it was and remains the top of everybody's list of critical concerns, especially during the reagan administrationgorda jeff -- gorbachev fairly nuts with his constant refrain, trust but verify. it was a slogan that was crisp and running in russian and day marty sentiment. -- and grind in russian and a mighty sentiment. i wondered what we would do without verification of these claims. not much, as i suspected. during our time in office, we found there radar unambiguously violation of trading. as it sat on the soviet missile field facing outward, clear violation of three terms. -- treaty terms. this was a rare, but important miss that for several years running our own intelligence totally missed. even though the radar was on, and it was several football fields long and on the verge of a soviet missile field, regardless, when all was said and done, a lot more would be said about verification than ever done because of it. my suspicions were confirmed during a white house luncheon in september 1987, with at the soviet foreign minister, and torture are not see. with the sovietron notti foreign minister

so let's bring in columnist and former reagan administration official dr paul craig roberts back into the conversation paul we got reports earlier this week that the u.s. is involved in training fighters on the border of syria is it possible that they are plotting are helping to plot a civil war in the country and i've seen those reports too. i would think that the united states is involved and stirring up the opposition and in arming it it's a way to justify intervention on humanitarian terms they use the cover of the arab spray in the arab protests as they did in libya so. these are not. spontaneous protest and certainly in an authoritarian state i like their syria you wouldn't find people in opposition able to regularly supply them selves with arms with military weapons and this is not any longer just protests it is an armed. rebellion and it makes no sense it makes no sense for the syrians to themselves are up opportunity for the country to be destroyed like it's like libya or iraq or or afghanistan and i suspect that's what's coming to them you know many years ago the neoconserva

and that was former reagan administration official and columnist paul craig roberts and switching gears the euro zone is continuing to try to claw its way out of economic collapse and italy finds itself in the middle of a severe crisis with a country that nearing the two trillion girl mark it is italian for themselves to tighten their belts and save the government has other plans one that critics consider economic suicide r.t. for a four thousand. this is the end that you find me playing to combine down like these little itty bitty push it still in the development stage final assembly line is supposed to be based in italy. everything's cool entry plan the town of the bar is a kilometer from the military base where the final stage of the f. thirty five project is supposed to take place but people here have taken to the streets to place what they say is a waste of an italian taxpayers money it is a very expensive project and now that we are in crisis you know that. is cutting pensions. school education. public health and so on the joint strike fighter program that is its name is a defense

that was dr paul craig roberts former reagan administration official economist and columnist well that does it for now but my interview with dr roberts didn't end there he also gave me his thoughts on the downed drone anywhere on the possible consequences of this military to see the full interview or more of the stories we covered on r.t. dot com slash usa you can have there or check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america you can also follow me on twitter as well be right back here and a half an hour with more news an in-depth interviews. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you. are. wealthy british.

and that was dr paul craig roberts former reagan administration official economist and columnist well that does it for now but my interview with dr robert didn't end there he also gave me his thoughts on be down drone any ron and the possible consequences of this military fall pa to see the full interview or for more on the stories we covered go to r.t. dot com slash usa and check out our youtube page it youtube dot com slash r t america you can also follow me on twitter at liz wall the big picture with thom hartmann is coming up in just a half hour tonight tom will give his take on why every single american has the right to cry foul on the banks but that's going to do it for the news tonight i'll see you right back here tomorrow have a great night. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought. was a big. news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada.

i did not work in the reagan administration. i have never worked for an intelligence agency. moreover, i come from stanford. i have been at stanford long enough to remember when this library might have been at stanford and not in simi valley. it is with a sense of deep regret that i have to make that point. [laughter] i plan to talk about a specific issue that arises in the documents, in the collection we have been given. this has to do with an incident sometimes known as the war scare in moscow in november 1983. to do with the impact the report of this scare on president reagan's attitude toward the soviet union and the kind of policy that he wanted to pursue towards moscow. there are really two questions. war , whawas there really a scare in moscow in the sense that the soviet leaders believed nuclear attacks from the united states and nato was possible in the short term? the second question is, what impact did reporting on this have on the reagan administration and in particular the president's approach to the soviet union? the first question, was there a scare is highly c

reagan. by this point the controllers were so disaffected with the carter administration's faa that they didn't consider really endorsing carter's reelection. they thought it would be more of the same. they begin negotiating with reagan's campaign, and ultimately arrived at an agreement. they would endorse reagan, and then returned reagan would promise to help them if he was elected president. the book goes deeply into this, and i'll be happy to answer more questions about it if you have them, but out of simply say that that bargain created expectations on each side that were unrealistic and couldn't be fulfilled, and each side misread the other. the reagan people believed that they were bringing in to the republican fold the reagan democrats. most patco members were democrats though they endorsed reagan. but they were socially conservative very often, and they were sympathetic to much of what reagan stood for in a strong foreign policy, et cetera. republicans thought they were bringing in part of the labor movement behind the reagan coalition. once elected they wanted to work with patco, to of

justice department that carter really crusaded it resolved itself during the early years of the reagan administration. is it possible that we could see a return to that pre reagan suspension of the sherman act and actually start seeing things break up. we can if we have the public will we can absolutely be getting in touch with our congress people we can absolutely be lobbying for this from a citizens' point of view from a community up point of view we if we as communities across the country demands that our government republicans and democrats alike hold that media companies accountable to the public interest and break up antitrust violations violating media corporations and really we really push for this we can but it won't happen is if it's you know just the weather it won't it won't just fly through we really need to make it happen in groups like the center for media justice like my our own organization women in media and news like the media action grassroots network a national network of organizations all across the country have many different options and resources and tool kits available for pe

exaggerating to went outside support from powers like the us dr paul craig roberts a former reagan administration official told r.t. he believes washington is not just backing the rebels diplomatically but the united states is involved in stirring up there are position and an arm and yet they use the cover of the arab spring arab protests as they do in libya so. these are not. spontaneous protest and certainly authoritarian state like they are syria you wouldn't find people in opposition they want to really themselves with arms with military weapons that makes no sense for the syrians to themselves stir up opportunity for the country to be destroyed or right it's like libya or iraq or or afghanistan tourists who got saved in libya what's involved here is the russians have a naval base in syria and the americans don't want a russian naval presence in the mediterranean. and just as in living your the problem was the chinese all in syria goes around and is in the torrent sites and lebanon. so there will be knocking all these countries one by one while they stand there and don't unite in fact it can'

allowed to know what they are so why is congress so gung ho about torturing tactics former reagan administration official and columnist raghav roberts joins us now welcome paul why are we seeing this a renewed push for harsh interrogation practices of world if you're talking about to detain a policy that's in the defense authorization bill which allows the u.s. military. to pick up people and every kind of tree in the world which includes china russia and the united states and hold them indefinitely then we're talking about something that's far greater than a torture possibly talking about the peel the united states constitution and what we see from the vote. against it meant. rand paul the republican senator from kentucky to exempt american citizens from this amendment to the defense authorization bill that would allow the military to simply pick up any american citizen anywhere all earth and hold them indefinitely without charges. what we see is that. rand paul's him again for voted down the u.s. senate so we have the u.s. senate consisting of all except two republicans plus fifteen democrats

my feeling is that in college, especially during the reagan administration, i thought that the democratic party in the united states had essentially vacated the left. and fused i think a little too much with the political right. there had n. my opinion, been insufficient advocacy for people who were left of center. and so that reality, coupled with the fact of the growing environmental crisis and denial that this country was going through and in seeing the inspirational movement of the green party's blossoming in europe, especially germany, i went to germany in the late 1980's. i spent time with the green party of germany in the parliament over there, learned everything i possibly could. came back to california. i was 1 of 20 people who co-founded the green party here in california. i have been a member of the green party, co-founder, for about 20 years and then less than two years ago i decided it was time for me to shift directions and i became a democrat. >> looking back a few years to your campaign for supervisor, what lessons did you learn from that experience? was there anything tha

to wait outside support from palace like the united states dr paul craig roberts a former reagan administration official told us here at r.t. that he believes washington is not just backing the rebels in a diplomatic. but the united states is involved in stirring up their opposition and in arming it they use the cover of the arab spring arab protests as they do and look so these are not spontaneous protest and certainly authoritarian state like through syria you wouldn't find people in opposition able to regularly supply themselves with arms military weapons it makes no sense for the syrians to themselves opportunity for the country to be destroyed like libya or iraq or afghanistan course who got saved in libya which involved here is the russians now the naming base in syria. and the americans and the russian naval presence in the middle ground just as in libya where the problem was the chinese all investments in syria and iran is in the target sites and and lebanon and so there will be knocking all of these countries one by one while they stand there and don't unite in fact it can't unite and

manipulates facts to win outside support from powers like the us dr paul craig roberts a former reagan administration official told r.t. that he believes washington isn't only backing the rebels diplomatically. the united states is involved in stirring up their own position or making it it's a way to justify intervention on humanitarian terms they use the cover of the arab spring arab protests as they do in libya. so. these are not. spontaneous protest and certainly you know authoritarian state you know like cigarette syria you wouldn't find people in opposition able to ridgely those with arms with military weapons and this is not any longer just protest it is an armed. rebellion and makes no sense it makes no sense for the syrians to the. opportunity for the country to be destroyed when it's like libya or iraq or afghanistan. you're watching r t it's good to have your company today and still to come for you at this hour in the program championing the rights of benefit tourists the e.u. targets of britons a tough hand out policies saying the u.k. is obliged to dole out billions to non-citizens someth

we are year basically a the end of the reagan administration he was promoted to deputy then became chairman of the trend chiefs of staff as a military officer and then later on he could have run for president in 1996 and maybe have one but he was -- he didn't refer to keep this time as the scope but even when he said i was the obvious for the next president even though george bush and you never got along, he wasn't an effective state because people knew the president. bush relied on her very much and when she replaced the secretary of state even by most measures she was less qualified by experience to turn out to be a stronger and more effective secretary of state because she had the presidential relationship which of course she had built in the procession of the national security adviser. >> how did james jones to for president obama and tom donnelly? the ann jones appointment is a puzzle. i'm sure if you could get inside the president's mind he would explain why he voted james jones and there's a whole the reason. a senior retired marine general which secretary by refusing to be considere

we're running out of time there on thank you so much for your thoughts on that was former reagan administration official and columnist paul krugman roberts well that is it for now for more on the stories we covered go to our t. dot com slash u.f.a. and check out our you to page it's you tube dot com slash arts in america so you back here at seven. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser reporting oh it's a financial war and coded messages are being transmitted in the financial pages let's get into this herbert yes max we're talking about financial war all the time here in kaiser report and it made me think back to world war two under nazi occupied france b.b.c. london broadcast coded messages to the french resistance here are some of them max . that was grandma ate our bon bons and now here's the blue horse walks on the horizon. it will be right this is fascinating so the coded message is a big broadcast in occupied france as a way to communicate to the resistance so it's like all the book itself like jibberish but there's some meaning if you understand the code and we see this now today go away wit

tariff in the united states from the time of the george washington administration to the ronald reagan administration was in the mid twenty's to the high twenty's it got as high as around thirty eight percent and been as low as around eighteen percent never below that throughout the entire period of time and from reagan to clinton it was well above ten percent and now it's two percent our average import tariff why don't we go back to protecting american industries that worked so well for two hundred years and by the way i was going to how they're going to china's got the upper hand the relationship tom i mean consider how one could add which china we are so what are you i'm not talking about specifically china i'm saying with the whole rest of the world why are we passing these crazy trade deals you have obama going you know let's have a trade deal with colombia let's have a trade deal with south korea let's have a trade deal with panama which by the way their their primary business is secret banking i mean do we really want that you know switzerland in the west in the western hemisphere i don't get

former member of the reagan administration and campaign of michele bachmann and mike mike huckabee, youd on this set a few days ago that this debate would not happen, nobody would sign up. did it feel like a book seller? >> a stunt and obviously gingrich and santorum said they would go but i don't think trump wanted to share the stage with newt gingerich. >> you don't think so? >> no. >> rick perry, what is he doing? >> he's trying to find his footage. his battlefield will be south carolina. he's not going to do much in new hampshire. he's got a lot of money and will try to have a waterloo or alamo and it will be south carolina. >> shepard: what exactly happened to mitt romney? >> what exactly happened to mitt romney? >> he's plummeted in the polls in key states and seems to be off-message and off kilter. >> conservatives have not had their candidate and they now have him. they bounced around to several people. newt will give them the red meat and what romney will find out, unlike when he beat out everybody in the race, especially mike huckabee, nobody hit him back. he's got a street fi

later, a symposium at the reagan presidential library on the reagan administration's use of intelligence fighting the cold war. in about 45 minutes, we'll talk in about 45 minutes, we'll talk with the ceo

and now from the new york newsroom, is the former assistant deputy defense secretary for the reagan administrationd a fox news national security analyst. casey, i have to tell you, a pickle for the u.s. because he wants to come here for treatment but a lot of anti-government protesters in yemen say, no, this is someone seeking asylum and safe harbor and they want him on trial for crimes against his people. >>guest: and, his country is boiling over. why do we care? yemen is a country that doesn't have any oil, it's a country that is quite poors but it is all location. you just talked about iran and how iran's nuclear program is speaking saudi arabia to think maybe they should get nuclear weapons. well, saudi's southern border is yemen which is now fraud by all the 30 tribes fighting each other and as you point out, the president is seeking medical treatment in the united states, probably a dodge to get out of the country so he does not end up like egypt's mubarak on trial for his life. >>trace: you talked about this and no one knows the middle east like you. do you watch as yemen boils over, as you

reagan playbook. as speaker o'brien said, the first wave of the clinton administration was raising taxes, raising spending, crippling the economy and when i came in, frankly, the dow jones had not moved, things have not gotten any better, and we went back to the reagan playbook -- lower taxes, less regulation, more american energy, and a crowd of people who go to work every day and create jobs. the result was in the four years i was speaker, there were 11 million new jobs created. the reason i like what laurie has done is she is bringing in people who actually created jobs. this is the opposite of the obama model. obama raises taxes, increases regulations, is anti-american energy and engages in class warfare against people who create jobs. then we wonder why the economy is a mess. by the way, the attack on american energy by the obama administration showed up this year in the highest average price of gasoline in american history. in 2011, americans pay more for gasoline than any time in american history. if you are an editorial writer for "the new york times" and you ride the subway getting to work you pr

let's get to political consultant ed rollings former member of the reagan administration. former republic presidential candidate michele bachmann that went well and governor huckabee as well a fine man. is he a fox news political analyst. newt gingrich, you are not surprised at all, are you? >> no, i'm not. he has no campaign ago go tis particular call role he thought he would have to have one. opponents got $25,000 in an ad like this one. he was in virginia signing books when he should have been in iowa. >> shepard: can we close the book on it? >> is he not going to win iowa. he could have won iowa but he is not going to win it. >> shepard: that's it now. >> no. the bottom line is he still has the opportunity to be the conservative alternative to romney. >> shepard: what about rick perry. >> he is on the move and has resources. he is starting to sail a little bit. it's really those three that can play here plus paul. paul could win iowa very easily. >> shepard: ron paul as a third party candidate. >> that will guarantee obama getting reelected. >> shepard: is that to say

remember poppy bush pardoning reagan administration officials that were going to go to the pokey forran contra? tonight a new presidential pardon scandal that ranks right up there. that's next. if you have high blood pressure, like me, and get a cold... ...you need a cold medicine with a heart. only coricidin hbp has a heart, right here. it's the only cold and flu brand that won't raise your blood pressure. coricidin hbp. powerful cold medicine with a heart. >>> article 2 section 2 of the constitution the president is given the power to pardon people. for a country that took great pains to be really unkinglike, the pardon power is an absolute power giving to the president alone. it's used thousands of times by presidents and most of the times it's not a big deal. some are scandalous. like the iran contra pardons. casper weinberger, about to gone on trial for allegedly illegally selling arms to iranians and using the money for groups in nicaragua which was illegal to fund. sometimes pardons are scandalous and sometimes a nice mix of pitiful and disgusting, like when on his last day in

bush, and during the reagan administration he served as undersecretary and assistant secretary for the u.s. department of commerce, where he was responsible for his trade development, export promotion and international travel and tourism, and he was appointed by florida governors jeb bush to serve on boards. sue and chuck serve on the board of directors on the council of ambassadors, chuck is a double graduate of stanford. he is a long-time member and past chairman of the board of the university of miami's board of trustees, welcome miami's diplomatic dynamic due, you're ambassadors cobb. [applause] >> thank you, president shalala. dr. rice, ambassador cobb, guests, we're pleased to have all of you here. this whole thing is sort of unfolded around the interest of my husband in leadership. so, when we have been able to have outstanding leaders come through this area, we arranged to have the university of miami students and our guests participate, and that's been an extraordinary pleasure. this year, we have hit the jackpot. with condoleezza rice. we do have a relationship that goes back

administration archival record. today's forum includes three disks think if participants. she served president reagan as our 19th secretary of labor. before that she had been a secretary of interior and assistant secretary of the treasury. she served as director of the office of public administration at environmental protection agency. since leaving government services in 1989, she has been president of the federal city council here in washington, chairman of the aspen institute, and chairman of the rand corp. board of trustees. among the several boards in which she now serves as the reagan presidential foundation -- ronald reagan presidential foundation. is my pleasure to welcome her. [applause] >> thank you, david. good morning all. we are going to be talking this morning about the nixon administration's labor and employment policies, a topic that might at first sound rather esoteric or even as the republican president, it could be a short topic. i think you will find especially through the eyes of today's analysts who were there at the time and to actually president of the creation so to speak, it

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bush, and during the reagan administration he served as undersecretary and assistant secretary at the u.s. department of commerce where he was responsible for trade, development, export promotion and international travel and tourism. and he was appointed by florida's governors, jeb bush and charlie crist, to serve on statewide boards. both sue and chuck serve on the board of directors of the consul of american ambassadors. while we can't claim chuck, he's a longtime member and past chairman of the board of the university of miami's board of trustees. please, welcome miami's diplomatic dynamic duo, the ambassadors cobb. [applause] >> thank you, president shalala. dr. rice, ambassador cobb -- [laughter] guests, we're very pleased to have all of you here. this whole thing has sort of unfolded around the interest of my husband in leadership. so when we have been able to have outstanding leaders come through this area, we've arranged to have the university of miami students and our guests participate. and that's been, um, an extraordinary pleasure. this year we hit the jackpot. [laughter]

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beginning in 1980, as globalization and the reagan administration came together at once, you began to is that gdp still represented the entirety of the country, and if you and i were measuring our personal gdp, we would take all of our income and all of our expenses, we would add the two numbers together without any signs in front of them, so if we had $100 of income and $100 of expense, we'd have a $200 gdp, and that makes no sense. >> say that again, though. because people don't -- this is relatively new, certainly thing to talk about on television. and a lot of people want to learn this, but don't understand it. you're saying that my bills for $100 count as positive gdp, as sewer as my earning $100? because if it's just measuring flow of money, it doesn't matter where it's going. >> no pluses or minuses. now let's say you borrow $100, borrow $100 to buy a refrigerator. to buy a refrigerator. junior gdp just went up to $300. because it only adds your income and your spending. so -- >> so the question is, why is that so dangerous? at a time when we need investment to solve problems,