"o'brien's not going to get away with it" nixon told haldeman.to get proof of his relationship with hughes and just when he's done for the money. nixon was frustrated at his campaign's failure to find dirt on the democrats." back to you, doug. nixon always wanted to get even for the fact he paid brutally in '62 for the connection where he brother had gotten the $250,000 so-called loan from hughes and larry o'brien, chairman of the democratic national committee was also on the payroll of hughes and wanted that in print and wanted to get the dirt. >> absolutely. you know, chuck holston used to say nixon was part of the knee in the groin school of politics. i mean, he came up just going after everybody when he ran for congress, when he ran for senator. the pit bull for the eisenhower campaign in 1952 and '56. he really liked rough and tumble politics and wanted to get o'brien. he thought he could him on what he said and also by bugging the watergate, they thought there's information that cuba had a connection to the democratic party that some cuban,

to cross-talk a rock i'm joined by my guest michael o'brien in washington he is a former defense department contractor in iraq and author of the book america's failure in iraq also in washington we have michael hughes he is a journalist and foreign policy analyst and in london we crossed to joseph willits he is from the council for arab british understanding only gentlemen cross-talk rules in fact and you can jump in anytime you want i very much encourage it michael bryan if i go to you first in washington the united states has been deeply meddling in the affairs of iraq for the over the last ten years does it need to meddle more . well you know what it really needs to peter is a decision decision needs to be made by the president of the united states do we get go back to we get involved again or do we just wash our hands of it and i got to say the reason why it's a decision is because if we're going to get involved in iraq again in century expect it's going to have to be a lot more than three hundred advisers. manpower and a lot of force is going to be needed to keep this country from comp

. >> reporter: kevin o'brien, says his p.t.s.d. therapy at the v.a. can be excellent one day but horrible the next. one of his counselors, he says, is caring and helpful, while the other is cold and bureaucratic. o'brien is on four different medications for anxiety and depression but says the drugs don't work. >> i still have, like i said, my terrible days. so in that sense, no, my p.t.s.d. not get anything better. and the fact that they just throw medication at it doesn't do anything. it just prolongs it. >> reporter: two recent studies confirm widespread concern with v.a. mental health care. in an american legion survey of v.a. patientes, 59% of veterans report that their p.t.s.d. symptoms are not improving or are getting worse. that figure comes when the v.a.'s budget for mental health has risen 61% in six years to $7.2 billion. jeffrey greenberg conducted the survey. >> the numbers were a bit shocking. the challenge of it is that when you talk about people with very complex problems-- p.t.s.d., mood disorders, substance abuse problemes, head injur

it began in 2004, when conan o'brien, leno's young heir apparent, threatened to leave and go to fox ifomise to give him "the tonight show." the network agreed to what it hoped would be an orderly succession plan in which conan would replace leno in 2009. leno was one of the last people to find out. >> leno: first time, i got blindsided. >> kroft: what did they tell you? >> leno: oh, "you're out. you got... you know, going to go with this and ba, ba, ba." "oh, okay." and i went, "okay." >> kroft: "you're out. you're fired. you got four more years." >> leno: yeah, that was basically it, sure. >> kroft: did you ask them why they had decided to do this? >> leno: no. >> kroft: you didn't? >> leno: no. i mean, "why?" no. ( laughs ) >> kroft: no, i don't mean like..." >> leno: "why?" >> kroft: no, i mean-- >> leno: "why are you doing this?" >> kroft: no, i mean, kind of like, "okay, so why? what's the..." >> leno: you know, you have a girl says... >> kroft: "...logic behind this?" >> leno: "...i don't want to see you anymore." "why?" you know? she doesn't want to see you anymore, okay? >> kro

operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael o'brien who was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed the disintegrating security there on artie's in then. and scoff and. money and bill to get a good deal a deal of money out we have a lot of scoff and we've got to worry about i want to pay off our our pension bell the oil is as base can get taxes and roll tears from it. you know the all prices dropping from the four you can base your entire. you know your tire color me on oil with we together through war and peace. people as fanatics but in for what it's worth this is a vast states for the for the united states and we want to break with that and everything that that means but we all we want to say that we want to have influence we want to have influence with partners there with the economy in britain is being run just know is leading towards massive inequality on a historic scale and i think the real question is can we afford not to vote yes in september. to apologize that this report was actually about scottish independen

john o'brien joins me and he participated. thank you for being with us. can you tell us what it was like that night? >> i was 20 years old. i was legally a criminal, mentally sick and morally simple. >> that's the way the is police and society viewed you. >> exactly. we were without empowerment as basic human being. there was no report, lots of abuse, and people profited off that aggression. >> abuse by police. >> by police, by mob bar owners and others that benefitted. there were lawyers that benefitted. they would pept them. they'd plea deal, get money for representing the gays in court. they made money out of our oppression. there's a lot of elements to that. >> it was boiling under the surface when stone wall occurred, when that raid occurred at the bar, at the club that night. >> because it was part of that period. the civil rights movement had been going on for years, and many gay people involved or observing what was going on were affected by it. they were inspired by it. >> it exploded in new york, didn't it. >> that there was unrest all or the un

the winning team not only gets the larry o'brien trophy, the winning team gets to drive a tank throughonald sterling's house. [ applause ] this is -- the heat's fourth year in a row in the finals. interesting fact, either the heat, the lakers or the spurs have played in eves since 1999.. and the clippers have played in none of them. [ laughter ] the playoffs -- the playoffs are odd to me. imagine in your boss said to you, hey, if you work really hard this year, in april, you get to work an extra two months while everyone else goes on vacation. you'd fake a heart attack, right? we have two special guests here tonight, with a sneak peek at their new song "hangover," snoop dogg and psy are going to be with us. [ applause ] quite a combination of humans. psy is the gangnam style guy. snoop was in a gang, i guess. [ laughter ] i want to mention, before they get out here, snoop thinking psy is a figment of his imagination, so -- don't say anything. it seems weird that they recorded a song together, but actually makes a lot of sense. psy is the first artist outside the u.s. to get more than 2

. >> let me present the larry o'brien trophy to this year's nba champions. kawhi leonard.ans of san antonio know how great you are and now the whole world knows, you are the 2014 bill russell mvp. >> all right, so leonard wins the mvp, bill kairns thinks he needs a raise. >> he makes only $2 million. he's in for a big raise. >> so tim duncan, manu ginobili and tony parker became the wi s win'sesting trio in postnba history. they have five ring. >> they're one -- in our lifetime, they have one of the best dynasties going. >>> let's take everyone down south to brazil. three world cup matches. we start with switzerland and ecuador. tied at 1. added time. switzerland nets the winning goal. another group e match. the french leading 1-0 in the 47th minute where they break out the goal-line technology where you can see the ball crossing the line right there. france wins it 3-0 argentina versus bosnia-herzegovina. lionel messi added the insurance goal, they hang on to win it, 2-1. back here at home, we get to golf and the u.s. open, we got martin kaymer. >> kaymer. >> kaymer. >> i

some american army hardware that was supplied earlier to iraq to help fight the incision so michael o'brien he was a u.s. defense department can trying to interact discuss the ranks this integrates in security with an isa now in our thirty's in that you now have instead of suicide bombers and all that and people getting killed you know it's going to the next step . instead of people just being people getting murdered now you're taking actually land there they're actually they vote for all practical purposes running and bar province they're taking over the country now how much responsibility should put on the iraqi government here well you are incompetent it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was it was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force now and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take on kept a lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer the government can't do this unless it was a ship like it was under saddam. i wanna rock struggles to defeat the jihadists in the country the u.s. is fab

he can't be here tonight, francis o'brien. he was just this very bright guy. i don't know really how they found each other. francis at the time lied about his age, he said he was 34. [laughter] he was really kind of the brains behind this thing. he, francis and his brother had to find a counsel. there was a very sort of partisan -- where are you, david? nod your head? >> yep. >> okay. a very partisan staff left over from seller who had been defeated, and this had to be seen as nonpartisan, as really fair. so francis and his brother, john -- very funny stories about this, but they went out and found the come for the committee in john door who had been in the eisenhower justice department and in the bobby kennedy justice department working on civil rights. he was a real hero, but nobody could call john dorr a flame thrower or partisan figure. and they understood that this had to come from the center, it had to be bipartisan for the country to accept it. and that's why the vietnam war, the invasion of cambodia, other things had been suggested to be part of the im

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block it if not politically then the national guard and leadership will block it in john francis o'briens connected tear tammany hall and extremely hot style to new the idea of a black national guard regiments. >> he is the commander of the new york national guard as a major general and to become police generator and teeeight did not want to a black national guard. of those but it is even longer but it is about prestige and status and employment opportunities that they did not want blacks to have. that is the way that they saw things. so not only blocking the establishment of the regiment when it is finally approved he make sure it is of white commander as part of the deal and he believes there will be no black officers by the time it is federalized and goes to europe. that did not have been napoleon harvard law school graduate attended black 70 been to win the captive and established a provisional benjamin to essential to the establishment of the of recognize regiment. but he was a lieutenant in the machine-gun battalion. then banned george macy was an attendance as well. >> condition t

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sir william o'brien is 97. corporal bill bryant, 89. 7000 vessels formed the d-day armada.these vip's will reach race it's root. they will remember old friends who never came home. >> just imagine what those men were going through this time 70 years ago, hours before they lost to that invasion onto the beaches of normandy. you can find out much more on our website along with my interview with the u.s. defense secretary, chuck hagel. from all of us here at "bbc world news america," think if service -- thank you so much for watching. >> make sense of international bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years, kovler foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you through the business strategies and opportunities of international commerce. we put our extended global network to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. wh

south jersey and held each year in several states but started in haddon township in memory of tyana o'brient lost her battle some same ago. her daughters wanted to help. 90% of money raised today will stay right here in our area to help patients add virt eye a. >> still to come on "action news" tonight, tourists were forced to plea a landmark in washington. details of the scare in the nation alcapital coming up. >> it could soon be legal to treat a common disorder with marijuana. >> walter we had sunny and warm start to the weekend and comfortable at some time. looks like the temperatures will be above average aerlzly as tomorrow. those details coming up in the accuweather forecast next on those details coming up in the accuweather forecast next on "action news." >> a series of car bombs are blamed for deaths in baghdad today. targeting shiite neighborhoods. this under skortz violence trat that erupted in parts of rye ak after late a. >> the nation's capitol was evacuated after a brief scare involving a small plane. the aircraft flew into restricted airspace over washington this afternoon.

american army hardware that was supplied early it's who iraq to help it fight be insurgency michael o'brien who was a u.s. defense department can trying to interact discuss the racks disintegrating security with a nice in our in our teens in that. you now have instead of suicide bombers and all that and people getting killed you know it's going to the next step. instead of people just being people getting murdered now you're taking actually land there they're actually they vote for all practical purposes running ambar province they're taking over the country now how much responsibility should put on the iraqi government here well you're actually government's incompetent it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was it was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept a lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of the iraqis the iraqi government can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do

. >> dennis o'brien voted against the bill not because he disagrees with principle he says council over stepped bounds. >> i'm not against reducing penalty but it has to be done or should be done in harrisburg. >> proponents said it could save the city millions of dollars by not spending resources to prosecute offenders and we also spoke with residents who think the simple fine of $5 is too lenient of a penalty. >> they'll all brush that off like oh, well, it's only a $25 fine and i ain't going to get no jail time! >> mayor nutter has until september to decide whether to signoff on the bill or not. but with council vote of 13-3 it is veto proof. >> live in university city. sharee williams. "channel 6 action news."" >> thank you, sharee. criminal justice cents are down the block from city hall is re2345eu78d justice juanita kiddstout center. juanita kidd stoudt was the first to serve african-american woman to sit on any state supreme court when appointed in 1988. >>> police are investigating what caused a truck to slam into several other vehicles in the port richmond section of the city

the chamber's two republicans were joined by democrat dennis o'brien in saying no. >> if this ever wento the supreme court they likely -- they're likely to say philadelphia has no business making up its own penalties for things that the legislature has already penalized. >> reporter: in the end, kenny's measure passed by a 13 to three vote. on paper that's veto proof. important because mayor nutter made clear he is not a fan of further reducing penalties for possession. >> the best with not to get arrested for having small amounts of marijuana in your possession is to not have small amounts of marijuana, meth, crack or heroin in your possession. all of which are illegal. >> reporter: kenny' bill is set to take effect in three months. he wants the mayor to issue an executive order to reduce the penalty for pot immediately. that seems very unlikely. iain and dawn? >> bruce, thank you. >>> if you drive in delaware, tolls are going up. >> when you'll need to grab some extra change before you hit the highway. >>> and some chickie's and pete's employees have to pay, v back pay coming that are

operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael o'brien who was a u.s. defense department contract to interact discuss the worsening security there on r.t. in the last. iraqi government's incompetent it's inept but you know that the job is impossible but you know saddam was a was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force it's a lousy way to live but you know on his horse day things like this never happened the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept a lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of iraq that the iraqi government can't can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it was a dictatorship like it was under saddam. now the campaign to convince the people of scotland as to whether they should stick or split with britain has gathered i speak up on that part of the story in a couple of. we will be barred from fire the. pardon of laws rules and regulations which cause europe to be the

operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael o'brien who was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed a worsening security there and the now. iraqi government's incompetent it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was that was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force it's a lousy way to live but you know on his horse day things like this never happened the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept the lid on a wall of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of iraq that the iraqi government can't can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it was a dictatorship like it was under saddam was hours remaining before the deadline expires for a gas deal between russia and ukraine to be signed away examine what's at stake if the negotiations fail that and more coming shortly. but i'll talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the re

we're all we're all just kind of in the zone so your character is infamous for impressions conan o'briensaid you do the best nicolas cage's ever seen nichols and i hope she's. well. it's an honor to be here although i thought this was your show you did a lot of who don't really know what it means but. oh yes all go with the flow. my dear friend is out but you know we spend a lot of time to give and i know you do well so i mean he do. you know the great you may have what do you remember about him probably not the. one girl she bring me cafe au lait make my balls feel like concrete. what do you want. to reflect do you ever think of doing a top of the rock and doing bridge and i did do that at one point so i i did it. at probably when i was about nine hundred twenty probably for three four years into my early twenty's and i did a lot of characters and impressions and i. had a brief stint on mad t.v. which was not. not very pleasurable but yes i did a lot of that but then i kind of burns out i don't know it's a little league of bang theory has free golf fans were devoted fans yet are tricky

joined by my guest michael o'brien in washington.

sympathizing with isis and blaming the fallout on iraq's prime minister joining us in the now is michael o'brien also are of america's failure in iraq he was a department of defense contractor in the country thanks for being with us obama saying that he can't rule out anything when it comes to helping iraq fight insurgents how do you interpret this. well that's an accurate statement you know he cannot. obama cannot rule out anything but i don't really have all high hopes that but that much is going to be done beyond a. fighter support the united states air force so you don't think it means that the u.n. was going back to iraq. i would wager that the chances of the united states sending ground forces back to iraq are very small but that's today. it's such a political hot potato because obama. will be part of his reelection a couple of years ago was that al qaida is is gone it's all but dead doesn't exist anymore which was all you know pio in the sky but you know it really would be an admission that the united states effort starting from the invasion of two thousand and three up to the present day

operates in syria just over the border providing a steady flow of reinforcements to iraq michael o'brien he was a u.s. defense department contractor in iraq discussed this in the disintegrating security they're an r.t.s. in that you now hear of instead of suicide bombers and all that and people getting killed now it's gone of the next step. instead of people just being people getting murdered now they're taking actually they're actually they've got for all practical purposes running in burra province they're taking over the country now how much responsibility should put on the iraqi government here. well you are actually governments and carpet and it's inept but you know that the job is impossible you know saddam was that was a bad actor he was a bad guy but he kept a lid on everything through force the maliki you know is a shiite and the sunni's are upset because they were in charge and they want to take over again and saddam kept a lid on all of this maliki doesn't have a prayer of the iraqis the iraqi government can't and i don't know if any iraqi government could do this unless it wa

to cross-talk a rock i'm joined by my guest michael o'brien in washington he is a former defense department contractor in iraq and author of the book america's failure in iraq also in washington we have michael hughes.

. >> reporter: first time feaster mike o'brien gives the food and the concept four stars. >> we likeo when we go out to dinner sit at communal tables. >> reporter: and while some may have reservations about dining with strangers at another stranger's house -- >> there's an exciting thing about going to dinner when it's sharing among a good group of people. >> reporter: cooks go through a screening process and they in turn screen the people who sign up for the meals. >> i personally haven't had any bad experiences. >> reporter: and after paying for ingredients and giving feastly a cut which can be up to 15% paschal says he makes a profit in addition to new friends a recipe these diners are willing to try. >> how bad can it be? it's one people. >> reporter: one meal that's bound to be memorable. now, the public health officials we spoke with say this is technically illegal because with few exceptions all establishments that serve food for a price to the public have to be licensed. but founders of similar startups have long argued that current regulations in many arenas aren't keeping p

the winning team not only gets the larry o'brien trophy, the winning team gets to drive a tank throughd sterling's

bill o'brien, the president of bats. -- ba asked him if that's ts will go public.hey try to do this on their own exchange and there was kind of a disaster. the question remains if they public company. he says they are still working and it will probably be until the second or third quarter before they know. >> hedging that a little bit. >> a lot. >> great interview and thank you for bringing that to us. on the bidding war for french energy company alstom. r bloomberg news reporter in london, matt campbell, joins us. it seems that the valuation here is the same, around $17 billion. what has changed? >> what has changed instead of the valuation that remains flat is the structure of the steel. this is the document that ge in almostcalculated every syllable to appeal to french politicians and the french public conversation. the ge bid for most of alstom and 75% of the revenue is accounted for by this energy verythat became controversial, with a loss of nationalism and protest that this crown jewel of french industry should not be killed off. what they are proposing is a

we spoke with john o'brien, who was there that night. >> there was no respect, there was a lot of abuse and people, of course, profited off of, sometimes, that oppression. >> the riot lasted for almost a week, causing l.g.b.t. people to organise and support it. u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power said the struggle for gay rites is still far from over. >>> the golden gate bridge will soon have a suicide barrier. officials approved a 76 million package presenting people jumping to their death. 46 peel killed themselves, more than 1400 jumps since it first opened back in 1937. destruction of a steel suicide met is expected to be completed. >>> 48 is the number of recalls for general motors. on friday it recalled 500 million cars worldwide for safety reasons much the latest involves 4-wheel drive trucks including: >>> the other recalls cover faulty wind shield rivers on 2013/"14 caprice. and rear shock absorbers. 20 million vehicles have been recalled. >> honda ordered to pay $55 million for a crash that left a driver paralyzed. carlos suffered permanent injuries in 2010 caused by a

remember triumph from conan o'brien? he's back to make fun of the world cup.t sparing any ethnicity, poking fun of colombians and greeks. take a listen. >> only if the teams are done jogging and warming up, they're going to start the game. oh, wait. i've just been informed this is the game. if your last name has fewer than five syllables, you're drinking in the bar in the middle of the day. when did you two realize that you didn't have any -- >> it's very, very funny. he came out with another video today. watch it if you want to laugh at funny stuff. >> i discovered something on "wall street journal".com, if you want to learn more about it, there's something amazing. 50 reporters worked on 100 different legacies of world war i. the war started 100 years ago this saturday. known as the great war at the time. you can go through and there's 100 photographs, and then little stories that are digestible. this is a great thing to show your children, if you want to learn more about the war, fun facts and figures. i mean, there are facts in there. they're fun to know.

miles o'brien visits with researchers who study the complexity of hive culture, in the latest "scienceion" video. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. and a reminder about some upcoming programs from our pbs colleagues. gwen ifill is preparing for "washington week," which airs later this evening. here's a preview: >> ifill: when is a victory not a victory? when you're the white house and you've rescued the last soldier held in afghanistan, or when you're mississippi's thad cochran and the tea party is nipping at your heels? we examine politics in all its many delightful shadings later tonight on "washington >> woodruff: be sure to join hari sreenivasan on the pbs newshour weekend tomorrow night. and we'll be back, right here, on monday with a look at nationwide data on wait times at v.a. health care facilities. that's the newshour for tonight, i'm judy woodruff. have a great weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> when i was pregnant, i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information