mcgovern: mr. speaker, i'm delighted to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. moore. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from wisconsin is recognized for two minutes. thank you so very much. i rise to oppose this compromised bill, although i congratulate people for working very hard on it. but the change of the heat and eat option is not just a little technical change, it's a change that has the freezing, chilling impact on every single snap recipient in wisconsin. it not only increases bureaucracy, it decreases snap benefits to wisconsin families whose benefits were cut already in november. i'm deeply concerned about the concrete, hurt, hunger and quite frankly the frigid cold that we impose today on thousands of low-income american households, including seniors, children and the disabled. as many as 255,000 snap cases in wisconsin will be affected by this change. how do i explain this to the women, children, seniors and disabled in households that this technical change is

mcgovern: mr. speaker, i reserve our time at this time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. lucas: mr. speaker, i would now like to yield to another one of our outstanding subcommittee chairmen, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: mr. speaker, i rise in support of this farm bill and also to thank chairman lucas and congressman peterson for your leadership for agriculture. as many of my house colleagues have already said this morning, this legislation is long overdue. this bill is truly worthy of its name. the federal agriculture reform and risk management act because of the historic reforms it ledge slates. overall the bills repeals or consolidates about 100 programs. along with sequestration reduction that cuts mandatory spending by nearly $23 billion. and the conservation title alone reduces

mcgovern: i yield an additional 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. mr. horsford: to pay for their rent, to pay for their food and other critical bills. they need our assistance in these difficult times and we cannot let them down. the unemployment rate then was 6%. it's much higher now. that congress voted 416-4 to extend unemployment benefits, and under george w. bush they did it five times and they didn't ask for one pay-for because it was important for the american public. it's time for us to do the right thing on behalf of 1.4 million americans. i yield back the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. cole: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cole: thank you very much. i want to remind my friends -- i have no doubt about my friends' compassion. i genuinely do not. we have an opportunity to serve on the rules committee. the compassionate thing to do wou

mcgovern: madam speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin -- two minutes to the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, the ranking member of the committee on ways and means. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for two minutes. mr. levin: thank you to the gentleman for yielding. more than 1.5 million long-term unemployed have now been cut off unemployment insurance with the expiration of the federal program. thrown out of work through no fault of their own, and desperately, desperately looking for a job. they are powerless. and to many in washington they are nameless, only a number. extending this unemployment benefit may talk about compassion, but they are throwing people to the wolves, whether hunger, helplessness or even homelessness. promise to try to change that. when wal-mart advertised 600 jobs in d.,

the young and has a lot of the mcgovern them by the standoff between the police and the testers in kiev the snow coming down thus the number of injured grow as a test is taken to hospital suspected the police will be waiting for them jonas olsson being injured and some grenades and rubber bullets. lots of them believe that being shot at them happen because cameras and press credentials are easy targets. the question now is whether the promise to get the ages between the plates on the opposition will help to stop the escalation of conflict and rename itself the test is a bestie before i get the items that lies in the evenings it was i thinking about him. i get given us a meal. if the un secretary general on t meehan has withdrawn an invitation for iran to attend the tv to tp school from syria. it comes as iran a prominent supporter of pot shots of three teams refused to fire the nation of a transitional government in the country the surgeon general is deeply disappointed by the iranian statements today. the sun also told consistent with that stated commitments. he continues to urge iran

congressman mcgovern tweeted a second tweet this time tweeting g.o.p.g a space bill to rocket this over to the senate. wonder people think we are operating on another planet. another planet? he is right about that. we do think they are all from another planet. they do the same thing to each other and make the same complaints about each other and nothing changes, it is rather insane, isn't it? the members of congress are the only ones in position to each fix this, not us. members of congress would rather keep doing it to each other, crying boo hoo and whoa is me rather than fix it and do the job well for us. that isics inned up and yes, from another plant. that's my off-the-record comment tonight. if you have an important story or issue you think i should take off-the-record go to gretawire.com and tell us about it. coming up, is hollywood turning against obamacare? as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cascard from capital one, i get 2% cash back on ery purch

mcgovern: mr.peaker, is the gentleman from minnesota opposed to the conference report? the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman from minnesota opposed o the conference report? pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 -- pursuant to clause 8 of rule 22rk the gentleman from oklahoma, the gentleman from minnesota, and the gentleman from massachusetts will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. lucas: mr. speaker, i yield myself as much time as i might consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lucas: thank you, mr. speaker. my colleagues, this has been a long and seemingly epic journey that the house agriculture committee that is been upon. mr. peterson, myself, our colleagues literally three years -- actually four when you consider the beginning hearings under then chairman peterson, to start this process. we have all discussed the details. we'll discuss the details more in greater length in just a moment on this final conference report that reflects

liberalism as we once knew it as an electoral force collapsed with the tromping of mcgovernism and then reagan's, reagan and the republicans three electoral victories but liberalism reconstructs itself in the 1990s when labor reconstructs itself around public-sector unionism. that is why i say what happened in newark as an expression of this trend. andy stern the guy who created the force for what it is said and i "making the look said a quite -- correctly that essay used singly the most powerful warsh united states. he is right and we will have to deal with this into the future. >> please join me in thanking fred siegel. [applause] >> fred will be signing books outside and for c-span audience. thank you. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the teachers that are trying to close the gap are dealing with such a hard problem. after reading the book i write a disclaimer that says this is making the assumption that no one is going to fix anything outside of the school. no one is going to do anything about the poverty of the racism or anything. can you close t

his name is bill mcgovern.xperienced prosecutor both with the attorney general's office, the monmouth county prosecutors, 20 years of experience. he knew what he was doing. michael powell who wrote "the new york times" story deserves a tremendous amount of credit for locating these jurors, because that's what makes the case. don't have to take our word for it. listen to these four jurors who were questioned separately and say that mcgovern did a meticulous job, and that the evidence presented was overwhelming. there was unanimity among the grand jurors that serious crimes had taken place. and with a two-page letter, the attorney general basically disparaged, not only the work of mcgovern but also the grand jurors. i think that's why they're upset. >> here's a guy, this guy rousseau, who's the assistant to the sheriff, who's indicted. and his reaction is, no problem. chris christie will take care of it. >> that's a pretty remarkable statement. indicates a lot of confidence on his part. >> and he was right, paren

mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. first of all, let me just say that it is outrageous, absolutely outrageous, that the republican leadership has combined a major piece of anti-abortion legislation with the farm bill conference report into one single rule. restricting our ability to debate both of these important issues. there's an $8.6 billion cut to snap in this conference report. a cut that will only affect poor families, primarily the elderly and the disabled. besides being cruel canned heartless, this cut -- and heartless, this cut is also an unfunded mandate. if states, cities and towns want to prevent hunger from getting worse, they'll have to spend more money out of their own budgets. i know republican mie republican friendses are on a big hurry to go off on their retreat to some luxurious resort, but maybe we could have found another hour somewhere. madam speaker, i'm honored to serve on the agriculture committee. i was honored to serve on the conference committee for the farm bill. i want to thank chairman lu

but following the mcgovern-fraser commission, the role of selecting was shifted to voters. primaries and caucuses start to matter, where individual voters can express their preferences for a candidate, and that culminates in the delegate selection at the national convention. so starting with the mcgovern-fraser commission, the democratic party really made numerous reforms to the process, and they tinkered with it almost every election up until the late 1980s. so the democratic party had no fewer than eight reform commissions starting in 1968. meanwhile, while all this is happening the republican party was very hands-off in the process, and did not become actively involved in reforming the presidential nomination process. one of the most recent activities by the republican party, however, is the creation of a temporary delegate selection committee in 2008. that reform the most recent nomination process. so my broader research agenda really looks at the rules set in place by the national parties and the effect of those rules. i wanted to take a step back from the project and

our correspondent is there a mcgovern county. she is live with the details. challenge in trying to clear the parking lots and the roadways from the bitter cold. when the temperature is under 20 degrees, the deicing strategies do not work. >> temperatures are going down. it howled in with ferocious power. it made the drive home a dangerous one. it was tough on 495. we had seen nine accidents. the other car lost control. night,a time on tuesday the plows could not keep up with the rapidly falling snow. chemicals and salt treatments did not work when the temperature dips into the teens. >> i cannot feel my toes. >> this delivery driver got stuck, after slowing down to help someone else. >> just like me, i hit the gas, and here i am. tryingas a frantic night to stay ahead of the local storm. this toad truck driver knew it would be a big night after arriving at a scene. a person was waiting for bus and then plowed into an electric box. >> the weather is dangerous. will clear the parking lot in the next 15 to 20 minutes. fors going to take a good to six hours in or

leaders like george mcgovern and from the right, like bob dole, came together to make a difference. senator dole called the egregious cut to food stamps, quote, an about-face in our progress fighting hunger. this is because food stamps is our country's most important effort to deal with hunger here at home and ensure that america cap families can put food on their family. they help 47 million americans and nearly half of them children and make a tremendous difference for the health and well-being. food stamps have been proven to improve low-income children's health and development and have a continuing positive influence into adulthood. children's health watch, their research found that after collecting 14 years' worth of data that when families experience a loss or reduction in food stamp benefits, they are more likely to be food insecure, be in poor health and their children experience developmental delays relative to their peers. food stamps somewhere one of the lowest error rates of any government program. around 3.8%, that includes overpayments and underpayments. and i defile t

mcgovern: i yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minute. mr. mcgovern: i want to thank chairman lucas and ranking member peterson for all their hard work on this very difficult bill. i admire their tenacity and i admire their passion on issues dealing with agriculture. there are some good things in this bill, to be sure. but there are some things that i simply cannot accept. i think as we discuss this farm bill that we should remind ourselves of a few simple facts. facts like this, hunger exists in the united states of america. not a single congressional district in this country is hunger free. our food banks, our food pantries, the people on the frontlines in the fight against hunger simply cannot do any more. they are stretched to the limits. one final fact, this bill will make hunger worse in america not better. if this bill passes, thousands and thousands of low-income americans will see their already meager food benefits shrink, for what? why? to meet some arbitrary d

mcgovern had the kind of platform that they were interested in. they thought they were going to bring that new politics to a larger america. i think that inspired them. >> they also met betsy right in that campaign. furious with hillary for advancing bill clinton's career instead of striking out on her own, but hillary pulled back from that. she was more interested in making it as a twosome. >> taylor branch and bill clinton were very young and they were running texas. they had been hired by gary hart to run the state. texas was a political mess. there was a huge split between the progressives and the conservatives. it was an enormous learning experience for both the clintons. hillary was in san antonio and bill was in austin, running the campaign. he took george mcgovern out to to meet with lbj. clinton learned a lot in that campaign. learn how you can lose. from that moment on, bill clinton's concept was how you could be a moderate progressive and still hang onto something in america as it was changing. >> during his term as governor, the clinto

mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. mcgotsche: thank you, mr. speaker. -- mr. mcgovern: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, tomorrow we will be voting on a 950-page plus bill that no one has read. . this is a bill, the farm bill, which was first made available to us late last evening. and to make matters even worse, mr. speaker, we're told that we will only have one hour of debate on this bill, and we're not going to have a rule on the bill. it incorporates the farm bill with an abortion bill. what they have to do with one another is not clear. what's going on here is that the leadership of this house doesn't want anyone to know what's in that bill. and one of the things that's in that bill, which i find reprehensible, is $8.6 billion cut in the snap program. the snap program exists to make sure people in this country do not go hungry. on november 1, last november 1, a cut of $11 billion went into effect. the recovery moneys ran out, congress did not renew them, so everybody on snap, all 47 million people received a cut. food prices didn't go down. know, they y -- you -- the economy h

that was a very experienced trial attorney by the name of bill mcgovern. but what happened is after the indictment was dismissed and based on all of the suspicious events that preceded the dismissal, i encountered the acting prosecutor, the person who was installed by the attorney general during this period. and i said, look. this is clearly wrong. there's no justification. there can't be any justification for the dismissal of all 43 counts. there's a very high legal standard that has to be met to justify the dismissal. and i was the next day spended without explanation. i asked for an explanation. i was told i wasn't entitled to one, had to turn in my badge, access keys, so on. my internet connection to the office was severed immediately. and for three weeks, i was in limbo until i received a one-sentence fax dismissal letter from the director of the division of criminal justice. >> did you feel all this time that you were under the punishing hand of chris christie? at the time? >> i felt -- whether it was christie or the administration in general, i clea

there are many red and black flags these are the flags ok so called ukrainian insurgent army ok mcgovern i love you all these people brought your medals there you know your mess you've made your point john would you reflect upon that because one of the reasons why i wanted to do this program is that it seems to me most of western media mainstream media likes to overlook this not everyone but most people do why well because the. pro so-called pro european nazis are pro europeans and that's what counts i mean dmitri is quite right to draw attention to the ideological soil in which part of the opposition movement in ukraine has grown and there is absolutely no doubt and i know this through direct experience that part of it is rooted in nationalism but there is violence i think in the d.n.a. of the ukrainian opposition more profoundly after all mr klitschko party. is called punch in russian means punch in the ukraine as well he is a boxer and he has now presented himself on to the political scene but clearly as a man who wishes to embody still as a politician the kind of violence that he pra

massachusetts democrat jim mcgovern. >> there are those in this country and in this house who would destroy the programs that help people in need. those who have replaced the war on poverty with the new war on poor people. >> reporter: republicans want the cost of those unemployment benefits to be offset by cuts elsewhere. poverty and income inequality, scott, are shaping up to be key issues not just here in the capital this year but at the white house as well. and the president says he'll lay out his agenda, which includes an increase in the minimum wage, in his state of the union address later this month. >> there was a deadly crash today involving a u.s. military helicopter, a navy sea dragon with five on board went down off the coast of virginia. two crew members died. there's no word on the cause. combat continued in iraq today where the government is trying to regain control of the city of fallujah in anbar province which was seized last week by islamist extremists. violence has been rising in the past year all over iraq. elizabeth palmer has just arrived in baghdad for us. liz, what

mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. speaker, we live in the richest country in the history of the world and yet hunger is a problem in the united states of america, a very costly problem. a recent report published in the journal of health affairs shows that four people are getting sick because they are running out of food at the end of the month. hunger increases the likely heed that people will get other ail -- ailments. poverty may be the reason for increased health risks due to dangerously low blood sugar. we know that poor families prioritize which bills they pay and that food, grocery bills, often falls behind other responsibilities like rent and utilities. i ask unanimous consent to insert an article from "the new rk times" titled "study ties diabetic crisis to dip in food budgets," into the statement. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: this marks the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty, one of the key programs in our attempt to reduce and eliminate income equality is the supplemental nut

mcgovern: mr. speaker, today we mark the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty, a dedicated legislative and policy effort by president lyndon johnson to reduce and eventually reduce poverty in america. yet, despite the many successes in poverty, and there have been many successes over the past 50 years, there are those in this country and in this house who would destroy the programs that would help people in need, those who have replaced the war on poverty with a new war on poor people. unfortunately, that's what's happening right now with the farm bill. i'm honored to serve on the agriculture committee and as a member of the farm bill conference committee. needs a america comprehensive, forward-thinking bill. i represent farmers and farms, conservationists and agriculture research institutions. and like every other member of congress, i represent people who rely on the nutrition programs in the farm bill to put food on their tables. that has been my primary focus as a conferee, to support and fig

the franklin roosevelt john kennedy's and the other people who saw the world differently george mcgovern had a very different vision of the world think the time is now and people are waking up you guys thank you so much for being such an integral part of the awakening c. series untold history united states thank you so much for. really pushing us back on and that's it for our show tonight you guys thanks for watching. millions around the globe struggle with hunger. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. against g.m.o. and we think that's. the. priest. there is no. evidence any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is. a free. enterprise. golden rice. speak your language. programs and. documentaries in arabic it's all here. reporting from the world's hot spots fifty yard p. interviews intriguing story to tell you. visit. some of the sixteen. words came from. the european union is ironic taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. territorial waters t

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there's been a few members who tweeted out some support of congressman alan grayson as congressman jim mcgovern congressman peter welch really with a cell researcher leo is now full throat for clemency a lot of other members of congress when it says some release espionage act charges dropped everything like that what ultimately started in what they could do but once you're on what has been saying for years that the american will be horrified that the nsa knew what they were doing but he took his oath that more seriously a gesture was unwilling to expose constitutional violations like edward started was an angelina thirty seconds when i have been york times calling far at the outpost oden and chelsea manning's that have pardoned. well i don't think in your hands is gone as far as to call for pardon for kelsey manning at which is on the sad thing is how even as recently as last month's mainstream established media have been citing diplomatic cables and and wore lots released by private manning on those information are still his brain still use on a regular basis and you cannot ask for clemency fo

been a few members you've tweeted out some support congressman alan grayson has congressman jim mcgovern congressman peter welch. really rather really going to come out full thought throat for clemency a lot of other members of congress want to see some release espionage charges dropped everything like that well to really snowden did what they couldn't do but wanted to do ron wyden has been saying for years the american people be horrified at the n.s.a. knew what they were doing but he took his oath more seriously i guess or wasn't willing to expose costs to show violations like edward snowden was and your we have thirty seconds what do you make of the new york times calling for both snowden and chelsea manning's kind of pardons well i don't think the new york times has gone as far as to call for a pardon for kelsey manning which is kind of sad seeing as how even as recently as last month mainstream established media have been citing diplomatic cables and and war logs released by private manning those information are still newsworthy and still use on a regular basis and if you're going t

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because the hubert humphrey's of the world died off and were replaced by george mcgovern's and much worse. i would describe the president as a liberal and when he belongs to reverend wright church one of the things he preaches against his middle-class. he preaches against middle classes. you have to avoid those middle-class versions. exact we hardly get to be middle class without middle-clmiddle-cl virtues? somebody has to explain this to me. contemporary liberalism, the closing chapters of the book anticipate the election in new york city. i'm not going to promote the book that way because no one will then read it. but the election in new york city has put its power on every major office. people are very close to the international union seiu and united health care workers. they are combined. de blazio the new mayor alyssa mark vigorito the speaker of the council votes worked for seiu. you can go on down the list. one of the ways liberalism changed is that when it lost the american majority and i talk about this in the section i called those philosophical crisis of american liberalism it

the presentation by the lead prosecution, his name was bill mcgovern, was perfect.perform ing our duties. the only reason we can think of the case was dismissed early was there was politics involved. >> that's part of what i want to ask you about. these transcripts you're asking for, on one hand the christie team is dismissing them as wild-eyed, a lot of smoke with no fire. on the other hand, they're asking for a gag order. do you think there's something that will indict chris christie in these transcripts? >> not exactly. the reason they're so important is when the attorney general swooped into our office and killed the case, they gave the trial judge who was presiding specific reasons why the grand jury presentation was flawed and justified dismissal. if we obtain the transcripts, we can basically corroborate or dispel those allegations. also we can determine the strength of the state's case at the time. it was kind of a throwaway argument. the grand jurors said the evidence was very strong. if the grand jury transcripts corroborate -- >> reflect that -- >> then i

on the one hand you have the failures of the mcgovern campaign. they want a campaign who is not going to be able to be pigeonholed as representing a liberal or left part of the party. carter with his southern roots, his small-town background, they think he is going to appeal to somebody who wouldn't vote for mcgovern or might be alienated by that part of the democratic party. also, he is an interesting candidate because he is from the south, and he is speaking out in support of integration and the gains of the civil rights movement, and that also really helps create momentum he had them. he is seen as a candidate who can bridge a lot of divides and draw in a lot of people. >> that video represents the peanut brigade. who are the peanut brigade? >> it is the friends of the carters from georgia who went to other states to campaign. it was impressive when they went into the snowbound streets of new hampshire. the advantage, when you are going to a voter and saying, i am asking you to vote for someone i personally know, that carries a lot of weight. p

also downton abbey's mcgovern.e watching come disunless he's with his family. breaking bad was also on the list. what is the president's taste in television tell us about him. do the shows he watch have any influence on him and what kind of impact they have on us in the political culture of our country? for that, i want to introduce our panel, we have culture writer with "the new york times," david isikoff, liz winstead, john fuguelesang is back, and we have michael shearer, the white house correspondent for the new york times who wrote the article this week about the president's edgy tv picks. welcome to all of you. michael in washington, i'll start with you. i'm reading through your list, obviously there was an error in your reporting because up with steve kornacki was not on the president's list, clearly an oversight. but i'll let that one go for right now. you write in this article, it is obviously difficult to discern what any of this really means or tells us about the president's psyche or politics or anythin

he cut his teeth on george mcgovern's failed wonderful presidential campaign.e was a man of the anti-war movement and of the civil rights movement. he made the right enemies in arkansas. he made enemies of the segregationists. he did move to the center. he was a reaction to democrats losing the white house four out of five times as he came of age. he did pull his party to the center. but i think his values have always been more on the progressive side. bill de blasio, likewise, was a supporter of the revolution that was not terribly radical in the early 1980s, but somewhat radical. then he went to work for bill clinton in hud. and went to work for hillary clinton. so both men moved to the center. now, bill de blasio's moment is a moment for the left which allows him more latitude. but i wouldn't say that either philosophically or on pulse there's a huge gulf between these two men or between him and hillary clinton. >> i guess what belies the theory this is driven by politics and a view towards 2016 was the idea if that were the case, it would seem to be a prima

i've been asked to introduce george mcgovern. i'm glad to be here to introdue another right-wing crazy. so the truth is though someone came to me this morning and said, i love your introduction. and is smiled, i said thank you for that generous comment. they're always so short and they never distract from the speaker. i can't remember a thing you have ever said. so i promise you i will be short, i will not disappoint you but it is very hard for me to speak about debbie wasserman-schultz in a forgettable way. i met debbie in the late '90s and i met her in a place where i think she did almost her business, the superstore, baby love in broward county. debbie spent a lot of time there and few years that followed, she was having little kids as i was i. i joined her in the legislature almost immediately and became closeia friends with her because frankly she led a battle against so many things wrong headed in this state and for me having her around was a incredible opportunity. i have always viewed debbie as both a younger sister and a

they asked me to introduce george mcgovern.'m glad to be your turn introduce another right wing crazy. [laughter] the truth is someone came to me this morning and bad, you know, i love your introduction. i smiled. i should thank you for their generous comment. she said they are always so short and they never distract from the speaker. i can't remember a thing you've ever said. so i promise you, i will be short. i will not disappoint you, but it is very hard for me to speak about debbie wasserman schultz and a forgettable way. i met jb in the late 90s. i met her at a place where you think she did almost all of their business. it was the superstore baby love in broward county. debbie spent a lot of time there in a few years that followed because she was having little kids, as the side. i joined her in the legislature almost immediately and became friends with her because frankly, she led a battle against so many things that are wrongheaded in this state. for me, having her around was an incredible opportunity. i have always viewe

they sent them to senator george mcgovern and were presented at mitchell from baltimore.itchellpresentative from baltimore. they immediately return the files to the fbi did not make them public. they sent them to three journalist in addition to sending them to me. they sent them to jack nelson at "the l.a. times." and tom wicker, columnist ben at "the new york times." it is important to keep in mind in addition to the fact we did not really know -- the public did not know what was happening in the fbi that very few wrote asts ever critical comment about the fbi. jack nelson and tom wicker were two of about three or four who point.until that at "the l.a. times," jack never received the envelope, even though it was addressed to him. the fbielivered to immediately. i did not know this until years later when i read the on thegative report fbi's investigation. it is a little less clear what happened as to whether tom wicker received. what they did do was they merely gave the files to the fbi -- they immediately gave the files to the fbi, but a poorly kept them and copy them, u