and believing that life loves us, i have dared to try many things, but daring still, be certain that you do not die without having been something wonderful for humanity. >> marching orders, president obama sets a new path forward for united states foreign policy unveiling a new counterterrorism strategy, and the long-awaited drawdown of american troops from afghanistan. a new prospect of peace for the cadets graduating from west point, he hopes. >> you are the first class to graduate since 9/11 who may not be sent into combat in iraq or afghanistan. >> and spy story, a preview of brian williams' exclusive big interview with nsa leaker edward snowden. why the man the president dismissed as a low-level hacker had a much bigger impact than his resume reveals.

and why snowden facing espionage charges here in the u.s. says he is now trapped in russia. >> i stopped because the united states government decided to revoke my passport and trap me in the moscow airport. so when people ask why are you in russia, i say, please, ask the state department. and that's exactly what the "today" show did. >> well, for supposedly a smart guy, that's a pretty dumb answer, frankly. gr day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we'll have more on edward snowden, afghanistan and a lot of other issues. but first, the world lost a

powerful voice for freedom today. maya angelou died at her home. she was 86. a look at this truly phenomenal woman. >> ladies and gentlemen, maya angelou. >> best selling author, prolific poet -- >> i wrote this piece for every human being on earth. >> reporter: -- and so much more. maya angelou was an activist, actor, nominated for a pulitzer, and tony for her role in the mini series "roots." but angelou's place on the world stage didn't come easy. her life struggles fueled her work. >> you can stumble and fall and fail and somehow miraculously rise and go on. >> reporter: born in st. louis, missouri, in 1928, her childhood was marked by sexual abuse. traumatized, she refused to speak for six years. a story she told in "i know why

the caged bird sings." her first big break came as a singer in the 1950s. she was committed to bridging differences, working alongside both malcolm x and dr. martin luther king. >> i want to see some honesty, some fair play, i want to see kindness and justice. >> reporter: she made poetry cool in the movies, and was only the second poet in history invited to compose an inaugural poem. >> on this new day, you may have the grace to look up and out and say simply, very simply, with hope, good morning. >> reporter: her philosophy was, when you get, give. when you learn, teach. so she treated the world as her classroom. ♪ let it shine ♪ let it shine -- everywhere i

go i'm going to let it shine. shine, america. >> reporter: oprah called her a mother sister friend. >> she is one of the greatest influences in my entire life. >> reporter: the obamas considered her a shero. >> she has inspired countless others who have known injustice and misfortune in their lives. >> reporter: maya angelou, a woman who turned an early life of turmoil into an artistic triumph. >> look heavenward and speak the word aloud, peace. we look at our world and speak the word aloud, peace. we look at ourselves and then into each other, and speak the word aloud, peace. peace, my brother, peace my sister, peace my soul. peace. >> nbc's rahim ellis joins me from new york, along with harvard law school professor if

newton, massachusetts. she was a mentor to you, charles. rahe raheema, i want to ask you about the imfapact of maya angelou as young girl growing up. >> it's interesting for me, because there are moments this morning when i wanted to cry, but i've also been smiling a lot. because she was able to leave us with some wonderful, wonderful words and thoughts. and expressions about how we should treat each other as human beings. one of the things that she's even said, everything in the universe has a rhythm. everything dances. for me as an african-american woman reading "knowing what a caged bird sings" it made me realize how i could sing, how i could have a voice. as a woman, an african-american woman, who in some ways felt i looked something like her, being tall and not iconically beautiful, but maya angelou was able to make a way for herself.

and in so doing, she made a way for people like me, and people who didn't even look like me, because she reached out to all of us, andrea. >> and taught us that you are beautiful. and that you could believe in your own self. charles ogletree, tell me about meeting her and about her influence on a whole generation of civil rights activists. >> let me just say this, that maya angelou had a great impact on people in the past. but you know what, going forward, she is the person who's the center of my universe, no question about that. as a kid, i always loved reading books. and then when i got her book, "i know why the caged bird sings," i thought, wow, this is a woman who has style and gratitude. it was important, you think about president clinton, president obama, you think about president nelson mandela when he passed away just recently, maya angelou always had some defined and powerful words to people who made a big difference.

i was glad when she came to the service, in the inauguration for president clinton. i was thrilled when she came to the inauguration for president obama, even though she had some differences with him in the first term, very clear. and i was just pleased to see her in a sense give a tribute to the great man medeva, nelson mandela, when he died at the age of 95 years old. she will be missed, but she will not be forgotten. we stand on her shoulders as giants in this world in the 21st century. >> and, you know, the angela family -- the family statement is now with us. her family is extremely grateful, they wrote. her ascension was not by a loss of acuity. she was a warrior for equality. tolerance and peace. the family's extremely appreciative of the time we had with her and we know she is looking down upon us with love.

it's signed by guy b. johnson for the family. i love that, her being a warrior, because she was so strong, so powerful. >> right. >> i want to play a little bit of an interview that she did with us. speaking out, and she was critical of some of the education policies in the first term from the obama administration. this was an interview last year with us here. >> what have you learned from your involvement with that school, and your interaction with the children here? >> well, miss mitchell, you know, i was a mute for six years of my life, from the time i was 7 until i was 13. i didn't speak to anyone but my brother. but i read books. and somehow i was further along, because i had read the books, and people didn't frighten me as much. i think we have racial

prejudices, and age differences, and all of these -- sexual differences -- because we really think we're different from other people. if you read and you understand, i'm not really that much different, we may be able to end racism and all the ear identification other idiocies that plague us. >> she was teaching forever, for her whole life. as you pointed out she'll be teaching for the future, her words live on. >> no question about that. when you think about maya angelou, you think about someone who has a gift from god and shared it with everyone in the universe, black, white, male, female, and children are going to say, who is this maya angelou, wouldn't it be great if

she were alive and have a chance to speak at the inaugural event for poetry there, for barack obama. in her lifetime, she saw an african-american elected here in the united states, and reelected as well. i think that as long as we live, we will have her as an eternal gift for us. she did a great amount of work. i really enjoyed having conversations with her. every single time i talked to her, i learned something. and that's saying a lot. but it's saying enough to let you understand that when you have a conversation with maya angelou, pay attention. it's complicated, it's difficult, but you know what, it's making you a better person. and she made all of us better people. and i'm very happy about that. >> professor ogletree, raheema ellis, thank you for your personal reflections, and let's close with her last tweet. listen to yourself and you might hear the voice of god.

dr. maya angelou. thank you very much. i want to thank you so much for giving voice to it at the beginning. >> our pleasure. >> it's a pleasure. an important day in foreign policy. at west point today, president obama first announced the troop surge for afghanistan in 2009. he returned to west point giving the commencement today, arguing that the new threats facing america are more diffuse, giving a different response. >> military action cannot be the only, or even primary component of our leadership in every instance. just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail. and because the costs associated with military action are so high, you should expect every civilian leader, and specially your commander in chief, to be clear about how that awesome power should be used. >> tony blinken is joining us

from the white house. excuse me, tony, i'm still choked up over mayo angelou. forgive. the president gave a powerful speech and announced to the class, the first class not to be serving on active duty in combat roles in iraq and afghanistan. what about the criticism, though, and we're going to be talking to john mccain later in the program, the criticism that by establishing a deadline, he is sending a message to the taliban to wait us out, and then counterattack? >> reporter: andrea, first, i think it's important to know that the president sketched a very broad vision for american leadership in the world in his speech today. we are turning the page on a decade of war. we're turning away from a permanent war footing from large-scale open-ended deployments, to a much more flexible, and focused policy that deals with the threats that have emerged over the last ten years, that allows us to shift resources to where they're most

needed, that allows us to empower partners to do the work with us. with regard to afghanistan, i've heard the criticism from senator mccain and others which i respect, but we just have a different opinion. we think it's very important to tell our partners, including the afghans, what's going to be expected of them and when it's going to be expected, so that they have time to step up and take responsibility. the president was also clear, andrea, yesterday, that the combat mission for american forces in afghanistan ends this year. and there's no point in keeping 10,000 troops in afghanistan indefinitely, when they're not going to be engaged in combat. so what we have is a very deliberate, carefully drawn scaledown that allows the afghans to continue to step up, to know what they have to do when they have to do it, and it allows us to support them, but also shift resources to where they're most needed. >> and i would like you to respond to what we are previewing, which is the edward snowden interview, which will be airing in full tonight on primetime special on nbc. this is a portion of what edward

snowden said to brian williams in moscow last week. >> what are you doing in russia? >> this is a really fair concern. i personally am surprised, the reality is i never intended to end up in russia. i had a flight booked to cuba, onwards to latin america. i stopped because the united states government decided to revoke my passport and trap me in the moscow airport. so when people ask why are you in russia, i say, please, ask the state department. >> do you have any response to that? is there a way to get him back here, and what do you have to say to the fact that he is in russia? he says a lot more to brian tonight, which we'll see, he explains more about his relationship, or lack of

relationship with the russians. what are your concerns, if any, about him being in russia? >> reporter: andrea, it's really very simple. mr. snowden broke the law. he should come back to the united states to face the law. he can make his case here, fully, freely. but he should come back and face the consequences of his actions. and we would welcome him doing so. >> i want to give you a chance also to respond to the report that the white house is investigating, or there is an investigation into how the white house unwittingly outed a cia station chief in afghanistan. this is sort of 101 for people putting out names and not putting out names for people operating covertly. what do you know looking into it already? >> andrea, that's exactly what we're working to find out. the chief of staff asked the white house counsel to look into it, to find out what happened, why it happened, and to make sure it doesn't happen again. it was a mistake. it shouldn't have happened.

my best understanding is it was totally inadvertent, but we're trying to find out exactly what happened, why, and to make sure that it doesn't happen again. >> concerns about the safety of the individual and his or her family? >> the safety of that individual is first and foremost in our minds. and we are doing everything we can to make sure that that person is fully secure. >> thanks so much. the deputy national security adviser. >> thanks a lot, andrea. ahead right here on andrea mitchell reports, senator john mccain with the president's troop withdrawal from afghanistan. and more from brian williams' interview with edward snowden. and maya angelou, her life and her work. cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "roll sound!" "action!"

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you can go back to the pentagon papers with dan elseburg and others, who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward. he is a traitor. and he has betrayed his country. and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> and that was, of course, john kerry on chuck todd's show reacting to edward snowden, which aired earlier, part of it aired earlier on "today." and on "morning joe." brian williams' exclusive interview with snowden is already provoking sharp commentary from top u.s. officials. joining me to talk about this and the president's speech at west point, political analyst and "washington post" columnist, and former moscow correspondent for the post, susan glasser, and msnbc military analyst and honorary recipient live at west point at the commencement.

let's talk about the president's speech withdrawing, the deadline -- >> right. >> -- and for more covert training in syria. we're beginning to get more involved in one war, the civil war in syria, and pulling out of afghanistan. >> and pulling out of afghanistan. and, you know, the speech was billed as essentially the obama doctrine, laying out his foreign policy vision. the thesis of the speech was, there are a lot of different -- very diverse kinds of problems that face us. it's diffuse. not like the cold war. there are individual problems that require individual solutions. and so that then sort of mi millitates in a bumper sticker. he's against isolationism, but he is interventionist, but not unilateralist. just because we have the biggest

hammer doesn't mean every problem is a nail, just because we have the best military doesn't mean every problem requires intervention. >> susan glasser, one of those problems for him politically with a large part of his base, younger americans, americans concerned about internet freedom, about privacy, on the left and the right, is edward snowden. this has really been a big setback this year, exposing the surveillance policy, and exposing the president as someone who was pursuing a lot of the same policies as his predecessor. >> in many ways, just as in the overall foreign policy speech, president obama is trying to tread a careful path between two rocks, as it were. not embracing the massive surveillance data, that in fact that he's been overseeing, but at the same time realizing that the snowden disclosures amount to the biggest security breach in history. calibrating it so it's not too tough. in a way, i think that's what

you heard from the foreign policy speech today, too, andrea. >> colonel jack, at west point, i know you talked to a number of cadets. and we wanted to play a little bit of their reaction as they are going forth, commencing today, an important day for them. let's watch. >> i think part of what we're taught here at west point is to understand that the nation's needs might not always be a growing army. so, you know, it's our job to serve. >> i don't think many of us who would, you know, pass judgment on the war effort, and the strategy per se, i think all of us are just ready to get out into the real army and do our duty for the people in the country. >> jack, they really are so committed to the mission, whatever mission they are assigned. and it strikes me that for all the men and women leaving

afghanistan, they still have that sense of purpose. this withdrawal is not -- you and i talked about this before. this withdrawal will not leave them feeling an emptiness of the mission. >> no, it's interesting to note that they were about 8 or 9 years old when the war began. so for all the time they've been thinking about things, been cognizant of the world around them, we've been at war. and they're about ready to go into an army that's so very much different than it was when 9/11 occurred, and the intervening dozen years. there's some amount of trepidation. what's the mission, and is the rest of my army going to be up to the task. but there's certainly no lack of enthusiasm. these are dedicated young people, men and women who decided to wear the cloth of the country, and we're extremely lucky to have them.

>> indeed we are. gene robinson, the latest nbc news "wall street journal" poll indicated in april that most americans do not want us to be engaged overseas. 47% believe we should be less active, only 19% more active, 30% sort of satisfied with the current level. >> right. there's a curious paradox here, because the polling also indicates that president obama's approval ratings on foreign policy are going down, even as he's doing what most people want him to do. so i think the lesson here is perhaps there's no glory in realistic foreign policy of the kind that president obama is trying to pursue on a case-by-case basis. >> susan, i wanted to ask you about moscow and vladimir putin. the most complicated adversary right now for the president. and this with snowden in moscow. you've worked there, and reported from moscow. this is a very challenging time. >> well, there's no question

that putin does view this very much in "we win, you lose" terms. he's a zero sum kind of a guy. i think he's enjoyed the opportunity to poke the eye of the united states with the ukraine crisis, and the west. that being said, it's also an existential threat for vladimir putin. you have to remember, staying in power is his only job at that level. he has viewed a turn in ukraine towards the west as potentially an existential threat to his regime in russia. i think that's why we saw this aggressive move. but remember, obama imposed sanctions along with other european leaders. we've more or less accepted the forcible annexation of crimea, of ukraine. really the talk now is to make sure we contain that damage and that putin doesn't do more. but in effect, everybody is throwing up their hands and saying, it's true, putin's taking crimea and we're not getting it back. >> susan, thank you so much. and gene robinson.

and of course, colonel jack jacobs, a medal of honor winner and someone who can inspire a whole new generation there of young graduates from west point. thank you, colonel jack. speaking of inspiration, on the military front, senator john mccain. stay here on "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. new car! hey! [squeals] ♪ [ewh!] [baby crying]

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i had hoped that the president had learned a lesson from our preliminary withdrawal and unnecessary withdrawal totally from iraq. and now the black flags of al qaeda fly over fallujah. the scene of the greatest losses in the war in iraq. the syria/iraq border has now turned into a base for al qaeda that our director of national intelligence has said will be planning on attacks on the united states of america. look, andrea, we left troops in korea after the korean war, we left troops in japan, we left troops in germany. and what the president is now signaling to the taliban, hang on, because we're leaving. and afghanistan military, as good as they are in many respects, are not prepared for a total lack of united states support in a number of areas, particularly air assets. >> let me ask you, though, are

they not really analogous? in iraq, we didn't have an agreement to leave forces, that was a failure on the part of the administration, but we withdrew from iraq leaving no troops really. this would be a training mission and counterterror mission of 9,800 troops, and the pentagon, the military only asked for 10,000. it's pretty close to what they wanted. >> well, to start with, we could have gotten the agreement with iraq. the administration didn't want to. senator graham and senator lieberman and i were intimately involved in that, and we won't go through the whole history. but with ecould have had a force remaining in iraq if we had wanted to. this president wanted out. that's what he got. and we're going to pay a very heavy price for that. as far as afghanistan is concerned, it started, by the way, at 20,000. this is the absolute bare minimum, with no margin for

error for a year. but if the president had said, and we will base further withdrawals on how the situation evolves in afghanistan, then i think it would have been appropriate. but instead, telling the taliban, many who are in sanctuary in pakistan, just hang on, because we are leaving. and 5,500 is really not enough except to perhaps defend themselves in kabul. so it's the wrong message. it tells the afghans they're going to be on their own, no matter what, and it tells the taliban, hang on, because we're going to be gone. and we saw this movie before after the russians who were driven out of afghanistan, and we abandoned that effort. and we are ignoring lessons of history. i would like to make one other point, if i could.

>> please. >> the president keeps setting up this intellectual dishonest straw man, that there are those who either want to do nothing or those who want to send in the military. he uses that argument over syria, he uses that argument over iraq, afghanistan. i mean, that's intellectually dishonest. because none of us who worry about americans' national security, and have lived through these crises for many, many years want to send americans into harm's way. but we do want to have a strong and steadfast america, and a president who when he draws a red line and chooses to, and then violates that red line, that then hurts the united states of america. it's not that we're weak. we're not. it's a matter of our reliability. and around the world they believe we're unreliable. >> now, one of the other big foreign policy problems that he's had for the last year is edward snowden and the leaks. and as you know, brian williams

was in moscow interviewing snowden last week. i want to listen to a part of that and get you to respond on the other side. >> were you trained as a spy? it seems to me spies look a lot more like ed snowden and a lot less like james bond these days. >> it's no secret that the u.s. tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers nowadays than they do out of people. i was trained as a spy, in sort of the traditional sense of the word, in that i lived and worked undercover overseas, pretending to work in a job that i'm not, and even being assigned a name that was not mine. what i do is i put systems to work for the united states. and i've done that at all levels, from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top. i developed sources and methods for keeping our information and people secure in the most hostile and dangerous environments around the world. so when they say i'm a little systems administrator that i

don't know what i'm talking about, i would say it's somewhat misleading. >> was it a mistake for the president to dismiss him as a high school dropout or college dropout and a hacker? did they try to be too dismissive of him and not take him seriously enough? >> well, i think we take him serious, because of the information that he had access to. and that is a fault of the system that a person -- and i do believe what our people tell us, that he was a low-level individual. but when they have access to that kind of information, andrea, very briefly, after 9/11, they figured there was too much stovepiping, not enough sharing of information. we used to have a thing called need to know, where you only got classified information that you had a need to know. all of that disappeared, as i say, quote, lesson from 9/11, and it spread information throughout. and mr. snowden never should have had access to all the information he did. i still believe he was low level. but the system really broke

down. >> does it concern you that the nsa still does not know, really know -- they know what he had access to, they don't know actually what he downloaded. >> it's a great concern, and it springs from the fact that he never should have had the capability to hack into, or have access to -- he didn't hack -- have access to that information. and i hope to god we have changed the procedures as to who gets what information. and i get back to the old need to know. >> john mccain, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thank you, andrea. >> be sure to tune in tonight for brian williams' exclusive interview with edward snowden. the primetime special airs at 10:00 p.m. eastern. we'll have much more on that tomorrow, of course, right here on "andrea mitchell reports." and we'll be right back. 

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friends from every walk of life. one of them is marsha ann gillespie, author of the book "maya angelou: a glorious celebration." thank you very much for joining us. condolences. you were close to her family, the biographer. this took you inside the private life. tell me about your memories now of this extraordinary woman. >> you know, andrea, when i think about maya, the first thing that comes to mind is her laughter. maya loved to laugh. and she had a great generous laugh. when she found something funny, you knew it. because she kind of laughed with all of her being. the other thing that i just know about maya is that she was so extraordinarily generous. generous with her time, with her friendship, with her love.

i will never forget. you know, i was a young editor in chief of essence magazine, and one day my secretary came in, and her face was over the moon to tell me an jthat maya angelou was on the phone. she called to invite me to lunch. i can't begin to tell you how thrilled, delighted and terrified i was. this great woman wanted to have lunch with me. she reached out her hand in friendship to me during the course of that lunch. and i was still so shy of her, that part of me didn't really think that she meant it. and she gave me her numbers, and i didn't call. and several weeks went by and

she called me, and she said, you know, perhaps i was mistaken. i really thought that we had made a connection. and i was so looking forward, you know, to developing a real friendship with you. but maybe i was mistaken. and i managed to, you know, say, oh, my god, please forgive me. you know, i just couldn't believe that you really wanted to be my friend. and i remember she laughed and said, don't be ridiculous. that was so maya. >> what a remarkable recollection. i just want to share with you also that we've just received from the white house the president and michelle obama's statement, like so many others, they say in part, they write, michelle and i will always cherish the time we were privileged to spend with maya, with a kind word and a strong embrace, she had the ability to remind us that we are all god's children, that we all have something to offer. and while maya's day may be done, we take comfort knowing

that her song may continue flung up to heaven. we celebrate the dawn that maya angelou helped bring. a tribute also just received from president clinton saying that, with maya angelou's passing, hillary and i, the poems she read to us in her commanding voice with wisdom, wit, courage and grace. of course, it was for the first clinton inaugural that maya angelou composed a poem. only aside from robert frost, the second american poet to be so honored. >> that's right. i remember, i was at "ms" magazine at the time and i got a call from maya saying, darling, do you have a moment? i'd like to read you something. i've been working on this poem for the inauguration. and she proceeded to read me "impossible morning." when she got finished, i was

literally -- i was speechless, quite frankly. i mean, i know how enormous her talent is, of course. but i -- you know, that poem in particular, just blew me away. and i remember saying to her, you know, where does it come from? where does it come from? and she said, from god. she knew what her gift was a gift. and she used it in that spirit. always to bring light. never about heat. light was always what she brought to us. >> marcia ann gillespie, to you and to the family, and all the friends, and they are a legion -- >> legions. >> our thoughts are with you, and her today. thank you so much. we'll have much more on maya angelou's life and legacy.

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eugene, when thinking of maya angelou, i think of the civil rights here and worldwide. as a young woman, she was married to an egyptian. in cairo, she met a young nelson mandela, who became a lifetime friend. quite a life. >> what an incredible life. she was an activist in new york in the '60s and met all the great figures in the civil rights movement and the black power movement there. then as you said, she met mandela in cairo. she lived in ghana for a time. you know, she was a really, really important cultural figure. and when you think of -- i know,

i know her book appeared in the 1970s, that was a stunning revelation, really. the description of a kind of experience that can we hadn't seen in that sort of poetic language before. it was forceful. it was an elogy. it was triumphant ultimately. it was just stunning. and she will really be missed. >> well, it also makes you wonder how someone who spent her early childhood, an abused child, who was silent for six years. what we remember is her words and voice. and her singing voice. and the tribute of her singing "he's got the whole world in his hands". >> and she was a performer. she was a singer and dancer. >> actress in "roots." >> exactly. she was in the "roots" television mini series.

what a varied life. what a long life, i think, fortunately for all of us, because she shared so much of it. >> and a joyous life, despite the pain of her origin. thank you so much, eugene. >> thank you. that does it for this edition of andr"andrea mitchell report reports". your thoughts about maya ange u angelou, and your thoughts about edward snowden. we'll have more to say on all subjects tomorrow. we leave you with the words of maya angelou, in her own words. >> my life has been long, and believing that life loves to deliver it, i have dared to try many things. but daring still, there have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who meant me ill, and have given me ample notification that my world is not to be all peaches and cream forever.

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