of the j.f.k. library foundation. all of us are so excited about your leadership here and those of us at the edward m. kennedy institute of the united states senate which is being constructed right next door we are thrilled to have you as a neighbor. with the j.f.k. library, the e.m.k. institute, umass boston, and massar kives, columbia point is the place to be in boston. a place for learning our history and experiencing and engaging in what oliver wendall holmes called the actions and passions of our time. the edward m. kennedy institute is so proud to be one of the sponsors of today's national onversation on american unity. as i said the building is being constructed right next door, and if i do say so myself, it is going to be amazing. it reflects the vision of my late husband, senator edward kennedy. teddy loved history. he loved education. and he loved the united states senate. he believed that knowledge and understanding of our government d our history and the senate was the way to tap into the incredible potenti

we just had the commemoration of the civil rights -- >> charlie: in austin at the j.f.k., in one place. >> and there have been great books. >> charlie: at the l.b.j. library. >> and when you go back and look at that, johnson did great legislative work, no question. but without the march on wanted the year before, was it possible to pass? i don't think so. so the work, two heros of mine, randolph and rustin, came up with this wacky idea, we should march on washington. at first all the big civil rights organizations said we don't want to do that. we want to work within the system. >system. rustin, a great controversial activist. >> charlie: one of the intellectual forces. >> his is a life, just to detour, a life of great humility and praise. he was being groomed to be the gandgandhi of the passivist movement. he went to jail as an objector to world war ii, an heroic prisoner, battling segregation in jail, battling racism and getting national attention for the abuse he was taking for really battling segregation. but the early part of his life he was extremely promiscuous and gets caught w

useful to the enemy but that is not the motto we have.that the motto we have is not, for example, the j.f.k. and the inauguration kind of thing, we will pay no price. we are prepared to accept some risk in order to govern ourselves. i will close here, i find something out or i get a big pile of documents in a 100-year storm of a leak. i now know secrets that i'm not supposed to know, according the the government. there is a more cooperative process in which i go and talk to people. when he discuss the equities and "the washington post" and every other journal is covering this stuff. they will hold what they know iw they feel the public interest's subject is outweighed by the danger of disclosure. >> bart and i agree on a lot of this question. most important agreement, i think is this is a conflict ofut values. this is not the forces of light versus the forces of dark.is this is i what free people haves balance all the time.e ar frankly, where the line ispe dependent uponop the totality of the situation in which we find ourselves. that line can move back and forth depending on realities. my

j.f.k. assassination records still remain with held by the national archives acting as the behest of the c.i.a. doesn't require an ed war snowden to get focus on the release of those records. i add that in 19 -- in 2013, i on behalf of a number of prominent citizens including the former chief council of the house select committee on assassinations wrote a let tore "the washington post" about this. the letter was not even acknowledged. >> sir, we're going to try to keep this pretty focused on the n.s.a. project that our panel worked on. so if you have a question that's specifically related to his? >> it's not anything specific. >> i'm going to get questions in the middle. i think i'll take you guys over here and right here. oh, no, just -- >> can we gate mic into the center aisle please? >> we have somebody who stood up. >> if you can expand a bit on your publiced or not publiced decisions particularly focusing on the issue of revealing sources of methods. i looked at that cartoon of muscular and it seemed to me that drove right to the focus of revealing sources and methods. so i'm curious abou

that is roughly twice the size of j.f.k. airport, to give you just a sense of how much ground that they are covering. we also know from investigators that on sunday searchers found an oil slick that they have bottled some of that and analyzed to see if it has anything to do with the missing jetliner. investigators also gave a sense of just how long this phase of the search might take. they reminded reporters of the 2009 air france disaster. that plane was not at depths quite as far as this plane is believed it could possibly be at and it took two years to locate that wreckage. they have again urged caution. it looks like we could be looking at weeks or months here but likely not days. at least that's what investigators caution. norah? >> thanks. an emotional morning for blade runner oscar pistorius. he began his second week on the witness stand in his murder trial. we go to pretoria south africa where pistorius broke down under questioning several times today. good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. the weekend break

j.f.k. was assassinated in the middle of the battle and lyndon johnson became president.e was a majority leader. i don't think you have told us where you stand on this. if kennedy had not been assassinated after all this research that you have done, do you think we would have had to wait longer for civil rights to get passed? >> it's the great question asked in every appearance since the book came out. historians disagree. my sense is that the bill was so far down the track and john f. kennedy invested so much political prestige in it. he was a cautious politician and liked to win. i think he couldn't have walked away from the fight. it may have taken longer. he may have had to compromise in ways that l.b.j. was unused to. i'd like to thing he had it past after the 1964 election. i don't think he could have abandoned it. >> you brought to life what life was like on capitol hill, in the senate, how it was controlled pretty much by the southern delegations who were opposed to integration, you almost describe it has three different parties. the title of your book is two part

the plane was diverted to j.f.k. because of a hydraulic system problem. the plane touched down, then rolled into a grassy area as it was taxiing to the terminal. >> a soldier opens fire at fort hood texas, killing three and injuring 16 others. details are slowly emerging about the gunman's emotional troubles. >> the u.s. backed a social media platform aimed at creating an uprising in cuba. the twitter like service was meant to spark dissent for the communist government. >> a supreme court decision ends limits on how much americans can give to political campaigns. critics worry it will create a world of corruption where the rich can buy political influence. >> afghan citizens head to the polls to vote for a new president. a look at who's vying for that job and where they stand on u.s. troops remaining in that country. >> keeping your kids on line, dangers from child predators trying to reach them and what you can do to protect them. >> the aljazeera america morning news continues. have a great morning. a live look at park avenue in new york city, this is th

interstate highway system has put hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of americans to work over the years when j.f.k. came to washington he championed the creation of nasa so that america could compete with the likes of russia when it came to sending men to the moon and exploring space as a two thousand and twelve nasa has employed over eighteen thousand people not including the tens of thousands of contractor jobs that bassett has created even ronald reagan's spent billions putting americans to work thanks to his proposed defense initiative star wars over five. hundred thirty eight billion in today's dollars was spent on defense projects just in one year nine hundred eighty seven projects which directly and indirectly employed hundreds of thousands of americans the great stimulator morse most recently george w. bush did it by spending hundreds of billions on defense contracts for his wars in iraq and afghanistan none of these guys called it a right to work and in fact the republicans all pretended that they were doing it but even the republicans knew that f.d.r. was right that's why they've worked

you go back to the original executive order signed by j.f.k. l.b.j. 50 years ago, and you'll find they don't call for quotas, but they say -- the decision said that we must take affirmative action in order to ensure that people are hired and not discriminated against. that's the kind of language we see repeated over and over again in different affirmative action decisions. there's a bit -- there's always room for both the courts and for voters to refine affirmative action, but we have moved -- i frankly like the phrase that's used over in england and other places which is a positive discrimination. i mean, if you're really being candid, that's what we're talking about here, positive discrimination, to discriminate in favor of those people who are historical victims of racism sexism, etc. of course, being candid gets you nowhere in politics. host: our guest is clarence page, a columnist "chicago tribune" and syndicated around the country. how many? host: 100 to 20 hundred. we're trying to keep papers alive these days, but it's going to take a lit

part of something that the democratic side of the aisle and liberals more generally often refuse to acknowledge is that pro growth policies actually as j.f.k. once said that rising tide lifts all boats and pro growth policies actually increased tax revenue to the federal government i mean that's not true the obama administration has come out and talked about restructuring the federal the corporate tax to get it down to twenty five percent i agree that you could you that's a good idea i would be all for that the way it's currently configured is that many corporations pay far less than fifteen percent because of all the loopholes in the current system i would be all for changing it to a twenty five percent rate and getting rid of the loopholes i think that makes plenty of sense but even that on the other loopholes don't account for this why gaping deficit even the ryan plan leads as far as the eye can see so i think the republicans you know they they talk out of both sides of their mouth when it comes to the deficit they talk the talk but they don't walk in if you need any evidence of that just look at the ryan plan we're going to have you b

j.f.k. asked mudcat if there was anything he could do for him, he told them about the delipidated conditionsnd supplies at the school house in his home town in florida. >> he kept in touch with me. times did change. you nope, we got a school, books. we got housing, which is still there to this day. our school is still there to this day, and i got the photo of me and president kennedy shaking hands on things he promised would happen. >> correspond michael okay u with the american treasures. "america tonight". goodnight. >> the syrian rebels seen with u.s. weaponry for the first time. is it too late. has bashar al-assad all but won the war? >> why did federal agents use major weapons to close in on a rancher over grazing fines for the cattle? >> chicago's drop in murder rates does not add up. >> are parents hurting kids by helping with school work? >> i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". here is more of what is ahead. >> a standoff betwee

j.f.k. asked mudcat if there was anything he could do for him, he told them about the delipidated conditionsnd supplies at the school house in his home town in florida. >> he kept in touch with me. times did change. you nope, we got a school, books. we got housing, which is still there to this day. our school is still there to this day, and i got the photo of me and president kennedy shaking hands on things he promised would happen. >> correspond michael okay u with the american treasures. "america tonight". goodnight. >> snoo >> tensions mount in the eastern ukraine. pro-russia separatists onfront military vehicles in the east. >> another eastern city, yet another government building has been seized. we'll be live in donetsk. also to come - the scramble to save passengers after the ferry sinks off the coast of south korea. two have been killed, 290 others are still missing. >> going

held four national town halls at the reagan library in california, constitution center philadelphia, ohio state university in columbus, and now j.f.k. library in boston. and we've cosponsored four national polls taken by pollster when it ayers and democratic pollster mark melman. survey americans by more than two to one say the country has gotten off on the track. and consider this, just 2% strongly approve of the job congress is doing. nearly half strongly disapprove. when we asked people what they congress, the top response was, we can kick them what wehey don't do want. what about solutions? offeredofficials have suggestions including some broad ideas. >> the thing that will ultimately make washington work is for the democrats and in congress to put the people of this country first their own political ambitions second. >> i think if we paid more attention, more close attention to some of the limitations the constitution, i'm talking about the structural limitations, i think that some things that are so acrimonious today would become less acrimonious. not muchere's consensus on particular steps intended to make washington work be