the kennedys always like that do things privately through the family jack always used bobby as a secret messengers to his friends and his foes. in washington, bobby has gone so far as to hold secret meetings with a russian spy to open a back channel between the president and kruschev. it was something cite extraordinary. things like that had probably never gone on before. kennedy had taken risks by having bobby set up this back channel and he was hopeful that the soviets would respond. bobby through the russian spy had been led to believe that kruschev was ready to talk about nuclear arms. as it turned out, he wasn t the least bit interested. kruschev has only one agenda berlin. divided by the russians in the west after world war ii, people are flooding through soviet-controlled easter er beo
soviet-controlled east berlin to escape communism. it s a major source of embarrassment for kruschev. people are fleeing the eastern part into the west, and kruschev wants to stop that flood of refugees. in vienna, they went off into their meeting which was five hours long and a complete disaster. the soviet leader makes an impossible demand. he wants kennedy to surrender the western sector of berlin. kruschev just bullies kennedy. there was nothing kennedy could say to him except i give up on west berlin that would have made kruschev happy. kruschev was determined to put kennedy s feet to the fire. despite his best efforts jack is humiliated. leaves the mmit having achieved nothing. kennedy s first meetings with journalists after vienna, there was no spin. he was dejected, he didn t hide it. i will tell you now, it was a
have to say that that remains a big question mark. i think the visit in japan was a big plus. i thought the speech was reaganesque, very tough, very clear. we still need to have what happens with the chinese. it s going to be interesting to see just exactly what kind of meeting he has with vladimir putin in vietnam. i don t know why the white house has beenive cal on, this i has been equivocal on this. i think he should sit down with putin. sean: the onlyning they want to cover is there s the president, he s saying hello to vladimir putin. russia, russia, russia. we have had a year of these eelgss. and dianne feinstein said no evidence of collusion, again. smoke but no fire again, which has been pretty much the refrain for the last year. yes, it s stunning that the democrats, the media, didn t have a problem when kennedy met with kruschev or any other president met with the premiere of the soviet unior on the the
bobby kennedy. coming in and being the attorney general for his brother. that decision-making process that they went through about having him there because jack kennedy trusted him more than anybody else in the world. i feel like it s the hall of mirrors version of what we re seeing here with this kind of nepotism now. well, it s a mirror image in a sense it s the opposite because bobby took care of jack. now trump has to take care of his family. bobby was the one who was the chief counsel on the rackets committee. he was the prosecutor. bobby was the one who got him elected senator, got him elected president. bobby was the one who called when the bad pigs crashed in and the whole thing was going the wrong way, come back, bobby, i need you. during the cuban missile crisis bobby was the one that said, let me get my guy bolshekov. maybe we can trade for the turkish missiles. he came up with that idea. he also said we ll answer the first letter not the second letter from kruschev. we ll
nepotism now. it is an mirror image the opposite because bobby took care of jack. trump has to take care of his family. bobby was the one who was the chief counsel on the rack et cetera committee. he was the prosecutor. bobby got him elected senator, got him elected president. bobby was the one who called when the bad pigs crashed in and the whole thing was going the wrong way, come back, bobby, i need you. during the cuban missile crisis, bobby was the one that said, let me get my guy. we ll trade for the turkish missiles. he came up with that idea. he also said we ll answer the first letter not the second letter from kruschev. when the crisis hit and african-american kids hit by the jet streams and the police dogs were biting them on television, bobby was the one that got together and raised the money to get them out of jail. bobby was the one that met with james baldwin and his people, figured out we have to do something. it clicked on bobby. it was a great scene and robert drew s