tom pettit went on to become a very big deal political reporter. went on to interview three u.s.dents. won awards over a decade's long career. fast forward to 1991, oliver stone movie "jfk" had come out. the jfk film by oliver stone posited a theory that it wasn't oswald acting alone but a broader conspiracy. had always been that around the assassination but movie drove interest into overdrive. in 1992 congress passed a law, jfk records act, idea to tamp down the assassination conspiracy theories. the first batch of documents under that law were released the following year in 1993, and nbc sent tom pettit to the national archives to report on the new details that were sure to turn up in those records. there was a lot of interest. turned out to be kind of a bust. >> the thousands of documents do show that the cia was deeply involved in the assassination investigation. nothing of any other cia involvement so far. one file from 1963, kgb defector tells the cia the assassination may have been planned by the kgb, but no evidence. the cia did serious investigation, proving that oswald

first batch of documents released following year in 1993 and nbc sent tom pettit to the national archives to report on the new details sure to turn up in those records. there was a lot of interest. turned out to be kind of a bust. >> thousands of documents do show that cia was deeply involved in the assassination investigation, nothing of any other cia involvement so far. one file from 1963, kgb defector tells cia the assassination may have been planned by the kgb but no evidence. cia did serious investigating proving that oswald was on manifest to dallas under h.o. lee. we already knew that. blurred photos of oswald and wife marina. oswald had defected to russia in 1959. we knew that too. >> nothing in here i haven't read before. >> ordinary people aroused. >> mafia, exiles, cia and maybe generals. i think they in turn killed kennedy. >> about all the eldrich secret stuff still held by cia will be submitted to board as soon as the white house approves one. until then the theories will go on and on. they did go on and on. the man who is now president said during the campaign that ted cruz

joining me at the white house, shannon pettit peace, in washington, charles hurt, opinion editor for "the washington times" and tom. shannon, seems like this movement here at least on the short-term deal. >> on a short-term deal. the fact of the matter is there is still millions and millions of people get their insurance through this exchange. they will start enrolling very soon for their insurance plans for next year. there needs to be something for these people in the interim so they have plans they can afford. short-term deal. lamar alexander is talking a couple years to get republicans an opportunity to come up with an alternate plan. we are not talking a couple months. this could end up being a longer-term patch. >> bret: that's the question because the president seems, it is like once he gets tax reform, he wants to go on to block grants. the cassity-graham. >> whatever you think of the deal being outlined today, and i would think democrats ought to like it. there is a lot in it for them to like. it wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been for donald trump. saying, batting down subsidies last friday. it's a