the cuban missile crisis, by contrast, was a confrontation of super powers, the united states and ussrr nuclear weapons. what the two big problems have in common, other than cuba, is that both, largely, were the result of shortcomings in american intelligence. in both situations, bad intelligence analysis was at work. the bay of pigs operation was an example of faulty covert action planning, to be sure, but that includes some seriously flawed analysis as we'll see. likewise, the cuban missile crisis begins with bad analysis. but in the context of intelligence collection, both human and technical. in both situations, the intelligence shortcomings were made worse by executive decisions, by policy makers. and the two crises also are alike in that the ic learned a lot from the mistakes of them both. so, let's turn to the bay of pigs. revolutionary leader fidel castro turned his insurgency against the cuban dictator bautista into a government when he ousted the dictator in early 1959. this is during the the eisenhower administration. we're dropping back a bit for context. castro quickly dec

ussr,hina, great britain, canada, new zealand.re are two copies because one was to be kept by the united states and the other by japan. we do not display the original for obvious reasons. we have replicas on board. the originals are in washington, d.c. and a war museum in tokyo. we have a replica of one of macarthur's pens. he used six design. he only had to sign twice, but instead he chose to use six pens for douglas, mac, and arthur. he did this for a simple reason and one that we still do today if you look at lawmakers. when he wanted to do was to get these away as souvenirs. following the last signature he stepped up to the microphone and said, "these proceedings are closed." he gave a signal in over 1000 aircraft flew information about the craft. from the beginning of the ceremony to the end, 23 minutes is all it took to end the bloodiest conflict in human history. ♪ we are back on the uss missouri and have come to recognize this part of the ship for an event that happened in world war ii. it is a touching event and tells you

china, great britain, the ussr, canada, the netherlands and new zealand. there are two copies of the surrender documents. one was to be kept by the united states and one was to be kept by japan. we do not display the originals for obvious reasons. they are in the national andives in washington, d.c. that a war museum in tokyo. macarthur used six pens to sign the documents. pence foro use six douglas, mac and arthur. he did this for a very simple reason and one that we actually still do today. what he wanted to do afterward was give these pans away as souvenirs. he stepped up to the microphone and said these proceedings are closed. aircraftousand allied flew in formation. 23 minutes. that's all it took to end the bloodiest conflict in human history. now we are back on the sandhill of uss missouri. it is a touching event and tells you a lot about the ship and its crew, particularly its commanding officer. okinawa, the of missouri saw herself under, because he attacked. that is aware that now means a lot in the united dates and other allied countries and has

following them, china, ussr, australia, canada and, netherlands.here are two copies of the surrender documents because one was to be kept by the united states and one kept by japan, so we do not display the original, for obvious reasons. we have replicas on board. the originals are in the national archive and no and -- in washington, d.c. and a war museum in tokyo. we have a replica of one of macarthur's pens. he used six pens, and he only had to sign his name twice, one on each copy, but he used one each for "douglas," "mac," and "arthur." he did this for a simple reason and one we do today if you look at lawmakers when they sign important laws. what he wanted to do afterward was to give these pens away as souvenirs. following the last, macarthur set up to the microphone and said simply "these procedures are closed." over a thousand allied aircraft flew information. from the beginning of the ceremony at 9:02 to 9:25, 23 minutes, that is all it took to end the bloodiest conflict in human history. ♪ now we are back in this area of the uss missouri,

and the ussr were fighting in the hearts and minds of asians and latin americans.one of the things that really supported the ussr and communism with the quote unquote third world countries was invention of the television. >> it is when booktv came that for the first time, asians, africans, latin americans saw white americans during peaceful black-and-white protesters. >> and the ussr, like asia and latin america said why would you want to be like the americans? their racist capitalists. and actually countries in america, started closing their markets the u.s. companies. and it is when that started to happen, that congress realized they had an issue. and if you read the congressional records, yes there are good people fighting for, it was also people motivated by u.s. companies having access to his many markets as possible that push these. because america did not want to lose the cold war to communism. right? and knowing that history that booktv helps kind of accelerate the civil rights movement, the same way as the cell phone help to accelerate black lives matter p

it was the cold war, superpowers, ussr versus america, but now the game has changed.e to the moon is expensive, so it is quite a strong commitment of sending women quite a strong commitment of sending women to the moon, but also the future of the moon for all of humankind. maggie, you mention the money, a few billion dollars. there's always a big debate, how much money to spend on space explanation, but is there really enough? i get the point about it being possible for mars, is there enough to learn about the moon? is there something valuable we would get out of it? if you compare the moon to the earth, the moon is slightly smaller than asia. may be sort of ten mentions are there, it like sending ten missions to asia and saying we know about the country. we would literally scratch the surface and there's so much more to discover, but i think there is lots of moon can do for us. we talked about using the lunar soil to make panels, and as the moon makes haste, half of the moon is receiving sunlight for two weeks. we could use and harness some of that energy and bring i

we didn't have american bankers in the ussr managing wealth and economy.issues, i mean, we didn't -- we were never financing or funding our adversaries to this degree. and we have to get wall street to understand this picture. you know, that's going to be a big process, and i think we have to get treasury more into the game. treasury went through a renaissance in terms of how it works on national security. after september 11th, all these tools were deployed to cut down terrorist financing. i mean, if you apply some of this stuff to the chinese military industrial complex, congress has done a lot, but treasury has a lot it could do because the financial restrictions placed on china i could be enormously helpful to the united states. maria: we will keep watching this developing story. jonathan, thanks so much for your insights. jonathan ward joining us. when we come back, the owner bobby dan's steakhouse is here, he's going to walk us through the reality of the restaurant business right now. i'm a verizon engineer. and i'm part of the team building... ...a p

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the cuban missile crisis by contrast was a confrontation of super powers of the united states and a ussr over nuclear weapons. the two big problems have in common, other than cuba, is that both largely were the result of shortcomings an american intelligence. in both situations that intelligence and analysis was at work, the bay of pigs operation was an example of faulty covert action planning to be sure, but that includes some seriously flawed analysis. likewise, the keep in missile crisis begins with bad analysis, but in the context of the intelligence collection, both human and technical. in both situations, the intelligence shortcomings were made worse by executive decisions, policy makers. the two crisis also are alike and that the icy learned a lot from the mistakes of them both. so let's turn to the bay of pigs. revolutionary leader fetal crossed joe turned his insurgency against the cuban dictator bautista into government, when he -- and early 1959 this is during the eisenhower -- castro quickly distance declared himself a communist align with the soviet union this presented to t