if you write a ballot ted koppel instead of barack obama, i mean, so?hen it goes to the congress and the congress has to decide if that's a valid vote. i mean, it's a time bomb. >> host: you resolve it as i must say you resolve a couple of issues here with -- a questionable -- well, you bring someone in, and in this particular instance is dwight eisenhower who still has the grandeur, the clout, the capacity to be able to say whether he did it through his aide bryce harlow or in person, listen, fellows -- >> guest: you have to go back and imagine it's december of 1960. the president -- what we call the president elect has been blown to bits at a time when violence against public figures was far less common than it became. >> host: right. >> guest: and the notion of the elected leaders of the party, of the party, and the elected officials who had far more credibility than they do now, lord knows, saying we have got to come to find some way to resolve this quickly before we descend into chaos, i respectfully would say that's not it. that's as plausible as

now man named koppel is hosting a show called america held hostage. >> host: frank once was hosting it. >> guest: okay, so they still cancel the show. [laughter] >> host: they canceled the show but i don't get a show on cnn. >> guest: just so the viewers understand, they canceled the show so koppel goes to cnn and abc hires jerry springer to do late night programming. you buy that? the reason i did that was two reasons. when i didn't want want to life-and-death matters involving the kennedys and also, because if this notion the underlying notion that the butterfly effect, change this much in everything -- is a good title and everything changes. so this economic calamity which i believe -- >> host: i must tell you was one the one part of the book, and you leave it mercifully quick weight. this sort of princess diana and that you get to the ayatollah khomeini, where he is sort of killed under mysterious circumstances. maybe the flash of a flashbulb blinds his driver as he is speeding through the streets of paris. a little bit too convenient. i mean, but the other thing is, think you had

he talks with "nightline"'s former host ted koppel. >> host: there is a story that is told about the late american playwright ross hard. he was is he a friend who had bought a historic house somewhere in virginia, if memory serves correct. you know this story. and the house was beautiful, the estate was not that impressive. and so the friend had spent some considerable amount of money fixing it up, planting hundreds of trees and bushes and shrubs, and so the friend was showing him around the estate and said to them, so what you think? and mossad said it is very nice but it is just what god would've done if he had had my money. i was thinking about that, jeff, in reading your book because in a sense this is, you know, what god would've done in terms of restructuring history if he had chosen to do that. you have picked three extraordinarily interesting moment in history that could have gone one way and went another. and you have been proceeded from there to create a sort of mindbending piece of history. i read the book, enjoyed it i must say, although i must say it's kind of a clunky t

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he talks with nightline former host ted koppel. >> host: there is a story that is told about the elite american play rate of visiting a friend who had bought historic house somewhere in virginia, you know the story, and the house was beautiful but the estate was not that impressive and the friend had spent some considerable amount of money fixing it up, planting hundreds of trees and bushes and shrubs and so the friend was showing and none of the estate and said what do you think? and he said it's very nice. it's what god would have done if he had the money. i was thinking about that in reading your book, because in essence, this is what god would have done in terms of restructuring history if he had chosen to do that. you'd pick three interesting moments in history that could have gone one way and went to another and you then proceeded from that to create a sort of mind bending a piece of history. i read the book and i must say it's kind of a clunky title that then everything changed. was that the focus? it's good to have an editor. we could have done better than if anything changed t

mr koppel thank you for joining us on the show so well first of all. can stand is in the news today once again because foreigners have faced outrage in this country after a preacher in florida has burned a book of koran and a jury in one of his ceremonies in the united states in the noise city of mazar e sharif people have stormed the human can pound the killed three staff members and killed four koreans is who does that mean the situation in the country is getting out of control completely it only confirmed that. i wouldn't say for the moment that is getting out of control very still some reserves are you from able to see in this way but these are all reactions in mazar e sharif reflects moved all the arguments of population of course of the secretion of koran is very much hurting for and sensitive issue for any muslims in the rural but you know again a strong whose muslim population suffered for at least ten last year a spinoff three in the previous but they are even more sensitive and he acts like well i have a quote here from the turkish president

refused to play his soviet counterpart antonio koppel causing an international scandal details are like. us muscovites will be able to admire the works of public. among others he says the other leading all from. russian this is across russia's capital of being treated to not one russian makes at the same time the latest trends but our website at the party dot com. the. preparations for the takeoff so you spacecraft are in full swing the baikonur cosmodrome with the rockets now installed on the launch pad i'll choose day to blast off celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of mankind's first journey to the stars nazis seen here is that the site and got some first hand impressions cosmonauts just back from space. the we're here at the a launch pad the baikonur cosmodrome we're actually watching right now. they're moving the rocket for the expedition twenty seven of the cars on the position to the particle position very interesting to see this whole process will show you be watching what's going on right now it's a nasa astronaut full stop and she actually just landed on the internat

changes have taken place in new york in terms of the pace, the social life, the problems, the general koppel and visceral changes that you can observe during that period from mayor koch is term of office to today, would you comment on what those might be? thank you. >> first, new york city, new york city is so far ahead of any other city in america, as it relates coming out of the recession, being ultimately able to resume where it was when it was at the peak of its career in a very positive way. when you look at the city today, you read that 10% of all jobs created in the united states in the last quarter were created in new york city. that's incredible. it's just incredible. i think new york city's population is about 3% of the united states, and so we are way ahead in terms of prosperity, current and yet to come. but the most important thing that mayor bloomberg has done, which he gets very little credit for, is he has changed the whole tone of race relations in the city. to the best of my knowledge, there simply is no racial problem in this city. there was, not just that which we refer t

the first section is afghanistan, and it's called koppel hi. for obvious reasons of anybody who has been there, and the second section is called pakistan. not just because it is kind of wacky and pakistan but also because i kind of feel like what we've done over there with our foreign policy is the edgy gimmick game of whack-a-mole when we come in one place and hit the insurgents and they pop out at another place. every single chapter is named for a different song in my ipod. so that is another part of the taliban shovel, not just going back and forth across the border. so this chapter is called the deadbeat club. it's toward the end of the book and i'm with my translator/fixers/s. friend, farouk. as soon as i landed in kabul farouk nitro to the defense ministry to ask about negotiations with the taliban. farouk parked the car. we started walking. i had always regarded this long path leading halfhearted practicing afghan soldiers as my own personal march towards sexual harassment. i thought happy thoughts. farouk talk to way past the first chec

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he is interviewed by ted koppel. also this weekend, live coverage from the annapolis boat festival with panels on bork and the citizen scientists, race, and more. look for the complete schedule on booktv.org. >> policies ban on twitter. the fastest way to get programming updates as well as links to events. you can get links to our washington journal" guest. from book tv, american history, and more. get started at twitter.com/c span. host: in our last 20 minutes, we will get your thoughts on the congress in the white house avoiding a government shutdown. the numbers will be on your screen if you want to weigh in. you can send us an e-mail or a tweet. on the republican line, james you are a first. good morning. caller: i wanted to try to get in when he was on. he brought the point of taking out a picture of your family and thinking about what their future will be. within the next 10 years, they will be wearing silk and talking chinese. host: augusta, ga., a government worker. what do you do for the government? pauline,

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he is interviewed by former nightline anchor, ted koppel. after that, panels or more, scientist, race, and more. but for the full schedule at booktv.org. >> the first sign that a deal was near was at a meeting of the house a republican congress at about 9:45. john boehner, the speaker of the house, came out after the meeting to announce the deal to reporters. his comments are just under three minutes. >> good evening, everyone. i am pleased that senator reid and i have come to an agreement that will cut government spending and keep the government opened. the house will vote yes tonight on a short-term, continuing resolution into next week that will allow time for this agreement to be put together in legislative form and brought to the floor of the house and senate for a vote. we expect the final book for this to occur mid next week. i believe we will have a bridge resolution passed tonight to make sure the government is open. as you know, there has been a lot of discussion and a long fight. we fought to keep government spending down because

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coalition partners and the gadhafi regime, especially to those libyan officials whom we are trying tom koppel to break with gadhafi. -- trying to compel to break with gadhafi. i need not remind you that we are trying to achieve policy goals, and not only is our desire to stop gadhafi power, but we are effectively stopping all of the strike missions altogether without having accomplished the goal. perhaps the gadhafi regime will crack tomorrow. i was encouraged to see that the foreign minister has defected, so maybe this will be over soon. i hope so. but hope is not a strot ategy a it does not degrade armored units. bad weather hampered our ability to use sorties, and they made significa significant progress on the ground. so why are we going to do something that makes it harder or riskier to achieve the american policy. be honest with the american people and ourselves, we are not neutral in this fight. we have intervened in libya. we want gadhafi to leave power. we want the libyan opposition to succeed. at this time, we should be taking every necessary and appropriate action short of committi

coalition partners and the gadhafi regime, especially to those libyan officials whom we are trying tom koppel to break with gadhafi. -- trying to compel to break with gadhafi. i need not remind you that we are trying to achieve policy goals, and not only is our desire to stop gadhafi power, but we are effectively stopping all of the strike missions altogether without having accomplished the goal. perhaps the gadhafi regime will crack tomorrow. i was encouraged to see that the foreign minister has defected, so maybe this will be over soon. i hope so. but hope is not a strot ategy a it does not degrade armored units. bad weather hampered our ability to use sorties, and they made significa significant progress on the ground. so why are we going to do something that makes it harder or riskier to achieve the american policy. be honest with the american people and ourselves, we are not neutral in this fight. we have intervened in libya. we want gadhafi to leave power. we want the libyan opposition to succeed. at this time, we should be taking every necessary and appropriate action short of committi

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gerald ford and subsequent defeat of ronald reagan to be interviewed by former nightline anchor ted koppel. also, live coverage from the annapolis boat festival with panels on war, citizen scientists, race, and more. for the complete schedule at book tv, and get our schedules in not directly to you. >> next, a hearing on evaluating the tsa passenger screening behavior detection program known as spa which began in 2003 funds behavior protection officers looking for unique facial expressions and body language to identify security threats. the government accountability office says the program needs across the board improvements. this is about two hours. >> the subcommittee on investigations and oversight will come to order. good morning. welcome to today's hearing entitled behavioral science and security. evaluating tsa spot program. you will find in front of you packages containing our witness panels written testimony, biographies and treat and testimony disclosures. before we get started, this being the first meeting of the investigation and oversight subcommittee for the 112th congress, at

we as al qaeda geeks seem to assume koppel every muslim knows about the al-aulaqi. many parents are confused about that as my parents and their for education and awareness is important because they might have picked up on that much earlier and that would have been a second step at which intervention could have taken place and the net the point they call the fbi, counterrad could have provided support rather than entrapment and you have this so-called channel program that provides community intervention in the case is just like mohammed communities come together with a government provides court, psychological support, socioeconomics apart, the change that might prevent someone like mohammed from going down. all these options that i just described i think would have been preferable to the fbi entrapment option. none of these options i very much hope over the course of next year we can start developing them because it would actively in the sense of what karen talked about provide us with the more honest account the number in the country. thank you branch. [applause] i