vietnamization. so '65 the war is americanized, starting in '69, it's de-americanized and increasingly vietnamized. as this goes on nixon enters into secret talks with his enemies in hanoi. they're secret talks. no one is aware of their existence, only nixon, his national security adviser henry kissinger and kissinger's most trusted advisers. get this, nixon's own secretary of state and his secretary of defense don't know about these secret talks. imagine that. you're the secretary of state, you're the guy in charge of diplomacy. your own president doesn't tell you, we're actually talking to the north vietnamese. really, really interesting stuff. jesse? >> any reason why he didn't tell his secretary of state, especially him? >> nixon doesn't trust the state department -- doesn't trust anyone, and he feels that this is too sensitive an issue to let others know, so only the people he trusts most will be apprised of what's going on. for nixon, secrecy was the key to resolving all of this, 23 we are if w

filipinos will be in vietnam. there will be some new zealanders in vietnam. there will be south koreans fighting and vietnam. i talked to some veterans from the north getting beside, and they told me that they were terrified of the south korean troops. they were really strict. the south koreans were ferocious troops. and eventually, the communist north creates a special unit to deal to south korean's because they are thought to be so intimidating from the respective of communist forces. also little known fact, 35,000 canadians will volunteer to serve in vietnam. so kennedy himself doesn't fight in vietnam, but 35,000 canadians volunteer because i think that's a good fight. which is probably why you lost to get more. (laughs) we are great fighters, we are great fighters. so, here's slides. 65, right? marines initially 3000 of them landing in southern vietnam. we are expecting action, and what they get is young getaways women with les. you see them in that upper left hand corner. there is the bombing of the north right so spring of 65, the war effectively becom

militarily to the republic of vietnam, south vietnam. and he gives a kind of litany of what to americans seem compelling reasons. one, he said we promised them we'd do that. we pledged in 1954 that we'd stand by south vietnam. this is a commitment we have as a nation to another nation state. we have to do this. and then it echoes something dwight d. eisenhower the president said in the 1950s about vietnam. he warned if we let vietnam fall, all of asia could fall to communism. eisenhower called this the domino effect. johnson, the democrat, seconded and agreed with the premise that his republican president counterpart in the '50s had said all of asia could fall if the united states doesn't honor its commitment to south vietnam. and he also talked about the potential blood bath that could occur if north vietnam was allowed to take over south vietnam, that hundreds of thousands of innocents would lose their lives, so he made a moral case as well. so political, spree geopolitica moral, grounds upon which he placed the american involvement in

during the vietnam war us forces also bombs neighboring laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. until our so much that is officially the mouth heavily bound country per capita and all of human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn wieber thing going to concerts happening. even today kids in love. full victims of bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for that tragedy and what help to the people need in that little land on i. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. throughout its history jon just with the self-proclaimed islamic state terrorist group and recruited up to 30000 foreigners from all over the world to find. out. if you're in this. sounds of russian citizens left their country to join the terrorists often bringing wives and children with them. but he's not going to be done ideas imposed on you you see me as and you could no. more new to th

but in my case, vietnam has made me who i am. the worst day in business since vietnam. it's a walk in the park, it's hard to have a bad day. there's a marine and had a bad day since 68. this gives the public an opportunity to look at these men and to hear an interpretation on their part of how the battle changed their lives for perpetuity. on september 2nd, 1945. government military officials from the empire of japan signed surrender documents and a sarah borger board the uss missouri in tokyo bay. formally bringing the pacific war and the hostilities of world war ii to a close. japanese empire hirohito had announced the unconditional surrender 1945. to mark the 75th anniversary, friends posted an online commemorative program, including mark milley and former nbc news anchor. watch wednesday, beginning at eight eastern. enjoy this weekend every weekend on c-span three. >> now, the conversation about national guard troops shooting and killing four students at kent state university in ohio during an anti vietnam war protest. howard ruffner was a student and photographer f

the pullout from vietnam.derstands he is appealing to the silent majority and that is what his campaign is it out. >> hubert humphrey comes out on vietnam still tied to lyndon johnson's policy? >> probably worse. the democratic national committee has no money. he has no money. he has to borrow money to start his campaign. no tv ads. the promotion whatsoever. he is 20 debt -- 20 points down in the polls. >> how does it play out? >> he runs into -- it continues like that until the end of september. it continues and nothing changes. then he gives a speech in late september on september 30 and solid city where he -- he capital-letter to lose at that point. he makes a break with johnson in a real subtle way or a call for a bombing halt and bring the troops on. things change instantly. he gets something like $1 billion in cash come into him. people side as a chance. the next play see what, it is humphrey we are for you per >> here is a scene from those months. a popular refrain he met from protesters -- dominique th

during the vietnam war u.s. forces also bombs neighboring laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how much anticipation . country per capita. was soon in history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country. we have been going to continue tapping even today kids in laos full victim to bombs dropped decades ago is the us making amends for the tragedy in laos built to the people need in that little land of mine. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation whole community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallowness. this hour's headlines stories moscow calls on germany to its information all media poisoning alexina me berlin is blaming the russian opposition figure was targeted with chemical nerve agents. if there was any data we would work but there is no data there are only statements amountin

essentially so this is a revisitation of the vietnam debacle and that america is that how collapsing as it was right before we closed the gold one down and then we flooded the market with this fake paper money but the rest of the world not only vietnam but china russia venezuela you know much of the world is rejecting that paper money so this is an echo of the vietnam era and i don't think it's going to work out very well as you see it i think banks like rambo bank rabble bank repo repo bank well they said . the much deeper problem for the us economy is the asymmetric impact of fed policies on households and businesses the fed's monetary regulatory policies have contributed to a form of capitalism where the rewards are going to the one percent and the risks are borne by the 99 percent the current crisis response has made it painfully clear again that the fed's policies benefit high income individuals and large corporations while small businesses and low income individuals bear the burden while the fed likes to see itself as part of the solution to america's economic problems it shoul

during the vietnam war us forces also bombs neighboring laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. until our thelma is occasionally mouth can rebound country per capita all human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country. even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago it is the us making amends for the tragedy in laos won't help to the people need in that little land of mines. welcome back to the kaiser report on my faster time not to go to well i'm a little cooper he's the founder of commodity discovery fund and author of the big reset the war on gold and the financial endgame willem welcome back and congratulations on your book the big reset we interview you about 5 years ago when that book came out you are the oracle of abstinence and well everything you said in the book is true. well thank you i remember meeting only a very cold warning in amsterdam freezing cold and i think i remarked that around 2020 there would be a need for a monetary reset well that we are

course in vietnam they wiped out another $30000.00 soldiers knowing. without any equivocation that it was a suicide mission going from 65 forward it was all going to be suicide mission from america the fed is saying we know these policies don't work we're going to triple down to quadruple down because we think conceptually they should and we're not going to believe the evidence before us that they're not that's really important to look into because mcnamara was very clear in his private memos to the president that this war in vietnam was unwinnable and the same thing i bet you anything you're going to find the same thing in 20 years later is when we found out about robert mcnamara really what he thought well as he sent off tens and tens of thousands of people in america to death lord knows how many and and vietnam but you know the same thing i think we'll find out in 2550 years i forget how long they passed a law recently to keep those of the real no secret for quite a long time but i think they're probably saying the same thing it's like wow you know

and there was also the specific context of the vietnam war. the fact that refugees were fleeing a region where the united states had been directly involved in years of brutal warfare, heightened american's sense of obligation. americans were committed to admitting southeast asian refugee who is had worked with the cia or as translator os r the diplomatic core, americans who worked in vietnam felt terrible about potentially abandoning their southeast asian colleagues. and other refugee advocates argued that americans must aid and admit southeast asian refugees whose suffering was the direct consequence of u.s. military action. for some religious people, accepting refugees for resettlement was an act of penance for america's sins in vietnam. just as powerful as american guilt was the idea of american goodness. pride in american compassion and generosity spurred americans to take action. the idea that the united states, with the benevolent leader of the free world, also converged with religious ideas. the idea that the united states needed to be

so we ought to leave the refugees from vietnam in. throughout the cold war, americans continued to feel a special obligation to people who were fighting against communism. people who were the less fortunate human beings who faced retribution and persecution. this is also another reason why a lot of americans were open to accepting southeast asian refugees. in 1986 poll found that a majority of respondents agreed that the united states should accept political refugees who were specifically fleeing communist -- fleeing communist countries. there was also the specific context of the vietnam war. the fact that refugees were fleeing a region where the united states had been directly involved in years of brutal warfare, high-end americans sense of obligation. americans were particularly committed to admitting southeast asian refugees who had worked closely with u.s. military and this yai, as translators or the diplomatic corps. americans who had worked in vietnam felt terrible about potentially abandoning the southeast asian colleagues. oth

one of the big ones was his position on vietnam.uld not make up his mind where he stood on vietnam. mcgovern's left no doubt whatever where he stood on the war. mcgovern's was genuinely against the war but he was belittled often as a peacenik as the expression went in those days. so although he was revered by the people against the war in vietnam, as i said before there were some of the other people who do not see it that way, and they would never dream of voting for george mcgovern. greta: charles guggenheim filmed , the film during the campaign included the senator speaking to a group of vietnam war veterans at a hospital. here is a little bit of that conversation. [video] sen. mcgovern: you love the country, there's no question that you are halfway mad at it. >> believe me, when you lose the control of your body, your bow, your bladder. your sterility, you will never father a child. the possibility of you ever walk he is cut off. you are 23 years old and do not want to be a burden on your family. you know we go from here? to a nu

>> nixon said in 1968 he had a secret plan to end the war in vietnam. the and it up escalating the war in 1969 and 1970 by having u.s. troops invade cambodia and try to disrupt supply lines. early in the nixon presidency, the war seem to be expanding, not winding down. this outraged the anti-war movement and gave mcgovern more emphasis to run against nixon. later as it came closer to the election, nixon understood he needed to start disengaging american troops so that by 1972, there were only a couple hundred thousand combat troops in vietnam. as mcgovern was making the decision to run, he thought nixon was escalating the war, not winding it down. >> 1971, the pentagon papers or first published. what is the impact of this? >> the pentagon papers were not as revealing as they were said to be. a lot of things in the pentagon papers were known. it gave more credibility to what publicthe time nixon's failing again to protest of the vietnam war. the impression now is that the country was totally in uproar against the war in vietnam in the late 1960's. it rea

they said leave the political fight of vietnam to north and south vietnam.were not going to overthrow the saigon government, which is what they demanded, and they thought nixon was going to get reelected. it's going to be for more years of this madman. they gave in and give us a military deal. this exceeded expectations of critics who thought we would have a coalition government and a coalition government was the first step toward collapse. we held out against that and we managed to face the vietnamese. however, that was never possible. as 1970.ed it as early we gave a seven-point proposal i helped draft in 1971 which laid out the eventual settlement. they said, you've got to get rid of the saigon government. you cannot just leave. the first argument is absolute nonsense. people couldnt, not disagree on. people can say we should have known the south vietnamese would not have been strong or congress would not backup enforcement, but we felt the deal --nixon refused to have any settlement before the election because he wanted a deal that was credible. could an

so i knew you as a vietnam expert. but now i really know you as something broader as an american expert and someone who shares a lot of interest with me in american history and foreign policy. it's great to get to talk to but completely engrossing -- which is a word kennedy is in his book review, with the biography of jfk, so welcome. and welcome to our audience why another biography there are dozens without their words to know everything we would know first of all georgia's tremendous to be with you. to have the opportunity to talk about all this stuff. it occurred to me just now as i was listening and away our two most recent books, mind and our man are bookends here. mine is really the beginning of the american century endurance is more about the latter part of the century so maybe we can talk about that. but it's great to be on i think i've been fastening by john f. kennedy in the kennedys for a long time particular vietnam and volume two that vietnam question what i call the mother of all factual's what he would h

era for top the vietnam tour jacket was -- the vietnam era.e vietnam tour jacket was common memento acquired by soldiers where they would have them embroidered with symbols of their service. in this particular instance, and african-american soldier not only had a tour jacket made to commemorate service in vietnam but had it adorned with symbols power, representing his commitment to the black power movement and his own service in the vietnam war. also in this area on the black power era is elements of rod -- elements of broad concerns, acyclic, a representation of the harlem renaissance of the 20th century, a concern with literature, culture, with representation. particularly the development of black women writers, black critique of -- american society, the growth of shirley chisholm, the first black woman to run for major party nomination for the presidency. a political force on all those levels through culture, politics, popular culture representation in mass media. the black power movement renovated and created yet another new african-americ

hew found a way of not fighting in vietnam. thank god his daddy had enough money to allow him to do that. then we think back to john mccain a decorated war hero. no, no not a president trump's mind. matter that he was a prisoner of war. he was no war hero the president said. i'm going to tell you everybody in this body knew john mccain. everybody in this body probably have a scrap with john mccain and everybody in this body have they highest amount of respect for john mccain. hehe truly was a war hero. and then there is the veterans who served in vietnam that agent orange got the best of them and they are now in their 70s and are dying because of their exposure to agent orange but for me tell you the president denies their benefits, d denies them their benefits. if it wasn't for this body in. the house they still wouldn't have those benefits. hand then there is, there is the time that vladimir putin put a contract out on our military. did the president speak up like tube putin not this president and then there was the privatiza

a (clapping) now president ford sent you back to vietnam. >> as vietnam was falling in april, 1975, actuallyinvaded. he was dispatching the army chief of staff was a vietnam vet to see if there was anything that could be done to stem the tide of the north feet in these coming over. i went with him and i did my own mission. this was one taken in cambodia. a saw people dying in non pin. they were surrounded by the kim air rouge. then i went back over to vietnam and i was up in a train when it was evacuating. by the way, these photographs could be taken today. this is going on right now some. where the turks are going after the kurds. there's never an end to. it i photograph the chaos. i saw a ship loaded with troops coming into cameron bay. some of them shouted our helicopter. the ap did a story and that said the president's photographer has been shot at and that's how my parents heard about it. they didn't know i was in vietnam but it was a secret trip allegedly. so my dad picked up the phone and call the white house and has to be put through to the president of the united states in the opera

compare that to public opinion polls after the vietnam war. one national gallup poll in may 1975, right after the fall of saigon, found that only 36% of americans surveyed ferravored t resettlement. attitudes towards southeast asian refugees did warm somewhat over time, but american reluctant remained fairly consistent throughout 91970s and '80s. as this slide indicates, i added some statistics from october 2016. 41% of registered american voters said the u.s. should accept syrian refugees. 54% said it should not. so this is interesting, because more americans are supportive of refugee resettlement today than compared to after the vietnam war, which i think is a surprising statistic for a lot of people. so why did people oppose southeast asian refugees? "new york times" vitted a town called niceville, florida. that's actually its name. the trust is that the town was not particularly nice to the refugees who were arrives from vietnam. niceville is located near egg lund air force base. and despite the proximity to vietnamese refugees, or perhaps

so when you hear that, as somebody who went to vietnam from somebody who got himself out of vietnam, what goes through your mind? >> well, it's insulting. it really is. it never occurred to me to try to avoid it. in fact i sought duty in vietnam because i thought it was the right thing to do as a professional air force officer. so i went and served and went back for another tour. i'm certainly no exception, and i had the good fortune that i wasn't -- i obviously wasn't killed or wounded, unlike so many others. you know, i just can't help but think of the families of those who lost their lives, paid the ultimate price for their service in vietnam. then to hear that from the commander in chief is very, very troubling. >> director clapper, i want you to now put on your former director of national intelligence hat and talk about this election. we learned this week of a department of homeland security bulletin to the intelligence community asserting russian is amplifying disinformation about mail-in voting, which is something the president of the united states is also talking about, about

a decade after vietnam communist forces were winning and we were losing. they were running and we were losing. the soviets were developing or weapons. they were spreading their material. we were leaving vietnam and they were going into places like afghanistan. and they were using their allies in cuba and elsewhere to spread their influence in the native states into countries like el salvador that had new soviet and cuban friendly governments. we as americans were going to return to our righteous ideas and we were not going to accept this. we were not going to accept this. some reagan argued that the united states had to pursue more militant, anti communism in our local region. no more big wars, but the use of force in small worse to protect ourselves. the reagan doctrines had become known. it was a doctrine that said we are going to use force wherever necessary to keep communist outside of our backyard. keep them out of latin america. here he quoted theodore roosevelt. they need states using its power to show it's a great nation in its own backyard. this h

african-american soldiers served in vietnam.ome willingly, some reluctantly but they all took pride in their service and did their utmost to serve their country, a tradition that had continued on from earlier wars in american history and since the vietnam era for . the vietnam tour jacket was a common memento acquired by &r, in okinawa where they would have them embroidered with symbols of their service. in this particular instance, and african-american soldier not only had a tour jacket made to commemorate service in vietnam but he had it but he had it adorned with symbols of black power representing his commitment to the black power movement and his own service in the vietnam war. also in this area on the black power era with elements of broad concerns, basically a representation of the harlem renaissance of the 20th century, a concern with literature, culture, with representation. particularly the development of black women writers, black feminists, critiques of american society, the growth of surely chisholm, the first black

he replaced the vietnam war with more winnable wars.he replaced the global disruptions of the 1960s with law and order. he created two americas, not divided, but still two americas. there were the americans and the parts of america that found hope and idealism in what he was doing and those who continued to feel left behind. those two americas would work together in his time. but they would be the two americas that we would come to see in later years. reagan's politics were politics of hope for many. they left others in despair. they were politics of change at home and abroad and politics of what reagan teaches us most of all is that in a large, complex society of the united states, there are different experiences people have from the same policies. we must be attentive to those different experiences, to reagan's credit, he pursued change. to reagan's discredit he didn't understand how it affected groups in different ways. that's a tall order. change in a complex society will always affect people in different ways. that topic will be th

my story in vietnam was a success story. i wanted a way as a drafty, and shortly after i was hired as the youngest photographer ever hired for life magazine. like many vets, in spite of my success, i came back spent decades not talking about vietnam. as the 50th anniversary of tet approached, i began to wonder when

it was 1969, students left university campus, and protested the vietnam war.they did this on thursday because kent was a suitcase campus, a lot of students went home and it was a kind of school when the campus was deserted. the anti war settlement was on the minds of many, especially the young men who were referred to the draft as long as we were in school. this would change whoever, and other than this protest march, most of the protesting occurred was in the classrooms and the student union. the large anti war gathering would not occur until may 1st, 1973 to 500 students will attend a rally. by the fall, the anti war movement had grown off of colleges and they decided to drive to washington d.c. to join the anti war protest on november 13th. a few weeks after our own home company, we arrived in time to honor the soldiers in vietnam. that, night 18 of us sloped in one room, and our feet pointed in and out. the next morning, we headed to the mall, i was impressed by the size of the crowd and by the focus and steadfastness to be part of something so big. this i

vietnam, bosnia, afghanistan. once the cold war ended and he saw the opportunity for democrats to reenter the foreign policy by thinking we needed to get out is the position that he ended up in so he was always looking over his shoulder and once the cold war ended, the pressure was off and i think that he had an outside idea he wanted to be involved not just in bills nina but in congo certainly as a all-purpose negotiator in the horn of africa so in a way he is more of a kissinger figure that had a larger view of what was possible and what was not as the geopolitics to try to solve a particular problem i think in this era he was at his most successful and got himself into some troubles. >> there was one line i wrote down about baker. in the end writing about how much he wanted to be seen as a diplomat and again working on the book that i'm quoting he was after all a fixer no matter how much he tried to break out of the straitjacket but shaped the world events. >> gets in the sense that they took them on. he was un

my father was killed in vietnam. he was shot down over a ho chi minh trail section just outside of vietnam in laos. he delivered ordnance to cut the trail and cut supplies, and then he delivered close air support to special forces troops on the ground, and his airplane blew up. he went down in 1969, 13 january 1969. this dog tag was recovered at the crash site. my father was a patriot, well educated. he was a wise man. the best men and women in the united states of america are found in the armed forces of the united states military. mr. trump, come 3 november, we're all voting for a real patriot, joe biden. and everybody who hears this, please take notice and please vote. vote democratic. our country's honor depends on it. thank you. >> frankly if what is written in the atlantic" is true, it's disgusting. it affirms what most of us believe to be true, that donald trump is not fit to do the job of president, to be the commander in chief. the president reportedly said -- and i emphasize reportedly said -- that those wh

secretary kerry served two tours in vietnam.was awarded the silver star, bronze star with valor, and three purple hearts for his heroic service in combat. secretary kerry, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i want to give an open microphone to react to what we've learned about what donald trump has said about our war dead being losers and people serving in the military being losers. >> well, it's tragic. and obviously the president has been denying it quite vehemently, but what's really interesting about those denials, lawrence, is that the story appears in "the atlantic" and at least four other major outlets, a.p., fox news, "new york times," "washington post" have all confirmed that these are the statements that the president made. and obviously it's extremely significant in my judgment that none of the generals who are cited in these stories have reputeuated the story. it is completely consistent, sadly, with an attitude that he has expressed for a long period of time. after all, he's quoted as having called his gene

. >> in 1965, the war in vietnam is heating up, and uncle sam calls keith's number. >> he gets drafted, and he sells the plymouth belvedere to his brother. >> soon, he's in the line of fire with no guarantee he'll return. >> he was in reconnaissance, so he went through a lot of difficult situations there. he made a lot of good friends and lost a lot of good friends. >> if keith does get back home, he's making sure a big reward awaits him. in each letter to his family, he encloses his combat pay with a specific goal in mind, a brand-new corvette. do you think that was a dream that he hung onto that helped him get through very difficult times at war? >> absolutely. a lot of guys would flip through the flyers from the car dealers and pick out a car, and i think, psychologically, it helped them get through to know that they'll have that car there, so it was something to look forward to. >> here is a "strange inheritance" quiz question... the answer after the break. introducing stocks by the slice from fidelity. now you can trade stocks and etfs for any amount you choose instead of buying b

as like the vietnam war in the sense that it was badly organized.specially when you're racing things as the elusive as drugs. i had a dangerous encounter in the hotel room for which i used for in the movie. [laughter] >> i think i know what you're about and that was a bloody scene. oliver stone's new book, it's available, he talks about his time in vietnam making some of the iconic movies everybody is familiar with and we highly recommend it here on quarters world. thank you very much for taking the time. >> thank you. jesse: up next, last call. the big bike rally, sturgis calling controversy over coronavirus. i was just there.na >> jungle juice was yesterday. ♪ .. jesse: the motorcycle rally in sturgis, south dakota drawing 600,000 people from around the country. color claims the august event is linked to 250,000 cases of coronavirus. but the "wall street journal" debunking the study saying this is a statistical misfire. another fake story bites the dust. i couldn't make it this year, but i was there a few years ago. >> do you do a lot of yoga? >>

i was in vietnam. my dad had three tours in vietnam.elievet but -- do not this crop about donald trump saying these things. what he has done for the military -- does that make any sense to you? khan. mr. i am an attorney. attorney.s an i spoke to him after he raised the constitution and said donald trump does not know the constitution. and i go to arlington, my father and mother both served, they are both in arlington. every time i go, i go to see mr. khan's son every time. median -- the mainstream don't like donald trump. that is what this election is about. host: i want to make sure something you said was correct -- you said you and your father both served in vietnam at the same time? is not what iat said. host: i thought i heard you say your father also served in vietnam. i wanted to be clear. caller: he had three tours in vietnam. and 71. in vietnam host: when did your father serve in vietnam? caller: 1958. he was one of the original advisors to the vietnam army. host: got you. caller: he was there in 1963, 1964, 1968. host: i wante

bombing campaign in laos during its war on vietnam the u.s. secretly dropped $270000000.00 bombs on laos in part to cut off north vietnamese supply routes again margaret this plan $90000000.00 or so to help clean up and detonated bombs still in the country what are the details this is $90000000.00 over 3 years to clean up what's called unexploded ordinance these are they look like little balls little kids pick them up and often become victims of these bombs that were dropped nearly 40 years ago in a war that this country was never technically a part of up to $80000000.00 of these failed to detonate and just one percent of them have been cleared obama's $90000000.00 for bomb clearance in laos it's not enough we bombed laos so much it is officially the most heavily bombed country per capita in all of human history the $19000000.00 obama pledged at 1st sounds like a lot numbers that everybody talks about that you brought up that are accurate as far as we know that we also know that that is the low estimate of that large numbers of airplanes that

were inwhitehouse and i vietnam last year. we met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss ocean plastic pollution and had a great meeting. here is a country with a 2000 mile coastline and when i say we, that means all human beings, are causing irreparable harm to the ocean's marine wildlife. keep in mind, it is the primary source of protein for billions in this world. we have acidification from carbon emissions, plastic wastes, rivers emptying into oceans with discarded plastic. and the coral reefs are dying. and from a personal point of avid my wife and i are scuba divers. over the last 25 years, we have seen more and more of the damage this has caused. we have seen a dead sea turtle choked to death by a piece of shou.c it had around it it was literally hanged by the plastic. but then we've seen a whole lot of others. we have seen debris, plastics, and it is disappearing, but that in itself stops a whole ecological system and it could cover half a tennis court of debris in a dead whale. just think about that.

air force who served two tours of duty during the vietnam war. here's what clapper had to say about these allegations. >> insulting. it really is. it never occurred to me, you know, to try to avoid it. in fact, i sought duty in vietnam because i thought it was the right thing to do as a professional air force officer. so i went, served, went back for another term. i'm certainly no exception and i had the good fortune that i wasn't -- obviously wasn't killed and -- or wounded, unlike so many others. you know, i just can't help but think of the families of those who lost their lives, paid the ultimate price for their service in vietnam, and then to hear that from the commander in chief is very, very troubling. >>> there were more demonstrations in the u.s. on saturday against the police killings of black americans. activists marched outside churchill downs racetrack during saturday's running of the kentucky derby. protesters aimed to shift attention from america's most famous horse race to her case. they say they'll keep up the fight for justice. >

but ever since vietnam and watergate, america has lost faith in washington.idea that washington was responsible for all america's woes. it, somehow, became the definition of patriotism to love the country and, yet, hate its government. and that created a self-fulfilling prophecy, as government was defunded and delegitimized, it became more dysfunctional. then, conforming the views of antigovernment activists. but beyond america, there is also a story here about the rise of the rest. for a long time, america had a huge advantage. there were very few countries on the planet that had gotten their acts together. the united states, a handful in western europe and in east asia, that defined the advanced world. but, over the last three decades, other countries, lots of other countries, have become savvy at economics and politics and government. places like singapore rival the best in the world for government. south korea and taiwan. once, corrupt autocracies, have handled the pandemic, with extraordinary skill. canada and australia have managed to combine an anglo-s

in the vietnam—set british drama monsoon, crazy rich asians star henry golding plays kit, a young mancountry of his birth for the first time in decades. your english is very good. better than your vietnamese. having fled with his family as a child, kit is now back to scatter his mother's ashes, but encounters with estranged relatives and a handsome young american whose father fought in the vietnam war make him question his purpose, his heritage and his identity. directed with understated flair by hong khaou, who made the affecting 2014 drama lilting, this is a very low—key mood piece that melds kit‘s own personaljourney with a portrait of modern vietnam as a country in flux, evolving and changing as rapidly as this prodigal son. beautifully shot by benjamin kracun, whose anagrammatical credits include both beast and beats, this may prove too underplayed for viewers longing for big, emotional climaxes. you can really make something of yourself here. but i liked its refusal to shift into melodrama, encouraging the viewer to see the bigger picture and appreciate the sense of place. monso