mccone is alone in the u.s. government and believing that they would not do this unless they are defending something important from aerial attack. perhaps that something would be ballistic missile sites. and also to shoot them or, since aircraft so the americans will find out. so what does the kennedy white house to? the sam sites spooked them. the organization orders a moratorium on flights. it allows only three flights in september. all of them over eastern cuba, away from the known sam sites. there is a special national intelligence estimate. we talked about analytic products. authored by sherman kent, the head analyst. he says it would not make sense for the soviets to place strategic missiles in cuba because it is too risky. we discussed cognitive biases and challenges to analysis. a big one among them is mirror imaging. the idea that the other side is going to reason and figure out things like we would. this is an example of mirror imaging. at the same time, director mccone goes on wave. he was a widower a

mccone,acement is john one of the great cia directors. the agency at the time is monitoring soviet shipment of cuba cano cuba so defend itself against another invasion. u-2 flights over cuba began in the summer. he raises a possibility that moscow might send missiles to cuba. mccone grasps that moscow might make this move in order to put ballistic missiles into cuba to overcome its strategic inferiority in missiles and bombers. august, imagery shows there are service to air , serviceites in cuba to air missiles -- surface to air missiles meant to bring down aircraft. he is alone in the u.s. government in believing they would not do this unless they are defending something important and perhaps that something would be ballistic missile sites and to shoot down reconnaissance aircraft so americans would be blind over cuba. what does the kennedy white house do? ites spooked them. the administration orders a moratorium on flights. it allows only three points in -- three flights in september, all of them in eastern cuba. that month of september

and while paris was full of tear gas and water cannon everyone was asking where is mr mccone the french president has drawn criticism for staying out of sight and for staying silent about the violence today he finally spoke to the nation he made his opinion our good the republic of a lousy opinions to be expressed and decided that not everybody needs to share them and i don't need to have discard like that off i invents when violence arrives. ceases you know the way what did you do to say that but. in the beginning i understand that people are angry and book we don't know and upsets all three of them and many among us with many intimate are you a bottom end citizens can share that and your point and by record not most of them we are not going to back won't bother but to business as usual on the other side of the unit because in the past we have had too many crisis like this. moment is still we have come to a historic point for our kind of tree. with and through dialogue rice backed and engagement comment meant and so on that we are going we're going to me to a manage or we are working o

and while paris was full of tear gas and water cannon everyone was asking where is mr mccone the french president has drawn criticism for staying out of sight and for staying silent about the violence today he finally spoke to the nation he made his opinion are good the republicans are lousy opinions to be expressed and that is that not everybody needs to share them and i guess we don't need to have discord like that off islands when violence or riots. ceases you know the lawyer with a view to saddam but. in the beginning i understand that people are angry a book we don't know and upsets all three of them and many among us is that many in our model are you and bottom french citizens can share that and we're not appointed by the government most of them we are not going to bang on about it but to business as usual on the other side going on it because in the past we have had too many crisis like this. moment the story we have come to has toric point for our country. and through dialogue rice backed and engagement comment meant for certain that we are going to move the end of him into a ma

to the nation is eagerly awaited by many yellow vest protesters who've been asking for president mccone to speak to him directly since the start of peace process back on november seventeenth this will be the first time that he will have to directly address many people wondering what he will say and what he might also them as a way to appease some of the tensions in the requests from those processes but we've also been hearing from the french finance minister who's described these protests that have been going on for the last four weekends as being an economic catastrophe with france with french economic growth being reduced boy zero point one percent as a result of them now we have also been hearing while we've been describing these protests as being a spontaneous social needs and so for the last three weeks there is in fact something think behind it it's social media mainstream media outlets now suggesting that facebook algorithms could be to blame for spreading these protests around twitter yesterday's pesky russian bought their act it again with some two hundred accounts retreating o

it was quite interesting and last week we saw president mccone trying to be more empathetic and more humble in the speech that he gave to the nation did any of that resonate with people well. a single word has learned yet the government is not properly addressing the deliverer and the i mean the real demand the people in the streets as for now a solution now a decision from the governments what the governor has proposed for the moment is just in sri manses we will have during the stream ounces coming we'll have discussion dialogue at a roll call navel and then of the regularly violence or uncertain but well i think it has to give something now that we'll just have the process of putting then the situation and then it will be able to propose something that can be established a set up for the next weeks or next months coming and what better he do people are waiting on what is it there's an offer p. jester. well you know if people as for. mccall has to leave and sons because they didn't they are still waiting for something from him not even the government from the president himself it h

although it's been creeping up just slightly over the last week it seems to many people president mccone is certainly not all men are nice this year he is only new to list. reporting from paris like charlotte. british newspaper the times has named and shamed star fighting russian media outlets offices in the u.k. after an m.p. accused the organization of spreading interest information the hounding of the outlets journalists though has been met with indifference by media protection groups. and initially it was it was a bit of a shock on the other hand it's kind of hardly surprising given the anti russian sentiment there is you know travel in or you key newspapers just say but it's yeah it's not nice to see your picture up there with your name except under the headline of being part of a crime when stooge but as i say you know it's very much part of what's going on just saying you key the sunday times has been so thorough in its reporting of the threat of so-called russian descent from ation that its latest story about the russian funded radio stations putin it which has a bureau in edinbu

well president mccone also held an emergency meeting on sunday with members of the cabinet he stressed the prime minister with holding discussions with political leaders and losing measure movement to see how they can appease those of protests fuel source the and soon will be in syria minister to make sure that the security services are ready for any food the mayhem and it's also be new to the possibility of the frogs to declare a new state of emergency just the looming off to the last one ended well who all this you lazy or was there a movement a social movement that started just a few weeks ago a new city over the high cost of taxes on fuel here in france but since then they've been quest to be a social movement they are unhappy with things such as the high unemployment rate here in france as well as the high cost of living and they sent to continue their protests against another demonstration. expected to take place on saturday. the answer is that you have to be able to talk to the protesters they want taxes to be imposed that was the reason for the protest the way out is to drop th

violence in paris cleared up now the question many people in france opposing is what can president mccone do to show that he is addressing the concerns of the yellow vest protesters but also of wider society question for him is is there a concession that is the right answer that will placate people here because the violence the evidence of violence is gone but the mess the political mess certainly lingers on.

ok interesting and last week we saw president mccone trying to be more empathetic and more humble in the speech that he gave to the nation did any of that resonate with people well. a single word has done yet the government is not properly addressing the deliverer and the i mean the real demand the people in the streets as for now a solution now a decision from the governments what the governor has proposed for the moment is just in sri manses will have during those three months is coming we'll have discussion dialogue at a roll call navel and then of the regularly violence or uncertain but well i think it has to give something now that will just have the process of putting then the situation and then it will be able to propose something that can be established a set up for the next weeks or next months coming and what better he do people are waiting what is it there's an offer p. jester. well you know if people as for. mccall has to leave and sons because they didn't they are still waiting for something from him not even the government from the president himself it has to to mean to

oh well president mccone also held an emergency meeting on sunday with members of the cabinet he stressed the prime minister with holding discussions with political leaders and losing measure movement to see how they can appease those of protests fuel source the and soon will be in syria minister to make sure that the security services are ready for any food the mayhem and it's also be new to the possibility of the frogs to declare. a new state of emergency just a year after the last one ended well you all did you lose yours there are movement just social movement that started just a few weeks ago now should be over the high cost of taxes on fuel here in france but since then they've progressed to do social movements there are unhappy with things such as a high unemployment rate here in france as well as the high cost of living and they're set to continue their protest yet another demonstration expected to take place on saturday in paris. the british army has issued a top level security alert over a russian t.v. journalist he came military and media accuse him of spying after he said he w

violence in paris cleared up now the question many people in france opposing is what can president mccone do to show that he is addressing the concerns of the yellow vest protesters but also of widest society a question for him is is there a concession that is the right that will placate people here because the violence the evidence of violence is gone but the mix the political mess certainly lingers on that point on monday at the summer in s n l the building behind me the french parliament organized political opposition to mr merkel will be manifest in the form of a motion of no confidence in his government being put to the summer innocent by the opposition by the left wing opposition there's little chance that will get passed when the vote is held on wednesday because of the absolute majority of this to make holes government of his party that i can recall march that the republican on the move the problem for him is that the newspaper headlines this weekend have been calling leak offline the republic in flames he has to deal with that but his opinion poll ratings are very low twenty four

violence in paris cleared up now the question many people in france opposing is what can president mccone do to show that he is addressing the concerns of the yellow vest protesters but also of wider society question for him is is there a concession that is the right that will placate people here because the violence the evidence of violence is gone but the mace the political mess certainly lingers on that point on monday at the summer an s n l the building behind me the french parliament organized political opposition to mr merkel will be manifest in the form of a motion of no confidence in his government being put to the some innocent by the opposition by the left wing opposition there's little chance that will get passed when the vote is held on wednesday because of the absolute majority of mr macaws government of his party that he could become march that the republic on the move the problem for him is that the newspaper headlines this weekend have been calling hope week of the republic in flames he has to deal with that but his opinion poll ratings are very low twenty four percent so

mccone, mcmaster and they are all gone. leftu have just jim mattes as the defense secretary. any countries he was most important. had n the pentagon and partial control over the button. so it was these people are figures especially the first year. francine: especially with allies. is it they who have most to lose with kelly gone? to lose.ave the most some countries larger countries very rance which have strong military ties with the u.s. not so worried about jim mattes. him.like others like the baltimore particular states have -- baltic states have been reliant on u.s. forces and phatd test is -- mattes building up iven trump's opinion of nato building the amount of money the u.s. is spending on european defense. francine: who would replace john kelly if >> we don't know. saw the tweet there. he has been talking to nick ayers ayers, that were isn't fake news. it was also ayers didn't want to be there for long term. only as transition. so that might not happen. the one who was in the trail. francine: mark, thanks so much senior reporter for international affairs. stay with us.