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so, it's going to be spun as an act of betrayal. but mostly, you know, totalitarian propaganda doesn't rest on clear narratives. it rests on creating a chaotic information space. a sense of dread. a sense of being under siege. in this sense, prigozhin's insurgency isn't necessarily destructive to the propaganda. a different question is what does this do to putin's war ne effort in ukraine? if prigozhin is able to weaken it, that, in turn, can have an impact on what happens to the propaganda machine. >> thank you very much. earlier today i spoke with the professor of international affairs at the news school and the great granddaughter of the former soviet premier kruschev. she raise serious questions
kruschev who used the term useful idiots. is not the time for americans to behave like that. our leadership has made a difference in europe, it's peaceful and stable. we shouldn't just assume it's always going to be this way. putin is trying to disrupt it. >> the biden administration is trying to get nato countries and other european allies to be unified, be tough with sanctions on russia if they invade. those countries have gone through four years of the former president bad mouthing nato and now hearing this latest dialogue in u.s. politics. does it hurt u.s. credibility? >> it certainly didn't make it easy. there's a reason why the first very important meeting that president biden had with nato allies, with all of the alliances was to explicitly say in public and in private america is back, america has nato's
patrol car until he got the person out of the vehicle. as for the driver, he was checked out by medical personnel and is said to be doing well. the president's astonishing letter to turkey's leader, don't be a tough guy, don't be a fool. while you were sleeping, jimmy kimmel tried to find some historical, if not histoysteric precedent. >> on this very date, october 16th, 57 years ago, the cuban missile crisis started. this letter from trump is similar to the letter from jfk to kruschev. don't be a [ bleep ]. everybody will say, yay, kruschev, you're the best. if you don't, everybody will say what an a-hole and call your soviet country a bunion. give you a jingle later. maybe trump is one of the greats.
lives at risk and making sure we've got the resources for the american people, i will do what is necessary. frankly, that's the kind of commander in chief we need that truly has the courage just as we've seen in our country's past how kennedy met with kruschev. -- excuse me, sorry, let me frk, stalin who killed millions of people but actually allied with him. why? because it was in the best interest of our country and to bring about an end to that war. so, no, if it means meeting with dictators, if it means working with -- >> so why meeting with people like bashar al assad but not necessarily meeting with the leader of saudi arabia or having a relationship with them. >> sure. you're mixing two different things up. i'm talking about having -- >> i don't think i'm mixing two different things up. i am just trying to get clarity on it because there seems to be
operative threat to murder opposition in the french revolution, right? you know kruschev. his predecessor, stalin used it specifically with artists and thinks that threatened hid narrow views of humanity. did you know mao used it during his murderous campaigns? america, the country you lead, was formed in defiance of strongmen, bullies and the idea that might makes right. a free press is a metaphor for what makes america great. so you have now admitted that you are against what we are all about. and the real problem now is for you to convince people that you don't hate what makes america truly great. i know in the past, you've tried to play that you respect the media, and that you know we're important, you know, like you said that when a bunch of us got murdered, but it didn't take
things frequently that are not agreeable news. but i would say it's an invaluable arm of the presidency. i would think mr. kruschev operating a totalitarian system which has many advantages as far as being able to move in secret and all the rest, there's a terrific disadvantage not having the abrissive quality of the press applied to you daily to an strikes. when you have -- even though we never like it and even though we wish they didn't write it and even though we disapprove, there still is -- there isn't any doubt that we could don't the job in a free society without a very, very active press. >> he was gone less than a year later. john f. kennedy speaking with reporters on december 17 of 1962 and that is our broadcast for tonight. thank you so much for being here with us as always. good night from nbc news headquarters in here new york.
divided by the russians in the west after world war ii, people are flooding through 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. >> khrushchev just bullies kennedy. >> there was nothing kennedy could say to him except "i give up on west berlin" that would have made kruschev happy. khrushchev was determined to put kennedy's feet to the fire. >> despite his best efforts jack is humiliated. he leaves the summit having achieved nothing. >> kennedy's first meetings with
>> kennedys always operate on more than one track. they always like to do things privately. and jack acts like a secret messenger to his friends and to 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 exciting and 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
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 with bullies kennedy. >> there was nothing kendy ul say to him except "i give up on west berlin" that would have made kschev happy. kruschev was determined to put kennedy's feet to the fire. >> despite his best efforts jack is humiliated. he leaves the summit having achieved nothing. >> kennedy's first meetings with journalists after vienna, there was no spin. he was dejected, he didn't hide
>> >> 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