none of this explains robert kennedy's silence. why didn't robert kennedy inform the warren commission himself following the bay of pigs fiasco, after all, his brother had family said he wished he could break the cia and two 1000 pieces and scatter it to the wind. presumably, bobby kennedy shared that the same impulse, at least for a while. but he, himself was deeply involved in the plots to assassinate fidel castro. and his animosity towards the agency may have later diminished. helms testified the agency was under considerable pressure from the kennedy administration to get rid of fidel castro. bobby kennedy could have believed his brother's candidate history and his own reputation would have been tarnished if the castro assassination plot ever became public. it is possible, in fact, that robert kennedy blamed himself for his brother's murder. when i worked for the senate foreign relations committee, i had a conversation with the senator george mcgovern that has always stuck in my mind. he was a friend of robert and jacqueline ke

for robert kennedy. president kennedy. for the three civil rights workers. for those hundreds and thousands of people, that went to jail, who never, ever, lived to cast a volt. i cried for them. i cried for my -- my great grandparents. and for my own mother and my own father. >> yet at the end of the eight years, you know, polls were taken. people said they thought race relations were getting worse. in the country, why is senate. >> i don't understand why people would say that, hear that. the election, the presidency of president barack obama, injected something very meaningful into the very vein of our country. gave people hope. some one just said to me a few days ago. i wish he could have been elect ford a third term. >> you speak movingly of your, your -- of your affection for him. and for, for, the meaning of his election iechl kn election. i know you struggled during the primary campaign. 2007, first endorsing hillary clinton then ultimately, barack obama. did you not believe that an african-american could get elected president of the united states? >>

first of all, robert kennedy was a new york senator, and i'm a representative from new york. schlessinger wrote an incredible book about bobby kennedy's life, his political life, the history of his family, and it's certainly an enjoyable read. >> booktv wants know what you're -- wants to know what you're reading. end us your summer reading list @booktv or instagram at book underscore tv or post it to our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> and you're watching booktv on c-span2. it's television for serious readers. we're in new york city at the publishers annual trade show, and what we like to do during the summer is preview some of the fall books that are coming out. next up we want to introduce you to zoe quinn the author of "crash override: how gamergate nearly destroyed my life and how we can win the fight against online hate." zoe quinn, what do you do for a living? >> guest: i usually make weird art, but ultimately i guess my day job is an independent game developer. but i also help run a crisis resource center for peo

hittersdes the heavy robert kennedy, maxwell taylor. chairman of the jcs yet, still kennedy's personal military advisor. their weekly meetings were attended by two notable people in america and history -- william harvey, the father of the executive act in -- action assassination program, and the saturation -- operations officer. holds themlue that together. this is what we will be discussing in the next several slides. and up session with invading cuba using american armed forces grips the pentagon in the spring of 1962. here is the timeline. january 17, lands bill requests that the joint of staff prepare a policy statement on cuba. there is on january 7 -- they respond, and we will look at that statement in a moment. lands bill -- it is then requested that one member of the joint staff provide a brief but precise description of pretest -- pretext that would provide his occasion for u.s. military intervention in cuba, and he wants the answer by march 13. s werech 13, the pretext signed out by chairman lum that chairman and sent to the ca

robert kennedy, smith, one of his sisters, his brother and father and at the end kennedy's husband over there. this is an interesting little moment. here is jackie looking up at her husband. a wonderful picture. in january there is the inauguration. an interesting snowy day. decided to walk from the white house to the inauguration. rather than just showing a picture of jfk making his speech, this is a very unique view to show what the crowd was like. ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. it was an incredible call for action. world wide. that night the festivities continued. it was a brilliant occasion to be remembered. he was young, handsome, he understood the responsibilities. did he know about the tough first hundred days he have in american politics. now we are going to come into the presidential years. these are the years from 1961 through the tragic day. in dallas texas. jfk is a family man. here in october of '63, he is walking john john and yet over here he is dressed with jackie. culture into the white house. he was a person who understoo

said, would you like to have your picture taken with robert kennedy?upportive of these writes a lotur about these. it is not directly in a -- in a footnote. one of his rationales was, he saw foreign policy was shifting, it was not just diplomat to diplomat. rotterinvolving much constituencies whether they were students or journalist or lawyers. in the fall of 1967, a number of us who were entering graduate programs here at uc berkeley were at five-year fellowships from the ford foundation. -- find being to fan out whether you could be a ta, you would get your phd faster. the rumor when around that the money was coming from that cia. i have no idea whether this is true or not. it turned out that a fairly high proportion of the people who got those fellowships were very involved in the antiwar movement and took longer to get their phd's than other people because of their activity. people thought that -- people cia quite pleased that the was funding us. i have no idea if this was true or not. do you have any idea whether the cia was funding money through

first of all, robert kennedy was a new york senator, and i'm a representative from new york. schlessinger wrote an incredible book about bobby kennedy's life, his political life, the history of his family, and it's certainly an enjoyable read. >> booktv wants know what you're -- wants to know what you're reading. end us your summer reading list

convention where that was a disaster where hubert humphrey won but the opposition of mccarthy and robert kennedy delegates and they felt they were shortchanged to get support at convention with fighting on the floor so one of the last things they dead -- they did that would develop a committee to look into the election. >> to the republicans follow suit?. >> no. they were generally more likely to leave it up to the states so they could select or have caucuses for a state convention. bed generally because when the state would switch to the primaries they did that for the republicans as well. >> win with the first primaries held?. >> in 1912 the also turned out to be a disaster that was the year the roosevelt decided he wanted to be president again and taft was getting the traditional players in the party but it wasn't enough to get the nomination that resulted on the republicans losing the presidential race. >> did they stop?. >> they put a halt on it but then the primaries were not important again intel after because there tended to be states with there were not always connected to the delegates

>> the life and times of robert kennedy who was the new york senator and i am the representf from new york. he wrote a book about bobby kennedy's life, political life and history of his family. it is enjoyable. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter at booktv or instagram or post it to our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv. booktv on c-span. television for serious readers. >> pamela paul is here, "the new york times" reviewer, out with her book. who is bob? >> bob is my balk of -- book of books. he has been a companion i kept since 17. in one journal i have written down the title of every book i read. sgr >> what kind of condition is bob in? >> he is not in good shape. i keep getting asked to bring him along for appearance but it is an old fashion. not a fancy journal. i bought it at the corner stationary store and i spilled coffee on him. i feel like he is rotting from within and the binding is starting to fray as soon as i started talking about him. i don't know if is resentiment on his part. >> do you still record? >> oh, yeah. a

when bob kiley said, would you like to have your picture taken with robert kennedy? he said he felt like he had died and gone to heaven. he was very supportive of these kinds -- arthur schlesinger writes a lot about these. it is in a footnote. one of his rationales was, he saw foreign policy was shifting, that it was not just diplomat to diplomat. that it was involving much broader- constituencies, whether they were youth or students or journalist or lawyers. >> in the fall of 1967, a number of us who were entering graduate programs here at uc berkeley were at five-year fellowships from the ford foundation. the idea being to find out whether it if you did not have to be a ta, if you would get your phd faster. the rumor went around a couple years later that that money was actually coming from the cia. i have no idea whether this is true or not. it turned out that a fairly high proportion of the people who got those fellowships were very involved in the antiwar movement and actually took longer to get their phd's than other people because of their activity. so people t

one on robert kennedy and one on george wallace, around 24 hours or 48 hur were to come. the national guard was involved. the attorney general and in that panel was dan rather that covered the events and then did a 60 minutes piece ten years later. there was peggy wallace that was george wallace's daughter that is now a civil rights activist. there was sharon malone that's vivian malone's youngest sister that's the wife of eric holder. we had the attorney then on the film and the attorney general that day in the audience, who was a journalist and also integrated the university of mississippi, or georgia. so it was very powerful. so we named this award after vivian and we're giving it to a young boy showing a lot of courage in what he is writing so we're really excited about that. >> black intellectual. >> yes. >> jackie. tell us about some of the folks who are coming tor and help you again. it's called ed sullivan in black and white. >> diane carol will join our panel. also the very talented and please forgive me for blanking out on mrs. reese's first name, responsible fo

secret service's role in protecting presidential candidates was inspired by the assassination of robert kennedy in 1968. congress passed public law 9331 which added candidates list of those deserving around the clock security. the law also stipulated that presidential widows should continue to receive secret service protection until death or remarriage. >>> another roadblock standing in the way of the gop health care bill. senate republicans who had been planning action this week on their health care bill had decided to push that time line back just a bit. that's primarily because arizona senator john mccain will be sidelined recovering from surgery. the delay comes as some republicans continue to express their discontentment with the new bill. >> there are about eight to ten republican senators who have serious concerns about this bill, and so at the end of the day i don't know whether it will pass. >> some republicans say the bill doesn't go far enough when it comes to repealing and replacing the affordable care act, while others disagree with medicaid. the congressional budget office's analy

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>> is the life and times of robert kennedy. robert kennedy was a new senator. an incredible book about bobby kennedys life, political life, the history of his family and it is an enjoyable read. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. .. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. i am senior fellow at the hoover institution, my name is amy zegart, codirector of the center for international security and cooperation at stanford. we are delighted both institutions have come together to cohost this book event with graham allison and niall ferguson to discuss "destined for war: can america and china escape thucydides' trap?". i want to remind all of you the book is available for purchase and graham allison will sign a few questions at the end of the talk. you can't escape the trap of the bookstore outside. graham allison as many of you know is director of harvard's center, and dylan professor of government and founding dean of harvard's kennedy school of government. like legions of students, i vividly remember my first time walking into the kennedy school for

of course strolling down the dc, ethelwashington was married to his brother robert kennedy, who i photographed quite a bit. i did a lot of campaign photography with him. there are these iconic images that will take us through history. here is one of the most famous life magazine pictures, when 1958, thiss born in is taken by a fine photographer. it's one of those iconic images. life magazine and many of the publications covered the kennedys quite a bit. can see in the early years the photographs from the golden age of journalism. that was before television became the communicator of the world. these are the magazines that were published then. and newspapers, the new york times, the springfield republican, and books that jfk wrote himself in the most famous book that won the pulitzer prize profiles in courage. you are not only seeing the history of jfk but how his image was communicated to the world at large. and the photographs in this exhibit are printed the exact same way they would have been , 11 by 14 ine 60's size. we use the same technology of the 60's. when you see this exhibit and you

another major development i think is in late february and early march, 1967, robert kennedy comings out against johnson and against the vietnam war. if you read less is -- sleschenger is pleased with himself in figuring out that the vietnam war can be used against lyndon johnson to deny him the presidency and open up a way for robert kennedy to become president. this is his book from '66, the bitter heritage. if you go to this book and this book and the other book and fulbright's vietnam hearing, you will go back to french scholars only. none of these people cite vietnamese. another frenchman -- bobby kennedy turns against johnson in the war -- by southerners who were not communist and do not want to be ruled by the north. the next week bunker is asked to go to vietnam for -- appoints two other people. he turns against johnson and the war on the grounds it's an independent movement not controlled by hanoi, a spontaneous revolution by southerners who do not want to be ruled by the north. the next week, roughly, johnson asks bunker to go to vietnam and prepare a way to end our troop parti

robert kennedy was no fan of lbj. picking lbj.ica you guys come down somewhere in the middle of that, but you do show what a chaotic event it was. >> plea hope we did. i would not attest on my life that are version is 100% accurate either because you are dealing with separate narratives from different sides, the ticket only karrow and lbj. he writes pages and pages about the selection of lbj. and the kennedy people, there is a lot of information building about it. we are convinced that kennedy went to the convention clearly ready to pick stewart simonson from missouri. we were able to talk to both of ton's sons and how his father had been told kennedy's leaked the news to have the night before. then suddenly, and you are kennedy did not think lbj would accept it. he was a natural. he delivers taxes any health -- texas any health delivers the south. they did not think lbj would do it and they did not want to offer it to him. kennedy gets the nomination and goes back to his hideaway house in los angeles and is having a

robert kennedy and they're looking at what martin luther king said i mean they're they're going back to the new deal to say what worked here why did we have a new deal in the first place what was f.d.r. saying in his last major speech about you know adding to the bill of rights you know that people should have a right to health insurance for instance on a right to a good job people should have a right to own their house these are durable truths that he he claimed to be self evident that they learned through the struggles of the great depression the competition that they're facing seems to be this baby boom generation that's increasingly becoming more. right wing to hold on to their gains that's a very antagonistic relationship now between the generations over finances and his going to keep the pie the biggest portion of the pie so how do you how well millennial is best address this fact that reactionary behavior of the baby boomers to pull up the drawbridge and just say you know we got ours kid good luck. well first of all interesting piece by a writer for the boston globe that i was

government doesn't save senator robert kennedy. in the '70s, government can't win the vietnam war, stop high interest rates, stop gas prices. carter runs in '76 and was an outsider and was not wed to the idea of big government. he is the reformer. he is going to clean up washington ask go after the corruption. he is going to cut taxes. they don't believe it is working anymore. carter attacks it from somewhat from the left and reagan is on the right. reagan comes to the convention, loses the nomination to gerald ford by 69 delegate votes out of 2269 cast in kansas city. the mississippi delegation, the ohio delegation, the new york delegation, reagan is convinced that ford has not stolen the nomination but not won entirely legitimately and we are getting into the weeds. this wets reagan's appetite to run again even though he is 65 years old. a lot of people said you have been around the track twice, gave it your best shot, but now it is time to step aside and let new flesh blood run for the nomination and reagan is like no, we are ru

joining me now is carrie kennedy, founder of the robert f. er for justice and human rights, and the reverend vivian nixon, executive director of college and community fellowship. thank you both for being on. carrie, always good to talk to you. what was so compelling to you and the kennedy foundation about this particular case? >> well, you know, this is an extraordinary young man who is an honor student before he went -- he was picked up, went to rikers, continued to be an honor student, finished his high school degree, applied for this extraordinary fellowship, got a four-year ride through college to the college of his choice, about 30 different colleges involved there, and all evidence points to his innocence. what we were really looking at here is the cash bail system in new york and we're trying to end that cash bail system because it's used to coerce people to take a guilty plea instead of -- instead of standing up for their innocence and fighting for their rights, and also to close rikers island. and pedro is an extraordinary example of

robert kennedy was no fan of lbj. jfk saw the merit of picking lbj, you guys come out somewhere in the middle of that. you do show what a chaotic event that it was. >> we hope we did, our version is tough because you are to separate narratives and different sides. with lbj and there is this selection of the kennedy people. there is a lot of information in this building about it. we are convinced that kennedy went to the convention clearly to pick stewart simon who we were able to talk to at the time and they talked about how they had been told essentially both kennedys had leaked the choice to reporters that they liked. suddenly you are right, kennedy did think lbj would not accept. he was a natural. he helped deliver in the south. they did not think lbj would do it, and therefore they did not want to offer it to him. so kennedy gets a nomination and goes back to his house in los angeles and is having a late breakfast or whatever. in message comes in from lbj saying from now on, lbj stands for let's back jack. jack be

doing all these kinds of dates and 1968 came along when martin luther king was assassinated, robert kennedy was assassinated. it was that convention with merrick in chicago and just the whole bunch of stuff, a guy tried to assassinate andy warhal and muhammad ali just didn't seem that controversial anymore and as the war had ground along, more and more kids had convinced their parents that maybe this wasn't the greatest war in the world for them to be involved in and had -- had kind of rebelled against and slowly but surely the national perception of muhammad ali had become much different and when he funnely got to the end of '68, '69, there's the great thing. he was on firing line with william f buckley, i don't know if anybody remembers that show. the guy with the big words and the whole thing and he was arguing with muhammad ali, muhammad ali was very good against him. he had gone off and perfected with draft and gone with college kids and he was very good at that show and different things alone those lines. he showed up on johnny carson and griffin and the mike douglas show and he becam

look at this idiot. >> tucker: robert f kennedy, jr., joins us tonight.to that piece that john oliver did really struck me. i think if you, as someone who is a democrat and a liberal, they piled on you. why? why is raising questions about the safety of vaccines a no-go zone on the left? >> it's interesting because it's not consistent with traditional liberal skepticism, towards large power and specifically the pharmaceutical industry. and government agencies. it's been characterized by at least four federal studies as a cesspool of corruption, because it's pervasive, interactions, entanglements. with the vaccine industry. the cdc vaccine branch has -- is a subsidiary of the vaccination industry. at cells $4.1 billion worth of vaccines a year. at about $4.6 billion, most half of its budget, promoting vaccines. only spends $29 testing vaccines. that's good for a tiny handful of the vaccines that we have. one problem recently is with various federal agencies, and one of the kind of shocking things about vaccines is that there's very little safety testing. if

everything went crazy and i was maybe the craziest year when martin luther king was assassinated, robert kennedy was assassinated. the convention with mayor daley in chicago arriving in 110 cities in chicago. stuff which is going on everywhere and mohammed ali just didn't seem that controversial anymore. more and more kids had convinced their parents maybe this wasn't the greatest war in the world for them to be involved in and kind of a valid against. slowly but surely, the natural perception of mohammed ali had become much different. when he finally got the end of 68, he was on the filing line with william f. buck lee. i don't know if anybody remembers that show. the guy with the words of the whole thing. he was really good against him. he had gone off and perfected his rap in arguing with college kids when he was very good in that show appeared different thing along the lines he showed up more and orange on a person in the mike douglas show and he became more mainstream. he appeared in a play on broadway in the idea became maybe he should be back fighting. a guy in new york, a young civil rig

he received the robert f. kennedy human rights award in 1991.e was also twice named an amnesty international prisoner of conscience. to democracy now! we welcome youto democracy now! -- we welcome yoyou to democracy now! the talk about what is happening right now? >> 11 years since the siege on gaza has been imposed, which is inhuman.and human -- at this moment, we are living the biggest man-made disaster. they promised they would turn us to the middle ages. and they do. gaza is completely disconnected from the outside world. subjugated [indiscernible] civilian and civilian targets. after all these years, we're unable to rebuild or construct most of these constructions. this led us to a situation where -- 65% areersons unemployed. population depends on journal of organizations. effectively, thehey're making ga -- dumping some food and medicine. we cannot treat our water. we cannot treat our sewage. it is polluted. our water is not treatable. -- our water is not d drinkable. people for tomorrow and on the verge of collapse. there are 2 million pe

robert kennedy amendment came as a result of him being made the ag. so you can't have any family members in any of the departments, but we should have also included the white house, not thinking that anyone would put their family member in a position of authority within the white house. now, all members of congress too are under the same restriction. we can't have any family members working for us. it takes all the sense in the world. if your son-in-law screws up, what are you going to do? you're not going to fire him. you have to have thanksgiving dinner with him. so i think this is way past any rational reason to keep both ivanka and jared in the white house. i mean, when you realize that jared has had to amend his sf-86 form about foreign meetings three times. he's had 100 meetings that he didn't disclose, and then we find out that he was also negotiating with the russian banker of beb bank, that he was negotiating with qatar for financing for his manhattan property. and also with an insurance company in china. with ivanka, you have a situation whe

>> the life and times of robert kennedy. first he was in your extender and i am a representative from new york. this is an incredible book about bobby kennedy's life. the political life, history of this family and it is certainly an enjoyable read. >> booktv want to know what you are reading. sinister summer reading list via twitter twitter.com/booktv or on instagram at book ó t.v.. booktv on c-span2. television for serious readers. >>. [inaudible conversations] >> alright folks thank you for joining us today. we are excited to have peter doran here. we are -- we stand everywhere from russia to london to broadway at one point. and it is an interesting read. i do not want to give too much away. please welcome peter. >> thank you very much. this is actually a really big

maybe crazy if you're going when martin luther king was assassinated, robert kennedy was assassinated. there was that convention with merit daily in chicago. there were riots in 110 cities in america, just a whole bunch of stuff. this guy tried to assassinate andy warhol. stuff was going on everywhere and mohammed ali just didn't seem that controversial anymore. and as the war had ground along, more and more kids had convinced their parents that maybe this wasn't the greatest war in the world for them to be involved in and had kind of rebelled against this thing and slowly but surely, the national perception of muhammad ali had become much different. and when he finally got to the end of 68, there is a great thing. he was on firing line with william f buckley, i don't know if anybody remembers that show. liam f buckley was the erudite guy with the big words and he was arguing with muhammad ali. muhammad ali was very good against him and he had gone off and perfected his rap in all these college things and arguing with college kids and he was really good in that show. and different thi

kennedy family, jackie and his children have some personal items. these are two letters that she wrote to margaret mcnamara, the wife of robert mcnamara who was kennedy's defense secretary did this is a very personal note read -- note. she decided to move to new york city. misses mcnamara wrote her a note. this is the hand written reply. she says it will be better for the children. that's a heart rendering line. junior became the publisher of george magazine. he became a public figure himself. he introduced his uncle at the democratic convention in miami. you.gan by saying thank it's a great honor. the rest of his cousins or not return phone calls because they were campaigning for themselves. he introduced his uncle. given the tragic end of his life about a decade later, it's a heart rendering item to look at. what we discovered as people come to this exhibit is a lot of people have their own story. everybody of the right age knows exactly where they were when they heard president kennedy had been shot. people come in here and they remember his visits here. they remember what he was here campaigning. it was a very solemn thing on tv. aople want to go a

these are two letters that jackie kennedy wrote to margaret mcnamara, the wife of robert mcnamara, who was kennedy's defense secretary. this is a very personal note. jackie had decided to move, she and the children to new york , city. mrs. mcnamara wrote her a note. this is the hand written reply. she says she must attempt to start a new life. i don't have great hope for it, but i know it will be better for the children. that's really a heart rendering line. becameater, jfk junior the publisher of "george" magazine. he became a public figure himself. in 1988 at the age of around 28, he introduced his uncle teddy at the democratic convention in miami. -- democratic convention in atlanta. he begins by saying thank you, mr. speaker. this is a great honor. ton i was first asked he introduce senator kennedy, i felt really proud. then i realized that all of my cousins were returning teddy's phone calls because they were all out campaigning for themselves. he introduced his uncle. given the tragic end of his life about a decade later, it's a heart rendering item to look at. what we discovered

, competing with robert f kennedy. that was the situation. that brings the racial issue up . buckley was not a racist, indeed the opposite. he's the guy who drove the racists out of the conservativemovement and yet goldwater who was not a racist , it integrated his own family departments in arizona. he, buckley and goldwater opposed the 64 civil rights act which i think played a very significant role in giving conservatives including conservatives who themselves have been activists in the civil rights movement, people write richard john neuhaus and leon did the conservative movement a reputation for being if not racist, at least not against the dismantling of racial segregation so what accounts for buckley and goldwater refusing to support the civil rights act? before we get into the civil rights act, remember the national review began in the mid-1950s. and it's not around in 1954 but also opposed that in a very big way. and this is not the national review's finest hour, there have been many finer hours and the finest

it was written in washington other -- under the direct supervision of robert kennedy, under the request of kennedy because they did not trust him to bring back the information he needed to begin with the withdrawal. when they got it in hawaii, it was already bound. they jetted in and read it on the way in. the firestorm about this movie caused everybody to create the arb. in my opinion, one of the most single most important documents, if i had to put together a top 10, this would be in there, is the record of that conference may 1963. wouldas when mcnamara bring in all of these guys from the cia,nto honolulu, and would get a status report. you said this one was not getting a status report. he was getting a progress report. kennedy had already started the withdrawal program. mack camera -- mcnamara was a guy who is doing it. meeting, he is checking on these withdrawal schedules. we will turn this thing over to vietnamese. we are getting out of here. schedules,s all the do you know what he says? too slow. we have to speed it up. i do not have enough time to go into why he said that, but t

we had justices roberts and kennedy favoring some sort of compromise.s this mean a full ban is just a matter of time, how should these countries prepare? >> it is possible, at the same time, i think those justices have not really supported a full ban. >> it is possible, at the same to have to think about the interest of the united states -- do i have to think about the interest of the united states? whether they will come up with a viable refugee policy remains to be seen. tracy: up next on the best of bloomberg markets middle east, one shale producers says he can make profit even if oil falls to mid $20 per barrel. how the numbers add up on that claim. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ tracy: welcome back to the best of bloomberg: markets middle east. weak oil prices do not seem to worry shale producers in the u.s. the permian basin has lifted the u.s. to one of the top oil reserves and 25 years worth of oil reserves. our energy reporter joined us for more. >> the basin is a little bit different than a lot of other oil basins because it has so many different laye

i will flip it around, tara, john contend he did i's brother -- kennedy's brother, robert kennedy, eschewed political establishment working letters back and forth to russians to tamp down the whole cuban missile crisis. i'm not comparing the two, there are a different republican predecessors to handle russians different ways. what do you say. >> let's assume no substance was discussed. reason we don't know that, there was no aide present, english translator there on the trump side of the equation. neil: how do they do that at a dinner. only allowed one translator. the japanese one was near the president because he was next to the japanese first lady i believe. >> right. even if it was benign or nothing of importance was discussed it still raises problems. there is a reason this is getting extra scrutiny. i agree probably other issues are more important that should be focused on. there is reason. this is not period of normal times. the administration is under investigation, aides associates for collusion with russia. there is meeting past week looked at very closely because misleading inform

martin luther king and robert f. kennedy shook an already weary nation to the core.ickerson: nasa's apollo 8 mission successfully launched three astronauts into space, beating the soviets to become the first manned flight to leave the earth's orbit, circle the moon, and return safely. it was a breakthrough that stunned the world. joining us now is jeffrey kluger, the author of "apollo 8", looking back at that seminal mission. jeffrey, why is apollo 8 so important? >> it's important culturally, as we said at the beginning o segment. this was the most tragically blood-soaked year in modern human and global history. we had terrible events. there was the tet offensive. at the same time three american astronauts had been lost in a spacecraft fire just the year before, in 1967. white, grissom, and chafee. the space program which was our charm was moved out of reach. here we were in the summer of 1968. there was no plausible way we were going to make president kennedy's deadline of getting a man on the moon before 1970, and the guys at nasa said, you know what, you know our

of course president kennedy and robert f kennedy. different plane and level here.trump would be better served if you would not related to the people serving him. >> sandra: is good to hear from you, judge. good to have you back. >> bill: are you refreshed or what, judge? ready to fight the law? new developments to save the life of a terminally ill baby by the name of charlie guard. >> he's our flesh and blood. it is all right as parents to decide to give him a chance at life. >> bill: now a prominent american doctor hopes to influence a british judge and that ongoing legal battle. he is in britain now. >> sandra: remembered for young men murdered and buried on a pennsylvania farm. >> we are here for them as a county, we are bucks bucks cy strong for them. ries, unclogging the sink, setting up dentist appointments and planning birthday parties, nobody does it better. she's also in a rock band. look at her shred. but when it comes to mortgages, she's less confident. fortunately for maria, there's rocket mortgage by quicken loans. it's simple, so she can understand th

the robert f. kennedy human rights group agreed to post $100,000. hernandez is fighting charges that he fired a shot that injured another teen in 2015, even though the victim and eight other teens who witnessed the shooting say hernandez is innocent. hernandez has been in jail since july of 2016. his plight has drawn comparisons to the case of kalief browder, another bronx teen, who committed suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being held at rikers for nearly three years without trial for a crime he did nonot commit. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on wednesday evening, protesters gathered in front of the white house and u.s. armed forces are crewmen station in times square in new york to denounce president donald trump's surprise announcement banning transgender people from serving in the military. trump made the declaration on twitter wednesday morning, tweeting -- "after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the united