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0 eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago. >> and good day. im andrea mitchell in washington. at this hour, all eyes are on dallas where today that city remembers the faithful day with a solemn ceremony. well bring all that to you live. fifty years ago today president and mrs. kennedy had just arrived in that city. at a historion wrote as they were heading to dallas the last of the clouds cleared. it was what aides on the plane called kennedy weather. wrote, seemed as if it was going to be a ...

0 democrats finally voted to eliminate the filibuster for executive nominees and judicial nominees other than the supreme court. majority leader reid, who had long-resisted employing this, the so-called nuclear option, explained on the senate floor today why such an extraordinary measure was necessary. >> the american people believe congress is broken. the american people believe the senate is broken. and i believe the american people are right. in the history of our country, some 230 plus years...

0 leader harry reid and the democrats finally voted to eliminate the filibuster for executive nominees and judicial nominees other than the supreme court. majority leader reid, who had long-resisted employing this, the so-called nuclear option, explained on the senate floor today why such an extraordinary measure was necessary. >> the american people believe congress is broken. the american people believe the senate is broken. and i believe the american people are right. in the history of our co...

0 deliver peace for 18 years under three different administrations has borne more than either share of the burden for more than its number of years. i dont think that we are fatigued or tired. we would leak to live as we once lived. but history will not permit it. we are still the ski stone for freedom and i think we will continue do as we have done in our past, our duty. . and the people of texas will be in the lead. so im glad to come. >> part of the lingering pain is that his death came witho...

0 washington, thanks. jon: while the filibuster rule change in the senate might be a political win for president obama, at least in the short term, not much else seems to be going his way. two new polls now show his approval rating sinking to a new low. according to a cnn-orc poll, just 41% of americans approve of the job mr. obama is doing in the white house. 56% disapprove of his job performance the same story in a "fox news poll." 40% of those surveyed approve of the job the president is doin...

0 your thoughts on the kennedy assassination. it means remembering watching my matter and grandfather crying at the kitchen table. only time i saw either cry. 11 by the time i left high school we lost rfk. fond memory of my grandmother proudly hung this portrait in her apartment. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ from dallas, texas the flash apparently official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time. some 38 minutes ago. chairman of the republi...

Marcelo then talked about meeting with lee harvey oswald. not only meeting with jack ruby, but controlling rubys nightclub. ruby worked for marcelo, because he owned plenty of night clubs in dallas. ruby was caught stealing from marcelos nightclub so he had to become part of this plot. and then marcelo also told van landing ham about importing two men from europe, to do the shooting and where they hid out. the law says we should have those tapes. i have talked to van lamming ham, i have a hundre...

Up very, very quickly and i got off one shot and it was all over. you know? just -- it was just one quick picture. i did get -- i realize it was going to happen because mrs. kennedy actually said to him, salute, john. and he didnt salute at first. and then she told him again to salute and he did. >> and he did it. >> i was looking through the lens, and i just knew that he was going to salute. >> can i ask you, mr. ferrell, the notion that you didnt get a pulitzer for this, i think will blow a lo...

>> just what do you think of this verdict? >> i believe that jack ruby was a paid killer to close the mouth of my son, lee harvey oswald. >> the question of whether ruby knew oswald before or was in cahoots to kill him is one of the most important questions. because ruby knew people in criminal activities, there was a lot of investigation about a potential conspiracy. >> ruby would have been one of the most unlikely and worst hit men that the mob could ever get. >> on november 24th, 1963, lee ha...

They didnt want to be a stamp for the fbi or the secret service. >> there are three issues the commission had to grapple with. did oswald commit the physical act of the murder? and even if he did the physical act, did he have forces behind him? and then of course, whats rubys involvement in this? >> you had various branches of the investigation traveling, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission. >> the time of day was about -- not very far from two hours f...