to stop the bombardment of north vietnam. and the hope that this action will lead to early talks. >> lbj offers to stop the bombing, but only if the north agrees to talk peace with south vietnam. and then johnson plays one last card. >> we worked together on the speech. we went over march 28th, two or three days before the president and deliver it and the president said -- maybe i shouldn't run for office. >> i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> johnson's speech shocked the world. the president would not run for re-election. and here was his offer to finally end the war. for presidential candidate richard nixon. lbj's peace proposal was a political nightmare. nixon needed the democratic party to own the horror show of the vietnam war, not to solve it. >> and the steel butterfly, anna chennault, she saw lbj's proposed bombing halt as a military blunder. >> every time bestop the bombing, only give the other side the opportunity to rebuild their military install

the line against communist north vietnam. now anna had come to join the struggle, as richard nixon's secret agent. >> i went with her on one of her trips to saigon. we stayed at the hotel caravel downtown where most of the reporters were staying. it was a weird atmosphere from the hotel restaurant on top. you could see flares on the edge of the city, bright lights in the night sky, bombs and so on. the war was a part of everybody's life. >> chennault arrived in saigon with an ironclad alibi, her work as an airline executive, and with contacts that went right to the top to south vietnam's new president, van tieu. >> the information from the campaign to the government is nixons nixons is going to win the war for you, he's going to stand by you better than any democrat. >> for anna, this mission was driven by bitter personal history. >> she hated the communists because she hated what had happened to china. it was about china, china, china. >> anna chennault believed she was on the right side of history, that the worst thing for

held the line against communist north vietnam. now anna had come to join the struggle as richard nixon's secret agent. >> i went with her on one of her trips to saigon. we stayed at the hotel caravel downtown where most of the reporters were staying. it was a weird atmosphere from the hotel restaurant on top. you could see flares on the edge of the city, bright lights in the night sky, the bombs and so on. war was a part of everybody's life. >> chennault arrived in saigon with an iron-clad alibi. her work as an airline, and with contacts that went right to the top, to south vietnam's new president, nguyen bin tu. >> the campaign was nixon's going to win the war for you. he is going to stand by you better than any democrat. >> for anna, this mission for nixon was driven by bitter personal history. >> she hated the communists because she hated what had happened to china. it was about china, china, china. >> anna chennault believed she was on the right side of history, that the worst thing for asia and the asian people was communism.

to stop the bombardment of north vietnam. and the hope that this action will lead to early talks. >> lbj offers to stop the bombing, but only if the north agrees to talk peace with south vietnam. and then johnson plays one last card. >> we worked together on the speech. we went over march 28th, two or three days before the president was going to deliver it, and the president said, maybe i shouldn't run for office. >> i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> johnson's speech shocked the world. the president would not run for re-election. and here was his offer to finally end the war. for presidential candidate richard nixon, lbj's peace proposal was a political nightmare. nixon needed the democratic party to own the horror show of the vietnam war, not to solve it. >> and the steel butterfly, anna chennault, she saw lbj's proposed bombing halt as a military blunder. >> every time we stop the bombing, only give the other side the opportunity to rebuild their militar

unless america held the line against communist north vietnam. and now anna had come to join the struggle as richard nixon's secret agent. >> i went with her on one of her trips to saigon. we stayed at the hotel caravel downtown where most of the reporters were staying. it's a weird atmosphere from the hotel restaurant on top. you could see flares on the edge of the city. bright lights in the night sky. bombs and so on. the war was a part of everybody's life. >> chennault arrived in saigon with an iron-clad alibi and with her work as an airline executive with contacts that went right up to the top, to south vietnam's president. >> the new information from the campaign to the government is nixon is going to win the war for you, he's going to stand by you better than any democrat. >> for anna this mission for nixon was driven by bitter personal history. >> she hated the communists because she hated what had happened to china. it was about china, china, china. >> anna chennault believed she was on the right side of history, that the worst thing for

to stop the bombardment of north vietnam. and the hope that this action will lead to early talks. >> lbj offers to stop the bombing, but only if the north agrees to talk peace with south vietnam. and then johnson plays one last card. >> we worked together on the speech. we went over march 28th, two or three days before the president and deliver it and the president said -- maybe i shouldn't run for office. >> i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> johnson's speech shocked the world. the president would not run for re-election. and here was his offer to finally end the war. for presidential candidate richard nixon. lbj's peace proposal was a political nightmare. nixon needed the democratic party to own the horror show of the vietnam war, not to solve it. >> and the steel butterfly, anna chennault, she saw lbj's proposed bombing halt as a military blunder. >> every time bestop the bombing, only give the other side the opportunity to rebuild their military install

how do you get diplomatic isolation of north vietnam? >> if you are my ally, you will not talk to north vietnam. >> the problem is that all of those youth movements are hitting everywhere else in the world, so that is a hard thing. who do you really need to isolate north vietnam? russia and china. nixon loves foreign policy, but nixon, when he looks at vietnam, he says at the end of the day, i don't care. you know what i care about? russia and china. i care about the arms race and after the cuban missile crisis, the take away from the russians is that we will never be affiliated like that again and start a massive buildup of their conventional and nuclear forces. the chinese still hate our guts, so what do we know about the chinese at this point? by the late 1960s? that those guys hate each other's gut too. so nixon sees an opportunity to deal with the big issues of the cold war, and all of us making love to an atomic bomb, and it would change the strategic dynamic. so if i go to china, make sweet with china and recognize china, what is

>> attacking you in laos, cambodia and north vietnam. your hands are tied if you're westmoreland. >> westmoreland still has to work within the box of limited war. officially, no laos, no cambodia, no attacks in the north vietnam from the dmz. why does that matter? go ahead, brian. >> command chart, that's where all the military is retreating to, sanctuary for the military where they can plan next attacks. >> what else have you figured out about the american forces? go ahead, russ. >> you can't beat them toe to toe. conventional, unconventional, the u.s. and overwhelming firepower is going to beat you every day. >> we have an unquestioned firepower superiority, unquestioned mobility to some extent superiority. if you stand toe to toe against the americans, yeah, you ka hurt them. at the end of the day, you're going to use that term and you'll get shwacked. let's talk about something here. how important is it for you to understand how you're doing in war? at any given point in time. go ahead. >> that's going to assess your further actions.

navy had dropped in the coastal waters of north vietnam to explode some pilots noted seeing upwards of two dozen exploding in just thirty seconds and a recently declassified u.s. military documents show that the detonated mines part of operation pocket money numbered not in the dozens as previously reported but upwards of four thousand that's right for cars in mines the bombs were set off by the sun essentially burping and if you're wondering what the president nixon's reaction was to the accidental explosion he had the navy put even more mines off the coast of north vietnam. clearly. clearly but that's just as. films of the movie were what i was just running out of some seventy to obey all blow up remind me there are more mines a bar to merge and somebody would sitting there not knowing that it's a solar flare about it i mean people are vietnam was already in a pretty dire straits and subsequent messages without knowing that i was of just seeing the entire beachside explode who've already got us are so proud of their remember everyone in this world we are now told you above so it's al

if only jane fonda had not gone to north vietnam. yet among the many military critics the notion of a failed strategy remained at the heart of arguments of why the united states lost in vietnam. and i would argue that these if-only arguments are simplicity and mistaken. simplistic to the point of a one plus one equals two questionings. one historian described his strategy as mobility plus fire power equals atrick. think about that, in one of the most complex, complicated wars of the 20th century, one plus one equals two. that's how you explained the crowd come. i would ask you all not to fall into that trap. mackvy commander never relied on attrition strategy. just as he never employed a counter-insurgency strategy. summarizing any strategy in a complex war like this with one word seems fraught with misinformation at beast. and provocation and lies at worst. one thing i would like to leave you with, in a large sense i think senior u.s. policy makers were asking too much of their military strategists. in the end, that was a war, a str

so one idea that is proposed is invasion of north vietnam. clearly there were great military advantages you could get by that even if you don't completely destroy the enemy you can take ports and population centers. the reason why president johnson didn't go forward with that is he feared the chinese would come in which is basically what happened in the korean war. that is turned down. the other option that is proposed is sending troops in to cut the trail in laos. we do know now that both the north and us as well as the soviets think it could have been done with three to five american divisions. those options were not taken until temporary incursion in 1971. next big change where the communists go in and believe they are going to foment massive uprisings in the cities. turns out the population is not supportive. they largely stick to themselves. the communists are isolated. they don't have the advantage of being able to flee as they do typically. they suffer crippling losses. this also galvanizing the south's leadership which becomes increas

a war to defeat aggression from north vietnam and the vietcong and the russians and chinese or whoever was sponsoring north vietnamese and a war to bring the great society or little great society to south vietnam and for the next two years of the 1966, 67 is the argument that he pushed publicly and it had him obviously in a lot of trouble with the liberals who felt he abandoned their causes and so forth. 1968, february 1968, gave the idea we were winning the war. johnson himself, when his own wiseman told him he could not meet with general william for 200,000 more troops johnson himself began to see that the war was essentially unwinnable as humphrey had said and on march 31, 1968, johnson announced to the public eye shall not see, i shall not in my party nomination for president. it is a lie. he did not mean that. he would work for the next month secretly with it richard daley, the mayor of chicago, where the convention would be held trying to plan a second appearance at the convention, which would stream will the movement appear put that aside for the moment, but it's there. humphrey

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the johnson administration against north vietnam to unite ho chi minh's people rather that was bringing together the british people with industry it made small impact but completely contrary they were reluctant to lavish resources to have little control and moscow dispatched that shut down almost 1000 us aircraft and with that full - - b-52 bomber to be contrast with the courage and in hanoi they inquired "the new york times" correspondent how long do americans want to fight? one year? three years? five years? ten years 20 years we shall be glad to accommodate you. as for the men doing the fighting for many soldiers vietnam the valley of terror much of that anxiety came from being taken away from friends and family and being totally out of control firefights were brief 75 marines were killed or wounded using weapons and with that thump of a bullet like a fist the way it knocks the air out of you makes you cough with the sound of a gunshot the things that you think about the way your eyes focus on a tiny white pebble and you start thinking that the last thing i will ever see. that makes

a 13 -year-old boy wrestling on the hillside in north vietnam and that saigon was liberated but afterwards in a book called the winningng side. this is the end of south vietnam. we must quickly set about educated educating the consumer but they are stunned to realize it was the north. south vietnam because the values increasingly dominate the country as for the american americans, what was that all about? that bothers me we did not bolearn a lot. but it wasn't about invading iraq. thank you all very much. [applause] . >>. >>. >> do they really believe that? or is this just an excuse? is at a motivation for going toor war? with eisenhower and kennedy and with that conviction. that if vietnam went so did other asian countries but this isn't the tar baby business. but if we give up on south vietnam than what around the world? what message will they derive? and then the question most often asked and to be very impressed by that evidence with kennedy's economic advisor who just almost two weeks before. then to expect the americans and they did believe that dominant theory. . >> what prevented t

none of the phases you outline mention surrender by the north -- by north vietnam. what is the significance of that omission? think about that? what is the significance of the omission? no surrender by the north vietnamese. let's carry that forward now. but i love this little question that was put forth. why not discuss surrender? think about that as we go forward. well, right before 1967 comes to an end, prime minister of australia goes swimming. on the coast of australia. and again, keep in mind december is their summer. so he's off swimming. and suddenly he disappears. and ultimately his -- harold holt is his name. his body will never be recovered. so they hold a funeral for the australian prime minister who had been a strong supporter of the johnson administration in vietnam. they had sent troops. so here's the -- what the president does. he calls up, you read about this in the introduction, calls up his personal pilot and says get the plane ready. we're going to a funeral. of course, the plane is under repair, and so there isn't his favorite plane to take which

included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know is to sit in much the same way with continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the work. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war asked the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixty democratically elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. millions died in

included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know is to sit in much the same way with continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the word. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war ask the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixty democratically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations. and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the drivers. millions die

included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know was to see them much the same way and was continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the word. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war. the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixty. chronically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the leaders. millions d

included secret raids on cambodia and north vietnam. in the new. much the same way. was continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the word. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war asked the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government has overthrown sixty democratically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. millions die in thes

yes, jose. >> north vietnam is very catholic. kyle: yes. especially general tu. or president tu. i slipped there. >> [indiscernible] kyle: right, right. so this is the issue. how do you deal with the south vietnamese and get them more involved in the process? so you go to the pope to try to push the catholics. you know, why didn't you do this with them before 1963? but i love this quote, and i think it really sticks out. i'll digress in just a second. lbj talked about how people in texas like their sticker on their foreheads. made in texas by texans. president adds, "i would like a slogan in saigon that says peace in south vietnam made by the vietnamese," end quote. think what he's thinking there. think of that mindset. here's a funny story i just found out about this visit. this tells you a lot about johnson. when he gets to the vatican, they have an exchange of gifts. the pope brings out this beautiful 14th century painting. invaluable. probably worth millions of dollars. a very classic 14th century painting. johnson pulls out a bust of himself and exchanges it. think about tha

included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know was to see them much the same way and was continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the word. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war. the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the u.s. government has overthrown sixty. craddock lee elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the leaders . millions di

included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know is to say that much the same way was continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the work. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war asked the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one however since the end of world war two u.s. presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixty democratically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. million

vietnam when the onshore breeze is light to bring some showers trades and thunderstorms and then the spread of rain develops coming out of the tibetan plateau moving slowly east was that the picture then for wednesday hasn't reached hong kong or shanghai by the time and surprisingly far north the time of year showers are redeveloping of the central and southern philippines and then running into was vietnam now we just had a massive tag go through thailand less skies clear and that developed into a tropical site in the bay of bengal about foca.

vietnam when the onshore breeze is light to bring some showers traits and sons tolls and then the spread of rain develops coming out of the tibetan plateau moving slowly east was that the picture then for wednesday hasn't reached hong kong or shanghai by the time and surprisingly far north the time the year showers are redeveloping of the central and southern philippines and then running into walls vietnam know just how the mass of tag go through thailand is less sky is clear and that's developed into a tropical cycle in the bay of bengal forecasts why is there still showers in southern thailand and so on to try and to clip vietnam but the majority of the wettest weather should be for the south of malaysia and indonesia was jakarta included and a good half of bali of java even if bali stays in the fine looking weather but i did say the circulation has gone to the bay of bengal and you see very clearly by satellite pictures there it is its progress has been slowly west was over the last twenty four hours and in the next two days it will head slowly towards the coast of time allowed to. th

arguably the people of vietnam have to experience after the north vietnamese before they could reject it. much less than iraq it was not even lost american lives but then vietnam came along. and that vietnam memorial with the us army and marine corps and took to recover in the seventies. then to create of the outcome of world war ii and it seemed only logical those that were so only injured the vietnam war did more to change this country than anything in recent history creating suspicion or mistrust even though the antiwar movement shows that 91 - - 92 today --dash naÏve and those two incorrectly the - - point at vietnam as a catastrophe. and how they justify the devastating revelation he responded i wonder if it occurred to ask any of the other officials how they justify not doing what i did or how they had a right for the crimes committed and the deception of the american people? they made a critical point that the great lesson they carried home from vietnam but i myself argue america's political leaders so the major settled with that disillusionment they thought they were going ho

now vietnam successfully resisted the expansionist incursions of jayaraman the seventh. the architecture of the temple of de on is quite exceptional. the forty five metre high tower in the center is surrounded by forty nine smaller towers from which one hundred seventy two gigantic faces of buddha gaze outwards in all directions they on is not only the seat of the gods but also a manifestation of the king's own divine power they seem to north south east and west. the command temple grounds were cities in themselves chronicles described how hundreds of wooden buildings stood between essential shrine and its surrounding walls. these how's the priests and their assistants. according to one account eighteen high priests two thousand seven hundred forty officiants two thousand two hundred two assistant priests and six hundred fifteen dancing girls served in one single shrine and a vast store of treasure was piled up in the shrine five tons of gold plates thirty five. forty thousand six hundred twenty pearls four thousand five hundred forty precious stones nine hundred sixty s

the flier shows a photo of men on one side, and his photo with the flag of north vietnam on the other. the words translate to quote, who is this yellow star going to serve? he says the mailer was pretty traumatic for his mother. >> certainly a mirror happening at the national level. as disheartening as that is i that. >> the organization is it never called tran but parallel the i vietnamese government and say it is justified. >> richardson bay for weeks or months at a time, called anchoring out. where the boat owners drop anchor right in the middle of the bay, police say there are as many as 250 anchor outs on richardson bay, a city council meeting earlier this year, the city says it would give notice to the owners of some of those boats. the chronicle report police tag dozens of rundown anchor-out boats over the weekend. >> i think it's got a little bit out of hand. i don't think it should be eliminated, we've been able to anchor out all over the world and i don't think that should change here, boats do cause a risk. >> some people point out anyexpensive market, a home of a last reso

kennedy makes news again with a demand that bombing of north vietnam targets be halted, a demand that could widen the differences between himself and the president. mr. johnson says we shall persist in our operations in the north. >> bobby kennedy was in a sense present on the creation of vietnam. he was involved when his brother was getting u.s. troops in there in the early '60s. but by the mid, late '60s bobby kennedy is turning against the war. >> kennedy said all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the error. the only sin is pride. >> bobby was being seen increasingly as a figure around whom the left could rally if it's going to challenge lyndon johnson. >> in 1968 there's a meeting at bobby kennedy's house to discuss the possibility of him running for the presidency. >> at that time he was having this debate within himself. >> he didn't want to be seen as just running against lyndon johnson out of bitterness. >> i caught you, daddy. >> also, he knew enough about politics that it's hard to run against a sitting president. >> bobby

in north vietnam. >> he's not a war hero. he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. >> as a candidate criticizing gold star parents. >> you have sacrificed nothing. and no one. >> especially a mother whose son was killed in iraq. >> look at his wife. she was standing there she had nothing to say. probably not allowed. you tell me. >> professor of international politics. in the seat. thank you for coming. what was your reaction first of all to the reaction you had from donald trump most recently in relation to a very royal respected member of the military? >> president trump classically does this. trying to divert attention from the story. mcraven saying in the article that president trump is attacked press freedom. attacking democratic rights broadly and has damaged america's international reputation. and that is what president trump wants to move away from. by labeling him as a democratic and not a military person. and thereby dismergeing the record by raising bin laden death for example. >> which is the strategy he used througho

you cover the philippines, lbn in north vietnam and north america's polk's war with mexico, and the civil war. the wars you cover have specific endings and beginnings. >> i'm covering traditional wars with a large number of casualties. as i say, i did not talk about the struggles with native americans which cover decades. >> that's my question. >> it's on page one. >> darn, i opened it and perused it. >> maybe a sequel if you invite me back. >> i am inviting you back because it's a 250 year war of genocide, tommy orange-- or tommy orange who is there, it's a chilling tajdy of a -- tragedy of a war. and i invite you back, it's a drip, drip, drip of war over centuries. >> thank you for saying so, thank you for being here. [applause] >> rob, if you could give us a short and relevant question i would be grateful. >> well, michael. mark, you know i ask a lot of zingers for get ready. >> you do? i think ma, is saying as long as they're short it's okay. >> a short zinger. >> really short. >> don't quake so much in your shoes, michael beschloss. >> why? >> the questions i have for you relates to

north vietnam at last is willing to talk with south vietnam. >> this is in absolute confidence because any speeches or any comments referring to the substance of these matters will be injurious to your country. >> after all this work all year johnson finally had a package that the north vietnamese would accept, and he was selling it to the south vietnamese. >> nixon gets a top secret briefing from the commander in chief on his progress towards peace. and what does nixon do? he betrays the president and the nation. >> what nixon did with that information, how he got away with what president johnson called treason and what his actions cost, thousands of americans and vietnamese, are the subjects of a special report called betrayal. you can catch it this friday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for the "last word" with ali velshi. hi, ali, how are you? >> this is kind of weird this is the only place we meet these days, but it's terrific to see you. have an excellent thanksgiving. i'm thankful for the privilege of working with you and for being your

north vietnam at last is willing to talk with south vietnam. >> this is in absolute confidence because any speeches or any comments referring to the substance of these matters will be injureious to your country. >> after all this work all year johnson finally had a package that the north vietnamese would accept, and he was selling it to the south vietnamese. >> nixon gets a top secret briefing from the commander in chief on his progress towards peace. and what does nixon do? he betrays the president and the nation. >> what nixon did with that information, how he got away with what president johnson called treason and what his actions cost, thousands of americans and vietnamese, are the subjects of a special report called betrayal. you can catch it this friday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for the "last word" with ali velshi. hi, ali, how are you? >> this is kind of weird this is the only place we meet these

vietnam when the onshore breeze is light to bring some showers trades and thunderstorms and then a spell of rain develops coming out of the tibetan plateau moving slowly east was that the picture then for wednesday hasn't reached hong kong or shanghai by the time and surprisingly far north the time the year showers are redeveloping of the central and southern philippines and then running into was vietnam now we just had a massive tag go through thailand it's less skies clear and that developed into a tropical site in the bay of bengal but forecasts wise there are still showers in southern thailand and so on to try and to clip vietnam but the majority of the wet ish weather should be further south malaysia and indonesia jakarta included and a good half of bali of java even if bali stays in the fine looking weather but i did say the circulation has gone to the bay of bengal and you see very clearly by satellite pictures there it is its progress has been slowly west was over the last twenty four hours and in the next two days it will head slowly towards the coast of thomas and sri lanka. th

none of the phases you outline mentioned surrender by north vietnam. what is the significance of that omission? .hink about that what is the significance of the omission? no surrender by the north vietnamese. carry that forward now, i love this question that was put forth. why not discuss surrender? right before 1967 comes to an australiaminister of goes swimming. keep in mind, december is their summer. he's off swimming and suddenly he disappears. holt, his bodyld will never be recovered. behold the funeral for the our trillion prime minister would been a strong supporter of the johnson administration in vietnam. so here is what the president does. personal pilot, says get the plane ready we are going to a funeral. of course the plane is under repair so there is not his favorite plane to take which he complains about. ultimately in december of 1967 he's going to go around the world and in that process the main issue is going to remain the and him -- going to remain a vietnam. the first thing that he does is he meets with the president of south korea,

in north vietnam. >> he's not a war hero. >> he's a war hero. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured, okay? i hate to tell you. >> reporter: and as a candidate, criticizing gold star parents. >> you have sacrificed nothing! and no one! >> reporter: especially a mother whose son was killed in iraq. >> if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. she probably -- maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say, you tell me. >> reporter: and in the last couple of minutes, the former cia director, leon panetta, who led the agency during the bin laden mission, issued a statement saying in part, and i quote, president trump owes an apology to admiral bill mcraven and all of the special operations forces and intelligence professionals who planned and executed one of the most important counterterrorism missions in our nation's history. and perhaps something to think about, just how hard it is to find a particular person somewhere in the world who is a so-called high-value target. president trump's administration still has not f

the secret war entered a new phase in 1973 when the united states signed a peace accord with north vietnam and evacuated all of the american military leaders from laos. but 18,000 mong soldiers were left behind. some disbursed into the countryside, some joined the general army. in 1975, then powell and some military leaders were air lifted by the cia out of laos. but most mong people were less fortunate. of the 10,000 mong who flooded the headquarters at longchang, only a small fraction were evacuated by the united states. thousands of mong people there embarked on the treacherous westward exodus to tieland, carrying their possessions on their back, families traveled by foot, through the jungle, and journeyed at night to avoid capture by the communists. by 1979, nearly 30,000 mong refugees attempted to make the dangerous crossing each month. so that crossing of the river is such a powerful part of mong stories of their refugee migration. and you can see it powerfully depicted here. now, americans today have paid attention to news of refugee crises overseas next have been following news rep

of vietnam for the sas in vietnam but was heavy rain is gone now and in fact it it showed itself in the gulf of thailand is going through is developing something in the bay of bengal leaving behind still the possibility shouts as far north as bangkok and a line that obviously you can follow through problem from singapore potentially wet that's jakarta which is recently wet with some pretty big showers and they extend through most to java and sulawesi indonesia is now in the wet period the way the rainy season should we say as it should be but as i say developing in the bay of bengal is a circulation which may be in forty eight hours might bring some rain to this part of india for the most part but it's drawing a pretty nice. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. al-jazeera. where ever you are. in twenty twenty tokyo will host the paralympic games in the nation has a troubled history caring for people with disabilities want to win he examines japan's disability shame on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever your. welcome back a quick reminder of our top stories here on al-jazeera tu

vietnam fell. frankly, if i may say it, that is where normally most discussions, tv discussions and books tend to end when they talk about the vietnam war. april 30, 1975. let's talk about the outcome of that war. let's talk about what happened after 1975, because for me, i believe it validates the reasons that we went into vietnam, and it also gives us, i think, a little bit of resolve to make sure that our interests in vietnam, our long-term strategic interests in the value of vietnam, are not thrown by the wayside. , the communists take over. hundreds of thousands of south vietnamese jump into boats, into the sea. there has never been -- for all the war, there's never been this pora of theias vietnamese people. this continued for years. all the way up to 1978, 1979, they were jumping into the ocean with a 50% chance of dying , trying to move away from a stalinist system that had taken place at that time. among them was my wife, who is here today. hong, whose entire family, extended family, got o

north korea/south korea. so the notion of a divided vietnam, between communist and noncommunist forces, was not illogical to the events that were going on in this region and in indo-china, during the time that the french returned and up until the time that we assisted in the division of the country in 1954. now, there are a lot of people who say, it was popular during the war, that ho chi minh was simply a nationalist who wanted to ride on the back of the communist philosophy in order to unite the country. i think the truth of this is shown by the fact that ho chi minh spent years in the common term, in moscow, studying the philosophies of international communist expansion. it is kind of ironic, i was reading a book by steven coxswain called stallen, a three book series, a brilliant book, and in the period in the 1920s, it was just so ironic, weaving through the pages and there was a note in there where stalin was making a presentation to the common turn, in 1924, and was interrupted by a member of the common

north georgia or the jungles of vietnam, they weren't set up for that. the things that benning that they taught us, the instructors were all back from vietnam and they taught us case studies, et cetera, but you really learn it on the ground. and i think the best thing i learned to really prepare me was ranger training. and i'm grateful. captain marm had been decorated with a medal of honor for his galantry in the first cav in '65. when he taught, you listened. does that answer your question? >> yes, i worked with all of the arvin. i happen to be on the side of thinking that the arvin were pretty good soldiers. i think pierre and andy were talking about the rough puffs and how many of them were killed in action. i happen to be someone who fell in love with the vietnamese people, even when i was there, because i worked so closely with them. i go back to vietnam every summer now to teach, and it's because of my love for the vietnamese people. what i found to be disconcerting, i think, i might say is that the -- and i have a couple vietnamese students who ar

of vietnam for the sas in vietnam but was heavy rain is gone now and in fact it it showed itself in the gulf of thailand is going through is developing something in the bay of bengal leaving behind still the possibility of showers as far north of bangkok and a line that for so you can force your problem from singapore potentially wet that's jakarta she's recently wet with some pretty big showers and they extend through most of java and sulawesi indonesia is now in the wet period through the wet zone the rainy season should we say as it should be but as i say developing in the bay of bengal is a circulation which may be in forty eight hours might bring some rain to this part of india for the most part though it's dry or pretty nice. the weather sponsored by qatar and peace. wish the world innovation summit for health one community of two thousand health care experts in of ages and policy makers from one hundred countries. one experience sharing best practices and innovative ideas. one goal a healthier world through global collaboration. apply now to attend the twenty eighteen wish su

the soviets were heavily responsible for the north vietnamese victory in south vietnam. they and their propaganda apparatus was a huge part of it. the north vietnamese generals the fundamental reason, may be the decisive reason for their victory, was the effectiveness of their propaganda and psychological operations against the united states during that war. to inou had procommunist south -- coup in south yemen. you had a near communist take over in namibia. you had a near communist take over in grenada and another one in nicaragua. soviet-cuban subversion all over latin america. much of this is documented in the grenada archives, which nobody studies anymore. these were the internal , whennts of the movement we invaded grenada, we got a hold of their internal documents , which had black on white agreements, soviet and east german, cuban military assistance, intelligence agreements, and so forth. there were blueprints for the destruction of the churches in grenada, which included such things as the promulgation of liberation the elegy on the island and bringing experts o

on the north easterly monsoon further north there's that dry weather there's asked sunshine for time central areas will see some outbreaks of right as we go on into sas day southern china stays fine and dry as is the case to across a good part of the philippines central areas southern areas of thailand could see some showers along dispose of rain last the system just rolling out here and you can see how that cloud extends all the way across the by a single into sri lanka much in the cricket weather has been rain not too far away some big downpour sent across the eastern side of the island where the cricket is over towards the southwest and go all the chance of more dry weather here but still the showers never too far away they come timex system spilling out of thailand making its way into the by a big old certainly want to watch as we go on through next week i have a little drier in thailand as we go on into sassed a cloud that building across the eastern side of india but generally dry to the north. well the story is of life. and to inspiration. for a series of short documentaries f

the north of that as you can see it is going to be dry little more cloud just building saturday on into sunday for southern parts of china can't rule out the possibility some wet weather pushing its way in here then as you can see northern areas of vietnam also turning increasingly wet in the process some weather to into southern areas of india for the showers there into sri lanka suspected might affect the cricket having said that in colombo lossie drive was sheltered here but the showers never really too far away you can see some of the areas of in the s.t.l. see some rather lively showers as we go on into sunday for the northeast and refine and dry smoke once again into new delhi temperatures at around twenty five celsius dry and five across the at around thirty one degrees try and find say thirty one celsius there for abu dhabi southern parts of the varian pencil peninsula generally set to look further north showers not too far from us here in cots that will make its way further south as we go on through sunday and lied to these further flooding there for kuwait and western iran. ac

the soviets were heavily responsible for the north vietnamese victory in south vietnam. and their propaganda apparatus was a huge part of it. the north vietnamese generals declared the fundamental reason , maybe that decisive reason for their victory, was the effectiveness of their propaganda and psychological operations against the united states during that war. then you had procommunist coup in south yemen. he hurt communists takeovers in mozambique and angola. you had a near communist take over in namibia. he would a communist take over in grenada and another one in nicaragua. there was soviet-cuban subversion all over latin america. much of this is documented in the grenada archive, which nobody studies anymore. these were the internal documents of the movement, when we invaded grenada, we got a hold of their internal documents, which had black on white agreements, soviet and east german and cuban military assistance, intelligence agreements, and so forth. there were blueprints for the destruction of the churches in grenada, which included such things as the promulga