this. i cracked the code. i m smarter than everybody else. you guys just go home. and then they find themselves two years later going, dam. who do i call? i can t call my friends. they don t get it. i can t call my campaign peoplep th they don t get it. they have to call the guy that they had contempt for two years ago. they dial the club. it s almost like there s a special number. and usually each president who comes in finds one other president who he can somehow relate to, connect with, trust, and comes to trust them over and over again. it doesn t you know, you said two years, it can be two months. kennedy calls eisenhower after the bay of pigs and they go off to cam m david together and kennedy says no one knows how tough this job is until you ve been in it for a few months. eisenhower said, forgive me, mr. president, i tried to warn you about that a few months ago. sometimes it takes much
we begin with the latest on an in-flight scare that forced a u.s. jet to make emergency landing by fighter jet. it raises fresh concerns for security for airliners headed to the states from africa and europe. u.s. airways flight 787 from paris to charlotte diverted to bangor s maine after a passenger s note warned she had a surgically implanted device. the plane with 188 people on board landed safely and the woman else courted off in handcuffs. officials determined she didn t have a device after all but that leaves plenty of questions. fran townsend is with us, a member of the external advisory committee for the cia and department of homeland security. fran, this is something people have been worried about, somebody with an implant device, perhaps a bomb. we saw an aggressive response because what we ve heard for months from intelligence and law enforcement sources that they re really worried about this because they heard this threat stream. this goes back to yemen, the al
the greatest interviewers and investigative reporters in broadcast history has died in a career that covered half a century, my wallace challenged the most influential newsmakers with hard-hitting questions that cut to the point and the father of our good friend and colleague, the host of fox news sunday, chris wallace who appears on this program each friday. mike wallace made 60 minutes, the most successful prime time television news program ever and inspired an entire generation of young journalists, including this one and earned a tremendous amount of respect from his colleagues. a he was called the toughest and most feared interviewer on television. he grilled newsmakers. and the controversial and direct style was a hit. he joined cbs in 1951, one of the founding members of 60 members. he called you forgive me, a
not obscene spectacle of people cheering rick perry s record in terms of administering the death penalty in texas. you know, it was interesting, the night of that debate, i m going to forget his name, forgive me. it was a surrogate for the perry campaign. a republican congressman asked about that moment in the debate. explained, you know, it may not have been the most seemly thing for that crowd to have done, but conservatives in america feel defensive and beleaguered over their support for the death penalty. they feel like they have been caricatured and made to feel bad for supporting things like the death penalty and so it s almost a defensive show of pride in something that they ought not feel bad about to have done that. we shouldn t see it as something repellent, we should see it as a reaction to liberal demagoguery on this issue. i love a conservative stint artist basically invoking freud to explain away what was a really crude reaction that shows why people who are sort of b
like the winning horse at the kentucky derby. all those flowers and bows. forgive me, lord, but i m going to have to kill that woman, abilene. but i carry a paper to my own house. that girl don t know. oprah winfrey tweeted today hey, tweets, if you liked the book the help, you ll delight in the movie, opens today, can t wait to hear what you think. because the book generated controversy, we asked tulane university professor melissa harris-perry to join the opening day crowds at the theater and answer oprah s question, what do you think. if you followed melissa s tweets today, this is what you saw as she tweeted from the theater. i m one hour into the help