and it's true of jacqueline kennedy onassis. and think she may not have been willing to tell you herself about the 100 books she brought into print when she was an editor first of viking and then at doubleday for the last 20 years of her life, from 1975 to 1994. if anything, editors books are more indicative of her personality because they include what she has selected, invested time and. so what i'd like to do is tell you a story of those 100 books in a little bit about how they connect to her life in who she was. the first -- there are two things i'd like to say about jackie's personality, which i think you may not know about. and the first is that she was the reader. among her earliest memories was being sent out to her mother's headroom to take a nap when she was a child and getting out of the bag, taking down one of her mother's books from the bookshelf and going over to the window seat or an hour and reading the book instead of taking them out. and she told that story in a kind of essay she wrote for a competition to go in

. >>> and the kennedy files. revealing new information about the late ted kennedy. this is the "cbs morning news" the late ted kennedy. this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, march 1st, 2011. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning and thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. the international community is tightening the noose around gadhafi. the u.s. says all options are on the table. meanwhile gadhafi is striking back in force. they attacked rebel troops in the two major cities closest to the capital using tanks and anti-aircraft guns. overnight government troops tried to retake zawiya, but rebel troops held their ground. >> reporter: as the blood shed in libya moves into another day, the tone in washington has turned decidedly sharper. the white house is now clearly ratcheting up the pressure on gadhafi to step down. troops loyal to moammar gadhafi are fighting to take back territory now in rebel hands. amateur video captured this firefight between pro and anti-government forces in libya's third largest city. the uprising that began last month poses the bi

he told eugene kennedy as much. and jackie and kennedy got the idea of cornering daley at one of the democratic conventions in 1970 and asking him personally at the convention with a notion that he had so much respect for the kennedys, so much respect for jackie, that he immediately caved in. but he didn't even. when they said we would like to do your biography he said, i'll look into it. and he never called them back. but she went ahead and she was willing to sponsor this biography, even though he was an unwilling subject of the biography. she also did a book with stewart udall, who was secretary of the interior under both jfk and lbj come a very strong environmentalist, kind of before his time. he's only recently died. you don't want to write on the legacy of the early spanish explorers in arizona and new mexico, so as a way of getting jackie to get on board with his book concept, he invited her and maurice tempelsman to come out to arizona to go on a hike with him and his wife on the trail which they believed had

to endoris robert kennedy. i said to this audience on the spur of the moment, think about that because then the demonstrators, most of them wouldn't have been there because mayor daly would have been back on an antiwar candidate, right. i went home and i know it's a cliche, i couldn't sleep because the chain reaction started going. the second one was, if we think about robert kennedy surviving an assassination attempt then we have to think about what happened to ronald reagan in 1981 that rush of relieve and we didn't lose another great figure. so the whole dynamic of that 1968 campaign where robert kennedy was trailing humphrey. the obscure fact on december 11, 1960, a suicide bomber was seconds away blowing up with a seven sticks of dynamite. mrs. kennedy came to the door to see him off the church and the bomber said i don't want to do this in front of his wife i'll wait and then he was caught. that's how close we came. this has gone about unnoticed as any major one i can think of. >> charlie: i think i heard

he didn't want this biography of him written, and he told eugene kennedy this much, and jackie and kennedy idea of cornering him at the democratic convention and asking him permly at the convention with the notion that he had so much respect for the kennedys and so much respect for yak ky that he'd immediately cave in, but he didn't. when they said we want to do your biography, he said, i'll look into it, and he never called them back. [laughter] she went ahead and she was willing to sponsor this biography even though he was an unwilling subject of the biography. she also did a book with stuart udall who was secretary of the interior under both jfk and lbj, a very strong environmentalist before his time. he's only recently died. udall wanted to write on the legacy of the early spanish explorers in new mexico, and as a way to get him to get on board with the book con september, he invited her to come out to arizona to go on a hike with him and his wife on the trail which they believed had been followed by the 16th century conquistadors. this is them on the hike sharing a glass of wine celeb

what a memo says kennedy tried to do the year before. and how he was described by a state department official. >> it's a serial surprise, not one you'd expect with flakes and fruits on the front. now we found the flakes, why the fruit was a different story. chy, nip flu-like symptoms in the bud, with oscillococcinum. get oscillo and feel like yourself again. oscillococcinum, nip it in the bud. >>> a bay area company is celebrating a big win today. pixar is behind toy story 3 which picked up an oscar. pam cook sat down with the oscar winning producer, darla anderson last month, who said just getting nominated was overwelming. now we're talking with darla and her team right now about last night's victory. you're going to hear from them coming up all new at 6:00. toy story 3 was nominated for best picture, but the big win ended up going to the king speech. in the wake of the triumph comes controversy to date over a new pg13 version that is set to replace the r version. lets out a slew of curse words. the film's distributor failed to get the

. >> filling the term of the late senator ted kennedy. senator brown spoke at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. [applause] >> before i get started, i just want to say i had an opportunity to go around and try to meet everybody, and say hello, and i know you talk about the weather here? no offense. [laughter] >> i saw know as high as the flags. i got a chance to tour this amazing facility and be part of history. it's a wonderful opportunity for not just young people but every person from every walk of life, and i'm so honored to be here. i want to thank you all for the very, very warm welcome, and, john, i appreciate the kind introduction and the chance to visit the ronald reagan presidential library. this is my first time here, and what an honor for me to really meet a living legend, obviously, nancy reagan herself and it's wonderful to be with you, ma'am. thank you. [applause] >> it's a tremendous thrill for me to be here, and it was great to meet so many of you at the book signing. i tried to meet you an

kennedy. i was in the follow-up car and witnessed the president being shot and tried to interseed to get to him beforehand, of course, i was unable to do so, so i saw everything unfold. i was a witness to everything. what's instory -- >> what inspired you to write about it? >> i wrote the forward about the book. i was promised it would be facts and no gossip. i wanted to contribute to it as long as i could check the facts, which i did. >> your role in writing? >> well, i basically helped him write the book. he's a secret service agent, and his writing was more stick to the facts, and i helped frame the story, put the story together, interviewed a lot of the agents, and got very involved in the project and it's been a privilege an honor to work with these great men. >> what was probably the most interesting thing for you in putting this project together in >> the most interesting thing was it's hard to believe, but all of these agents who witnessed the assassination of president kennedy never s

i believe that we can improve situation at kennedy. but i'm satisfied that the leadership in this new port director at kennedy, who i hope you will have an opportunity to meet, was who was at o'hare airport now in charge of kennedy airport under bob press' leadership at the district, and i will make him aware of your concerns and confirm that he is always looking at how best to allocate the resources among the function that is we have. >> i'm not questioning anyone's ability. i am just saying that i think it is important that we get the job done. if you need more assistance you should rhett us know. in that -- let us know. in that regard i have been to the san diego entryway and i have spent hours there. and to me it looks like a needle in a hey stack. so p applaud you. i don't know how you do that work. i also want to say, you talked before about the issues involving our government and the mexican government. i have met with calderon, i have been there and talked with him. i think this has reached proportions that are just extraordina

kennedy even on our messed up houses we often heavy picture of john f. kennedy on the wall. and ted held the seat until the time i was three. i'm 51 epic and on top of the audit legacy we are in a state where all of 12% of registered voters are republicans. 12%. and in a republican who bothers to run for political office isn't just taking on an opponent, you know, you are taking on the entire democratic state committee and this whole machine of unions and special interests. most times they can keep a pretty tight hold on things in massachusetts. and my race was different for a whole lot of reasons. in a bad economy with two wars going on, voters were at a pretty serious frame of mind. while the machine was treating the whole thing as a formality. iran on the issues i'm and voters appreciated being treated as if they actually had a choice. i said that a government takeover of health care was a bad idea, and i was against it. i also said that we need to get off the road of big government and dangerous debt, and focus again on private enterprise and growing our economy and new

kennedy's detail. can you tell us a little bit about what that was like?>> can you tell them what it was like to be a secret service agent? >> it was pretechnology in those days. we had very few agents, and we did not have radios. we operated by hand signals. we wore sunglasses. in our pocket we carried 3x5 photographs of people we were looking for, and the glasses kind of helped hide our eyes, and it was an altogether different world then. >> and what was it like being on president kennedy's dee tail? -- detail? >> what was it like being on president kennedy's detail? is. >> fantastic. he was quite a man, and both -- this is clint hill over here, by the way, and lisa who helped me with the book. we both started with president eisenhower who did not have a far cyst bone in his body and operated like clockwork and rode in a closed-top car. when president kennedy came along, the world lit up. >> and what made you decide to write about your experience after all this time? >> well, there are very few of us left anymore, and we decided that it was time to share

but because jacqueline kennedy came to the door, the man decided not to kill kennedy in front of hiscqueline kennedy not come to the door, he said the secret service chief was seconds away from a history without a president kennedy. >> the president's car is now turning on to elm street. it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives.... >> reporter: what if it hadn't stopped raining in dallas texas on the morning of december 22, 1963. >> we can't see who has been hit. >> reporter: a bubble top would have covered president kennedy's limosine instead of leaving him exposed. >> thanks to all of you and now it's on to chicago and let's win there. >> reporter: what if robert kennedy had not been sent unprotected into that los angeles hotel kitchen in 1968? just after winning the california primary? would we have had another president kennedy? >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe, and there never will be under a ford administration. >> reporter: and what if president ford quickly corrected himself in that key 1976 debate, sparing his campaign a critical week of lost m

in fact, i mentioned to caroline kennedy and to our departing patrick kennedy representative the need to update some of those. doe have a schedule for updating some of those? >> there has been a huge focus at kennedy on digital activities to get the -- as much content out into people's hands around the country first. but there is also planning around updating the exhibits, the current exhibit space. >> i heard mrs. roosevelt talk about that. i'm not sure the stage, do we have -- does anyone look at again the overall picture of putting some of this incredible information, you know, on digital or the -- using the latest technology in all of these libraes? >> ery one of the presidential libraries has been investigating, has done sothing in the area of digitization and long-term planning for as much content as we can afford. >> back to the financing, i understand different libraries have foundations and their support. is there any estimate you can give to us as to what additional funds are provided or what percentage of additional programs are underwritten by the privatesector? >> i can g

kennedy sides with the conservatives twice as often than with the liberals, but still kennedy is a key swing vote for the liberals in some areas. i think there's four votes to overrule roe vs. wade. kennedy won't be the fifth vote to overrule the court decisions with regard to school prayer. we don't know if tee had been the vote to overrule affirmative action cases. whether the conservatives get that solid fifth vote or whether they are denied that depend on the next vacancies. think of this, imagine that either al gore or john kerry replaced renquist and o'connor. on the other hand, imagine if john mccain placed both david suter and john paul stevens. there would be a majority to overrule prayer and other things. >> could you talk a bit about, and we talked a bit before about the presidents who nominate justices, and that's an ignored part. could yowl talk about the infrastructure that goes into this conservative assault, the federalist society and the ways in which this is funded, and there's obviously now we have conservative legal faculties, some of whom you're very close with, bu

as a kennedy worker.nd i think he then realized the way into the community actually was to the black churches. that the church themselves were a fantastic political organization that they saw around the world. and that is what i think he started to go to church, to claim that he was a christian. it was actually hand-in-hand with his work. >> host: i think this is quite right. obama talks about maybe it's the audacity of hope, what he says he we go from church to church organizing and the passage increase would say to them, obama, where do you go to church? he didn't go so he would him and offered him of his buddies said hey, you better find a church. go check out the united church, the trinity church with reverend wright. so that obama's christianity comes late and it's very much fused with the sort of political sense of social justice, involvement of the churches and the kinds of issues that obama cared about. let me say in closing that this is a fascinating book. it covers -- i think in america the cove

kennedy or who. you think of them as outdoors, optimistic people. >> and no tie. >> mitt romney may not have a tie but he looks so much like he's wearing one. >> wanting to convey that management class, that background. the romance of the campaign trail is so important because people do respond so differently. what people want is so different in the senate than what they want as a president. it will be tough in the early going to find that way to say i can do it better. >> what about the malarkey factor? don't you have to show something, "here, i can do this, i do -- did that?" >> i think you have to show an effortless, intuitive understanding. david in his book imagines a leader called "richard gray," perfect name for the graceful candidate who without seeming to try too hard, looks like sees in charge. obama has had that at some points. at other points he's really lost it, looked like he's struggling to hang on the it's really important to remember that external factors, un employment, those are wh

kennedy jr.'s former girlfriends is revealing intimate details about his private life including rather candid memories of their romantic vacations and also a near death experience on a kayaking trip. she is going to tell us more in a live interview. >> but let us begin on a tuesday morning with president obama making his case for u.s. involvement in libya. chuck todd is nbc's chief white house correspondent. chuck, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. well, the president used a 28-minute speech to make that case for the limited military action in libya. he also took the opportunity to rebut critics on the left and the right about how and whether to target gadhafi with the military. in total the president used the framework of american values to make the case. >> the united states of america has done what we said we would do. >> explaining the case for military action in libya, the president said it was in america's national interest and the u.s. had a responsibility to act. >> to

so that at kennedy airport which has more c.d.p.o.'s, customs and border protection officers and any other airport because of the size and scope of its operations, we have just under 1,800 now with a staffing model that actually allocates both to the processing of people, which we have to do to prevent dangerous people from coming into the united states, but also increasingly we check obviously on screening of freight and cargo coming into the united states, and kennedy leads the way in terms of out of bound checks. we have more out of bound checks led by an extraordinarily experienced and good group of officers. but i take your point that we always need to look at how do we allocate scarce resources, and when do we need more resources for any particular function? i believe that we can improve the situation at kennedy. but i'm satisfied the leadership in this newport director at kennedy who i hope you'll have an opportunity to meet, mr. brian humphreys, at o'hare airport now in charge of kennedy airport, and i will make him aware of yo

. >> reporter: behind the scenes with a relaxed jackie kennedy.usband, then senator john kennedy, running for president in 1960. the images were extraordinary, not just because of their content, but because of the way they were captured, cinema verite, as it would be called. the pivotal documentary "primary." >> just stopping by to say hello. >> reporter: no scripts, just the camera rolling. and behind the lens, richard leacock and his team of photographers. robert drew, albert maysles, d.a. pennebaker. leacock once spoke of the unspoken rules. >> never ask anybody to do anything. never ask somebody to repeat a line. >> reporter: tonight, his peers honor him. >> there isn't a single documentary filmmaker that can match his all around capabilities. >> reporter: there were so many moments. jackie kennedy's white-gloved hands, her nervous fingers, about to make a campaign speech herself. john kennedy's hands, adjusted ever so slightly. >> be the ability to look in on people's lives at crucial times from which you can deduce certain things. >> reporte

kennedy wrong when he cut the marginal tax. he actually raised taxes and he talked about that with nixon in the nixon kennedy debates incursion go back and listen to the kennedy talk about how he was one of those guys who was supposed to pay the night a percent tax and nobody paid it we're paying forty fifty sixty percent as are so many loopholes he wanted to close the loophole and raise it up to seventy four percent he actually actually he didn't do it it was l.b.j. as you know it happened a year after kennedy died it was so it was johnson who lowered their tax rate but he raised taxes on the rich and increased revenues. you raise taxes on the rich you raise the raise the amount of money that was collected from the rich that's right by lowering the marginal tax rates he write more red losing the loopholes so you what you're saying is by lowering tax rates the government gets more revenue or you know i'm not going to recognize our loopholes if you look at what reagan did reagan lower tax rates or created such a disaster that he

>> i worked for robert kennedy. always said, who knows. one day because i read a book about what might have happened with mayor daley in chicago i started thinking about the chain reactions. if he'd lived the country would have felt differently about him. even his opponents. and then what? so it just started a chain reaction. then i went back to the one that nobody knows about that changed history. >> which was fascinating to me. it's the first chapter, and it was about this gentleman, richard pavlik, kind of this crazy from new hampshire who had an ax to grind with soon-to-be president kennedy. >> he went to kennedy's beach house with a car filled with dynamite. the only reason he didn't blow john kennedy up was jackie came to the door and he didn't want to do it in front of his wife. he was seconds away, the secret service chief said, of losing john kennedy before he ever became president, no new frontier, lyndon johnson with the cuban missile crisis. you start playing that out. >> the series of events which follo

kennedy's convicted assassin.ar-old says he doesn't remember shooting kennedy at the ambassador hotel in los angeles in 1968. >>> the 21-year-old man in kosovo is in custody tonight. police say he opened fire on u.s. troops in germany. two airmen are dead and two wounded and president obama is vowing to get justice. here is martha raddatz. >>> the air force bus was parked just outside the international terminal. onboard, at least a dozen u.s. air force security personnel who arrived in england on their way to a u.s. base in germany. according to law enforcement officials the gunman walked up to the bus and pulled out a semi automatic weapon and began firing again and again shouting in arabic for god is great. two airmen were killed including the driver and two more critically injured when after nine rounds the gun jammed. some grabbed the shooter as he continued shooting jihad, jihad. a german police officer then took the man into custody. >> i'm saddened and outraged by this attack. i want everybody to understand

jack kennedy got this right. jack kennedy added "i want to make the world safe for diversity." we've got to remember that diversity as well as democracy. >> rose: is the power of demographics as a force in the future? and the power of population, size... >> well, it's very interesting. if you project into 2050 the yilgts is the only country which keeps its rank among the rich countries we'll stay at number three because we have immigration. radioright now we're going through an anti-immigration spell, but we are a country of immigration. i would tell you whatly kwan yue, a very sage observer from the united states and china. i asked him when i was writing the book what he thought about my theory that america was in decline and china wasn't going to pass us. he said if you look at china it can draw from a talent pool of 1.3 billion people. if you look at the united states it can draw on a talent pool of seven billion people. >> rose: he also said, though, on this program in three hours of conversation here that the thing he worried most about the united states was the debt. that

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they've been kind of spoken of a lot lately especially because justice kennedy has this ad out in which he talks about thanking venezuela for giving them or oil for this project to give it to low income homes so i want to take a look one of our correspondents our t k one ford took a look at this oil coming from there and sort of the commotion that it's causing here on capitol hill. with dorothy de house every day is about doing a lot with a little notice wednesday so i. needed vegetable bread salvaged from the trash heap canned food to go needed at christmas that must last year and feed twenty five formerly homeless families live under duress group sharing meals parenting support and heat up until three years ago heating oil was the shelters biggest expense looking at the thermostat was something in dreaded longer do we have the many and it's so expensive kathy boylan has lived and worked here for more than a decade helping homeless mothers have back on their feet with a budget of a thousand dollars per month we try on a shoestring to keep this home for twenty people there at the moment

work -- i saw how you work with ted kennedy. you did about 40-50 pieces of legislation. nobody realized that. you always work with the other side. your guests will be heavily called upon. >> thank you. -- your guesses -- your gifts will be heavily calderÓn. thank you. >> after we lost the vote on our proposal, we had 53, but we needed 60, i was called to the vice-president's residents to negotiate the executive order commission. senator nelson volunteered to go with me and i readily accepted. i just want to say, we would not have gotten the executive order commission without bill nelson hanging in there and being tough. also, i will forever be grateful for his assistance in

kennedy. why did you bring that up in relationship to writing your book about the system? >> guest: well, because one of the lines that president kennedy used in that book, thinking back -- i'm sorry. i quote his line about "victory has 1,000 fathers, disaster is an orphan." but the reference to president kennedy's "profiles in courage" comes in a section where we're trying to talk about some of the people in the system who, despite all of the pressures that were operating on them, showed themselves to be men and women of real courage who stuck to principle, who fought for what they thought was the right thing to do and resisted enormous political pressure to do otherwise. c-span: now you name a lot of people in this book. is there any one person that comes out of this, in your opinion, as someone who really has principles? >>guest: well, there is more than one. i guess two that are particularly appealing to me. one was a man that i knew quite well from his years as governor and a senator. the other is somebody that i did not know at all well. first is senator john chafee

but he claimed not to remember shooting kennedy four decades ago. board members say sirhan did not show enough remorse or understand the severity of the crime. >>> today marks the 20th anniversary of another event that shook the nation. it was on this day that four los angeles police officers were seen on videotape beating rodney king. the officers were later acquitted in state court, setting off the los angeles riots. the beating incident led to an era of transparency in police departments around the country. >>> and crime is up now 19% this year in camden, new jersey. also, people there say they know why. the city, in mid-january, which is right outside philadelphia, we're talking about camden in pennsylvania, laid off more than 160 police officers. that was order despite of a budget deficit of $26 million. prosecutors say the reduction of police, more gangs and also a poor economy are the perfect storm for violence. >>> well, hundreds of d.c. schoolkids get a treat from the first lady. >> here or there. i do not like them anywhere. >> that's of c

kennedy during the civil rights movement. after retiring from newspapers, john went on to found the first amendment center. john and i are delighted to welcome a pulitzer prize-winning author and journalist whose recent book, called the children, focuses on the work of courageous young people in the civil rights movement, and whose earlier book, the best and the brightest, was the definitive study of american policy in vietnam. david halberstam. [applause] i have to ask the first and most basic question. you graduate from harvard in 1956. five. '55. with great distinction. no, i was a terrible student. [laughter] i was in the bottom third of my class. that was the heart of my question. how badly did you do at harvard? [laughs] i think i had-- i mean, i think it's true of a lot of people in journalism. i had in those days what we didn't know was attention deficit disorder. i did not focus well on schoolwork, but i was good at something called journalism. i was on the undergraduate newspaper. and i can now think back to the fif

republican, working together with a democratic state legislature and democratic united states senator ted kennedy and a broad coalition of business and health care leaders, labor, patient advocates came together to invent our reform bill and then stuck together to adjust it as we have gone along to refine it. that bill was an expression of shared values of our belief that health care is a public good and that everyone in massachusetts deserves access to it. so from massachusetts the affordable care act is familiar, like a wall it improves health security for all our citizens. it takes a hybrid approach that leverages the best of the government, nonprofits and private industries and with president obama's leadership it was developed and supported by a broad coalition of stakeholders and advocates who understood that our public health and economic competitiveness demanded action. the affordable care act is also cost-effective. according to the congressional budget office, the act would reduce the federal deficit by $124 billion through 2019, and by more than $1 trillion in subsequent decades. so th

what i mean the kennedy airlift had nothing to do with barack obama, sr., kennedy was in 1960 and barackbama, sr., came in 1950 and you document very, i think, interestingly that obama, sr., was much more entrepreneurial in figuring out how to get here. and it had nothing to do with some big government subsidized air lifts. how did he gets here? >> you say he came independently. i mean, even though he was actually a good friend of tom oboya, he didn't get on it. but he did befriend a couple of american women who were -- who were wives working in the u.s. embassy in nairobi at the time. and for all his faults obama, sr., was a very charming man and he could charm the ladies. he clearly impressed he's women not only with his ambition and his determination but intelligence. and so it's actually through private meetings he's actually able to secure a place in hawaii and he actually flew quite independently of oboya's airlift with american women from the american embassy who actually funded his place and his air fare. you talk about the selma speech and, you know, president obama is a consumm

kennedy. i live and supervisor elsbernd's district, and i am a user of the transit system. david campos needs to be on the mtc because he is helping me to resolve issues that i am having with mtc's clipper card program, and i would just like everyone to see that mr. campeau's reject mr. campos gets on the board. thank you very much. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. kennedy. if the folks who are speaking to public comment could step closer to the microphone. >> my name is mark solomon, the north mission district, and i am proud to support supervisor campos to the mtc. he build coalitions, and they have the reaching governing body and it will be critical addressing the shortfalls we have seen in the past five years. if anybody can go to the mtc to restore those relations, it is supervisor campos, and i support his nomination. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i also sit on the working group for the sustainable community strategy. i am here in support of david ca

kennedy. the son of the middle this is not only say john f. kennedy made it clear that it's a paradoxical truth that when you lower tax rates you increase tax revenues because you allow businesses to have that many more dollars to hire that many more people which contributes that many more dollars which is i assume he's a large each of the evolutional is going to mad marty and any ministration insurers who worked in the reagan ministry the reality is that what if the majority of american workers looking right now they watch wall street tank their economy and them on main street. really should use you know get ready because you do you know first of all again let me recommend that you go back and actually i know the identity yeah usually it's ninety to seventy i would gladly want to show you that is because we can make them to make sure they sure as long as army is run by centralized corporate oligarchy always basically and gives the news really stream is and the republicans will be you know most of us will be right back still more ahead here on

if it were i'd be dead by now. >> that's a clip from "the kennedys."lmes. next weekend the eight-part drama will air on the little-known network reelzchannel after the history channel decided to kill the project. some reports claim members of the kennedy family pressured the history channel not to air it. while others say historians had too many issues with the accuracy of the series. joining us with the inside story is a senior writer for "newsweek" magazine. thanks for coming in. we appreciate it. the his chi channel pays $7 million to air this, the $25 million production. history channel decides to kill it, why? >> reelz channel pays $7 million to air it. the history channel kills it because they say, suddenly out of the blue, it's not part of their brand having watched it. they didn't really criticize the acting or the production or the directing. >> yeah. >> but you know, kind of implied that there's something wrong with the movie, and it goes from network to network to network and everyone passed on it. >> so what do you think? you've heard the s

duncan kennedy, bbc news. >> stay with us, if you can, on "bbc world news." the trial of the billionaire head fund manager could shake up the way business is done on wall street. first though, and in bangladesh, the high court has upheld the sacking of a nobel laureate as the head of our micro finance bank. he is also an outspoken critic of the government. we have this report. >> it was a high-profile case, the public from inside and outside bangladesh, known as the banker of the board, and he was present for much of the court proceedings. and union, the high court ruled that the government was rights in sacking him from his position at a bank he founded more than three decades ago. it is seen as a setback for a man who won the nobel peace prize in 2006 for pioneering micro banking in bangladesh, which has since been copied in many parts of the world to help lift people out of poverty. and bangladesh today, this bank has more than 8000 borrowers. the majority of our workers are women. but authorities say three years ago, and he fell out with the prime ministe

it depends which side of the bed kennedy gets up on that morning trade since he is king of the united states, he answers that question. >> also the political question. the law of unintended consequences kids in here, because you have a republican house and more republican senators in the senate, you have republicans preaching repeal. a recent poll by the kaiser family foundation -- only 40% of the american people want to see a repeal. >> there is a canary in the mine shaft, and it is called massachusetts. massachusetts did this mandated, extended care about three years before, and they are living with that now. it didn't save money, it cost a ton of money. health-care systems are wrestling with what to do about that. where we are going is that everybody will end up in an hmo in boston. it will be the kind of managed care. eventually, i guess, we will get there. but if you want to see what is going to happen, what massachusetts, because they cannot afford it and they are tied in knots. >> mitt romney -- >> it is going to be a big issue. >> it was going to -- it was hard to see how this

one time i got tangled up with senator kennedy, and the senate when senator kennedy was there he was going to take him on you better bring your lunch because it was going to be a long time. and one of the changes they made this year is one that he invoked but it was the end of the session, 1996 and it was a labor issue and he was -- it was going to change the labor provision and he was going to block it, and the staff leedy that was as the director said you can't do it because he's going to block it. i said why can't i? she said because you have seven cloture motions. it will take days to bring get, and i said well i don't care. we are going to do it. i wound up keeping the senate there an extra week over this one issue and the step one that he took and this was on thursday night, she demanded that the bill be read and did and they just have reform on that? >> it's available 72 hours -- he couldn't have done that objection under the new rule and so i said tell him to start reading so i went down to get something to eat and i tried to make the senate a decent place to live and work. i

. >> because of the kennedy space center workforce here that takes care of this vehicle, it came back as perfect on its final flight as it did on its first flight. >> reporter: but for lindsey and the crew that put it into space and helped maintain, the final flight represents a dift time. the future of the space program is still uncertain. >> i'm getting sadder and sadder about this being the last flight. >> reporter: it appears to be headed for washington, d.c. and to go on display at the national air and space museum. 21 locations across the country are competing to gain the remaining space shuttles. behind me in the giant vehicle assembly building, the space shuttle "endeavour" is scheduled to roll out for its final launch in april. at the kennedy space center, i'm jeff patterson for nbc news. >>> the big international story kopts to be in libya. forces loyal to gadhafi scored a victory. government warplanes and artillery reportedly helped gadhafi's forces retake a rebel town. huge oil tanks exploded adding to the surging gas prices in the united states. today, president obama met

it happened at kennedy and frederick streets there at 8 80. pg&e says a secondary line came down from a pole sparking a small explosion. a nearby ramp was closed for an hour while crews worked to restore power. nobody was hurt. >>> within the past 20 minutes, a potentially dangerous situation ended in redwood city. residents have been told to stay indoors after a mountain lion was spotted in their neighborhood. first reports coming in about 8:00 this morning and chopper 5 was overhead as police located that animal. it was in a backyard near alameda de las pulgas. fish & game said there was no way to bring it out alive. it was a 90-pound animal. it was shot and carried out of the backyard there. have been numerous mountain lion sightings in san mateo county since the first of the year. >>> the race is on right now to save a row of houses in hercules from a large landslide. take a look at this. you can see that mud, rocks and debris from the landslide reaches to the roofs of several homes on carson street. they will try to add a barricade to pre

he was one of five people wounded in assassination of bobby kennedy at l.a.'s ambassador hotel. wisel was a 30-year-old director for abc news pulling a video cable in the hotel kitchen when kennedy entered. he recall that's night. >> our producer was there. he grabbed me around the neck and said get down there is shooting. i drop mid stop watch. out of i open mid jacket and my shirt was all red. >> zbit being shot by sir hann he came to testify on sir hahn's behalf. >> if he is exonerated or if the board feels that he's served his time and that he should be released, i would have no objections. >> this hearing will be the first time wisel has seen sir hahn in person. >> i'd like to see him. and i understand. i learned this morning that he wants to say something to me. so that scares me a little bit. very no interest in talking to him. you know? what would i say to him? thanks for shooting me? >> and while he doesn't object to sir hahn being release fd the parole board decides he's qualified wisel says he does not feel sir hahn shut should be let out of prison. >> no. no. i don't

>> yes, justice kennedy, and i apologize if i wasn't clear. that what the -- what the court of appeals showed and what the statistics also show is that roughly 92% of the cases are immigration cases, where the person is already subject to custody, and there wouldn't be any need to use it in that pretextual way. so what we're talking about is a few hundred each year throughout the country, and again when it's used properly, it's going to be virtually impossible to allege something like this. >> do we -- do we -- do we have statistics for the states, how many states hold -- how many people are held under state material witness statutes? >> we have -- we have looked for those, justice kennedy. we have not been able to find them. what we do know about the states, though is that more than 30 of the states have statutes that are much more restrictive than the federal government, because what they do is they follow what the framers did in 1789, which is to say the witness has to be given an opportunity to comply, and that's what the framers did. you