is about. this was a very unusual story. one of them was that the new york times allowed me to write it in the first person which was the only way i would be able to write it because i was involved in the story. normally i would have to recuse myself and they agreed to my pitch that there was an unusual story about journalism and how journalists cover national security topics and this was the best way to tell it. essentially it was a story of john kiriakou former cia officer who was a source for me and for any number of national security reporters around washington. after he retired from the cia. and now through a lot of twist and turns, he ended up being the first cia officer to be in prison for leaking classified information to the american press. never happened before and now he s in federal prison in pennsylvania. part of your story starts with interview in 2007, brian ross of abc. got just a 30 second clip so our viewers can catch up with john kiriakou looks like and
conor cruise o brien recounts thomas jefferson s tenure as american minister to france and his thoughts on the french revolution. this isri just under an hour. c-span: conor cruise o brien, where did you get the title for your book, the long affair ?n i guest: kind of out of the air, really, because i realizede when i started working on the founding fathers, in general, ig relation to the french revolution. then i found one of them, thoma jefferson, was having a very,fer very special relation with the with the french revolution. it meant a tremendous amount of thgs to him from the beginning ofthe revolution to about 1794. and then it seemed to me like a kind of love affair as fate would have it. so they kind of the title came into my head. why were you interested in the founding fathers in the first place? i had written about edmund burke and who edmund burke in the frenchrevolution dominated burke s last years. then ifound he had been in very friendly contact with s
disclosure that he has prostate cancer. we ll tell you about his prognosis. plus that story about romney s dog traveling on the roof of the car just won t go away and now conservatives are fighting back with an obama dog story taken from the president s own book. oh, boy. we ll fill you in later if the show. first let s get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. hit romney heads today to charlotte, north carolina. the site of september s democrat being national conconvention. it s framing it as a pre-butal to the president s nomination speech which is five months there now. remarks expected to foe kiss on the economy, highlighting the administration s policies. romney says have hurt the recovery. the latest cnn opinion research polling offering a new look at the how the public views this race. on the question of who is more likeable, president obama leads mitt romney by 29 points. that s the question of like ability. the president also up double digit
into the backgrounds of these women, they re interviewing them and also doing steextensive bac underchecks to see if they had any ties with drug cartels or porn intelligence, perhaps terrorist groups. we now know in addition to the 11 secret service agents involved, the military included 5 soldiers, 2 sailors, 2 marines and 1 airmen, a couple found with women in their rooms, turned out the embassy was called after one of the women complained she was not paid. here on capitol hill, lawmakers want to know has this happened before. some saying the number of agents involved, 11 to 12, raises red flags, others want to be careful not to indict the entire agency. mark sullivan was here on the hill yesterday, he is promising a full, thorough and fair investigation. lynn? tracie potts for us in washington, thank you. president obama says oil speculators are driving up the price of gasoline and he wants congress to approve a new plan to crack down. the president wants lawmakers to
good question. i believe it s about 78 to 81 members of the democrat party are members of the communist party. wow. good morning. what a way to start the morning. that was it s thursday, april 12th. welcome to morning joe. with us onset, actually looks good today. msnbc contributor mike barnacle. he always looks good. laid back. looking good. national affairs editor for new york magazine and msnbc analyst john pileman and former foreign policy buzzer to the bush administration. what happened to your other titles? consolidation. i love it. streamlined. 2.0. what happened? are you okay? you look so cute. it s terrible. minor league they re a minor league team. they re a aaa club right now. the red sox are a triple what was he faking before he left? he was thinking how much does that flight cost to chicago to get out of here. he s the urban meyer of major league baseball. you leave a stink bomb and then you fly to the midwest. that s very good.