Were going to start with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuban missile crisis was 1962. It took place over 13 very, very stressful days in october 1962. The United States at that point had long been flying High Altitude surveillance flights over the nation of cuba, but on october 14th, 1962 a u2 surveillance flight picked up imagery in cuba of something that started that whole crisis, started that whole standoff. Its interesting. The Cuban Missile Crisis is very precisely identified in all the history books as having started on october 16th. Two days after that u2 spy plane captured those images in cuba. But the crisis didnt start on october 16th because something happened that day, because there was some overt act by cuba, there was some provocation there or some announcement by them, it didnt start because on october 16th there was some act by the
soviet union or some announcement by the soviets that kicked off this crisis. The reason we can be so specific about when the Cuban Missile Cris
i think a lot of the militaries and police were sent to ukraine, actually were deceived, because putin everyone. your daughter was four years old ten years ago when you went to prison. she is 14 now. did you think that by the time she was 14, russia would be a better place? the reason make my country better for myself, my daughter and other girls. i was not expecting a quick victory, because i know that i went against one of the most powerful individuals on the planet. i knew the press was going to be high. i knew it wasn t going to be a quick victory. so i didn t really expect things to change really quickly, but obviously we do joke a lot, because my daughter her birthday, at quite scary moments at our lives, when i was arrested on her birthday. today we are in the middle of the war on her birthday. well, that didn t happen on her birthday, but also poisoned with a military nerve agent.
was arrested on her birthday. today we are in the middle of the war on her birthday. well, that didn t happen on her birthday, but also poisoned with a military nerve agent. i think at the moment when we go there is going to be 18 she could write a book about her childhood. when you see the russian protesters all over the country, even after being threatened with 15 years in prison, can you tell us wet makes russian protesters go out into the street like this? even when they are facing 15 years in prison? we love our country. we want to make sure that our country has a future. it s extremely painful to watch how a person destroys not just ukraine, but also the future of
good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. it s thursday, july 5, 8:00 in the east. john avlon with us. we have breaking news, an international mystery that seems to be turning into an international incident. counterterrorism investigators say a couple in england has been exposed to the same military nerve agent that was used to poise an former russian spy and his daughter in marge. officials don t know if they were exposed to the same batch of nerve agent, if it was left over from the first attack or if this is a new stand alone deliberate attack. the russians were accused of plotting that first attack. there are questions about this one. this development comes days before president trump heads to the uk and before his summit with russian president vladimir putin. so will president trump bring this up with the russian leader? this latest incident? british prime minister theresa may says her thoughts are with the victims and the people of salisbury as the top