was about. he was vice president of the democratic party in 1962, a year he was the sacrificial lamb. he was the seventh pick. what was that like when he ran with mcgovern against nixon after watergate had been exposed but didn t have any fire power. i just remember a ton of secret service agents descending upon the house. it was a short-lived campaign. after the campaign, he bought a small boat and called it the lucky seven, which was pretty ironic because he was mcgovern s seventh pick. and it was a disaster. but he always claimed we were the lucky seven, the five of us and my mom and dad. he found joy in the fact he got to run for president of the united states but also had a wonderful family who supported him. bobby kennedy was the most political, jack kennedy, the old man. he wrote a book on jack kennedy. yes, but sarge shriver was probably the least political guy in the sense of hardball, if it weren t for him and louis
there could be consequences that are impossible to see, but hezbollah could gain a mass against us, the monarchy in jordan tottering, the government in libya toppling on the islamic side. war and peace. that s how the president laid it out today, and we need to talk about it with nbc s andrea mitchell and david korn of mother jones, author of a great new book showdown. olympic games, i used that term because that was the code word for the george w. bush administration s plan to stabilize, disrupt and krip pel the iranian nuclear program by basically hacking into it. cyber war. cyber war. because the iranian nuclear program is not on the internet, this required having an agent insert a fund drive, and as david describes in his book, confront and conceal, it was actually inserting mechanisms into the secentrifuges in iran, and over what was happening in tehran s nuclear plant. i thought it was israeli because that was all over the covers. so did i until i read david
into the secentrifuges in iran, and over what was happening in tehran s nuclear plant. i thought it was israeli because that was all over the covers. so did i until i read david s book. it was george bush. i thought he gave it all away today the way he treated this with such gravity, the way he responded to the leaks, his anger about whoever did it. it was almost, to me, a statement, hey, this is what we re doing. and i don t want it out there. well, in fact, what mike rogers, the chairman of the house intelligence committee who has been completely non-partisan in all of this and has been given high marks by the white house and democrats, he is saying that he did not think the president was tough enough in sending a tough enough signal to his aides. cut it out, stop it, this cannot take place, the leaks. because this is an ongoing covert operation. here s president obama with the strong words for the people accused of leaking information about central security issue