i think it was damaging to the cia. i'm not a historian in that period but i address it in the book. and the second question was? [inaudible] >> my problem with the book legacy of ashes is that the cia is not an open book. this is a very secretive place. we don't know the sum total of it. if an author comes and tells you it was all bad and half of it is still secret how does he know? that was my problem. it was a conceptual problem. certainly there are things in the book that are true and the cia errors in the world are well-known. i'm certainly familiar with a lot of them from bay of pigs and vietnam. but it's not the whole story because the whole story is locked up in the vaults. >> would you say that the soviet intelligence works better against the u.s. or the u.s. intelligence works better against the soviets? >> this is again a big difficult question but it is very true that we had far better tactical intelligence. it is true that our satellites were superior. we could count soviet missile silos and we could see the

today, the cia released thousands of these. the first one with jfk starting in 1961, right through the end of johnson administration in 1969. before now, the cia had relisted allowing any president's daily briefing to be released to the public, other than under the most extreme circumstances. president obama issued an executive order in 2009 that said after 25 year, unless there's some reason to keep stuff secret, it should be made public. and now today, this is the first release. 2,500 documents released today. 2,500 pdb's released for the first time. and the man who knows more than anyone in the country about what we first learned about this trove of stuff is up next. >> today for the first time ever, the central intelligence has the fastest retinol formula... to work on fine lines and even deep wrinkles in just one week. neutrogena®. >> today for the first time ever, the central intelligence agency is releasing ennmasse, declassified copies of the pdbs. some 2,500 documents from the kennedy and johnson administrations. >> the

today, the cia released thousands of these. rst one with jfk starting in 1961, right through the end of johnson administration in 1969. before now, the cia had relisted allowing any president's daily briefing to be released to the public, other than under the most extreme circumstances. president obama issued an executive order in 2009 that said after 25 year, unless there's some reason to keep stuff secret, it should be made public. and now today, this is the first release. 2,500 documents released today. 2,500 pdb's released for the first time. and the man who knows more than anyone in the country about what we first learned about this trove of stuff is up next. my name is rene guerrero. i'm a senior field technician for pg&e here in san jose. pg&e is using new technology to improve our system, replacing pipelines throughout the city of san jose, to provide safe and reliable services. raising a family here in the city of san jose has been a wonderful experience. my oldest son now works for pg&e. when i do get a chance, an oppo

can we just the cia? >> you know it's interesting. ut quote that i have in the book talking about the earlier part of my career there's a certain stage falling along the management fads of the time i had an executive coach. i was running the training program at the cia. she was sort of like a jewish grandmother so i would sit in her office and she would make these observations and she would say you know i don't know anybody who is more involved in this organization than you. your election to it as essentially subversive. and i think she had more than half a point. it gets to the heart of a think part of what you say. i was always focused on my organization not so much for what it was but for what it needed to be and i hope it could be performed. mind you i love the cia and i think it is done a lot of good things and i think it has done some disastrous things, no question about that. it's a matter of historical record but to me what was the most important was the mission. as long as the u.s. remains a global power than you need to have

as the mess deepened daily in cambodia, nixon ordered the cia into the fight. quote, i want helms to develop an implemental plan for maximum assistance to elements in cambodia, he instructed. cia director helms promised to support with untraceable money and guns. swiss gold and is an arsenal of communist weapons like ak-47 assault rifles. this proved difficult. cambodia had no american ambassador, no cia station chief, no cia or military or intelligence officers on the ground. it was terror incognito. casting around the world, the cia called upon john stein, a veteran cia officer with plenty of paramilitary experience in africa but none in indochina. stein reported back to the white house shortly thereafter. he got straight to the point. quote: here was another small southeast asian country where nobody knew what was going on, unquote. the new cambodian regime, quote, had come to the conclusion that somebody had to help them, and this somebody was the united states. with more fighting on their hands, morale needed bucking up. the only way to give them a bucking

i mean, can we trust the cia? laughter] >> you know, it's interesting when one of the -- a quote that i have in the book sort of talking about the earlier part of my career, there's a certain stage where, you know, sort of following along the management fads of the time, i had an executive coach. i was seen to be an up and comer. i was running the training program at cia, so i had an executive coach. she was sort of like a jewish grandmother. so i would sit in her office in the afternoons, and she would sort of make these observations, and she would say, you know, i don't know of anybody who's more loyal to this organization than you. but your relation to it is essentially subversive. [laughter] ask, you know, i think she -- and, you know, i think she had more than half a point. i guess it gets to the heart of, i think, part of what you're saying. i was always focused on my organization not so much for what it was, but for what it needed to be, and i hoped it could be reformed into being. mind you, i love the cia.

. >> the cia admitted it. >> the carpet bazaar in tehran is in the southern part of the city.s dusty, it's conservative, it's a little more religious. we were talking to these guys who have been in a business that is ancient for persia, you see the rug but there are weavers, diers, carpets everyone in the world would think were beautiful, before the sanctions this one little shop that i was in this one little owner would ship a container full of these carpets to the united states every week and you'd buy them in fancy stores i suppose. and since the sanctions he sells no carmtsz to the unite carpets to the united states. his entire business -- being the economics guy that i am, i said this is a problem for you, if the sanctions are lifted the demands for your carpets will increase and the cost of your your carpets will increase. he says no no, the cost of the carpets will come down. i'm thinking he's missing my point. he says no no, the cost of the carmtcarpets will be reduced, te profit margin will be reduced, he had thought the whole thing through, everyone in iran has done

helms and the cia, helms was blunt. the u.s. and the cia had to ask to go to thailand to send battalions of troops to laos without telling congress. the cia director wrote and apologize for my vulgarity, this is a quote i told the president i realize this was a shitty decision. but in light of all the factors that seem desirable. nixon commented, commented, it had been necessary to do on pleasant things necessary and this was one more that could be taken on as well. there is going to be no announcement the president said. we're just going to do it, we don't have to explain it. the political situation at home was no better than the military situation abroad. secretary of defense, melvin warned nixon on tuesday, march 31 that the senate was prepared to cut off funds. nixon responded, i will fight such limitation to the death. the senate also rejected the nomination of john judge jeannie harold. they're personally selected for nixon. a ranking republican of the senate judiciary committee said quote there are a lot of mediocre peopl

and he will also be at princeton this fall teaching the course of the cia. and of course he continues to turn out books on there a challenging subjects. three years ago in the book enemies come he tackled the history of the secret intelligence operations. and in his new book one man against the world, the tragedy of richard nixon the team revisits the spectacular fall of one of the most controversial and complicated presidents. drawing on the documents declassified over the past few years he looks back at the vietnam war and at the the watergate scandal but most of all the torment of complex figure that was central in those tumultuous years. one review was anyone that reads this incisive book will be nostalgic for an xml matter how disastrous the successors. [laughter] i did learn a moment ago tim and his family have a personal connection to the knicks in years. when he was a teenager and the company was down here to march on washington, and when they got back to their car they noticed somebody taking of the license plate number. and they worried that they wo

the cia went through a procedure, annual review of the white house that basically said, is this operation, is the data we are getting out of this operation, this effort worth what we're getting if it got disclosed tomorrow morning on "the new york of times" or "the washington post"? the nsa never went through that process until post-snowden time. tell us, go one more beat about how that is changing. what you are saying happen in the culture. is there now an underlying assumption that even the deepest secrets may only have a shelf life of a couple of years. how does of -- that affect one's thinking on how to measure risk?

his exact relationship with the cia? on a day-to-day basis. >> obviously it is hard to talk about a situation like this without sounding like you dive down a rabbit hole. kissinger came up to the intelligent system in the u.s. in world war ii and then after world war ii, he was a military sergeant sergeant in the army, in the intelligence division. he won a bronze star, he was also leading captain of the hierarchy. he had fiercely maintained his intelligence with the intelligence community. he offered to spy on people that were attending the international seminar, he served on a number of covert actions, psychological psychological warfare boards in the 1950s. he quickly became, he was a student of william elliott who is someone who had deep roots within the intelligence community. what we know about him, is interesting enough to give us a sense of useful understanding of the evolution of the national security state. >> so is too big to fail. the mass murders are too big to convicts. my question to you is, is the evidence

defense sources say the new operation involves the cia and special operations teams, like the ones thatled osama bin laden, carrying out raids that deliver intelligence that then allows the military to target and kill terrorists like the british online hacker janaid hussein. the drone strike that killed him signalled how the military and intelligence community are finally leveraging all their assets to target and kill isis leaders using drones over syria. raids like the one on may 16th by a delta force team targeting abu sayef resulted in an intelligence windfall from computers and the capture of his wife. with turkey finally allows u.s. armed drones to fly out of inserlik enables the drones to hover longer and take advantage of the new intelligence. some military experts say it's too little too late. >> president obama continues take an incremental approach to warfare. do a little bit more. if that doesn't work do a little bit more. do a little bit more. we've tried that from vietnam forward. it doesn't work. >> reporter: the pentagon won't confirm troubling new reports that russian tr

so the cia kidnapping case, six of those cables were cited in the judgment.l-masri, completely innocent, even the cia -- completely innocent german citizen was snatched off the streets and detained and tortured and then dumped on a street in albania. anyway, eventually his case came before the -- cable became evidence. people are being freed from pakistani prisons based on the cables. re-litigation of some of the cia interventions in spain as a result of the cables. about 30,000 citations of the cables in various papers, including to get out of the field of academic relations, journals inside the united states, by u.s. authors. for example, in epidemiology, epidemiology of war, in computer -- in computational linguistics, how you look at language and there's so many words in this 2 billion word corpus, a great thing for people interested in language to study. lots of these being done, anyone the united states, even in u.s. journals, even with u.s. authors. so it clearly wasn't simply the legal risk, and u.s. journalism organizations use cables about once a da

the cia occupied the second floor of this the former american embassy, a building the iranians came toer to as a den of spies. by 1979, iran was in the throes of an islamic revolution. popular protests led by iran's senior muz lic muslim clerics dd the shah, america had never faced off against a political force that used islam for motivation, protesters breached the walls of the american embassy in tehran. they justified their assault in part on iranian fears that u.s. might spout another coup and bring the shah back to power. hostilities grew worse over the decades. in the 1980s, they accused iraq, the u.s.s. vincennes shot down killing 290 people. the u.s. never formally apologized for the attack. despite all the bad blood over the years most iranians we talked to say, they like americans, just not like american foreign policy. >> i like america, i like american muscle cars, i don't hate america, and my friends do. 57 years have passed since the revolution. the americans if they are 40 years or younger they have no memory of the shah's regime. they don't have a memory of americans do

the problem dates back to 2011 when the cia used a vaccination program to track down osama bin laden. as a result, pakistani vaccination teams became the target of extremist violence. nowadays, they work under armed protection, as peter knuz has been finding out. >> the power is out again in this little station in pakistan. one of the many problems the polio vaccination team faces. but the real problem is from religious fundamentalists, who demonize the oral vaccine the team gives to children. >> there's this one printer who claims we are trying to render muslim families in fertile with the vaccination. >> the vaccinate or zarling -- are risking their lives to save children. they have become targets of terrorist attacks across pakistan. around 70 have been killed in recent months. even the policeman assigned to protect health-care personnel was shot and killed. >> the ones who opposed the campaign are wrong because without these drops we would be endangering our children's health. >> a mobile vaccination team asked their cooler bag with live attenuated serum. polio was nearly wiped ou

relitigation of some of the cia interventions in spain as a result of the cables. there's about 30,000 citations of the cables in various papers including once you get out of the field of academic relations journals inside the united states by u.s. authors. for example, in epidemiology, epidemiology of war, in computer computer -- in computationalling qisics which is -- computational linguistics which is how you look at language. it's a great thing for people interested in language to study. lots and lots of these being done even in the united states, even in u.s. journals, even with u.s. authors. so it clearly wasn't simply the legal risk. and u.s. journalism organizations used cables about, you know, once a day there is something published in the u.s. press that is derived from that massive cable set. okay what is the largest organization in the united states that deals with the international relations at an academic level? it is the international studies association. now, the international studies association is viewed by the state department and by the white ho

now the cia's own data office of the u.n. intelligence actions has not been exposed according to this u.s. official. but it's the government employees that they are concerned about. 5 pin 6 million fingerprints are out there, too. they believe this is all in the hands of chinese intelligence agencies. they believe that chinese were behind this massive hack attack. china for where it stands has always said that it does not sponsor any kind of hacking. issued a while ago, the foreign ministry held a briefing. cnn was there. we asked a question about this report. they told us the chinese government firmly opposes any form of hacking. china and the u.s. are the stop two big internet using countries and we both face the same challenges and will gain mutual benefits in protecting cyber security. but just how far does that protect really go, christine? because you will remember, that deal between president xi and president obama last week wasn't far reaching. they managed to agree that they won't hack each other's companies, trade s

the cia is pulling back the curtain on some of the most tense moments in our nation roz history.e officials released thousands of pains of classified documents from the kennedy and johnson administration. they're known as the president's daily briefing, highly guarded intel from around the globe. some pages have the stamp for nor president's eyes only immigrant "now thanks to an executive order we can all look at the inches. chief intelligence correspondent target rein herridge is live in washington. >> this top secret briefing from november 25, 1963, three days after president kennedy's assassination, the cia informed president johnson, quote, press seniors to the effect lee harvey oswald visited mexico city are true. oswalt visited the cuban and soviet embays on 28 september. was trying to arrange for visas travel to the uussa via. it was called the president's daily brief or pdd. mr. obama take his brief electronically on his ipad. his pred are sos did a one-on-one with a briefer from the intelligence community and a former briefer told fox news that president bush was famous

and i don't think that oswald -- i think that he was working for the cia myself. >> why doesn't americaort? >> because of the conspiracy theories, who have put this case under a high-powered microscope, splitting hairs and then proceeding to split the split hairs. the kennedy case is now the most complex murder case by far in world history. nothing even remotely comes close. >> we are left with the series of real and critical questions about the assassination. questions which have not been answered to the satisfaction of the people of the united states. >> when president kennedy was killed, he was not killed by one man. he was shot from a number of different directions by different guns. the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. and this is your country. >> we aren't trying to hide a thing from you or from mr. epstein or mr. lane or the world. we are laying it all out. that's right here in the notes of testimony. and if we have transposed in error a possibly into a probably, then we are delighted to have you point it out to us. but you can do so only because we've laid

this is all from al qaeda. >>> did the cia miss a chance to save an american hostage? according to the washington post the cia detected a man being held by al qaeda but they didn't keep that person under drone surveillance. some u.s. officials say they believe that man could have been warren weinstein, the american aid worker who was accidentally killed in a drone strike earlier this year. the news that outraged weinstein's father and family who fought for years to free him. john brownly is the weinstein attorney joins us now. john, we know you've been in contact with warren wise. how is she taking this news? she's got to be hurt and outraged. >> thank you for allowing me to be here. she is devastated. the family is devastated. warren weinstein was a great american. he was captured by al qaeda in august of 2011. held for over three years and then in january of this year he was killed by a u.s. air strike. at that time al qaeda dug up his body, desecrated his remains. we've been unable to get them back and so this report by the washington post was kind of another punch i

killed in this drone strike, but now according to "the washington post," a year before his death, that the ciae, a western hostage perhaps, yet pulled off surveillance, didn't trach him. didn't do the things you would think they would do to try to find, locate and perhaps rescue warren weinstein, so the family is devastated by this news. this comes on the heels of just a few weeks ago where they learned that mr. weinstein's body had been dug up, ransom demanded, and yet to date the u.s. authorities have been unable to identify or find his remains, and like the italian government, who was able to bring their loved one home. this is a very difficult time for the family. what they want is the truth, and what they want is to learn what happened to their beloved husband and father. >> according to u.s. officials who spoke anonymously to "the washington post", the footage of this western hostage was inconclusive, and to this day it's unclear if it was definitely mr. weinstein, but the family thinking more could have been done? >> we don't know exactly what happened. "the washington post" said these

. >> the cia admitted it. on this labor day weekend. many of them blitzing hillary crib on the fixed up an official endorsement. amid the growing scandal over the use of a private email server. just hours from now, gat guatemalans headed to the polls. if i don't participate, i won't be able to question the future. i need to show her the importance of political participation. with 14 presidential candidates, you would think people here would be spoiled for choice but many say they've heard the proms but not an actual plan on how they will deliver. i have the leadership experience. that's my political advantage. >> i don't belong to the traditional political class. i'm going to fight it others are telling people to come home. an election they say is tainted by corruption. people are being told they are pressured to vote for certain parties. others have received money from return for support. al ever up next, a lack at the changing political rolls of unions in america. and a starving toddler found nursing on a dog. this weekend the nation i

whether they are workers for the cia, the nsa, or the defense intelligence agency. and a huge concern for the u.s., of course. >> and just imagine you're one of the government employees whose private information has now been breached and could be sold onto a number of other parties. it's unnerving, but talk to us about the possibilities and the fallout of this. cyber attacks are a new reality in our world. how much of a setback will this particular attack be for the states? >> reporter: it is a huge setback. and there may be more to come. in terms of how huge a concern this is, despite, as you mentioned earlier, that agreement between president xi and president obama, they were limited, errol, to cyber espionage between based on commercial gains, so that is hackers that go into companies, steal their blueprints and steal other information to try to gain a commercial gain. so it's companies in the u.s. that were hugely concerned about that. this is not in that agreement. so the game and the courts will still open for anyone who wants to enter it, and the problem in t

the cia and other u.s. agencies have told cnn it hasn't affected their data, but it has affected their employees and they're taking no chances. when we talk about intelligence agencies, we're talking about the nsa, cia and defense intelligence agency. their people right now in china are going to have to be pulled out. according to u.s. official that spoke to cnn. i contacted the u.s. embassy in beijing. they say they don't comment on matters relating to intelligence o. a short wheel ago, the min industry of foreign affairs here in beijing, we had this information that cnn has found and the ministry spokesman told cnn the chinese government firmly opposes hacking. china, of course, has denied any state sponsored hacking, goes on. china and the u.s. are two big internet using countries. we both face the same challenges and will gain mutual benefits in protecting cyber security. of course, christine was that deal with president obama and president xi last week, that only covers intellectual property and trade s

what role is the cia playing? we'll have new details on that. wolf blitzer is off. i'm brianna keilar, you're in "the situation room." >>> there are new developments this evening in the hunt for three suspected killers of an illinois police officer. authorities say the two-mile area surrounding the crime scene than thoroughly scoured, that intensive hunt is giving way to a broader search as police concede the suspects may have left town other even the states. thee going through surveillance videos from homes and businesses, and calling on the public to come through with tips that may help break the case. our correspondents, analysts and guests are standing by, and we begin with that search for the killers of a police officers in fox lake, illinois. cnn national correspondent ryan young is there. ryan, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, we know more than 100 investigators are spread throughout the state. we went through the entire neighborhood, not just by air, but by boat and ground to see what's going on. you can tell there's a difference in terms of the perimete

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remember a report a number of hads ago that the dea now an intelligence network that was only second to the cia, that they have this in -- asked intelligence network. it is an example of how the drug war has known area the militarization of the drug war, the militarizing of drug police forces, special anti-narcotics units, that started in the 1970's and that has continued to grow ever since and still in that state today. >> this is lease action. but your weapons down. war, isize of the drug think one thing that has changed is even though in the face of all this enlargement, the constant criticism only gets more intense. we are seeing some questioning ofa global level of leaders latin american countries, european countries getting together and declaring publicly that we need to rethink the global war on drugs in its -- and its current focus on enforcement and source control. it has not worked and we need to find other ways of addressing this issue that don't come with the many harms and not so wasteful of dollars. our tour of the literary life of wheeling, west virginia continues with jeff ruthe

faster, higher, farther: a simple request from the cia during the cold war. it's what the agency needed from its next generation of reconaissance aircraft. what america got was the sr-71 blackbird. a supersonic machine that would fly faster than any other manned aircraft ever created in september of1974. (takeoff) nearly two decades after its final flight. this sleek, intimidating aircraft sits unused despite its unmatched potential. the s-r-71 blackbird is the fastest manned jet in the world and earned that title by skipping across the atlantic in unheard of time. but the blackbird wasn't just fast to set records it had to be to collect much needed intelligence while staying out of harms way. "the sr-71, a long-range, supersonic, reconnaissance craft with the most advanced observation equipment in the world." "then khrushchev's shocking announcement: a united states air force plane shot down on russian soil. reportedly, an ultra-secret high altitude reconnaissance craft." even before the soviets shot down a u-2 spy plane in 1960, the cia wanted to advance th

the cia and another intelligence agency said two e-mails clinton received on her account contained top secret information at the time they were sent. a review was endorsed by a finding by the two agencies inspector general. a finding disputed by the clinton campaign. they said different agencies acquire information in different ways. there is good news for clinton on monday. she picked up the endorsement of iowa's democratic congress member dave loebasck. clinton meantime spent the holiday weekend pitching votes across the state. >> i watched george w. bush and his republican administration try to reverse everything that had been done. they did a really good job of it. they drove us into a ditch. and they did it because they continued to believe that the only way that anybody should be involved in the economy is to do exactly what you're told by the people on top. the big corporations and get out of the way of trickle down economics. it didn't work before. it can't work again. >> i believe i have the vision, the policies, the skill, the tenacity and determination to get us back on the

that intelligence gets to the cia, gets to the fbi, the joint terrorism task force, gets right down your to the streets of the city. that is now gone. we do not have the benefit of that intelligence. a could be part of the reason we mr.isis or i sold -- isil, chafee, because we were not getting the intelligence we were getting in the past. it is part of the reason we miscalculated and let them catch up real fast and now we are playing catch-up, not ofd fense. but isis is not the biggest threat to us. i determined, strong strategy of engaging our special forces to do a good job of eliminating isis. are major threat, and let's not take our eye off it as we watch isis, is iran. the arabian empire that began with the overthrow of the shot in the first ayatollah -- the and thew of the shah first ayatollah, and now the second. we are talking mass murderers. rouhaniollah and mr. having gauged in mass murder. this mr. rouhani was the one who ordered the execution of jewish people in argentina. there are more people being under in iran today than a minute shot -- for a good reason. they do not wa

likeability continues to be an issue. >> over the years -- >> back and forth. >> we will ask you about the cia and petraeus during overime. >> people are already on the live chat. she is sending surrogates to attack sanders so that is interesting. congress is back to business and the iran nuclear deal is on the agenda. a vote could happen as early as this week. what to expect. and she is behind bars for refusing to issue same-sex marriage license and now the case of the kentucky clerk is entering the political arena and the gop candidates who are visiting kim davis in prison and how it could impact the 2016 race. and catch more from the couch on the web. harris is back and logging on now. start sending questions for any of us on the couch. tweet us pictures, etc, keep them clean. mike baker is here everyone. mike baker is here everyone. , but i've managed. except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. and when i finally told my doctor, he said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. and that

. >>> new information in the battle against the radical islamic terrorist of isis with word that the cia and special operations forces are ramping up the drone war and they are going after high value targets within the terror group. jennifer griffin is life at the pentagon with more -- live -- hi, jennifer. >> reporter: the story was reported by the washington post but defense sources say the u.s. military and cia have moved into a new phase of targeting high value individuals using a method that was perfected in iraq. it is where the cia and special operations teams like the ones that killed bin laden carry out raids that have intelligence and allow the military to target and kill terrorist like the british online hacker who used cyber techniques to recruit isis followers. this drone strike signals the u.s. military and intelligence community were able to leverage all of their assets to target and kill this isis leader. but what i am told by well placed sources is what you are seeing is the result of recent raids from seal teams that resulted in interrogation and the capturing of comput

. >> the cia admitted it. >> this is al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey. in new york for del walters. take a look at the top stories right now. as waves of refugees arrive in germany and austria, a call from pope francis for the faithful to offer shelter to the people coming to europe. in the week ahead. congress goes back to work rang linwrangling over a possible government shutdown. and sending military forces to syria. and running across america for a much greater challenge. europe is facing its worst refugee crisis sidges o since wr ii. germany has dedicated to spend billions of euros in aid to deal with it. refugees seek ago sigh lum, blockaded at the hungarian border, one time only chance at entry. in greece the situation is turning violence. riot police apparently beat refugees, 17,000 waiting for entry to mainland europe. but there aren't enough immigration officials to process them. pope francis is asking to help these people who are fleeing from death and war and hunger. john terret is joining us with more. it gets worse and worse every day. >> ev

the cia assassinations. the trade embargoes. in american's rhetoric. cuba sticking it to the united states all over the third world. that is an important history, but that is not the history that will get us to where it eventually these two countries need to go and will go. and that is reconciliation and positive engagement. so we said, let us work to put together under one cover the entire secret history that is completely unknown, or at least completely overshadowed, by the history of aggression and conflict. at history of efforts reconciliation and dialogue, of negotiations, top-secret meetings, going back all the way to the eisenhower administration -- but after the breach of relations that are coming back now, start with john f. kennedy. these secret negotiations held the lessons for the policymakers that we knew would eventually and have come along to look at this situation and do something about it. we arrived at this day -- this is december 16, 2014, when president obama actually picked up the phone and became the first president of the united

. >> the cia released 2500 pages of documents known as the president's daily brief standing at eightear period in the 1960s. after decades of resistance the cia declassified briefings considered the most of force if assessment produced by the intelligence community of the time and shared with president kennedy and lyndon johnson. the briefings, the cuban missile crisis including this matter of confirmed sites for surface-to-air missiles, suspected sites and runways that make aircraft. there granular in detail, and read in part seven of 12 sites observed in this occasion have missiles on launchers. some are operational. these hearken back to a simpler time. >> president kennedy and in johnson's day, the soviets and clients as communication networks were given in the pre-world. they carried little or no legal ambiguity. terrorists we face today use the same channels everyone else does. >> presidential daily brief after the kennedy assassination. and lee harvey oswald had recently visited mexico city were true, and oswald visited cuban and soviet embassies, trying to arrange visass, to

. >> the cia admitted it. >>> the plight of these journalists has been raised internationally throughass campaigns. the. >> three of my colleagues are in gaol for doing their job. as you know, there's three journalists for international organizations... >> because the weight of the al jazeera network was thrown behind it, and you saw the need for organizations joining in that campaign. there are other journalist detained in egypt and remain detained. they are not the subject of international campaigns. >> the need to protect journalists, coming out with a report not long ago saying there were 18 others journalists right now in yale for going their job, and this is the highest level. >> the bulk of those are journalists working for local outlets. they can get away with cracking down on local outlets without much of a response. for example, a photo journalist detained two years ago, hasn't started standing trial. they have not formally charged him with anything. they review his detention. i feel that's the way they handle the local press here. >> it's the standards that there's no hope

that intelligence gets to the cia and it gets to the fbi from the joint terrorism task force, it gets right down here to the streets of the city. that is now gone. we do not have the benefit of that intelligence. it could be part of the reason we thought isis or isil was the j.v. because we weren't getting the intelligence we were getting in the past. it is part of the reason we miscalculated them and let them catch up real fast and now we're playing catch-up, not offense. but isis is not the biggest threat to us. a determined strong strategy of engaging our special forces could do a good job of eliminating isis. our major threat, and let's not take our eye off it, as we watch isis, is iran. the iranian empire that began with the overthrow of the shaw and the first ayatollah and now the second has tilled well over a million people. we're talking about mass murderers. the ayatollah and prime minister rouhani have engaged in mass murder. it is prime minister rouhani who was one who ordered the execution of the jewish people in argentina. there are more people being killed in iran today

so, he would give these crazy workers, you know, cut the cia. staff knew to ignore a lot of those orders. but he was just venting and blowing off steam. but not always. pentagon papers leaked. you remember this it's not even mentioned in the pentagon papers it's about the kennedy johnson administration that he gets himself all wound up partly for legitimate reasons he doesn't like this one because they are conducting secret diplomacy and nixon is afraid it's going to leak out that he gets himself all wound up and he wants the fbi to come in and spying on ellsberg. they want the fbi to dig some dirt on ellsberg. she editor hoover partly because of this shrewd politician that he is can see the wind is changing they are starting to be lawsuits about the illegal tapping and the court, the supreme court, the law is starting to change. hoover has been running this whole empire all these years. i think i'm going to get out of this business because we are all going to get caught read what that meant is that since the fbi wouldn't do any more nixon went

. >> the cia admitted it. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. >> in november, about a month after the 43 students disappeared, mexico's attorney general said he believed they had been killed by cartel members... the bodies had been burnt, he said, and what was left had been put into plastic bags and tossed into a river just outside of iguala, and it would be hard to identify or match the charred remains through dna. with so many disappearances in this region, and potential dumping and burning sites, it may be impossible to ever get a full picture of what happened. in the search for th

maybe the cia or fbi. the radical right wing businessman. those are all favored subjects. i ask a different question. the question is ask is what did it mean. this is a large event. what did it mean in american life. what was its meaning for politics? importantly, what was the length link between kennedy's assassination in 1963 and the events that followed, which by 1968 turned the nation on its head? the 1960's represented the end of the liberal era, which began in the 1930's with franklin roosevelt and the new deal. by 1968 the assumptions of the liberal movement that roosevelt, truman, stephenson, humphrey, kennedy, and lyndon johnson represented, those assumptions were in tatters by 1968. 1968 was a remarkable year. dan has written a piece in the "wall street journal" on the events of that year including, two important assassinations. senator kennedy and martin luther king. and the upheavals on campus. lyndon johnson' s withdrawal from the race. how did we get from 1963 to 1968? we had a stable country. a fairly popular president. his popularity was around 63% when he

but even mi 6 and the cia can't compare to the person,. >> i'm opening up for pope in d.c.r as i know. >> a few days later he leaked the news to his 1.3 million followers with this nice tweet. this nice man and i will be on the national mall and telling francis to take moral action for climate. >> let's finish, moby is opening up for pope. how did that happen? >> there's going to be a climate change rally after the pope addresses congress on climate change. but the pope will be leaving congress and addressing a climate change conference. and i'm supposed to play music before the pope addresses this climate change conference. >> it's a rally on the national mall. making a moral case for protecting the environment. earth day network and the moral action on climate network are leading the charge. along with the sierra club, league of conservation voters and others. the permit for gathering is for 200,000 people a number that would eclipse almost any concert venue. >> the way the pope is moving our culture needle is magical. you know, and one of my shadenfreude on my part, but

. >> the cia admitted it. >>> other media stories on the radar.ere is a quote from turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan delivered a year ago - he said there's no freer press in europe or the world than turkey. that day two journalists working with "vice" news were deported to the u.k. after a few days in a turkish prison. they were arrested in the south-eastern part of the country after filming clashes between police and supporters of the p.k.k. they were charged with deliberately aiding an armed organization. the iraqi colleague remains in gaol, and the charges against him relate to encryption software. software that has proven popular with i.s.i.l. militia among others. in a bizarre piece of television. those long loyal to president recep tayyip erdogan put two columnists on the air calling the vice journalists specially trained agents saying they were organising for i.s.i.l. [ speaking foreign language ] >>> vice denied the allegations. frederica, a dutch journalist, was arrested for the second time this year while covering clashes between t

please explain why nixon told the cia that he would go public on the assassination. >> he was upset that finding out the notion of president kennedy had given the order in vietnam. he never found evidence because it doesn't exist. they are very implicated as a not washing that out at all but when kennedy learned vienna had been killed he didn't know that it was going to begin. >> next is new jersey. >> my question is when is mr. thomas going to write about his grandfather? when i was at the university of wisconsin i took some dictation from him during the 1948 candidacy and i would like to know more about him. >> there is a very good book that won the national book award that i would recommend. >> i was convinced at the time of watergate nixon had convinced himself he needed to stay on as president. he had been set hasn't set aside the constitution and to set himself out. >> he had inexpensive view. he thought he had a lot of power and he used it and abuse it. if he stayed in office he would have been convicted but i think a lot exaggerates how bad it was. i don't think that there was a

it's important -- i remember what it was like in august in the cia building. there was concern, chatter, something is going to happen, we don't know what it is. we weren't able to put the dots together. knowing and then seeing what happened. those intelligence failures -- one of the reasons i ended up being where i am to see i can help the intelligence community. we alluded to it earlier, this idea of instead of need to know and moving to need to share. it's hard to change cultures. that's what the intelligence community is based off of. things have changed in a huge way. i'm interested to hear from you all, from the commissioners what specific things can we be doing to get more intelligence in your hands to do your jobs. >> i think we're doing it. i think as i referenced and mayor julewe giuliani reference thwarting the 20 attempted attacks, around the country the increasing pace of attacks that are being constantly disrupted, it really is all about collaboration. it's about the idea of openness and transparency between the respective entities that have engage