presidential daily brief has been guarded and in great demand since they were created during the kennedy administration. there are lots of individuals in the chain that made this possible. i want to acknowledge joe lambert for his collaboration and partnership. truly embodied the slogan of our national declassification center, releasing all we can, protecting what we must. thanks, joe, for making that happen. [applause] david ferriero: with an advance copy of today's release, i had an opportunity to did in and go -- to did end -- to dip in and go through the history through the lens of the daily brief. i immediately went to five marks of 1970, the first marine division into nam, and my first day in the country. not that i expected to see my name prominently announced in the presidential daily brief, but i was curious about what was going on. related to vietnam, and the principal developments of that day, the middle east policy, libyan troops are coming back from egypt, and entirely redacted reports on jordan and short notes on guatemala and venezuela, not a mention of vietnam. or mouse or cambodia that

prior to that you had no daily briefing by a cia officer. , in the kennedy administration delivery of the document frequently by a senior agency officer, but effectively he was an overpaid courier and not engaged in the daily briefing or anything of that sort. sometimes he would hang around in case a question came up after the document was delivered, principally of the national security adviser wanted clarification that he could pass on. beyond that you do not have anything until 1974 with peterson and floored. >> two administration's we are looking at are really striking contrast in intelligence policy relations. one distant and distrustful and the other close and integrated. what strikes me in the current circumstance by comparison to my last stint in government 20 years ago in the clinton administration is intelligence policy make -- decisions are so much closer and tighter, intelligence is so much more embedded in the process than it was 20 years ago, mostly because we have been fighting wars for the last 15 years and i sometimes quipped that unfortunately can make policy toward c

kennedy brothers. kennedyin the administration. n: when john kennedy was elected president, how old was bobby kennedy? larry: bobby kennedy when he became attorney general -- he died at age 42 and eight years earlier when he became attorney general -- he was 36. he was the third youngest attorney general in american history and he may have been the least qualified for that position ever appointed. his qualifications were that his father told his brother to hire him as attorney general. and jack would have defied anyone on anything except for his dad. bobby had never tried a case in a court of law. extraordinary how green and three years later, when his tenure ended with the death of his brother, he may have been the best attorney general in the modern era if not forever in terms of everything from the war he waged against organized crime and corruption in unions to what he did for the civil rights movement. he may have been the least appreciated. he put meaning into the department of justice. with everything from bail reform to cari

what they were doing in the kennedy administration mattered more than anything.rian: however, from your book, this quote from the number two guy at the fbi who was close to j edgar hoover. here is what you quote in the book. i hope that someone shoots and kills that as sob. we saw -- mr. tye: we saw in the clip that you played a moment ago, the people.e inspired positively. he did the same thing negatively in a way that jack kennedy and few other politicians have done. to have to go back to fdr see someone that inspired as much venom as well as hope. brian: why did he not like him? mr. tye: he understood that bobby kennedy given enough time would fire his boss, j edgar hoover. brief storyell one about bobby's relationship with hoover. bobby kennedy comes in as a young attorney general and he is the boss of the fbi director who has been around for generations and survived a lot of attorneys general. and presidents. and bobby kennedy was a hotline. in that line where bobby first not at hoovert, desk but at his secretary's desk. bobby insisted that the phone go to h

. >> it has been closely guarded and in great demand since they were created during the kennedy administration. there were lots of individuals in the chain that made this possible, but i want to publicly joe during his time as an archivist. he truly embodied the slogan, releasing all we can, protecting what we must. thanks, joe, for making that happen. [applause] with an advance copy of today's release, i had an opportunity to did in and go through the history through the lens of the daily brief. i immediately went to five marks of 1970, the first marine my firstinto nam, and day in the country. not that i expected to see my name prominently announced in the presidential daily brief, but i was curious about what was going on. related to vietnam, and the principal developments of that , the middle east policy, which troops are coming back from egypt, and entirely redacted reports on jordan and short notes on guatemala and venezuela, not a mention of vietnam. or cambodia, for that matter. but enough about me, i now have the honor of introducing today's panel of experts who will address the impor

i mean, in many cases johnson just kind of took the urban programs of the kennedy administration on an experimental level is and implemented them nationwide, and so i think returning to these principles of empowering communities to direct and shape the programs and the resources that they were receiving from the federal government, i think, is really important. i think that there is a role for the federal government in proto proto -- promoting greater opportunity, promoting and lessening inequality in the united states and opening up new dialogues to really address the long-term consequences of racism, discrimination and class inequality in the united states. yeah. >> [inaudible] what you were saying about the idea of it being a band-aid really in any of of this, and it's to your last point, you just mentioned it. i'm wondering if there is any possibility of moving forward unless there is some kind of acknowledgment that 1865 didn't can end everything, it simply evolved after that and that there has been no suggestion of any sort of truth in reconciliation or any kind of national conve

he was saying back in the kennedy administration that they would have people twisting, and that was a big deal. >> oh. >> it would be the equivalent of twerking. there was no twerking, at least by the president. >> did they do the twist? >> oh, man, that's crazy now. that's cray-cray. >>> a star studded salute to bill murray. >> he was honored for the mark twain prize of american humor. and true to form, he couldn't resist stealing the show from up in his seat in the balcony. >> this is happening right now the 51st state in the union. >> so highlights from the award ceremony will air nationwide on pbs this friday. >>> and finally, sharing the joy of childbirth on snapchat. >> only like he can. rapper dj callie took followers through the birth of his son this weekend through a string of clips, which added together and moun incredible footage. >> but there was this moment, the most touching of them all, viewers say. >> baby's here! beautiful. >> that's your son. he's quiet. >> that's my son. oh. >> he kept the delivery room rocking with an eclectic mix of tunes and samples from -- >> a

partly what it was, was that he represented the sense of camelot lost in the kennedy administration. ly the sense that people really understood that he passion not just to ick up his brother's -- do more than his of her sons going into the priesthood. had jack kennedy gone into the priesthood, he would have been a pope. had bobby kennedy been a priest, he would have been a parish priest. he was a kind of guy that got down with people and loved being there. and he knew that it was not only threatening because his brother had been assassinated and there was no way to protect him in the crowd. he would lose a shoe. his hands would come back bloody. people would grab a tuft of his hair. he understood that people related to him in that way and

. - socialist-minded people have invaded the kennedy administration.he people i worry about. i don't worry about these so-called patriotic groups who are outside throwing rocks at the tent. i worry about the people who are inside breaking the hell out of the furniture. - who were his best friends, who were his good buddies? - john kennedy and my father were very close friends. - they were these sexy, young rakes on capitol hill, and they enjoyed each others' company. - they served together in the senate, on the racket committee that was looking out after the teamsters and some of the shenanigans going on with the unions. both he and my father suffered from the same ailment. it was very painful. so my father would go up to the white house, and he and kennedy would both lay down on the carpet, and they both had the same doctor, and would inject them with the steroids, which gave them relief, i guess. - do you think your pop would have run against john f. kennedy if kennedy had lived? - yes, absolutely, they were planning on it. they decided that if that'

there was a so-called missile gap in the kennedy administration which turned out to be false.here was failure to perceive a erection of the berlin wall in 1961 and failure to perceive its fall in 1989. may have been alive when the wall came down, remember how everybody was so surprised, and failure to perceive the collapse of the soviet union in 1991 and failure to perceive the terrorist attacks in 2001. we will talk about the think tanks. when president eisenhower made that speech in 1961 there were very few think tanks, there were a few but not many. they turned policy papers but not big players. today there are 1800 think tanks, 400 of them in and around washington and they don't think, they justify according to the critics, very recently this was in the last week the new york times did a huge spread on the way these think tanks operate because ideally you would think it is a think tank, it is an defendant, is a nonpartisan point of view and research its conclusions but what the new york times reported and the book shows is the think tanks are often pushing the agenda of pe

there was a missile gap in the kennedy administration that turned out to be false.there was a failure to proceed at the berlin wall as 1961 and the failure to proceed at all. you'll remember how everybody is so surprised because the intelligence didn't see it coming and the union in 1971 and the failure to precede the terrorist attacks. when president eisenhower made a speech there were very few tanks, a few but not very many and what they did as they sort t of turned out the policy papers. they don't think, to justify thd according to one of the critics by the name of jonathan alter. now, very recently, just within the last few weeks "the new york times" the huge spread on the way that these think tanks operate because ideally, you would think it's a think tank, it's independent, it's a nonpartisan point of view and research and conclusions. but what "the new york times" reported and what the book shows is the think tanks actually are often pushing the agenda. and they had a couple defense contractors as examples of how this happened. elizabeth warren was outraged

anwas briefly and unhappily advisor, a consultant, to the kennedy administration. this is a less well-known part of the story. those of you who are connoisseurs of washington enjoy this,l because bundy stitches kissinger eloquently. clearly bundy did not want kissinger encroaches on his new he persuaded kissinger that he could be a part-time consultant. wouldll do you think that work, just on the first principles of washington life? consultant? kissinger was driven mad by the fact. he just could not get any time at all with the president. ways, aas, in many pity, because the issue in 1961 berlin.med largest was and there's no question that knew more about berlin and more generally about the germany question than bundy did. on the other hand, it may be just as well that bundy kept him at arm's length, because we now can see that kissinger was a good deal more hawkish on the kennedy'ssis than closest advisors and kennedy himself. wrote, kissinger, that is, that realism -- he rejected, i rejected the view that, i quote, realism should areel us to confirm what we incap

fairness doctrine was, i think the history shows it was instigated or supported in part by the kennedy administration, a liberal democratic administration suing a radio station that broadcasted john birch type material. that is one thing a president could do, a president with hostility toward the established press, institutional press might try to stimulate private litigation against "the new york times" or others. i hope i am not planting a suggestion in his mind. >> i don't think you need to plan one. -- i don't think you need to plant one. donald trump has threatened or sued the media dozens of times over. >> and presumably, he would be happy to finance libel litigation in the same way he is offered -- has offered to finance legal defense for anyone who roughs up a anti-trump protester. >> i think that is right. i have wrestled with this from a legal standpoint. anita, do you ever get exclusive interviews with politicians? either you have got a particular outlet they are interested in, or because you have established a rapport, you get the ability to sit down with them. well, i would say sometimes

and it's now the smallest number that we have had since -- the smallest in size since john kennedy's administration. during the -- the last five years, texas's government has gone up in size. the federal government has gone down. texas's government has gone up. now, my plan for the future -- i see a time when we have smaller, smarter government where you don't have to wait in line because you can get services online, cheaper, better, faster. we can do that. >> steve luker has a question. and it is for vice president gore. mr. luker. there you are. >> vice president gore, the family farms are disappearing and having a hard time even in the current positive economic environment. what steps would you or your administration take on agriculture policy developments to protect the family farms for this multifunctional service they perform? >> we've got a bumper crop, this year. but that's the good news. you know what the bad news is that follows on that. the prices are low. in the last several years, the so-called freedom to farm law has, in my view, been mostly a failure. i want to change many of its pro

what they were doing in the kennedy administration mattered more than anything. brian: however, from your book, this quote from the number two guy at the fbi who was close to edgar hoover. here is what you quote in the book. i hope that someone shoots and kills that s.o.b. mr. tye: we saw in the clip that you played a moment ago, the way he inspired people. positively. he did the same thing negatively in a way that jack kennedy and few other politicians have done. you have to go back to fdr to see someone that inspired as much venom as well as hope. brian: why did he not like him? mr. tye: he understood that bobby kennedy given enough time would fire his boss, j edgar oover. if i could tell one brief story about bobby's relationship with hoover. bobby kennedy comes in as a young attorney general and he is the boss of the fbi director who has been around for generations and survived a lot of attorneys general. and presidents. and bobby kennedy wants a hotline. on that line when bobby first tried to use it, in rang not at hoover desk but at his secretary's desk. bo

is it true that this administration, as senator kennedy has charged, has been an administration of retreat, of defeat, but stagnation? is it true that, as far as this country is concerned, in the field of electric power, in all of the fields that he has mentioned, we have not been moving ahead. well, we have a comparison that we can make. we have the record of the truman administration of seven and a half years and the seven and a half years of the eisenhower administration. when we compare these two records in the areas that senator kennedy has discussed tonight i think we find that , america has been moving ahead. let's take schools. we have built more schools in these last seven and a half years than we built in the previous seven and a half, for that matter in the previous twenty years. let's take hydroelectric power. we have developed more hydroelectric power in these seven and a half years than was developed in any previous administration in history. let us take hospitals. we find that more have been built in this administration than in the previous administration. the same is true o

most dangerous point in our relationships with moscow since the cuban missile crisis in the kennedy administrationand there are worrisome differences now. the old soviet union was ruled by the polet bureau had who small checks and balances on them. putin is an authoritarian figure who does what they want. the old soviet military is much more powerful than putin's military, but putin is willing to use it and last but not least, in the height and depths of the cold war, we had real american leadership and unity. and today, we're absolutely without lead. stuart: the next president, whom solver whomso ever it is-- >> putin will get away with what he can. the next president needs to realize that vladimir putin defines himself with anti-american. he vicerally hates us and blames us for the destruction of his cherished soviet union. the old soviet union when he invaded hungary and czechoslovakia, they were trying to cling to what they had until the invasion of afghanistan, which didn't turn back well. putin is not only interested in clawback efforts, he's interested in conquest. this guy will never be am

kennedy did when he sought the presidency. i will be prepared to deal with the people in the bush administration served with jack kennedy. i knew jack kennedy, jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy. george bush -- and dan quayle would overcome that v-p debate stinger to win the white house. four years later -- --...in 1992 -- dan quayle was back on the stage with bill clinton's running mate -- al gore.but there was a third candidate in the debates that year.ross perot was pulling in enough support to be invited presidential debates.that means that his running mate -- james stockdale -- joined quayle and gore in their undercard bouts.stockdale was a vietnam war hero -- with a medal of honor -- at the top of a long list of other awards -- for the lengths he went to leading prisoners of war and refusing to be part of enemy propaganda -- despite a lot of torture.but on the debate stage -- he seemed old -- confused -- and out of touch. "who am i? why am i here? i'm not a politician, knows that so don't expect me to use the language of the washington insider. 37 years in the navy and only one of th

particularly by the 1960's when we go through a reform period during the kennedy and johnson administrations, and particularly at the start of the great society with lyndon johnson. he is chairman of the committee and its pushes through 50 different measures related to education reforms. so a very substantive legislator in addition to being flamboyant., very interesting, those two aspects. there is a part where he is known as mr. civil rights and he is very willing to champion civil rights on all levels, both legislatively and into the life of the house. i remember you telling me once about even something as minor as sitting in the house chamber and where you sit in the house chamber, that came up for him. matt: there is another story that one of his biographers tells. seating in the house chamber is open as long as you respect the party block tradition. democrats, this speaker, the republicans to the left. but when powell came in, there was a prominent southern number -- member who told the press, this man was a chairman of a committee and said, i refuse to sit next to a black man on the ho

kennedy did when he sought the presidency. i will be prepared to deal with the people in the bush administration, if that unfortunate event would ever occur. ms. woodruff: senator bentsen. mr. bentsen: senator, i served with jack kennedy, i knew jack kennedy, jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you are no jack kennedy. [applause] what has to be done in a situation like that is to call in the -- ms. woodruff: please, please, once again you are only taking time away from your own candidate. mr. quayle: that was really uncalled for, senator. [applause] mr. bentsen: you are the one that was making the comparison, senator and i'm one who knew him well. and frankly i think you are so far apart in the objectives you choose for your country that i did not think the comparison was well-taken. ms. woodruff: tom, a question for senator bentsen. mr. brokaw: since you seem to be taking no hostages on the stage, let me ask you a question about the american hostages, nine, still in brutal captivity in the middle east. senator bentsen, you have been critical of the iran-contra affair, but tell me, does the dukakis-bentsen ticket have a

previous campaigns that the truman administration was responsible for the loss of china to the communists? mr. nixon: well first of all, i don't agree with senator kennedy that cuba is lost and certainly china was lost when this administration came into power in 1953. as i look at cuba today, i believe that we are following the right course, a course which is difficult but a course which under the circumstance is the only proper one which will see that the cuban people get a chance to realize their aspirations of progress through freedom and that they get that with our cooperation with the other organi of the states in the organization of american states. now senator kennedy has made some very strong criticisms of my part or alleged part in what has happened in cuba. he points to the fact that i visited cuba while mr. batista was in power there. i can only point out that if we are going to judge the administrations in terms of our attitude toward dictators, we're glad to have a comparison with the previous administration. there were eleven dictators in south america and in central america when we came in, in 1953. today there are only three left includi

previous campaigns that the truman administration was responsible for the loss of china to the communists? mr. nixon: well first of all, i don't agree with senator kennedy that cuba is lost and certainly china was lost when this administration came into power in 1953. as i look at cuba today, i believe that we are following the right course, a course which is difficult but a course which under the circumstance is the only proper one which will see that the cuban people get a chance to realize their aspirations of progress through freedom and that they get that with our cooperation with the other organi of the states in the organization of american states. now senator kennedy has made some very strong criticisms of my part or alleged part in what has happened in cuba. he points to the fact that i visited cuba while mr. batista was in power there. i can only point out that if we are going to judge the administrations in terms of our attitude toward dictators, we're glad to have a comparison with the previous administration. there were eleven dictators in south america and in central america when we came in, in 1953. today there are only three left includi

think the history shows that it was incity investigated or at least supported in part by the kennedy administration, a liberal democratic administration suing a radio station that broadcast john birch type material. so that's one thing a president could do, a president with hostage hostage -- hostility towards the press. i hope i'm not planting a suggestion in his mind. >> i don't think you need to plant one. donald trump has threatened or sued the media dozens of times over. >> and presumably he would be happy to financially bell lie-- finance libel litigation. >> that's right. you raise an interesting question and it's one i've wrestled with from a legal standpoint. anita, do you ever get exclusive interviews with politicians, candidates where because either you got a particular outlet they are interested in or you have established a rapport? >> i say sometimes we get information but i wouldn't say that we get an interview. hillary clinton -- well famously it was like 200 days and she had not done any press conferences. she did do especially during the primaries she was very interested in doing l

they felt they had to protect -- >> but this guy, patrick kennedy was in the administration under republicanss well. >> right, right, and that is exactly the point here. is that the careerist here is get so caught up in this stuff all the time. or are dragged into it by the applying people, that they find themselves in a situation now. i don't know his situation here, but clearly, there is a problem. and it's not unusual, at all. >> nia, do you think this is something that's gone to, you know, mobilize voters? dupg this is something that donald trump can effectively use against hillary clinton? >> i think so. one of the things that's going to happen tomorrow night, you imagine, is this is the first time a lot of voters and viewers will be hearing about this. it's kind of a complicated scandal. it's not even really a scandal, but you'll see, i think, trump trying to make it a scandal. you've heard from the hillary clinton campaign, robby mook was on a conference call yesterday, where he essentially said this was just bureaucratic infighting. they said that a lot about this whole e-mail situati

kennedy institute in dorchester to talk about the administration's so-called "cancer moonshot" initiative. biden has teamed up with federal cancer. new concern in miami this morning after the discovery of zika-infected mosquitos. a large portion of miami beach remains an active zika infection zone. last week people were infected with zika in a one-square mile of miami. >> a surprise for families with patients and families. who's better than a neighborhood spiderman? >> not too man. >> it was tough to see him through the fog yesterday. >> yesterday we saw those clouds kind of slowly from south to north. in the city it started to brighten at 4:00 in the afternoon. then we had fog back in in the lowest layers of the atmospheres. you were kind of looking down on the fog. this is an undercast. we had the fog holding at building level and then it cleared out and we pushed the temperatures up. we actually hit 69 degrees yesterday, but it was close to midnight before that happened. warm front. there's a cool front to the west. this is coming through this morning with passing clouds and maybe a sp

vice president, senator fulbright and now tonight, senator kennedy, maintain that the administration is suppressing a report by the united states information agency that shows a decline in united states prestige overseas. are you aware of such a report, and if you are aware of the existence of such a report, should not that report, because of the great importance this issue has been given in this campaign, be released to the public? mr. nixon: mr. cronkite, i naturally am aware of it, because i, of course, pay attention to everything senator kennedy says, as well as senator fulbright. now, in this connection i want to point out that the facts simply aren't as stated. first of all, the report to which senator kennedy refers is one that was made many, many months ago and related particularly to the period immediately after sputnik. second, as far as this report is concerned, i would have no objection to having it made public. third, i would say this with regard to this report, with regard to gallup polls of prestige abroad and everything else that we've been hearing about "what about a

kennedy said he had served democratic and republican administrations. "there was no quid pro quo, nor was there any bargaining." today, president obama warned that the battle of mosul will be difficult. iraqi troops and kurdish forces are surrounding iraq's second-un largest city, which fell to isis two years ago. they're backed by american air strikes and u.s. special forces. holly williams is on the battle >> reporter: the village of tarjela was recaptured from isis yesterday, and in the rubble a left behind by the battle, are clues to how isis will defend mosul. the extremists dug a network of tunnels here to protect themselves from attack. lieutenant colonel dilshad salim told us he expects the same tactics in mosul, as well asct more suicide bombers. villages on the eastern side of the city, where kurdish fighters went house to house yesterday, hunting down the isis gunmen holding out there. u.s. coalition air strikes demolished the tunnels in tarjela, which was abandoned by its residents over two years ago. three air strikes, three u.s. air strike

the history of arms control was we were in a nuclear arms race and that was the kennedy, johnson, nixon administrations. the first goal of arms control was to stop the arms race and then under reagan may be given to try to roll back weapons levels. we do face a different security environment today. there's no nuclear arms race, no country is going to spend billions of dollars to try and gain nuclear advantage in the current environment. and a lot of ways and to improve relations and especially the way for the russians they said that we can. if you have the weekend and you better play that pretty well. to achieve those confessions . and much better off we will do it if it makes you feel better with those other issues so we don't want to talk about in geneva. he has this agenda to abolish the nuclear weapons so that invites the russians to pay a price and that is what they need to do. >> and do think there is value to reduce the number of weapons and the united states but that doesn't make sense to produce some transparency what better support of notifications that you know, lot more using your own unila

patrick kennedy is a career diplomat, both republican and democratic administrations. thing to do with hillary clinton. fact. fact two, patrick kennedy was arguing with an fbi agent about a retroactive judgment about something three years before whether it should or should not be classified. david: no, no. hold on a second. it had been classified according to all of the analysts who looked at it. that is what the fbi had said. it was classified. >> yes. david: the state department wanted to declassify it. >> there was a disagreement between kennedy and the fbi agent. david: let me stop you here, lani, because the problem is, that time and again hillary clinton has said i did not email any classified material to anyone on and these are the many times that she said that. now of course comey, who decided not to prosecute her but the head of fbi said that is not true. he was asked specifically. secretary clinton, was there nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received, that is true. that is not true. there was classified material emailed at the time it was

kennedy institute for the u.s. senate to talk about the administration's so-called cancer moonshot initiative. biden has teamed up with several federal agencies to push for a cure for cancer. our ed harding goes one-on-one with the vice president tonight on newscenter 5 at 7:00. ben: take a look outside. i'm sure you are well aware, but it was a spectacular afternoon all across the northeastern united states. harvey leonard is here. harvey: just incredible. you have to check this out. we had 81 in boston today. that is the highest temperature we have ever had so late in the season since 1979. pretty impressive. it is still warm at 80 in boston. a little cooler to the north and west. yesterday, we couldn't warm up.o than 24 hours ago. there is cool air to the north and west, and it will start to move into night. big changes for the end of the week and the start of the weekend. we ben: talk about that in a little while. ben:ben: thank you. police identified the teenager struck and killed by an suv in brockton last night as this 14-year-old freshman at brockton high school. newscenter 5's juli mc

comment history of arms control was we were in a nuclear arms race, and that was kennedy, johnson, nixon administrationshe first goal of arms control was to stop the arms race. and then under reagan we move to trying to roll back weapons levels. i think we do face a different security environment today, and there's no nuclear arms race that, no countries going to spend billions of dollars, more than billions of dollars to try and a nuclear advantage in the current environment. and i think in a lot of ways the arms control can be actually an obstacle to improved relations, because you set up these processes. i mean, especially the way, i have some sympathy for the russians. they are playing a weak hand. that's what we are facing. you are playing a weak hand and they are, what do you do when you have a weak hand? you better play pretty well because you don't have much margin for error. they use these processes to create advantages, create linkages to achieve concessions in other unrelated areas. i do think it often ends up messing up the relationship. we are indifferent to this negotiations, arms control