very difficult stretch here in london as prime minister, wouldn't be in office were it not for peter mandelson who somehow persuaded the labor party to keep him in office. mandelson, whenever there's something bad going on in british politics, he's not far away. >> thank you, sir. didn't you do the profile on michael collins years ago? i think you did. >> i did. >> do you look like boris johnson? i think i do. >> a little bit. he's got the haircut, chris. >> thank you very much. con coughlin of "the guardian." this thursday is the premiere of our big documentary on the kennedy brothers all four of them and if features something you have never seen before, audio tapes, actual audio tapes of president john f. kennedy the year before he was killed dictating his memoirs. wait unwilling you hear this. and here now is a look at how kennedy won that '60 presidential election. ♪ everyone is voting for jack because he's got what all the lest lack ♪ >> with the theme song by frank sinatra, the kennedy campaign was far more glamorous than nixons. it also put lou harris' scientific polls to work in a way

his most important deputy, peter mandelson discussed it with moammar khadafy son a couple weeks ago when they were vacationing together in corfu and another gordie brown, the prime minister, who before kenny mccaskill publicly announced it, that megrahi was going to be released this order brown wrote a letter to moammar khadafy pleading with him to keep megrahi's return to libya at loki, which was a request that the libyans gave the back of the hand to, which goes to show what happens when you try to deal with people like in the qaddafi regime. >> paul: we also know a libyans made megrahi a priority in a private internal discussions. imagine it would mandelson, and with others and they want him released. correct? >> correct. could i be sense of the day after his release that in every negotiation over every contract or anything that came up between the libyans and the british government, that megrahi was on the table. that's what qaddafi son a fairly told megrahi on the plane on the way to libya. the plane that was waiting for him before his release was even announced because the libyans

his most important deputy, peter mandelson discussed it with moammar khadafy son a couple weeks ago when they were vacationing together in corfu and another gordie brown, the prime minister, who before kenny mccaskill publicly announced it, that megrahi was going to be released this order brown wrote a letter to moammar khadafy pleading with him to keep megrahi's return to libya at loki, which was a request that the libyans gave the back of the hand to, which goes to show what happens when you try to deal with people like in the qaddafi regime. >> paul: we also know a libyans made megrahi a priority in a private internal discussions. imagine it would mandelson, and with others and they want him released. correct? >> correct. could i be sense of the day after his release that in every negotiation over every contract or anything that came up between the libyans and the british government, that megrahi was on the table. that's what qaddafi son a fairly told megrahi on the plane on the way to libya. the plane that was waiting for him before his release was even announced because the libyans

peter mandelson really criticizing washington today about how much subsidies boeing gets. so a lot of annoyance in the u.k. about some of the commentary coming from your side of the pond today. mark and erin, have a great weekend. see you monday. >> all right. our thanks. cpi storm. >> mark busts open his mutant tomato. that's a beauty. >> belgian giant. >> phil lebeau examine it is possible fuselage flaws in boeing's dream liner. el-e ri an's sugar high. we will be right back. eseseseses >>> good morning. yes. friday. my sources are in the hamptons but i'm here wearing a pink shirt, i know. i already heard plenty about it walking through the newsroom. all right. what can we talk about this morning? steve liesman talking about the cpi this morning. the headline number falling to levels, i guess, not seen since they started keeping records. which brings us to the state of the consumer as well. a lot of revised gdp forecasts oar the last few days. and many of them looking for growth. but the division in those who see significant growth perhaps and those who don't really does