the same thing with condoleezza rice.ad an interesting story andt learning a piano piece the small amount the event actually netted. there are all these stories that every celebrity who is very passionate about the cause has when they have gone through the rigors of fundraising, what it might actually net, so the whole idea is what if we could make it fun? that is the point. tavis: i guess that speaks to why there are so many celebrities who have already jumped at this opportunity. i was just looking at this list. i am pleased to be one of the ambassadors. i get why celebrities are jumping at this opportunity to do some good, because it is fun. it is innovative. there is an ees that -- an ease that makes it doable. give us an idea of the range of celebrities who signed up for this. >> we have over 60 celebrities. we will probably announce another 10 tomorrow. it is everyone from bradley cooper to morgan freeman to president clinton to chefs, two nascar drivers, two usc fighters. the whole idea is everyone is a fan of some

how would you see it if republicans were smart enough to run a candidate like condoleezza rice, with a brown to many support her? why has the affordable care act created such a rift in america? it is not created a rift among corporate america, but it is among americans themselves. it is a topic you don't want to ever bring up. >> on the condoleezza rice thing, my first thought is to not give them any ideas. there was talk about her running for senator or governor in california. not the ideological figure, she is a woman, she would be an appealing candidate. not have the concert of -- the conservative orthodoxy. she couldn't get the support to move that forward. colin powell was thinking about running for president and 96, he would've been formidable as well. -- a contentious history within the country. we don't like to talk about it but we come together through taking land away from's -- from native americans, enslaving africans. the way the country has been built with all that history is still very challenging. people like condoleezza rice or colin powell or more sensitive to that h

coming from this guy who quit his post at boston college because of condoleezza rice, i thought here's down the pike. but then i read the piece and he makes an interesting point his main point is that football players have suffered catastrophic brain injury because of playing football in the nfl. it is no question about that, he's absolutely right. then he says, the only reason they're playing is because millions and millions of americans watch the game and he for one no longer wants to be complicit, his words. he thinks it's immoral so he won't watch. this is not, bill, this is not a crazy position for him. but if you follow his logic, that means you can't watch college football either because they also suffer brain damage i have done stories on this on hbo's real sports. you can't watch high school football, they also suffer brain damages. you can't watch boxing or mixed martial arts. you can't watch nascar, the biggest star in that sport which is killed in their super bowl t daytona 500, dale earnhardt. i would make the case that you can't even watch college basketball, not because

it is like a topic you do not want to ever bring up. >> on the condoleezza rice thing -- my first flip thought is don't give them any ideas. [laughter] there was talk about her running for senator or governor of california which i would be concerned about. she is a woman, she is african- american, she would be an appealing candidate. but she did not fit the conservative orthodoxy. for the california republican party. similarly when colin powell was thinking about running for president, he would've been ormidable as well. we do have a contentious history within this country. we don't often like to talk about it. we come together through taking the southwest from the mexicans, enslaving africans -- the way the country has been built with all of that history is still very challenging. it is still at the core of a lot of the politics of the country. people like condoleezza or colin powell are more sensitive to that history and what to speak to that -- those inequities in society. there is another very vociferous far right political grouping hich wants to preserve the status quo as unequal

>> i do not know what the difference would be between her and condoleezza rice except when condoleezza rice was there, we -- onealing with wars step removed from iraq and afghanistan. she didf the reasons not show any major accomplishments was because foreign policy was very much held tight by the white house. hillary wanted richard holbrook .fter deputy secretary of state the obama administration did not agree because it would have put too much power in the state department. hillary did not have a major brief. what she did mainly was to make friends and try to undo the damage that had been done by the bush administration in alienating allies and exacerbating enemies. theresident obama took over economy, all of the focus of that presidency was on the economy. the press was paying attention was what was -- with what was going on domestically. >> philadelphia. >> will she win the presidency? yes or no? >> david answered that earlier. hoping the packers would win the super bowl. i am not -- i am interested in the results, but i know no more than you or anyone else. -- does hillary have an

first book, american heroine, i was able to talk about women in an interview madeleine albright, condoleezza rice, and sandra day o'connor, who were breaking barriers in states and politics. after my first two books of my wonderful publisher, harpercollins, they said well, would you like to write another book. and then i came in to the great state that i represent. texas. the role of women in history generally has been less on the market then our great nation than the state of texas. so i thought i would do something on 19th century texas women. it was for a couple of reason. number one, i love my state. number two, there is something special about texas. and i believe that the spirit of texas was created in the 19th century. there has been a lot of talk about it, as i came into the national scene in the senate. i would see people roll their eyes and we would talk about how great texas was or how big we were or how important we work, so i got used to that as well. and so i thought, you know, there is something different about us. some people like it, some people really do not. but there is a spar

. >> host: what about condoleezza rice? >> guest: early system is very different.he had personal as well as professional. check it out diversely on sunday nights. they would go to camp david for social occasions on the weekend. she would work out what the with the president, talk sports with the president. so when she elevated to secretary of state, she not only have that personal relationship to build on but a professional policy mandate from the president to begin pushing administration in a different direction. she said in the first term we had broken a lot of china, dishware, and she thought they had to because of 9/11. but now it's time to rebuild relationships and to make a different change in a second term. and she end up fighting with dick cheney about this. and she said the vice president would like to continue breaking china. >> host: the book is "days of fire: bush and cheney in the whitehouse." peter baker. the next call come you can dial in at (#20)258-5390. for those of you in the eastern and central time zones. has dick cheney changed his mind on any

hillary clinton, john edwards and john kerry were the democratic front-runners for 2008, condoleezza rice, rudy giuliani and john mccain were the republican frontrunners. and 2016 presidential election is a long ways off but midterms are just 293 days away. the split between g.o.p. and tea party is growing. in my new book "upheaval: winning back the country with knowledge that empowers, ideas that matter and solutions that work," i urge them and to certainly assert a bigger tent. to be far more inclusive. for more now on why the republican party and at least leadership is warring on tea party, i'm joinin joined. thank you. greg, let me begin with you it is clear. head of the chamber of commerce has declared putting at least 50 million toward saving off tea party challenges. in pro marries and -- primaries he did all but say he would burn their barnes to the ground at the same time. what is the world is he thinking? why isn't there a response? a repudiation from the republican party for his words? >> well, i think head of chamber of commerce feels it is his prerogative to, they will throw

thingthe condoleezza rice -- my first flip thought is don't give them any ideas. [laughter] there was talk about her running for senator or governor of california which i would be concerned about. is a woman, she is african- american, she would be an appealing candidate. but she did not fit the conservative orthodoxy. for the california republican party. similarly when colin powell was thinking about running for president, he would've been formidable as well. have a contentious history within this country. we don't often like to talk about it. taking together through the southwest from the mexicans, enslaving africans -- the way the country has been built with all of that history is still very challenging. it is still at the core of a lot of the politics of the country. people like condoleezza or colin powell are more sensitive to that history and what to speak to that -- those inequities in society. there is another very vociferous far right political grouping which wants to preserve the status quo as unequal as it is because they have benefit within it. that is

condoleezza rice, rudy giuliani and john mccain were the republican front runners. 2016 presidential election is a long ways off but the mid terms are just 293 days away. the split between the gop and the tea party is growing. in my new book "upheaval" i urge the republican party to be more inclusive to embrace those with responsible for limited government and economy that creates prosperity for all americans and certainly, to assert paying bigger intent to be far more inclusive. for more now on why the republican party and, at least, its leadership is warring on the tea party, i'm joined by national review columnists. chief political strategy for the potomac research group. thanks for being here. greg, i'll begin with you. it is clear, the head of the chamber of commerce has declared and putting at least $50 million towards staving off tea party challenges in primaries and he did all but say he would burn their barns to the ground at the same time. what the in the world is he thinking and why isn't there a response? a repudiation from the republican party for his w

one of the arguments for dni and something that was one of the reasons he and condoleezza rice was they were colored by their experience in iraq, where they believed the cia information from a cia intelligence was considered too heavily, was weighted too heavily against other dissenting views across the intelligence community, of course namely the department intelligence office. so i think they saw that the dni and others had seen the benefit as well. the dni is able to marshal of the intelligence, all the information across the community and not just look at cia. cia plays the most prominent role and i have among the most brilliant analysts that we have in the country and certainly the government. but i think that is one benefit that the dni is able to bring together all the points of view so we might have a completely balanced assessment unimportant questions. >> ray. some of the national intelligence estimate is written, the dni is now coordinating that? >> yes. the national intelligence council is the agency that rights national intelligence estimates. previously it had reported to

jim plunket, wife, and condoleezza rice.gordon out of san jose, coming home to jam it. comes down to the final moments. 1:20 left. stanford looks like they might pull this thing off. dwight powell with the reverse. but the wildcats settle, regroup, and the big shot from nick johnson. a three, with 45 seconds left, and they maintain their perfection. they are now 21-0. number 1 in the land. >>> at th entertainment needle, in berkely, the other team from arizona taking the bears into overanytime. cal overcame a 16 point deficit. however, asu's germane marshall. three. and he silences the crowd with 19 seconds left to tie it. justin cob for the win in the final seconds. it will not go. to overtime they go. and cal, to put it nicely, blown off the floor in ot. there's your final. 89-78. you never would know it went to overtime. upset ideas for the santa clara broncos as well. gonzaga, always a big dog in the wcc. packed house, santa clara, broncos, 18-2 run. brandon clark getting it to fall, and they lead it, 52-51 over the zags

jim plunket, wife, and condoleezza rice. with gordon out of san jose, coming home to jam it. comes down to the final moments. 1:20 left. stanford looks like they might pull this thing off. dwight powell with the reverse. but the wildcats settle, regroup, and the big shot from nick johnson. a three, with 45 seconds left, and they maintain their perfection. they are now 21-0. number 1 in the land. >>> at th entertainment needle, in berkely, the other team from arizona taking the bears into overanytime. cal overcame a 16 point deficit. however, asu's germane marshall. three. and he silences the crowd with 19 seconds left to tie it. justin cob for the win in the final seconds. it will not go. to overtime they go. and cal, to put it nicely, blown off the floor in ot. there's your final. 89-78. you never would know it went to overtime. upset ideas for the santa clara broncos as well. gonzaga, always a big dog in the wcc. packed house, santa clara, broncos, 18-2 run. brandon clark getting it to fall, and they lead it, 52-51 over th

not single that out as the most tragic date she had there, just as i'm sure president bush and condoleezza ricebroken over the 13 times embassies and consulates were attacked while they were president. you know, america puts these people into harm's way, have to do a better job of protecting them. i would point out that my republican friends who run the congress have been funding embassy security at a lower level than the president and hillary has been asking them to fund that security. in the case of benghazi it turns out i don't think it would have made a difference candidly, but fundamentally we have to protect the people we put in harm's way. >> you heard her there. do you think she was distancing herself from the president? is it the right political move? if so? >> i definitely think she was distancing herself from the president. it makes sense. she had a distinct political profile. had different views running against him the first time around and given that president obama is very unpopular, it makes sense for her to frame herself as being different, as being a change agent once again, so

bush, or i should say condoleezza rice, secretary of state, wanted to make north korea into his defining legacy. and so remove north korea from the state sponsors of terrorism list, despite the fact that if we look at nonpartisan sources like the congressional research service, the north koreans were indeed at the time with a tiger and with hezbollah, and yet for the sake of winning the second term, the second term breakthrough, we tended to wave off some of our better judgment. north korea is better for that today. it certainly hasn't helped american national security. and, unfortunately, i'm quite nervous, not about the idea of negotiating with iran, bu with e speed with which we are negotiating with iran right now before making sure that all the ducks are in a row. it concerns me a great deal that we may look at certain statements by the supreme leader, for example, a call for a rogue flexibility, to be an endorsement of rouhani's diplomacy. but at the same -- the next day, or later that week i should say, the friday prayer leaders appointed by the supreme leader explained that a rogu

they -- than which they .ave in the past host: michael singh was an assistant to: powell and condoleezza rice and for the national security council, former professor at harvard and now managing director of the washington institute for near east policy. marcel is joining us from virginia. caller: i have a few comments to make. first is a question. me if you read "new yorkkerry's that the-ed article iranian's program can only be seen as one heading towards a nuclear program because of the way it is established. he points out that no country would want to have the kind of program they have if they really wanted to use nuclear facilities because in purposes one year iran can produce as much uranium that is refined as is produced in europe for sale in five hours. iran's interest superiorityse its or its view that it has superiority in that part of the middle east through the use of this particular kind of program. marcel is referring to an op ed written by william perry and a nuclear expert based in california. it is a point widely accepted amongst iran and nuclear nuclear that iran's program is c

condoleezza rice, george w.inly, were absolutely traumatized, and they couldn't admit this publicly, but the fact that 9/11 happened on their watch. whoever them wanted to import responsibility for, for that attack, the cia, our intelligences agencies not talking to each other, the fact is, it happened on their watch. and they were not going to let anything like that ever happen again. and they didn't care. they would go to any lengths to ensure that didn't happen. their feeling really was, it didn't matter about privacy. all that married was securitter. they really did believe nothing else mattered except for that. this balancing act we see the administration trying to do, there was no balance problem. >> that notion of ideology, and i don't want to miss that, what we think of as the foreign enemy and domestic enemy, simultaneously being driven by that ideological viewpoint. khalil, we were reminded, just recently, the florida state legislature had passed a law to drug test welfare recipients. it was struck dow

not single that out as the most tragic date she had there, just as i'm sure president bush and condoleezza riceeartbroken over the 13 times embassies and consulates were attacked while they were president. you know, america puts these people into harm's way, have to do a better job of protecting them. i would point out that my republican friends who run the congress have been funding embassy security at a lower level than the president and hillary has been asking them to fund that security. in the case of benghazi it turns out i don't think it would have made a difference candidly, but fundamentally we have to protect the people we put in harm's way. >> you heard her there. do you think she was distancing herself from the president? is it the right political move? if so? >> i definitely think she was distancing herself from the president. it makes sense. she had a distinct political profile. had different views running against him the first time around and given that president obama is very unpopular, it makes sense for her to frame herself as being different, as being a change agent once again

i'm pleased to be joined by elise jordan, former staffer and state department speechwriter for condoleezza riceilliams, old expert and you are here to tell us how this is playing in a town that loves drama. in case you're wondering why you're here, jimmy. >> is that why i'm here? >> that's why you're here. >> this is interesting stuff. do you have a question or just want me to talk? >> no. just messing with you. going to elise because she's closer to foreign policy. >> got it. >> your thoughts on what ambassador ginsburg said on this program. >> i disagree with his premise but i haven't read the book. my take-away is gates was complaining about the centralization of policy at the white house. john britton, you know, having the kill list, going to the president, having so much power concentrate with tom donilon and ben rhodes and other nsc players who aren't accountable. >> donilon -- >> they have to testify in front of -- >> who was at the national security council before he became chief of staff. >> exactly. >> you're saying having worked in the state department that a lot of folks feel there

being said, just being connected to stanford doesn't necessarily make you a good person, insert condoleezza ricei do want to say that one of the things that richard has done is he's proving a quote by james baldwin who once said america is a country devoted to the deaf of the paradox. people can't stand that he's more than one thing. >> if there is a compton community college, i do not know. >> it's a very good college. >> i didn't mean it in that way. you know what i meant. and i've been to compton plenty of times and not for work. thank you very much. greatly appreciate it. thank you guys. >>> a raging fire that burned straight through a senior complex in quebec tops our look at stories around the "news nation" today. at least three people were killed and 30 are still missing. fire crews battle the blaze through the night as they fought high winds that made rescue attempts difficult. authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire. police say a hallucinating passenger caused a greyhound bus to crash early this morning. authorities say the passenger attacked the driver on the bus, whi

they -- than which they .ave in the past host: michael singh was an assistant to: powell and condoleezza riceor the national security council, former professor at harvard and now managing director of the washington institute for near east policy. marcel is joining us from virginia. caller: i have a few comments to make. first is a question. me if you read "new yorkkerry's that the-ed article iranian's program can only be seen as one heading towards a nuclear program because of the way it is established. he points out that no country would want to have the kind of program they have if they really wanted to use nuclear facilities because in purposes one year iran can produce as much uranium that is refined as is produced in europe for sale in five hours. iran's interest superiorityse its or its view that it has superiority in that part of the middle east through the use of this particular kind of program. marcel is referring to an op ed written by william perry and a nuclear expert based in california. it is a point widely accepted amongst iran and nuclear nuclear that iran's program is clearly

democratic leaning, how would you see it if the republicans were smart enough to run a candidate like condoleezza rice? would the brown community support, support her, do you think? that's one question. and my other question to you is why has the affordable care act created such a riff in america? i mean, it's not just created a rift among corporate america, but it's also created a rift among americans themselves. it's like a topic you just don't ever want to bring up. [laughter] >> on the condi rice thing, well, my first thought is don't give them any ideas, right? [laughter] so, and interestingly, there was talk about her running for senate or governor in california, which i was, frankly, concerned about precisely because of these reasons. she's not the ideological figure, she's a woman, she's african-american, you know, you would be an appealing candidate. but she did not fit the conservative orthodoxy, the california republican party. so she couldn't get the support to actually move that forward. then similarly, when colin powell was thinking about running for president this '96, he would have bee

you do not hear from president bush or condoleezza rice. everybody is all right -- always bashing.ey created this mess and they should help to fix it with obama. that includes all of congress. they created this mess by going in there with a live. -- a lie. host: virginia has a new governor today. he will be sworn in at richmond at noon. that is terry mcauliffe. the festivities will take place rain or shine, according to the richmond times. you can watch that live on c-span at noon today. tommy, new york, new york. republican line. caller: hi. how are you? i'm calling to talk about this financial equality. as far as i can see, no matter what race, color, religion, you can do whatever you want to do. , the of people nowadays democrats and liberals just want to get handouts. dollars's is only seven per hour. i did not know those people's ambition to work there for the rest of their lives. that's like a summer job for kids in high school or people going to school and college and getting extra money to get by. they should go further in life. are getting more support. this is a washingto

a 13 member committee will choose the four teams, the committee including condoleezza rice. >> the bullsrade luol deng for bynum, exspecksed to that one of the biggest centers in the game has produced drama for every nba team he played for. >> an iowa high cool science teacher deciding to do a fast food experiment, eating mcdonald's for three months loft weight doing so, 37 pounds. he had his students choose his meals based on nutritional value. he ate less than 2,000-calories a day and started walking. he wanted to prove if you count your calories, you can lose weight. the system said he was expired by super size me. >> major pollution problem, what's fueling record levels of smog in one part of china. >> the visibility there, wait until you see the visibility around the great lakes. we have winter storm warnings up and even blizzard warnings for the snow coming down. >> you're looking live right now at the roads in indianapolis, indiana, where the temperature right now is 13 degrees below zero, and it is anything but 500, more like the indianapolis five-mile an hour drive. welcome back

i remember condoleezza rice, she was the national security adviser to the president.australia. she canceled that. she was supposed to go to israel to represent america. he had moderated his views. whether or not it was enough to make a deal with the palestinians, historians will discuss that and debate that for a long time. you know, from the war in lebanon in the '80s and the tough period, i saw a significant, significant moderation in his own views toward the palestinians. it was encouraging at the time, but clearly, you know, it really didn't develop into much and he obviously had that stroke and went into a coma. >> we know he was called the bulldozer. do you know how he got that name? >> reporter: he was a tough guy. going back to every war from israel to the war of independence in 1948 and the sinai and then the war in 1967 and yom kippur. he was a tough, fierce israeli general. he did what he thought he had to do to protect israel national security and he developed that reputation as one of those tough israeli commandos. some called him the bulldozer, if you wi