. >> host: looking at a story in the new york time today, robert f. worth reports and the and sent story is now rolfing with gangs of fighters some have captured two tunes, stormed prisons, lewded banks, and military depots in southern yemen, but the government is figging unarmed protesters further north has done little to fight the jihad. >> guest: yemen is a threat hub. it could be afghanistan on steroids. what's in the country is nearly a failed state now. the president left. he was seriously injured in a mortar attack by the opposition and is now in saudi arabia. there was just a unified country in the last 20 years in 1990 and has a history of breaking apart. what we saw in the last fur or five months is extremists have developed a firmer hold on the southern part of the country, and that's important. i wish we had a map, but you can see the proximity to somalia as well which is a failed state and a big hub of extremists. it's pretty well understood now there's a my gages of extremist jihaddists, whatever word you want to use, and the reason that

generational non-fiction history of his family and american liberalism and the 20th century, which won the robert f. kennedy book award. he has written two novels and a new but and has served in the peace corps in west africa and togo and is working on a buck about -- working on a book about institutional decline in america. welcome to george packer. >> thank you. [applause] >> i'm glad to have beaten the traffic. >> george drove out from brooklyn and nobody gave him the back road map. bob carroll, who many of you know because he is one of us and lives out here, as you well know, has written truly adjective-busting biographees. his biographies of robert moses and lyndon johnson he twice won the pulitzer prize for biography. he has gone virtually every other married -- every other major literary honor, including the national book award, a gold medal of biography of the national academy of arts and letters and on and on. i would love to read the mall but i would rather get to our subject in a minute. his first book was "the power broker -- robert moses and the fall of dark." the modern library called

c-span: jay edgar hoover verses robert f. kennedy. [laughter] >> guest: that's a shakespearean wrestling match. there's no way of simplifying the. hoover was a skilled bureaucratic. he was also come to some degree, a bully in that he would try to get his way, but he was a gossip. and he -- people who really stood up to him could back him off. bobby kennedy never did. and i think this is a young girl, not mature, bobby kennedy who feels heavily the burden of having to defend his brother, the president, jack kennedy, who was vulnerable because he was having affairs with people in the mafia and even an east german woman that sort of thing. bobby kennedy had to have hoover's help to protect his brother, and compromised him in this three or four we dance he's going to try to protect the kennedy's political position in the south and -- and the alliance, to luther king. it's like riding razors come and ultimately, i believe hoover, without ever saying you've got to do this for that. they're far too skilled bureaucrats for that. they would sa

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