patrick kennedy had his own struggles with addiction. he'll tell me what changed his mind about cannabis. >>> mothers, people, parents every day take vicodin or medications to help cure their pain or for anxiety, insomnia. cannabis is a medication, i know my typical dosage, it's weighed out and i know how to space it out, just like someone would take tylenol. >> one of the beverly hills pot moms interviewed on friday. they use cannabis because it makes them better parents they claim and deals with pain and anxiety. should it be legalized? that's what we're talking about gone to pot. america's marijuana obsession. joining me now is patrick kennedy and kevin summit the director of the drug policy institute of the university of florida and neil franklin retired police major against and dr. drew pinsky. >> pot moms. patrick, start with you. because you at one stage in your life were in support of legalizing marijuana for medical purposes. now you change your mind. why? >> well, because i found out the facts, and the facts are my initial thin

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reporter: patrick kennedy was identified as the diplomat of security service to oversee the investigationinst gutman. he also figured commonly in the hearing where he was alleged to have played a key role in security staffing and in the early decision after the attack not to deploy state counterterrorism response teams. in a statement today, the secretary said the foreign service has been my life for over 40 years in my current position, it is my responsibility to make sure the department and all of our employees, no matter their rank, are held to the highest standard. i have never once interfered, nor would i condone interfering in any investigation. the house foreign affairs committee chairman, ed royce of california, pressed for more answers. >> we have approached in march the inspector general in order to ask about a report that we have seen which was concerning to us and we are told that there is nothing here. >> the october memo stated that the agent who investigated ambassador gutman submitted a detailed memo automatically under secretary of state, patrick kennedy. state department

. >> reporter: the october memo identified undersecretary of state for management patrick kennedy as official that directed diplomatic security service, ds, to cease investigation of the sex crimes against gutman. kennedy was also prominent in the benghazi hearings, playing a role insecurity at the consulate and after the attacks, not it deploy a state counter terrorism response team. the undersecretary says the foreign service has been my life over 40 years, through several secretaries of state. in my current position, it is my responsibility to make sure the department and all of our employees, no matter their rank, are held to the highest standard and i have never once interfered nor would i condone interfering in any investigation. the house foreign affairs committee chairman ed royce vowed to press for more answers. >> we approached in march the inspector general to ask about a report we'd seen which was concerning to us, we were told well, there's nothing here. >> reporter: the october oig memo stated the agent that investigated gutman until told to cease and desist submitted a

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now, under secretary of state patrick kennedy who was the one who said stop the investigation, put it all in a memo and i'll talk to the ambassador, he says i didn't interfere in that investigation and serving four secretaries of state as a career foreign service officer i've never interfered in any investigation. finally ed royce the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee has written a letter to secretary of state john kerry saying his committee's investigating. he's listed some questions he wants the answers to no later than june 25. so this is a story that still has legs. >> pelley: ambassador gutman was the one who was referenced by personnel at the embassy in brussels as having ditched his security detail again and again and essentially disappeared for periods of time. that was the allegation. >> right. >> pelley: but that investigation was not allowed to go forward. >> according to the agent who was interviewed by the inspector-general -- and this is contained in the memorandum -- the agent was told to stand down and to summarize his findings in a memo that was to be se

took a vacation, and she went to greece after the death of their child in august of 1963, little patrick kennedy. and the day she left washington, ellen lincoln called stanley and said the president says the coast is clear, and you better get over here. [laughter] so stanley arrived at the white house, and he waited. and i guess -- yes. this is probably the most iconic photograph taken of the president in the oval office. john john came over to say good night to his father, and he ran to play in his secret place which was under the president's desk. and he popped out, opened the door, and stanley knew that he had a photograph. and stanley said to me, he said i know when i shove off, that's the only picture anybody's or going to remember. -- anybody's ever going to remember. and it is quite true. in all of his obits, they did run this picture. this is caroline coming down to see her father before she started school up in the white house solarium. mrs. kennedy didn't want the children to be going out to school, so she started a school for her kids and for the kids of cabinet officials. so caroline

department's office to would others, the man on your screen, the undersecretary of state for management, patrick kennedy, one of the highest ranking officials in the building, quote, directed the diplomatic security service to cease the investigation into this particular ambassador. however, the memo states undersect kennedy did receive a full memo on the conduct of the ambassador in may of 2011. >> james there are also widespread allegations of use of prostitutes within the security detail of the then secretary of state hillary clinton. reporter: yeah. this all comes from the october 2012 memo sent by one official to two others. it states that, quote, the prostitution problem among members of secretary clinton's security detail, when they traveling with her abroad, quote, is endemic, meaning enduring or a feature of a given culture. the spokesperson delved into specificity today only to assure us that such allegations have been looked in and may still be under review but that such conduct is not endemic, he said to secretary clinton's security detail. shep? >> shepard: james rosen from the state depart

the main development from the senior state department today was an on-the-record denial from patrick kennedy both hillary clinton's undersecretary for management, the guy who basically runs the floor and now john kerry's undersecretary for management that there was any interference, any improper diversion of these cases basically anything at all. and that is also what the state department spokeswoman jen saki maintained from the podium today. >> this is going to be a big story in the papers tomorrow. thank you so much for coming on. anne gearan of "the washington post," kasie hunt. coming up, the senate vote to begin debate for cloture to kill the stalling tactics on immigration reform. a bipartisan gang of eight bill coming through here. that was the hard part coming up. what are the chances of a law that addresses board security and what to do with the millions of undocumented workers already here? former governor tim pawlenty is coming here to tell us what it looks like from his perspective. also, one of the journalists who broke the story about the classified nsa program says there's nor

under secretary of state for management patrick kennedy is the senior official alleged in a october oigo have shut down the probe into allegations of sex crimes by u.s. ambassador to belgium howard gutman. today, kennedy spoke thought a statement that said, in part: in my current position it is my responsibility to make sure the department and all of our employees no matter their rank are held to the highest standard and i have never once interfered nor would i condone interfering in any investigation, unquote. seen here with secretary of state john kerry on his visit to brussels in april, ambassador gutman is a harvard-trained lawyer and prolific democratic fundraiser. only after he released a public statement this morning did fox news identify him by name in our coverage. >> all the october oig memo listed 8 cases where state department higher ups supposedly interfered with investigations into misconduct or crimes by department employees. a spokesperson today said that memo contained unsubstantiated allegations and was itself written without access to the pertinent case files. >> prio

patrick kennedy is one of those americans who, although he bitterly oppose the constitution , is significantly responsible for that promise to add a bill of rights once the new government commenced operation. in the other thing i want to say about patrick henry, i have already given a hint about where my own politics are. but we are all americans today. tea party people and liberal democrats alike. and if patrick henry is the 18th-century tea partier, he has every bit as much right to express his values on how american independence should be filled as any other of the american founders. i really do believe that he deserves his proper place. not in a sign near gasol, though. [laughter] >> which one of the founding fathers was infielder, and how did that status affect his or her views? >> i'm sorry? >> was one of the founding fathers were freeholders? >> they were all freeholders and the technical sense of the word, which is they owned property. in fact, i mean, they were all mostly wealthy white men. there are couple of exceptions. >> two is the poorest founder? >> i think roger sherman of conn

. >> the president gave a shout-out to former congressman, patrick kennedy who was in the east room todayhe is one of the people trying to bring public awareness to it one of the issue he is raised today is health insurance. here's what he had to say. >> what will be essential in the final role, is the public disclosure requirements so that we know when a health insurance company is making medical necessity decisions, they treat the brain just as the president so eloquently said, like we would treat the heart. if there was a heart attack. like we would treat cancer. if someone had cancer. >> isn't this just another type of illness, and we need to treat it equally with other ailments. >> absolutely. we need to talk about it as freely without shame and without fear. that will affect our jobs or how people perceive our families. i think that is a huge step. what we have learned as a family is that a family as a whole, you know, the healing begins when you're able to talk about it. and i know that for jessie and kaelin, my family, that they are totally different people today because they have

host: former member of congress, patrick kennedy, talking about disclosure and the role of insuranceompanies on the issue of mental illness. our next caller is rick, san diego, independent line. caller: good morning. host: morning. caller: i watched your coverage on the conference for mental illness and it really inspired me to take part in a local program here. i am going to go down to my local v.a. and volunteer for the wounded warrior brothers. host: what do you hope to achieve by that? loser: well, i hope not to another one. a friend of mine that i served with in the navy was over- medicated and in full view of the naval hospital he wandered on to the interstate 5 freeway and died of blunt force trauma from the cars, the oncoming traffic. they just ran over and. host: i am so sorry to hear that. as you look at the mental health programs out there, do you view them as adequate? caller: they are not adequate, that is why it is up to us as fellow veterans to step up. you know, to be there for them. host: thank you for your call. anita, new jersey, democratic line. i actually work in

patrick kennedy the chief among them. and it's really something that uniquely can bring our country together with the issue is health care, gun control, media violence, however they want to characterize it this is a common thread and it doesn't need to be partisan and it is a basis for healing not just individuals but as a platform for healing our politics. >> i come from connecticut and my mother recently turned 89 and we were all with her. how many of our relatives had serious depression and he drank himself to death. she drank herself to death. in our society it was a cocktail party and because we had no vocabulary for mental illness, people were self medicating. and i think it is a very common -- >> speaking from personal experience this is something i dealt with myself. i had never really coped that well when my brother passed and it wasn't until leader in my ear early 20s that all these feelings and emotions in questions and anger that i had kind of bottled up came spewing out and i had no way to deal with that i di

kennedy. [laughter] he was a -- everybody loved him. and yet patrick used his experience as a way to connect and to lift up these issues, not hide from the. and one day a woman came out to patrick at a senior center and told them she was afraid to tell her friends that she was taking medication from mental illness because she was worried they might trigger different. she told patrick, you're the only one who knows aside for myself. fema and so patricks realizing how much power there could be fr people to speak out on these issues. he carried the stories back within to washington where you work with a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including his dad, to make sure the mental health services to get through your insurance plan and work are covered the same way that physical health services are. [applause] so because of patricks' efforts and colleagues who have worked with him, it is easier for millions of people to join him on the road to recovery. which brings me to a second point. it is not enough to help more americans seek treatment. we have to make su

this october memo further alleged under secretary of state patrick kennedy personally intervened to halthe probe. but the special agent running the investigation provided kennedy with a detailed memo on the matter. in our reporting on gutman's case fox news did not name him because the allegations about prostitutes and pedophilia cannot be independently verified and they still haven't. martha: this memo also named hillary clinton's senior aides as stepping in fronts this investigation to stop it or sloift down. >> reporter: we are talking about a separate investigation. cheryl mills who was chief of staff to secretary of state hillary clinton intervened to block the spes investigations division interrogating a diplomat in iraq who was said to be sharing information with his mistress. >> all these cases are being looked into. they were in the process of being looked into prior to the memo. and i don't have any update on status. but i can say broadly that we vigorously pursue ... >> reporter: the state department's office of the inspector general listed 8 cases that were supposedly disrupt

. >> reporter: the memo identified undersecretary of state patrick kennedy as the official who shut down the investigation into ambassador gutman. >> john miller from cbs news. >> reporter: cbs' john miller spoke with the former top state department security official in brussels. he requested the investigation into the activities. and said investigators were ordered to stand down. >> who told you to stop? >> well, i got the information through my ds channel. but it came from somebody higher than ds i'm sure. >> reporter: in a statement tuesday, kennedy said, i never once interfered, nor would i condone interfering in any investigation. ambassador gutman called the allegations he solicited prostitutes baseless. to watch the four years i have proudly served in belgium smeared is devastating, he wrote. i live in a beautiful park that you walk through to get to many locations. and at no paioint have i engage in any improper activity. the state department insists all eight cases are under review. lawmakers insists a big problem here is no one has been appointed to head the inspector general's

and the other solution to the problem is for patrick kennedy, the undersecretary of management and forer chief of staff. for hillary clinton not to get directly engaged in trying to suppress investigations. >> well, your investigation is now, your investigation is now under way. we'll check back with you. congressman ed royce, thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you, carol. >>> up next in "the newsroom" a stunning revelation from pope francis. he admits there is, indeed, a gay lobby in the vatican. hoo-hoo...hoo-hoo. hoo-hoo hoo. sir... i'll get it together i promise... heeheehee. jimmy: ronny, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? ronny: i'd say happier than the pillsbury doughboy on his way to a baking convention. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >>> good morning, i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. stories we're watching in "newsroom" after 31 minutes past the hour. stocks heading for a higher open. about 107 points. ringing the opening bell this morning a data software compa

sources tell cbs news they were told through sources under patrick kennedy. >> you have a lot of whattile intelligence services in that city. i would be very surprised if some of those entities were not aware of the activities. so yes, it presents a serious risk to the united states government. >> reporter: draft of the inspector general's report on the performance of the diplomatic security service obtained by cbs news stated hindering such cases calls into question tin ted grit of the investigative process, can result in counterintelligence vulnerabilities, and can allow criminal behavior to continue. john miller from cbs news. we tracked down mike politz. now retires he was a senior agent at the diplomatic security service. he was involved in one of the cases where the order came to stop investigating. >> who told you to stop? >> well, i got the information through my dss channel, but it came from somebody higher than ds i'm sure. >> according to denison when a high-ranking official was shown a draft of their findings, that investigations were being interfered with by the state bra

was blocked from setting up a surveillance operation by undersecretary of state for management, patrick kennedyedy, quote: directed diplomatic security to cease the investigation, unquote. >> these are allegations in a memo. so, obviously, as i say at the beginning, all these cases are being looked into. they were already in the process of being looked into prior to the memo. and, again, i don't have any update on status, or i don't want to break down what is happening internally. >> reporter: another bombshell contained in the october to memo from the office of inspector general was its assertion that the use of prostitutes by the diplomatic security agents protecting then-secretary of state hillary clinton early in her travels abroad overseas was, quote, endemic. >> last year alone the detail accompanied then-secretary clinton to 69 countries with more than 10,000 person nights spent in hotels abroad. so i'm not going to speak to specific cases. as i said at the onset for obvious reasons, but it is hardly endemic. >> reporter: in all, the october memo from the office of the inspector general

others are lead big example, my great friend patrick kennedy when he was running for re- election in 2006 could have avoided talking about his struggles with bipolar disorder and addiction. let's face it, he's a kennedy. you know. he was -- everybody loved him. and yet patrick used his experience as a way to connect. and to lift up these issues, not hide from them. and one day a woman came up to patrick at a senior center and told him she was afraid to tell her friends she was taking medication for a mental illness because she was worried they might treat her differently. she told patrick, you're the only one who knows aside from my son. and so patrick started realizing how much power there could be for people to speak out on these issues and patrick carried these stories back with him to washington where he worked with a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including his dad, to make sure the mental health services you get through your insurance plan at work are covered the same way that physical health services are. [applause] so because of patrick's efforts and other colleagues who worke

investigation, the allegations against the ambassador, but there are allegations in this memo against patrick kennedy who is a very high state department official which suggested to kill the original investigation to protect the ambassador and maybe others. my question is does under secretary's kennedy's conduct is that under investigation? >> all of these matters that you raised are under active investigation by the independent i.g. at the state department and we will not prejudge the outcome of an ongoing inquiry. >> is it appropriate that the state department has gone so long since 2008 without a full-time inspector general? >> i don't have any information for you about the staffing of but i will ffice, have to take the question. if this is related to the questions that ed mentioned, there is an active investigation. >> just in general terms. state department, labor department, homeland security and defense and agencies of international development don't have full-time inspector generals. >> i will take the question. >> on a separate topic, i think julie got to it quickly, is the president's perso

and patrick kennedy and i believe the same way. the possibilities are immense.don't know what they are. they're immense. and that's why the president has asked for $100 million to launch a new initiative to map the human brain. truly the last frontier. and the prospects are overwhelming to the very thing we're most concerned about. about mental health. look, we can't do any of this alone, and it's not -- it's not in the province of government alone. that's why we need you. i want to thank valerie and my staff for reaching out to all of you, putting this together. you're the ones that are able to reach millions of americans through all forms of the media. it's not just glenn close and bradley. it's you all have significant reach. >> thank you, mr. vice president. >> well, you teach our children, you treat our patients, you minister to the faithful. and i want to take this opportunity to thank all of you in this home, individuals and organizations like for the commitments you've made and those who have been ahead of the curve, as most of you have been ahead of the

patrick kennedy who -- maybe you have heard of these microunit developments going up. >> super small housing. >> patrick that is been a leader in that space and one of the things he pitched to the city here is i won't build any parking, we'll use car sharing so we'll have microspaces. >> these are housing that might fit into a parking space. >> true. we don't want people living in the car necessarily but it would be bigger than some those spaces. >> anything to add to that? >> i've been tracking this for a long time and i see developers getting on board with this because they can make better use of the space. >> parking is a selling point. when you go to a condo the owner is like what if there is not a place to park when i come home with my christmas tree or bhaffer. so this is one step further, right? >> in my cities and locally here, you have unbundled parking. so a condo must separate parking and you pay a separate amount for that. if you choose to go car free, you don't have to pay for that spot or even buy it. at least in urban environments that seems to be more popular with shar

kennedy. he was -- his seat was pretty safe. everybody loved him. and yet, patrick used his experience as a way to connect and to lift up these issues, not hide from them. and one day, a woman came up to patrick at a senior center and told him she was afraid to tell her friends she was taking medication for a mental illness because she was worried they might treat her differently. she told patrick, you're the only one who knows aside from my son. and so patrick started realizing how much power there could be for people to speak out on these issues. and patrick carried these stories back with him to washington, where he worked with a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including his dad, to make sure the mental health services you get through your insurance plan at work are covered the same way that physical health services are -- a huge victory. so because of patrick's efforts and the colleagues who worked with him, it's easier for millions of people to join him on the road to recovery, which brings me to a second point. it's not enough to help more americans seek treatm

there are also allegations in this memo against patrick kennedy, who is a very high state department official, suggesting that he killed the original investigation sort of blocked it, to protect the bam bass door and maybe others. my question is does undersecretary kennedy's conduct here, is that under investigation as far as the white house -- >> i believe all these matters you raised are under investigation, active investigation by the independent i.g. at the state department. prejudge the outcome of an ongoing inquiry like that. >> on that same topic, is it appropriate the state department has gone so long, i think since 2008, without a full-time inspebletor general? -- inspector general? >> i don't have any information for you about the staffing of the i.g.'s office, but i have to take the question. >> that would be -- >> this is related to the questions that ed mentioned, there is an active investigation -- >> just in general terms. it's state department, labor department, interior, homeland security, defense, i think the agency for international development all of which do not

kennedy before the race started. hefinished 39th. dandanicka patrick, firstwoman o run in a sprint cup here. 28 lps left in the race. carl edwards takes out kyle busch. he goes flying. nished 35th. on the restart. martin truex, jr. takes the lead th 25 laps and remaining and never looked back. takes the checkered flag, snapping a 218 race winless streak. second career win. jeff gordon finished second. before the race started i was not 100% confident we would be ab to do what we did. of course, guess when you don't win, you're never 100% confident you can win,but today was certainly not the day i thought we had the car to beat, and we did. >> mike: can it get any worse for the gias in between injuries, spupt bu pen, lack of power at the plate and losing three of four at home to the worst team in baseball, the marlins. real in? world champions'll giveaway. first batter, second pitch for matt cain. not what he wanted. great catch by the fan. broken don belt can field this. error on belt. run scores, 3 o miami. one positive was hunter pence. sevent inning.

kennedy before the race started. he finished 39th. dandanicka patrick, first womano run in a sprint cup here. 28 laps left in the race. carl edwards takes out kyle busch. he goes flying. finished 35th. on the restart. martin truex, jr. takes the lead with 25 laps and remaining and never looked back. takes the checkered flag, snapping a 218 race winless streak. second career win. jeff gordon finished second. before the race started i was not 100% confident we would be able to do what we did. of course, i guess when you don't win, you're never 100% confident you can win, but today was certainly not the day i thought we had the car to beat, and we did. >> mike: can it get any worse for the giants in between injuries, spupt bull pen, lack of power at the plate and losing three of four at home to the worst team in baseball, the marlins. real in? world champions'll giveaway. first batter, second pitch for matt cain. not what he wanted. great catch by the fan. broken don belt can field this. error on belt. run scores, 3 or miami. one positive was hunter pence.

patrick den diwho served in benghazi short circuited the investigation. >> that's serious. >> he denies it and state denies any such interference and mr. kennedy has as well. we have learned that the diplomatic service has itself been under review from the state department's office of inspector general or oig. we learned about ferocious internal infighting about what oig would be able to say inity final report about the diplomatic service and operations to the point of where the oig's final report issued in march of this year appears to be scrubbed of damning conclusions. >> the same mo. >> very similar. here is where my reporter's guts tell me this is all headed. there is litigation pending that threatens still further disclosures about ds, its management and integrity about investigation. disclosures that will prove problematic for former state department officials, including those close to hillary clinton. even beyond that what officials at state are most gravely worried about, is that ds itself, as law enforcement agency, could be so tainted by these disclosures it would threaten many pending prosecutions why ds agents are witnesses and ev

i would point out, though, deval patrick, but governor of massachusetts, pointed to placeholders -- one to replace late senator ted kennedy and want to replace john kerry who quit his senate seat to take over as secretary of state, and he did not get as much heat on this from national democrats. i am not sure it national republicans should blame christie for this. it like christie portrayed it as a move that is best for the state of new jersey, and probably pretty good for his political fortunes, too. host: we are showing our viewers the editorial from "the star-ledger." christie's self- serving stunt. very critical. and "the new york times" editorial -- governor christie's quick, costly decision. also critical of the governor's decision to hold at this national election in october, citing the price tag. you mentioned massachusetts and the race to fill senator john kerry's seat when he left to become secretary of state. there is a debate tonight between the two candidates. talk about what they need to do and what you will be listening for. guest: and it is broadcast on c- span. everybody, make sure you tune in. ed markey

i would point out, though, that patrick, the governor of massachusetts, has appointed two placeholders, one to replace the late senator ted kennedy and one john kerry who went over to the secretary of state. he didn't get as much heat from national democrats. i'm not sure national republicans should blame christie for this. it seems like christie has portrayed it as a move that is best for the state of new jersey and, you know, probably pretty good for his political for turns too. host: we're showing the editor gentlelady from "the star ledger." "christie's self-serving stunt." that paper, very critical of their governor. saying it would behoove him. and then "the new york times" editorial this morning, governor christie's quick, costly decision. "the new york times" also critical of the governor's decision to hold this special election in october. citing the price tag, in "the new york times." you mentioned massachusetts and the race to fill senator john kerry's seat when he left to become secretary of state. there's a debate tonight between the two candidates. talk about what they need to do, what will you be listening for? gue