manipulate the media in this way, plant stories get their views in the media? it goes beyond your wildest imagination. the extent to which the cia has gone to manipulate public opinion with the objective essentially of manipulating the mind and attitudes of workers throughout the nation and the world. jesse: if you think journalists should be smarter than that, well, here s a story. i also was interrogator and, indeed, briefed the press. when we, the cia, wanted to circulate disinformation on a particular issue, we would pick out a journalist. i would go do the briefing. and hope that he would put the information in print. what was your percentage of success? usually, the journalist would go with it because it was it looked like some kind of exclusive and i would say our percentage of planting that kind of data was 70% to 80%. jesseof this about 40 years . but we have forgotten it. from w.m.d.s to russia collusion, to covid to the laptop. the population has been
this? obviously, this is a ridiculous, terryville trivial thing but in the modern era, tele-candidates do better. how tall are you? i m six feet. i can do it. do you think i should run for president? i m not going to comment on that in the 26 seconds we have left. have a great show. i like i always have, chris hayes. have a great weekend. and thanks to you at home for being here. happy friday. we have lots to get to this evening. but i want to start tonight with a book. it is published by winning team publishing. that s the name of the publishing house. winning team publishing. and you can preorder it. now it is $99, which is an expensive book. but it includes this letter dated december 21st, 1987. it reads, they were donald, i did not see the program, but mrs. nixon told me that you were really great on the donahue show. as you can imagine, she is an expert on politics. and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office, you will be a winner. w
we have lots to get to this evening. but i want to start tonight with a book. it is published by winning team publishing. that s the name of the publishing house. winning team publishing. and you can preorder it. now it is $99, which is an expensive book. but it includes this letter dated december 21st, 1987. it reads, they were donald, i did not see the program, but mrs. nixon told me that you were really great on the donahue show. as you can imagine, she is an expert on politics. and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office, you will be a winner. with warm regards, richard nixon. that letter is from a new book, from donald trump, coming out next month. and it is titled, letters to trump. it includes correspondence with celebrities and dignitaries and former presidents, including, apparently, richard nixon. today, trump called nixon, a very interesting guy, and informed reporters that nixon s biggest regret was resigning amidst the watergate scandal. the twi
united states flew to california to give a speech. it was a speech that he knew he would be giving to some of his most die hard fans. people who would follow him until the end of the earth. and that was crucial at that moment in his political life, because just a few weeks earlier, the wall street journal was first to report that that same vice president, spiro agnew, he was under federal criminal investigation for potential felony corruption charges, bribery, extortion, tax evasion, a bunch of stuff. this was very shocking front page news at the time. it was very damaging news, for obvious reasons, to the vice president, and he was just completely enraged about it. so he flew out to california september 29th, 1973, to give a talk to his most rabid supporters. it was the national conference of republican women. and, um, these women were hard core activists. as a group, generally speaking, they were quite right wing and quite devoted to spiro agnew. agnew was seen as being
election deniers. and the freedom to vote act. on that note i wish you a goliath night, for least a minute is in for stephanie ruhle, you cannot catch me every week on american voices, from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. u for staying up late. we are super happy to have you here. september 29th, 1973. the vice president of the united states, flew to california to give a speech. it was a speech he knew he would be giving to some of his most die hard fans. people who would follow him to the end of the earth. and that was crucial that moment in his life. because just a few weeks earlier, the wall street journal had is under criminal investigation. federal corruption charges, bribery, extortion, passive, asian omega stuff. it is very shocking front page news of the time. it was damaging news, for obvious reasons to the vice president, because he was completely enraged about it. the women are hard-core activists, as a