indeed, orchestrated from moscow, and they were attempting to -- or the goal was to create a soviet america. of course, they didn't call themselves communists. i never heard them use that word. they called themselves progressives. my mother was also a registered democrat. over the course of the last 40 years, the communist progressive left that i grew up in had moved into the democratic party, startedded with the mcgovern campaign, and today sits in the white house and runs the democratic party. now, i know when you say, oh, the democrats, they are communists, people will look at you and say, this guy's an extremist. he's a relic. actually, i was calledded a relic by a harvard professor in the new york times for noticing an alliance between the radical left and america and the fascist. that professor is an apologist, not surprising, but it was not like the "new york times" identified him that way. valerie and david axlerod are obama's two key advisers, one a campaign manager, and the other manages everything else. barack obama, valerie, david all were born into the same communist left that

. >>> in the middle east, a leading egyptian satirist and television soviet to america's jon stewart yanked off the air. yousaf made fun of the leader. a huge cake adorned were the the image of the army chief. >>> tunisia barred from the davis cup. the international tins federation imposed the punishment after tunisian player was ordered not to play against another player. there is no room for prejudice in the sport. >>> and designated newborn to either male or female. that section of the birth certificate can be left blank. the idea, decide what to dop if the child is born with both male and female sex characteristics. estimates say that occurs in as many as 1 in 2,000 births. m for male, f for female or x, , for those calling themselves intersex. >>> and now back to that attack at l.a.x. yesterday. for more about its possible repurchase cushions joined from washington by rafi rhan, security expert and the former director of security a benghazi in tel aviv. the first thing most of asking this morning, what did we miss? how could we have stopped this? >> well, i think that for the la

is the only one that is unabashedly going against global opinion based that it is america's ally in india is the soviet ally then america would be alienated. and a supporting pakistan and genocide but the fast forward president reagan how it started long before american support the cia provided the arms but the ims library of the operation. the george herbert walker bush becomes president and realizes those cheese party groups are now diverted to kashmir and in pakistan and to be a state sponsor of terrorism in president george of the bush in 2008 he writes that i realized the sharra off never kept his promises and should have warned me earlier he would give his enemies to fighting terrorist. >> host: talking about presidents but also somebody who met with the general 26 times in four years? and he thought by developing this personal relationship the more he could build trust the greater the chances of pakistan would to like crack down on the haqqani network but he said the end of september 2011 that pakistan had not changed. but i think what really angered him and made him say these statements in cong

president kennedy was hardly a king, but he was a cold war year to challenge soviet influence. he set americanightmare with vietnam. day, he was assassinated in an open car. end to a morept innocent time. >> my job was to shield them. >> the images are still sobering half a century later. kennedy's killing was the first time america shared i national tragedy for the first time through the media of television. for stories and information throughout the day, log on to our website. we will have coverage of the national moment of silence. >> such powerful corruption. a capital committee will consider a proposal to raise minimum wage by 2016. it could get a vote by december. >> the clock is ticking for a $16 million lottery winner who hasn't come forward yet. the ticket was part of the $50 million nationwide jackpot. there is a good chance the buyer was an out of town or. the ticket was sold on memorial day weekend. if no one claims it i next thursday the money goes to the education fund. colt favorite,is the mc rib may be hard to find this year. announced it is not doing a nationwide release of t

in the infamous 1971 war against opinion based on the assumption that pakistan is america's highly and that the soviet ally wins then america, despite american help india did win and america was accused of supporting pakistan's genocide of benghazi. fast-forward, president reagan gets involved with the jihad in afghanistan and that's a project that started long before americans support came. it wasn't an american project and it was a pakistani project supported by the u.s.. the cia provided the arms but the isi that pakistani intelligence ran the operation. but towards the end come when george herbert walker bush becomes president he realizes that some of the jihadi groups that were trained primarily in afghanistan have been diverted to kashmir and he threatens pakistan with the potential of accusing it of being a state sponsor of terrorism and president george w. bush in 2008 basically writes in its memoirs, i realize musharraf ever for failed his promises and his obsession with india should have warned me earlier that he wasn't going to devote all his energies to fighting terrorism. >> host: you are

based on the assumption that pakistan is america's ally in indiana soviet ally and the allied wins and america is humiliated but guess what despite the american health, india did win and they were accused of supporting pakistan's genocide. move fast forward. president reagan was involved in the jihad in afghanistan and that is a project that was started long before the american support. if there wasn't an american project was a pakistani project supported by the u.s. they provided the guns, but the isi, the rand operation. but towards the end, george herbert walker bush becomes president and realizes that some of the jihad e-groups of a train printer with afghanistan are now being diverted and he threatens pakistan with the potential of accusing it of being a state sponsor of terror purpose and. and in 2,008 they basically right in the memoirs that i realized that musharraf should have warned me earlier that he wasn't going to be that all of his energy to fighting terrorist. >> host: talking about the u.s. president also talking about admiral mullen who met with general key on the 26 t

they did as much as anyone to shape america's confrontation with the soviet union. they helped set off some of the world's most profound long-term crisis is. -- crises. why were they such heroes back then and why have they faded now? >> because the long-term effect of their operations were not clear then. it seemed like everything they had done succeeded. arbenz inid of guatemala. we never knew that iran was going to spin down into this horrible crisis or what was going to happen in the congo after they assassinated lumumba. at the time, they seemed very successful, very heroic. from historical perspectives, you can see they made a couple of huge misjudgments. ,umber one, after stalin died they completely refused to respond to the kremlin. they never tried to see if the new leadership would like to develop a new relationship with the americans. number two, they completely misunderstood third world nationalism. that emerged after world war ii. they saw it as just a kremlin- organized plot. that is not what it was. their final huge misjudgment was that they had no ide

the soviets are reempowering themselves. even latin americass stable place and now in a much more connected world, it's a less certain world for the united states at the same time he's reducing our military. we're going to 200 ship navy. a weaker america, a less respected america in a more uncertain world, that i think is going to be his legacy. >> i'll give you a chance to respond to that. i want to move onto republicans. >> i would argue one group who does not agree with you is al qaeda. the president completely decimated al qaeda. the leadership is either dead or they can't attack the united states the way they did on 9/11. the president ended the war in iraq. he's winding down the war in afghanistan. i would say that we are a lot stronger than we were when president obama started in 2009 at this moment. particularly as we moved iran further away from getting a nuclear weapon. >> a lot of intelligence folks would argue about al qaeda. it has reconstitute ed itself i many different forms. he did indeed go after a lot of leaders and get a lot

soviet union. the holiday shopping season has kicked off in america with some retailers breaking tradition by pushing their opening hours into planks giving light instead of waiting for the official start of what has become known as black friday and it's been exactly five years since the u.s. federal reserve began its own unprecedented shopping spree back in two thousand and eight it unveiled the largest stimulus package in u.s. history let's just see how it all panned out well banks were handing out too many mortgages and as financial troubles played borrowers people couldn't repay the debt the u.s. federal reserve launched a massive program of bond purchases printing more cash and buying bad loans by pouring more. money into the banks they intended to help the average american by driving down the cost of credit so that more people could survive the financial meltdown but it turned out to be a bigger win for wall street than for the taxpayer support never met one of those behind the fed's experiment to now sees it as a big mistake. block friday the day after thanksgiving is america's busiest shoppin

the soviets are reempowering themselves. the -- even lat ten americaable place, and now in a much more connected world, it's a less certain world for the united states, at the same time, he's reducing our military. we're going to a 200-ship navy. so a weaker america, a less respected america, in a more uncertain world, that i think is going to be his legacy. >> i'm going to give you a chance to respond to that, but then i'm going to move on to republicans. >> one group that probably duds not agree with you is al qaeda. the president completely decimated al qaeda. the leadership is ooeler dead or -- cannot attack the united states the way they did on 9/11. we're a lot stronger than we were when president obama started in 2009 at this home. particularly, when as we have moved iran further away from getting a nuclear weapon. >> a lot of intelligence folks have -- it has reconstituted itself in many forms, but he did go after a lot of leaders, but now it's a slightly different and a lot of people are saying a scarier threat. >> the response was made people

soviet union. it was a powerful piece of history. >> is america a better or worse country now than it was in the '60s my point of view, i didn't know what i knew then. if i know now what i knew then, i don't know that i would have enjoyed the '60s, because i went to vietnam and came back to a situation filled with strife. but the country accelerated into a position quickly after world war ii. a prime position, two presidents, older men built up this country to enormous proportions. we were beyond anybody, dominant in the world. and kennedy, as a young man as we show in this chapter about kennedy, the difficulty he was facing, the military machine was so huge. there was this thinking at the time we have to go get the soviets now, destroy them, because if we don't they will build up and come close to parity -- >> let's watch a bit of this documentary. >> we may never know who was responsible or what their motive was, but we do know that kennedy's enemies included some of the same forces who would cut down henry wallace in 1944 when he was trying to lead the united states down a similar path of peace. >

being the crisis of the advanced economy you had crazies of the america you had crisis of the asian countries you had crises of soviet union you had crisis in many many places of the world for the first time since world war two we had a crisis which was specific to the advanced economy exactly like twenty night was also a crisis on the industrialized economy of the time and in that crisis we are all in a situation which is difficult and calls for very very i would say active. improvement. the european themselves they have two challengers one is the challenges of japan challenges of the u.k. challenges of the us they are of course a very large advanced economy on the one hand on the other hand on top of that they had enough to create a single market with a single currency which had never been tried in the world so all the governance of a single market with a single currency in the worst crisis since world war two is also part of the challenge of the year where the of the european injured are and the year we have here in particular so that makes two challenges when the other advanced economy have a new one and that's t

america. and they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than the soviet union. the mariner spacecraft -- [ applause ] the mariner spacecraft now on its way to venus is the most impotent instrument in the history of space science. the accuracy of that shot is comparable to firing a missile from cape canaveral and dropping it in this stadium between the 40 yard lines. transit satellites are helping our ships at sea to steer a safer course. tirous satellites have given us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes and storms, and will do the same for forest fires and icebergs. we have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them, and they may be less public. to be sure -- [ applause ] to be sure, we are behind, and we will be behind for some time in manned flight, but we do not intend to stay behind and in this decade we shall make up and move ahead. the growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment. our new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, our new tools and computer

yeah, kennedy was deeply religious and he saw the cold war as a battle between america and the godless ter knee of the sovietnion? he used that term, godless tyranny. >> what do you make of it? >> i don't buy it. i don't think he was a conser conservative or a liberal. he showed a great deal of restraint if you go back to the cuba missile crisis, the military establishment wanted kennedy to bomb the sites in cuba and you see the restraint of kennedy saying no. in berlin, the military establishment of his day was saying this is the challenge, you can't let them build the wall. kennedy let them build the wall and used rhetoric to use -- used the wall as a symbol against them but didn't lead to war, and things like the environment. i mean, here is rachel carson silence spurring the most controversial book of 1962 and kennedy backs her action and goes after polluters and the ddt and has a nuclear test ban treaty. eisenhower and republicans in the 1950s were testing nuclear weapons constantly and kennedy said no, i have public health concerns. environmentalism and regulating industries of today is borne out of ke

america was locked in a bitter cold war with the soviet union. 16,000 u.s. troops were stationed in vietnam. 200,000 americans had just marched on washington. then the death of the president. earlier that day, president kennedy delivered a final speech at the texas hotel in ft. worth. >> so this country, which desires only to be tree, which desires to be secure, which desires to live in peace for 18 years under three different administrations has borne more than its share of the burden, stood watch for a number of years. i don't think we are for the eagled or tired. we would like to live as we once lived. history will not permit it. we are still the keystone in the arch of freedom and we will continue to do as we have done in the past, our duty and the people of texas will be in the lead. so i'm glad to come. >> three and a half hours after giving that speech, president kennedy was shot. shortly after he was declared dead and even today decades after it happened americans can still recall exactly what they were doing when they heard the terrible news. in a n

soviet union in 1991. >>> how migrant workers are seeking better working conditions one business at a time. >> al jazeera america is the >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings only news channel that brings you live news at the top of you live news at the top of every hour. every hour. >> here are the headlines at >> here are the headlines at this hour. this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. >> only on al jazeera america. >> migrant workers have long battled exploitation and poor working conditions while some things have changed the fight goes on as the reports the coalition of tomato workers in florida are focusing their efforts on those who buy the fruit they pick. >> reporter: their day begins in the dark. they arrive in the southwestern part the state. here they wait more run down school buses to take them to the farm. once then there they'll earn $0.50 of each bucket they pick. but it wasn't always this way. a decade ago farmers exploited them, and not just financially. >> abusive. >> i saw directly how supervisors would treat and mistreat women as if they were trash. >> reporter: but

soviet and a disastrous economy. i think that you take those things aside and he might have looked at things like the culture in america. ron reagan would have been an extraordinary speaking out about the devastation of the popular culture. he never did. looking back at the anthology of ronald reagan and looking forward into the future to find the next great ronald reagan where every might be. many years. an admirer. he is gone in different ways. not your father's gop anymore. and he said, my father is 91 years old. the very high if the gop. miles from here, almost 3,000 a yorkers were murdered. and september 2001. and that is a whole new ball game. you know, i can say was that day, but that we can realize this is the rest of my life. this is the new 30 years' war. i will probably not see the end of this. whole new set of challenges and tasks. giving the briefing is now. and sure he had at least some inkling of what's out there. got speed to him, but new things come up. you just have to deal with it. >> i agree about our principles and values are enduring. if you look at the three key elements of conservatism in the ma

things about america is sometimes we get worried that we're losing traction and the sky is falling and back in the '80s japan was about to take over and then china and obviously before that the soviet union and we usually come out okay because we change and we adapt. i just want everybody to remember that we're in a very strong position to compete as long as our political system functions. it doesn't have to be outstanding. this is sort of like winston churchill. two cheers for democracy. it's always going to be messy. it has to function better than it has. >> i'm in the red zone on the clock here. i want to ask a question about international affairs. you mentioned the world and the u.s. position in it. there's the possibility this week of an agreement with iran. a preliminary limited agreement in which they would freeze some nuclear activities in return for some relief on sanctions. israeli friends have been arguing along with some of your friends as well as your foes in congress that if you give the iranian regime any relief on sanctions, the sanctions regime will fall apart, countries that don't want to be there in the first place will head for the exits, it will all come apart

soviet ship, hunt for red october. >> this is a pronunciation -- >> we have to get back into this story again. jedediah, some say child services -- is this the woosification of america. >> i have to say gavin was infinitely hot. you have never been sexier, but they do say rough housing babies -- it shows it can be good for them. it boosts their self-confidence and it shows them how to interact with people. we start babying people when they are babies. >> you can't baby babies. >> man up, start young. we won't have a bunch of babies sitting around. >> i agree. >> jesse, you hate babies because they are always crying when you are cleaning the changing room at the gap. should this be a story because a couple of people left u -- youtube comments. one or two people said it was bad. >> first of all that was raisey writing. i have i'm pregnanted a lot of waffles. >> i don't know what you are talking about. that is from the 1997dwarfing final. they can't even make fists properly. you just have to leave it. you don't have to do anything. >> that is a good point. he has his kids. he is a pro lifer. he has his kids. he didn't do the other thing. it is getting grim. >> anybody

america's first seven astronauts. >> scoti carpenter was one of the nasa's elite, chosen as one of the original "mercury" astronauts in the space race against the soviets. >> they were the first rock stars. >> it was the cold war, the american program struggled. scoti carpenter about and his colleagues were determined to win. >> it was a special time. obviously proud of dad for being selected. >> candy was five when her father climbed into her capsule. the time is etched in her memory. i remember a lot of press, a lot of - cameras, wherever we went. and they handled it with great humility. >> scoti carpenter was at the nasa microphone in "62. giving this send off. "good speed, john glenn." the naval aviator would be next. the mercury astronauts represented a bold time. scoti carpenter was the epitome of the hero. >> he named his capsule after the street where he grew up. >> scoti carpenter not only explored space, he used his scientific knowledge in a different way, conducting research at the bottom of the ocean. scoti carpenter spent 28 days living at the bottom of the pacific in the underwater colony sea lab. >> it was 300m below the surface, off the

saudis are really afraid that america's withdrawing -- >> rose: -- >> the iranians are the hegemonic-- if you like, they are sort of the mini equivalent of what the soviets were in the cold war. they are of the have-not power. they want to overturn the sunni dominance in the arab world. and syria is linchpin. and the regime in syria if it were to go it would be a blow to the iranians that would be extremely serious. it would set them back. would be the first real defeat of the aggressiveness into the world, the push into the arab world, since the revolution of '79, and assad was teetering and tottering. the united states did essentially nothing. after wait a couple of years consensus the jihadis have come in on the rebel side, and assad-- now, what happened with obama's red line is that by declaring it, shifting around, zigzagging, he ended up working-- i think working out a deal that will probably be okay on the chemical weapons. but in return what he did, is he legitimized-- he recognized and he essentially stabilized the regime in syria which keeps intact this aggressive sort of archipelago of iranian subordinate states which is a remaining threat to

america, knowing none of this, had bigger worries, as the country faced numerous challenges. from the bay of pigs, the berlin wall. the toughest test came in october 1962, when u.s. spy planes photographed soviet bases in cuba, just 90 miles away. >> we will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the course of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth. >> jack's key advisor during the 13 days of the cuban crisis was his old campaign manager. together, the kennedy brothers came up with a creative solution. the u.s. put a naval quarantine in place while secretly agreeing to pull obsolete u.s. missiles out of turkey. in exchange, the soviets removed their missiles from cuba. the crisis was averted. it was the kennedys' finest hour. what did your dad say about it afterwards? >> well, what he said was we avoided a nuclear holocaust, the end of the world. >> back home, another issue was reaching the boiling point -- civil rights. kennedy knew that every step he took could hurt him in the upcoming 1964 election. >> he didn't want to move too fast. he didn't want to antagonize southern white democratic voters, so we had to stay with him. we had to continue to

soviets to the moon because he knew it would create a new generation of engineers and scientists and mathematicians who would transform our economy and they did. >> rose: most people who understand that america has to be competitive in the world understand that. a commitment to science and research and a mitt romney to education they are also those in your party who say, it costs money and the debt is overwhelming issue and we can't do those things until we do something about the deficit and the debt. >> well, and i was on this show. >> yes, you yes you you were. >> you will remember remember with a know bell prize winning economist about debt, the reason i got involved in politics, the reason i went to congress was because i thought that washington was spending too much money and we were driving up reckless deficits and we are, but the biggest rob right now is run away entitlement spending, medicare and medicaid are going to bankrupt us in the next 20 years, next 25 years and that is coming from joe scarborough, that is coming from jeffrey sacks. >> rose: well, everybody believes unless we have entitlement reform we can't deal with the debt over the long run. >> over the long run so if repu

that america had to push on with its own program and called a moon landing important for its own sake, because it would demonstrate the capacity to dominate space. five days later, u.s. and soviet negotiators and moscow agreed on terms of the test ban treaty. it was signed on august 5. on august 26, soviet ambassador came to the oval office, and we know went on because kennedy had a taping system that he activated when he thought there was something interesting, particularly something he wanted to use in his memoirs. he was very competitive in advance about these memoirs. he knew that arthur schlesinger and soldier were going to write memoirs, but they wouldn't have the actual tapes of what had gone on during these important meetings. anyway, the ambassador tells him, it's important now not to stop at what has been achieved but to make further steps from the good start taken by us and urge that there be no slowing down of the base. kennedy also said that he agreed, he hoped there would be no slowing down and would be more agreements, but the ambassador kept pushing. kennedy, to promise more agreements. agreements. he said, let's sign the city a shady and agreement now and kenne

america said when a woman is raped, she switches off the procreational mechanism. [laughter] he might like to know that there were a million births in those rapes. >> yes, indeed. not just the soviets were not the only ones who were guilty. when -- because of the japanese occupation of countries in southeast asia such as the dutch east indies, malaya and so on, the asians in those countries, the roque population -- local population certainly didn't want to go to the status quo afte whereas the disturb -- the dutch and the british did have preillusions. now, the nationalists in these countries had often in burma collaborated with the japanese quite understandably because they saw that as their chance to liberate themselves from their european colonial masters. but after the war in europe, these nationalists were depicted as collaborators; collaborators with fascism. so who was sent -- and north africa and algeria. so who was sent there as soldiers to put down the anti-colonial nationalist rebellions with brute and often atrocious force if people -- force? people who'd fought against the resistance against the nazis. my point is that human behavior including the propensity for atroci

soviet premier. the cold war is barely a decade old, but intensifying by the minute. the disastrous bay of pigs invasion was six weeks earlier, episode that dramatically weaknd kennedy's image with america'st chance for two leaders with a power to destroy the world to size each other up, to take the measure of the other. for the american president, nothing short of a debacle. the worst thing in my life, jfk confesses to a friendly journalist when it is over. he savaged me. weeks late, khrushchev's command, the berlin wall goes up. around this time, kennedy feels trapped by the events in south vietnam. the domino theory, the idea that if one southeast asian nation fell to communist, all the others would follow, is conventional wisdom and he endorses it. he endorses it two months before his death. >> mr. president, have you ever had any reason to doubt this so-called domino theory that if vietnam falls, the rest of southeast asia will go along behind it? >> no, i believe it. i believe it. >> kennedy questions whether the u.s. has the capacity to destroy the vietcong militarily. doesn't want to be the president who loses a war to the communists. november 1963, nearly 16,000 american military