Washington, and with that, welcome to americas news headquarters, im leland are visit earth. Kristin and im kristin fisher. The president also signaled that he has no intention of conceding even as the president ial transition moves ahead. David spunt joins us live at the white house where the just returned from camp david. Reporter hey, kristin. The president said pointblank about the election that his mind will not change in six months, so for his supporters, for those close to the president hoping that maybe he might concede, that he he might accept joe biden as the next president of the United States when he gets sworn in on january 20th, there is your answer when he says that his mind will not be made up in six months. Now, he doubled, tripled, even quadrupled down on his claims that the election was fraudulent, though no indication that is the case. Joe biden is the President Elect. He took 306 electoral votes. The president 232, the same spread, actually, that trump and secretar
unofficial end of the peace and love 1960s. the manson family s killing spree in august of 1969 at the direction of charles mansion himself, a murderous rampage born of twisted inspiration they claim by the beatles song helter-skelter, which manson claimed predicted a race war. fife people, including pregnant actress sharon tate murdered at the home of her husband, movie director roman polanski. the next night leno labianca and his wife rosemary were murdered in their los angeles home. 19-year-old leslie mccrae dowless was c leslie van houts convicted. she was denied release over and over again until now. van houten was released on parole from a california prison today, and her lawyer, nancy tatro joins me now. counselor, very nice to see you. this has been five decades in the making for your client. how, what is she doing tonight?
well, it our sympathies to peter fonda s family, obviously. but it s almost as if the stars came together to give us a message. because on this weekend you have the sad death of peter fonda, as you said the beginning of the 50th anniversary of the woodstock fair upstate new york. and also this is a month after the premiere of easy rider with peter fonda and dennis hopper and jack nicholson, that great counterculture film, all of which suggests to me the question, you know, was 1969, was that a time when america was more divided than it is in 2019? and i would say yes, that was a time of an ugly war in vietnam, a division between the generation that s ran through absolutely every american household. and anyone who despairs about a time when america is divided i think has to go back to a moment like august of 1969, 50 years
in august of 1969, i read the earliest parts of the mcnamara study for the first time. seeing the war from its beginning affected me more than i thought possible. it changed my whole sense of the legitimacy of the war. what i learned was that it was an american war from the start. president truman financed the trench to retake its former colony even though he knew the french were fighting a national movement that had the support of the people. the cost of defending freedom, of defending america must be paid in many forms and in many places. eisenhower supported a brutal dictator in cancelling elections called for by the 1954 geneva accord. so we opposed elections while pretending to support democracy. we are attempting to help
in august of 1969 i read the earliest parts of the mcnamara study for the first time. seeing the war from its beginning affected me more than i thought possible. it complaininged my whole sense of the legitimacy of the war. i learned it was an american war from the start, president truman financed the french to retake its former colony, even though he knew the french were fighting a national movement that had the support of the people. the cost of defending freedom, of defending america must be paid in many forms and in many places. eisenhower supported a support for democracy. we are attempting to help vietnam maintain its independence. kennedy lied to the public