were it not for checking kennedy's appearance at the door that sunday morning, john kennedy almost surely would've been killed. and there never would've been if president kennedy. the secret service chief at the time said in his memoirs, we were seconds away from that disaster. so then what? some of your look like you might remember. some of you may have read in history, our talk in a month after the election of the youngest let transformational general change from the oldest president to the youngest alike. how would we know what that trauma at a time when violence against public officials was virtually unheard of. how would lyndon johnson went out with a traumatized nation? fairwood roderick kennedy have gone and how at howard johnson with assumptions and a mindset so different from that of john kennedy's have doubtless celebrates? or with the cuban missile crisis? that is one of the questions i try to answer in this book called "the everything changed." it is a trio of histories that enron politics are these contemporary were some of us. they are all rooted in one common notion and tha

were it not for jacqueline kennedy's appearance at the door that sunday morning john kennedy almost surely would have been killed. there never would have been a president kennedy. the secret service chief at the time said in his memoirs, we were seconds away from that disaster. then what? some of you here look like? remember, some of you may have read it in history. we're talking about a month after the election, a transformation of generational change from the oldest president to the youngest elected. how would we have dealt with that and a time when violence against public officials was virtually unheard of. how lyndon johnson felt it, where robert kennedy would have gone, and how johnson with assumptions and a mind-set so different would have dealt with civil-rights or with the cuban missile crisis? that is one of the questions i have tried to answer in this book called then everything changed. what this is is a trio of alternative histories the center on contemporary american politics or at least contemporary for some of us. they are all rooted in one common notion, and that is that th

standard than say, joe biden and his brain aneurysm or dick cheney and his multiple heart attacks and john kennedynows what was wrong with him. so there's a different-- . hold on, are you guys saying that this story should not have appeared? it's not legitimate whatsoever to bring up-- we don't know ultimately what are the triggering mechanisms and should this never have been reported. >> and even your national review, david french's article said she was getting the sarah palin treatment and i agree with that, and-- >> you guys do not think it was at all legitimate should not have appeared. >> a way to bring it-- >> i don't think these people obviously were exaggerating if they said versus what the doctors said. what they said was actually not-- >> if the story was accurate, yes, if you with a nt to write a story saying that michele bachmann gets migraines under the care of a doctor and medicated and everything is fine, and never cause problems if you with a nt to write that story. >> the final touchdown of the space shuttle atlantis kennedy space center, ending the 30 year shuttle program and end

so hoover could destroy kennedy. >> john: kennedy was terrified. >> in fact, the fbi leaks this to senatorhispering willy williams of delaware, determined to tear down kennedy by exposing this affair and the kennedys turned to j. edgar hoover. fortunately for them he had sex files on every congressman, senator, everybody who was anybody. >> he wrote that washington at the time was a cesspool of sex and sexual blackmail. >> that's right, because hoover used the sex files to basically create a government within the government. he brings in the heads of the senate, shows them the sex files on all of their colleagues and they say no more investigation into this east german spy mistress. but hoover wanted in return for that, one his reappointment as fbi director. >> john: which he got. >> number two, foreclosure authorization to bug martin luther king which he used after getting martin luther king having affairs to persecute king. >> john: and the dole scandal, you don't remember i'm sure. but warren hardings sex life caused it. >> and one of many scandals in the hardy administration, a very co

john kennedy was still a junior senator from massachusetts.castro spent most of his visit hugging and smiling and saying all the right things. there were some americans including some in the eisenhower administration who had pretty serious concerns about eisner. many that he was a communist in the making. many found it to be quite charming and certainly charismatic. after a few days in washington, castro went to new york city. from the moment he arrived what he was greeted like 20,000 people, he had a grand old time. he went to the top of the empire state building. he shook hands with jackie robinson. he went down to city hall. went to columbia university. the policemen who were assigned to protect him, they're all these assassination plots surrounding castro. these were reported in the press every day, and none of these turned out to be real but the police didn't know that. caster was impossible to protect. one afternoon on a whim he decided to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed. federal agents fall. the new york city police follow. and

all the boys were students at john f. kennedy middle school. >> the u.s. post office is considering closing3600 locations across country because it's losing billions in revenue. at least ten of the officers are in the bay area. eric thomas has nor on how your neighborhood could be affected. >> the u.s. postal service lost $8 billion. to save money, they are studying 3700 retail offices across the country to see if they are worth keeping open. the list includes more than a dozen locations, five in san francisco. four in san mateo and santa clara counties and four in the east bay in alameda and contra costa counties. here are a couple. colonade post office in san jose. it's too close to other locations. or business fair is down significantly. the same goes from oakland east mall location. >> about 35% of our sales come from places outside the brick and mortar post office. places like atms, costco ad that sort of thing. >> it will take the postal service about five months which are vie ideological and which are not. employees would be eliminated through attri

john kennedy said he who seeks power by riding the back of the tiger usually ends up inside. and i think that's where boehnor and cantor are. they rode the tea party, and now the tea party is threatening to devour the republican party. >> your column published tonight on "the washington post" website the crisis already is forcibly cleaving the republican leadership from the tea party. you say that ann rand in her writings may help explain how that is happening. can you explain that? >> in her first most popular book, "the fountain head," the guy who doesn't get what he wants blows up a building. there are ann rand followers in there are ayn rand followers in the majority that would rather blow things up than make any concessions at all. i think quietly there are moderate conservative republicans, not any moderate republicans anymore, they are saying this is taking us all too far. they are looking at the polls, not helping republicans in the polls, but they want to govern and are looking at this and saying we can't govern this way, and i'm hoping they are thinking about saying

<Ñ Ñ+gÑÑÑçÑw >>> happening right now the american airlines terminal at new york's john f. kennedyt is on lock down as police investigate a suspicious package. the port authority of new york says a bomb squad has been sent to inspect that package. port authority police tell us that they are looking for a man who got on a flight to san francisco this morning, they want to talk to him to see if he is linked to that security breach. but again the american airlines terminal in new york is on lockdown right now and we will continue to update that story. >>> time now 6:14. over seas financial markets are down this morning as the stalled limit talks are raising fears about a u.s. default. allison burns in our washington, d.c. newsroom, on the worldwide crisis. >> reporter: unless congress acts this week to raise the debt limit the u.s. could default for the first time in history. now talks at the white house broke down in spectacular fashion with house speaker john boehner stopping negotiations with president obama. now the republicans and democrats are trying to come up with plans of the

all the boys were students at john f. kennedy middle school. >> the u.s. post office is considering closing 3600 locations across country because it's losing billions in revenue. at least ten of the officers are in the bay area. eric thomas has nor on how your neighborhood could be affected. >> the u.s. postal service lost $8 billion. to save money, they are studying 3700 retail offices across the country to see if they are worth keeping open. the list includes more than a dozen locations, five in san francisco. four in san mateo and santa clara counties and four in the east bay in alameda and contra costa counties. here are a couple. colonade post office in san jose. it's too close to other locations. or business fair is down significantly. the same goes from oakland east mall location. >> about 35% of our sales come from places outside the brick and mortar post office. places like atms, costco and that sort of thing. >> it will take the postal service about five months which are vie ideological and which are not. employees would be eliminated through att

it is a place that is a living memorial to john f. kennedy. we are very proud to be part of it here on behalf of the kennedy forum and the university. host: what was your role at the white house? guest: i have the honor of being secretary andess communications director. i was with her for almost three years. i was with her on a september 11. laura bush was really catapulted in a way she never expected. , and of course -- and in a way that the country never expected. host: noella rodriguez, did you ever given a chance to meet betty ford -- get a chance to meet betty ford? or did you ever look back at her career and tried to push laura bush in that direction? guest: i never got the opportunity to meet mrs. ford, but was suddenly well aware of her legacy. -- certainly well aware of her legacy. we used her legacy as a way to inform what we would do. mrs. bush, of course, have three issues that she was focused on, primarily early childhood education and women's health issues. but she also focused on breast cancer. it is not a very, known trade that

and they historians who have tended to deify johnette kennedy , i'll tell you i was sending john kennedy, but anyway, i really lay kennedy in many ways. but historians were biased toward senate try to argue that eisenhower really had set aside at kennedy carried it out. i am convinced in one scholar i know who he seen the documents i haven't seen is convinced that eisenhower would've never done it the way kennedy did. he would tear the air support and even planned with the air support and look like an eisenhower kind of intervention. eisenhower would've done more or less what he did in lebanon in 1958 when he landed 14,000 troops. and he really believed in overwhelming force and you do it. now, he was open to covert action that we know that in guatemala and iran. so he was not a nature when it came to covert action. the cuban invasion is a strange phenomenon did you know, the cia -- if you need today what contingency plan the cia has come to he be horrified. and so, these contingency plans are around so when the new president came in, as every officer does, they took in the plans to pres

i'm thinking about john kennedy. we have learned that he was doped up most of the time he was president. but the word didn't get out nap was different day. nowadays you can't keep secrets like you used to be able to. so i think, pawlenty's second response was smarter than the first. put it that way. other candidates are wise just to stand back and not even give a hint of trying to get some political advantage out of this. >> alex, i don't know that we know the full story of brian ross? i thought by now that video would have gained circulation. >> holding on to that to release it when the rating -- the idea there was a physical kerfuffle, is that the word? i don't know. >> kerfuffle. >> a kerfuffle. you know, sharon angell, pursued by the press, not wanting to deal with it and if not physically putting a reporter in his place. you know, again i don't think this is the tactic you want to use. she should not be on the defensive about this. this is something i think she wants to get ahead of the media cycle. >> the lette

and there's a wonderf quote from john kennedy which i can't say it, that our power should no be st our strength shoul not be just in our wealth or military, our strength should be in what we contribute to civilization. and i felt that i had the chance with ts setting and this group of people that i could tell that story, i think, in a way that's never been de before. and ople say this is a very brave departe for you. it wasn't really at all. i was eager to do it and i never had a better time writing a book. >> charlie: why? well paris first of all. one thing, i couldcast it as i wish. with regular biography and history pretty much decided for you. there's an an obligatory line u have to follow. us can't skip someone because he bores you. this i could pick the people i wanted to wre about, and i could have mywn criteria for who made the cut and who didn't. in this case, it was, did they go there specifically to learn d to improve themselves in order to excel in their chosen field. did they keep a diary or write letters. were th changed byhe experience more than improvements in their ski

we were so close to winning and then they killed john kennedy, our president.illed dr. martin luther king jr. >> they were killed by the authorities? >> yes. >> okay. >> yes. this is all documented. >> bill: outrageous. here now to analyze fox news business anchor dagen mcdowell. that was iran. >> right. >> bill: she has been to other muslim countries as well. >> she was. at a conference around the same time a few days after she made these comments, she was also on libyan state television criticizing a number of things about the united states, including president obama's own policies, the state of this country, the state of the people in this country. >> bill: sticking um for qaddafi, right? >> it was a pro-qaddafi television network, television station and while she was speaking, apparently they were airing like pro-qaddafi forces and rallies behind it. >> bill: we can't find out who is behind this. she is obviously not paying her air fare to these countries. to get into them is not an easy deal. to get to tripoli is not easy. to get to tehran is not easy. som

and the historians who have tended to defy john f. kennedy i will confuse the life out of you that i have a son named for john f. kennedy. you know, i really liked kennedy in so many ways. but the historians who are biased toward him have tried to argue that eisenhower really had set this up and kennedy just carried it out. i am convinced -- and one scholar i know who has seen the documents that i haven't seen is convinced that eisenhower would have never done it the way kennedy did. he withdrew the airport and even the plan with the air support just didn't look like an eisenhower kind of intervention. eisenhower would have done in what he did in lebanon in 1958 when he landed 14,000 troops. i mean, he really believed in overwhelming force and you do it. now, he was open to covert action and we know in that guatemala and iran so he was not an angel when it came to covert action but the cuban invasion is a strange phenomenon. you know, the cia -- if you knew today what contingency plans the cia has, you would be horrified. and so these conting

same thing happened under john kennedy. wee in washington, democrats and republicans alike spent too much money and are spending outpaced revenues. what we really is in my opinion is a spending problem. spending is 24% of the gdp and revenues are 18%. so you know if we talk about increase in the revenues, we still can't get it up to 24%. >> if we increase the revenues, congressman, by closing down some of the loop holes and going back to the prebush tax cuts, we would generate over ten years, $3.8 trillion. that's a lot of money. but let me ask you a question. let's take one of the loop holes that your party has been against closing. have you a loophole where you have hedge fund guys that are using estate tax loop holes to cover hedge funds profits. give you an example, john paulson it was revealed by the new york times, last year, he made $4.9 billion. that's one man. equal to hundreds of thousands of americans what they would make annually. does that make sense to you? >> well it doesn't make complete nonsense either. i'm

representatives by either bloodline or marriage of every president of the united states going back to john f. kennedyso appropriate and so interesting to see members of the ford family. for our generation and above in this country we watched them grow up. we watched their family with great fascination. this president who turned out to be such a noble and thoroughly decent american and this american icon that he married. this towering figure in this country named betty ford who did so much to destigmatize alcoholism, drug addiction and treatment and breast cancer as well. appropriately remembered today in a warm, family-based service. feel terrible for the family they have to go do this again and go through these emotions in the days to come. such a towering figure should be appropriately remembered. that started today here in palm desert. >> thanks, brian williams. well put. >>> coming up next, a marine who needed a date for the ball considers a longshot and takes it on youtube. >> hey, mila. i'm sergeant moore. but you can call me scotty. i want to take a moment out of my day to invite you to the ma

they attended john f. kennedy middle school.ey apparently took place after the boys broke away during a field trip in march. a fifth boy also faces charges. >>> hundreds of same-sex marriages will be performed in new york again today. the state's new law took effect yesterday where hundreds of ceremonies were performed. >> i now pronounce you legally married! >> there is a 24-hour waiting period. san francisco en masse wedding will take place in niagara falls. the state will ring up an extra $400 million in the next three years in the same-sex weddings. in new york city, 823 same-sex couples signed up at the clerk's office to get married yesterday. >> now we can truly take care of each other. we can truly be married. >> new york is the sixth and largest stated to legalize same-sex marriage but not everyone is cheering. thousands protested calling for the state to put the new law to a vote. >> california has the first confirmed case of west nile virus. state public health officials say a man in santa barbara county contracted the

john kennedy really put him on the map in america by saying fleming was such a great writer.w, he became so popular. i think the fleming estate, and i've met them, it's not just about the money. it's about continuing this character, this hero, really a hero for all times, for the people around the world who love him. >> what's different for a novelist like you taking on a character like this? >> well, it's terrifying, for one thing. i had two goals when i sat down to write "carte blanch." one, i have millions of fans around the world who expect a jeffrey deaver book. you might know that from the, say, "the bone collector," the denzel washington film. it's a fast-paced story. moves very quickly. lots of twists and turns. a big surprise ending followed by a big surprise ending foll followed, guess what, by a big surprise ending. i like twists and turns. i had to make sure my fans got that book. i heard one-fifth of the world's population has seen a bond film or read a bond book. i had those people -- >> that's over a billion people. >> imagine that. all of a sudden i'm struck w

remotely comparable to those that john kennedy had and were never revealed. >> arianna, do you think it's much a do about nothing? is she getting sort of the female treatment? >> getting the female treatment. reading the original story in "the daily collar," pill popping, this woman cannot handle the stress, she's taken to her bed, to her fainting couch, very good story and if her plane is late, if somebody quits. endless anonymous sources. the problem with michele bachmann is not her migraines. it's what she believes and the idea that somehow she cannot deal, the big boy/man world of stress, it's all sex this. this woman has five kids, 23 foster children. she lives in iowa. i don't think she has a migraine problem. >> let me ask you about rick perry. if he jumps in, i'm not going to ask you about migraines but rick perry. >> i know a lot of people with migraines on wall street and they're having them more lately. >> how would rick perry shake this up? >> i talk to a lot of wall street guys thinking about romney or obama right now. kind of right now divided. you know, i don't think a

. >> rose: so whatever john kennedy did in the early '60s... '60 or '61, '62, what the argument was then that he found out if you lowered taxes you could increase revenue, correct? >> there was a certain amount of pure knesianism in that. that's not what i'm talking about now. i'm talking about in an economy which one of these days is going to be a fully employed economy >> rose: what date do you perceive that to be? >> well, 1986 was a time when reducing tax rates was not about stimulating aggregate demand, it was about impving incentives. and, in fact, it was done in a revenue-neutral way. they broaden the tax base, they got rid of a lot o tax expendites and tax loopholes and that allowed them without any loss of revenue to bring do these top ras. >> rose: ronald reagan was president at that time >> he was. >> rose: what uld have been the impact if the president had not extended the bush tax cs? where woulde be? >> well, i think the problem is the is that we havehis polical stalemate in which there was no opti to expend them only for income bow $250,000. it was clear that if the republ

shoot them down if they attacked our country and there would not be the political support for john f. kennedy's sort of crazy statement what we're going to go to the movie had it not been for american paranoia over the russians over the soviets and that was particularly made clear even through the farmers in iowa who pay taxes by sputnik and gary that space budgets right now are being cut. defense budgets are still secure yet we know that you know to say it's in a financial trouble as a former defense industry top man what should be the top priority right now well. that's a long i have a somewhat different from most of my colleagues view i think for our space program has been on the wrong track ever since the end of apollo with the space shuttle flight so well i think the space shuttle is spectacular it is so dead in the program you know that certainly brought the point by it being terminated and now we have to hitchhike rides with our prior competitors who must be laughing up their sleeves that the americans who got to the moon first now have to ride on a russian rockets. or space shuttle was

. >> you never get anywhere attacking the media, whether it was john f. kennedy canceling subscription to the herald tribune or richard nixon declaring war on "the washington post" and new york times. we saw how well that worked out for him. >> you tried whether there's cal pablty or malfeasance, as if the white house is dictating it. >> you're making the same mistake that so many people out there in media land are making, you're assuming that fox news and what the news of the world are part and parcel. >> i'm not assuming that. i work for this company. i know they're not the same. >> that's like saying that the folks at nbc are responsible for the-- >> and you're saying that-- assuming that the fbi moving against in company somehow the white house is behind it. >> what we'll know eventually because everything will get foia. and in the past, white houses and administrations have used the power of the justice department to crush their enemy. and-- >> that's, we have to. >> we have to take one more break, sorry, judy, when we come back the final harry potter movie

right now the defense budget is 4.7% of the gdp compared to 6.6% under ronald reagan, 8.6 under john f. kennedy the problem is not military spending. the problem is domestic spending. caught a break that. as ronald reagan often when he rejected isolationism, when he decried appeasement and identify churchill is the greatest hero of the 20th century, reagan said, it takes generations to build freedom. you can visit a new generation and if you do said, it is often going to be because he withdrew from your responsibilities in the world. i handsome, eloquent colleague quoted actually teacher i know for, not cardinal newman when he was citing examples of what happens when you wake up and find you have no friend. naturally the quote proves the opposite point. von hawker was making that observation can decried appeasement and withdraw in the 1930s exponentially raise the cost of dealing with hitler. they're gathering dangers dangers in the world which only american power can deal with. you don't want to do it, that the alternatives to not doing it are infinitely worse. klotzbach [applause] >> well, i