kennan warnecke: [speaking russian] brian: a hard language to learn? ms. kennan warnecke: yes. learned it about five times, and finally it stuck. i learned it when i went to soviet school. i spoke perfect russian by the end of the year. brian: what age? ms. kennan warnecke: 12. brian: when was the last time you were in russia? ms. kennan warnecke: two years ago. brian: the change between early years in russia and now. ms. kennan warnecke: humongous changes. brian: give us some examples. ms. kennan warnecke: one thing, now, a big differences they are modern. they were very old-fashioned. now you have fancy cars and modern apartment buildings, all of the things that the original moscow i went to did not have. people are much more traveled. more people speak english. and now, even though the tv and press is controlled, people will talk quite openly. people will talk to you about things they do not approve of, or things they like. it is never putin's fault. they are usually mad at the mayor of moscow, or the governor of some province. someone else takes the blame, not vladimir puti

kennan warnecke: it is. and the original george kennan for who he is named. they were born on the same day. they wanted to name it after my father. i assume it was named after both of them. they had the same name, so it is pretty easy. brian: where is it located? ms. kennan warnecke: the woodrow wilson international center for scholars in washington area i am on their advisory council, and have been for 14 years. --is run by brian: what does it do? ms. kennan warnecke: it provides a home for scholars from the and american union scholars who are trying to learn something about russia. we have been very lucky. we have title viii money that funds these scholarships. the kennan institute puts on seminars about u.s. russia relations, cultural and political relations. -- there are many different levels in which we relation -- which we relate to russians. brian: who are the ones who enjoy the title viii scholarships? ms. kennan warnecke: i do not want to miss speak -- misspeak. our russian and american scholars, but i need to double check. there a lot more activity

kennan warnecke: because my sent back the longest team

grace kennan warnecke. why did you write this? reason i ask you this is because it is very personal. grace: i hear that quite a bit. people are quite surprised by how personal it is. i wrote it because i'm a storyteller. as i tell stories, and i often did, people suggested i write them down. you have to do something with them. you had an amazing life, you have met unusual people. but i was working full-time. i couldn't write. and work full-time, it did not work. it was not reasonable for me, let's put it that way. when i came back from ukraine, where i had been living for 4.5 years, empowering ukrainian women, helping them to start small businesses, i decided it was time to empower me on a lot of levels. one of those levels was i was going to write a book. y.ent to the 92nd street i took a course called memoirs from the middle at the y. courses,s took those it was taught by a wonderful poet. five of us made a writing circle. we meet to this day. we have been meeting for 10 years. it took me eight years to write the book. i rewrote

brian: grace kennan warnecke, why did they call you years ago "miss x"? race: because my father sent back the longest telegram ever sent to the state department in 1947. this telegram became an article which he was not allowed to sign which first appeared in foreign affairs and it was called the "x article" because it was anonymous. they did not know who signed it. it was then reprinted in "life" magazine. but, because of the mystery about it, it was called "x" and i was called "miss x" by people who thought they were very smart. brian: what year would that have been? grace: i was in college so this was in the 1950's. brian: the telegram is 5500 words. what was it about? grace: i have seen the whole telegram laid out on tables. it is amazing. the telegram was about the fact that we had just finished the war. we were allies with the soviet union. my father felt that people were being taken in by the russians, hey were giving them too favorable a picture. stalin was being called uncle joe, and there was this element that we were buddies. he still knew it wa

so what did kennan have to say? very wise again 1998, agent for come with side up to protect a whole series of countries even those with neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. so coming back to the marshall plan to wrap up, i believe this historical lesson is this. we remember in the marshall plan today because it was visionary, because it stirred peoples imaginations. but it was also hardheaded and it succeeded because it was hardheaded. if we had defined success to include, for example, bringing czechoslovakia and paul if the marshall plan we would've failed. why? because we would've had to go to war with the soviet union. to do that the american public would never have supported it and there for what we talk today about today is the greatest success in american foreign policy would probably happen one of its greatest debacles. a great ask the statesmanship like the marshall plan, i would argue, are grounded in realism and not just idealism. this is probably a lesson we need to relear

sound like anto excursion, i keep on my rather messy desk a copy of george kennan's long telegraph to remind myself it is not impossible to take a generational approach to a problem. it is just rare. i think the world, not just the u.s., is going to have to adopt a generations long approach to untying this gordian knot of grievances, causes, and ideologies. some of what we have heard from our arab friends is promising, but it is way too early to draw any conclusions, in my humble opinion. i applaud what they seem to be trying to do, i welcome all of it. if past experience is any indicator, some of this will fail. will they keep going when it fails? i asked us that question. when we fail at something, will we keep going, or will we quit? it's too painful, too hard, to complicated, or it will take too long. if we are serious, if the world is serious, we will do what , wege kennan recommended will stay at this for as long as it takes. a have demonstrated willingness to kill and capture terrorists for 17 consecutive years. it will take even longer to untie the grievances, causes, the ideo

she currently hangs her hat as a fellow at the kennan institute, where she's researching russia immediate and soft power. so with that, the floor is yours. >> so everybody can hear me, i take it? what timing? i'm sorry? [ inaudible ] >> okay. so if you can keep phones down. here we go. what timing, as fred said. incredible. i think maybe what we ought to do is start with the breaking news and then go into the larger discussion, which is really the important thing long term. what can be done about all of this interference. but beginning with the news conference, which i hope most people saw, or at least sections of it. essentially for me what stuck out was president trump saying that he -- well, he did not side with u.s. intelligence. he basically accepted or let that denial by president putin stand, which is, no, we didn't have anything to do with it. so, just taking that point, could you give us a couple of minutes of your reaction to that, senator warner? >> i think president trump's actions today were outrageous. the president of the united states sided with vladimir putin over the una

and will pomeranz, deputy direction -- w director of kennan institute. stay tuned for the joint news conference. we will bring that to you from that room and the presidential palace that you are watching as soon as it begins. let's check in now on first word news. >> consumers are doing their part to boost the u.s. economy. retail sales rose in june for a fifth month in a row. they were up, matching economists estimates. upward.d was revised household purchases make up the biggest part of the economy. there is evidence saudi arabia is paying attention to president trump's calls for opec to increase production. bloomberg is learn the saudis are offering extra vine to some in asia. the president wants opec to come more crude before congressional elections in november so gasoline prices can come down. citigroup critics the trump administration will reach agreements on trade before this congressional elections in november. the bank lobbyists trade actions brutal and says they have puncture the trust built up over decades. the expected us to be completed in t

[applause] >> sunday night on q&a, the daughter of american diplomat george kennan discusses her memoirdaughter of the cold war." i met vladimir putin in st. petersburg in st. petersburg. they substituted the deputy mayor. i was notyed because meeting with the mayor. cagey b.had been

affairs analyst and "washington post" columnist max boot and matthew rojansky, the director of the kennantute at the woodrow wilson center. how do you explain the president criticizing nato on the eve of the summit in brussels, and less than a week before he meets with putin, because instability within nato is something i assume putin would welcome. >> it's inexplicable, anderson, if you're talking about any other u.s. president, but it's entirely par for the course for donald trump who since the 1980s has been against our allies claiming they are ripping us off. he does not appreciate the value of our alliances, and at the same time he has had nothing but kind words to say about vladimir putin. this kind of upside down world that he inhabits where our allies are our enemies and vice versa. that's how you have to understand what he is doing with this summit, but it's hugely destructive, and he does not understand the extent to which we actually benefit from our alliance system and the extent to which we will miss it once it's gone, which is a real possibility given the way he is trying to

. >> tonight on q&a, the daughter of american diplomat george kennan. this -- discusses her memoir. >> i met putin in 1991. he was deputy mayor, i was running my business consulting, i had a client who wanted to [indiscernible] and i had a meeting with the real mayor create he was called away so they substituted the deputy mayor. putin. and i was annoyed as i was meeting -- not meeting with the mayor. i knew putin had been kgb, i was negative and he came in and he was equally negative, he did not want to meet with some american woman who claimed to meet -- run a business, he was suspicious of women. he had no gallantry. , he hadas the coldest the coldest eyes i had ever seen. eyes and all, cold i could think of is i wonder what would happen if he was interrogating me. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. intelligence committee member marco rubio on what is called deep fake check. -- technology that can distort audio and video images. following his remarks a panel of experts talk about the role of platforms and privacy implications. this hour

i'm in good company, george kennan was last former ambassador to be on the list. i saw his daughter two days ago. she has a new book coming out herself.and she said, welcome to the club, mike. i was on the list for long time. keep the faith you might get on again later. i think we can all agree this is a confrontational moment in the u.s. and russia relations. for me, i want to add adjective, tragic confrontation. what i want to do is, i just want to explain this photo. this photo. -- what happened? [laughter] what happened? how did we go from that moment to this moment? by the way, i was at that meeting but it was in mexico of all strange places to have a summit.flew there from moscow and let me tell you, the meeting was much worse. much worse! all right, for the next 15 or 20 minutes i want to explain that. what happened? did i want to take your questions. when we get questions i want to be clear, i'm talking pretty analytically now but i want to make sure that we can talk about anything. we can talk about all of the other chapters in the book, some of the later

sunday night on "q&a," the daughter of american diplomat george kennan. >> i had a client who wanted something with the port of st. petersburg. -- hehad the real mayor was called away until they substituted the deputy mayor. putin. and i was annoyed, because i was not meeting with the mayor. kgb.w putin has been i was negative about it. he came in and was equally negative. he did not want to meet with american woman who claimed to be running a business. i think he was very suspicious of women. .e had no gallantry i havethe coldest eyes ever seen. very big, blue, cold eyes. i wondered what happened if you was interrogating me. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. florida democrat val demings joins us now. she says on the democratic task force for election security. have we learned the lessons of 2016 when it comes to election security? are we ready for 2018? , good morning. it is good to be back. protecting our elections is going to be an everyday process. the work we did on the task force was timely. we certainly identified some vulnerabilities

. >> sunday night on q&a, the daughter of american diplomat george kennan discusses her memoir "daughter of the cold war." >> i met putin in 1991 incident petersburg. he -- in st. petersburg. he was deputy mayor. i had a client who wanted something to do with the port of st. petersburg, and i had a meeting with the real mayor. he was called away so they substituted the deck -- deputy mayor putin. i was annoyed because i was not meeting with the mayor. i knew he had been kgb. i was sort of negative about it all. he came in and was equally meetive, did not want to with some american woman claiming to run a business. i think he was very suspicious of women. he had no gallantry, and he was the coldest, he had the coldest eyes i have ever seen. big, blue, cold eyes. wonderould think of, i what would happen if he was interrogating me. >> sunday night at a clock eastern on q&a -- 8:00 eastern on q&a. >> join us this weekend for alaska weekend, with featured programming on c-span, book tv and american history tv. we explore alaska's natural beauty, history, culture and public policy issues facin