms it is possible. so some of the with machine larry and robotics and i do believe that is the reality but the combination the of the mathematical break through which both had very complex items for robots and that may seem straightforward but that is difficult mathematically but the breakthroughs combined with cloud robotics 58 dia they do not have to

. >> absolutely, running a neurosurgery department out of the johns hopkins i hopkin is no small thinghe became the director of this department at the age of 33. so, this de denny greg by nancy pelosi and others on dr. ben carson is racists if you ask me, by also there is a fear he will be successful in breaking these poverty cycles that so many on the left have depended on as their gravy train. charles: right, you have to be quaking in your boots that donald trump and his administration over next 4 or 8 years have a chance to prove something to the world, and to people, blacks, hispanics, women, the gay, lesbian community, all communities that have been told for decades they are the boogeyman. >> absolutely, the left wants to make people comfortable in their poverty, they are not about lifting people out of poverty. i think having someone in head of hud, this is an opportunity that somebody who has that idea of open -- empowerment, upward mobility, not treating people leak like a number, it is causing these bureaucrats to quake in their boots, not only the bureaucrats but also some ve

several health care institutions, among them the heads of the mayo clinic, cleveland clinic, and johns hopkins medicine. owed to repeal obamacare and replace it. global news 24 hours a day, powered by our 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am erik johnson and this is bloomberg. vonnie: thank you for that you'd u.s. secretary of state john kerry is set to deliver a speech outlining what he is calling a comprehensive vision for how middle east peace in the achieved. we are awaiting the speech at to state department, due begin in a few moments. joining us is marty schenker. kerry'sccounts john efforts have not worked and are not likely to produce any real effect at this point, with three weeks left to the administration . why give this speech? will it just be an inflammatory speech? marty: i am sure in his view it will not be inflammatory, although in this charged atmosphere on most everything he says will be taken negatively by israel and positively by those .n the administration with 23 days left in this administration the question is just how relevant this speech is. a

there are more than 6 million >>> that say cording to a new study from johns hopkins. researchers used a compound found in magic mushrooms for the study. the patients reported feeling less fearful of death. >>> another street drug is being tested to help soldiers with ptfd. they're looking at ecstasy to work through traumatic injury. kicked off in paris with a lot of over the top costumes if you want to call it. >> costumes might be right. the most expensive, over $3 million. here it is. >> ta-da. >> it's covered in white diamonds and emeralds and has about 9,000 gems. are they pointing? jasmine tuks was called to carry it. >> i guess you call it a push-up bra. >> a pull-down bra. it's heavy. where are you wearing that? >> i'm not. >> let's not go there. >> melissa took one look and said that thing's going to hurt not to mention wait till you see the american express bill with a $3 million charge on it. that's going to really hurt. >> we've got and 50s. it will be a nice enough day to be out. rainfall yesterday depended where you lived. not even half an inch of rain. a

at 10 p.m., johns hopkins lookssor ellen silvergeld at new technology and the impact on consumers and workers in her latest book. the professor is interviewed by dan glickman, former u.s. secretary of agriculture. >> people in america have never really been on a farm. but theycounty fair don't know what it is to be a farmer. it's not a romance. romantic viewd of of agriculture which i find exasperating because it makes it impossible to think about agriculture clearly. a.m., megyn 11:00 kelly talks about her life and career as a journalist in her book. she spoke with the bbc world news resent her. at 5:15 p.m., james rosen and christopher buckley, the son of william buckley, discuss their book. it examines essays on famous figures written by christopher buckley's father. the event was moderated by the executive editor of the national review. benjamin.m., medea looks at the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia. go to book tv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> ben and jerry's cofounder talking about the origins of his vermont-based company and its socially respo

john hopkins environmental health scientist professor reported on industrial meat production.georgetown university philosophy professor jason brennon provided a critical look at democracies and harvard business school professor talked about the motivations of white-collar criminals. in the coming weeks on after words, sylvia will describe how our bodies react to fat. jonathan weighs on the legacy of president barack obama. also al ferd university philosophy professor explores happiness comes from frugality. wall street news editor looks at women who have successfully climbed the corporate latter. >> i think the other aspect that's important to talk about is this notion that maybe asked the women who take on the roles because no man, you know, was willing to do so and women because of how we perceived role as leaders, because of unconscious biases are seen as odd duck . they are subject to greater scrutiny but they are more willing to take on some of the high-risk assignments because they want to prove that, you know, they can do it. in mary's case, she stepped in a company tha

meeting here at mar-a-lago with executives from some of the nation's best hospitals, including johns hopkinse mayo clinic, and the cleveland clinic. and the equitiesive who was here from the cleveland clinic dr. toby cosgrove is, we are told, a leading contender to become the next v.a. secretary. so a lot going on here at mar-a-lago in between christmas and new years. ed? >> i wish you a happy new year, i bet we will be talking live a couple more times before the weekend. see you, peter. >> oh, yeah. >> it is time for twitter storm, our nightly forecast of social media's most powerful weather patterns. president-elect donald trump is in the eye of tonight's storm over this tweet which reads: the u.s. consumer confidence index for december surged nearly 4 points to 113.7. the highest level in more than 15 years. thanks, donald. the president-elect's self-congratulatory ending to that tweet did not go unnoticed from mocking to the down right ridiculous. #thanks donald quickly went viral. mike levin said our commander-in-chief talks talks about himself in person pro-wrestler but with worse voca

. >> so, in 1984, 1985, montes was working on her masters degree in international relations at johns hopkinstual friend saw her in class, knew her opinions, and knew that she was diametrically opposed to u.s. foreign policy and what we were doing in that time period which was 1984, 1985. ana felt that the united states did not have a right to impose their will on other countries, especially in central and south america, and really disagreed with u.s. foreign policy at the time. her friend sensed that she had this passion that the cubans would be interested in. she was introduced to the cubans via a diplomat, their undercover. he recognized she had a visceral empathy for the cuban plight for the cuban cause. and that's folks who they really reach out to and ultimately trust to be their agents. >> ana's cubicle was devoid of anything personal. it was all devoted to business. but ana's cubicle wall posted next to her computer monitor was a piece of paper, that was lined and written in script, the king hath note of all they attempt, by interceptions which they dream not of. >> fidel castro is aw