this is the hottest i have ever seen kuwait.ng to the point where it is unbearable and i think everything about living here is hostile sometimes. you like swimming inside or outside more? inside, why do you like inside? do your feet hurt when you walk on the grass outside? yeah. it concerns me that the only life that my children have known has been in scorching heat. they want to be kids and go to the playground. and they will beg to go all day, and then we will finally break and take them, and it will be so unbearable that they will be begging to go back home. the absolute best invention in the world. the only way to stop it. like, you can't even feel it now. there's absolutely no way to survive here without ac and i think that what's really disturbing about that is that you're cooling your little section but you're heating up outside and so we are in this awful, awful cycle of trying to cool ourselves down but also heating up the country even more as we go on. i think that we've gotten a little fatigued with the idea of climat

bush and baker used this moment with gorbachev when saddam invaded kuwait. there was an example of the u.s. and soviet union condemning the move in a joint statement and working together in the un security council. remember, gorbachev was almost toppled in a hard-line coup and the soviet union unraveled in the period when jim m baker turned to middle east peacemaking. it would have been with a reduced post-soviet russia that it would have been possible to re-order the middle east in a more lasting way. in some ways george h w bush was politically vulnerable. gorbachev was enormously vulnerable and was practically toppled by a hard-line coup. giving away more in the middle east would have only accelerated that process by which the hardliners sought to end his rule over the soviet union. >> a couple of points. when jim baker spoke everyone knew he was speaking for the president of the united states. when kissinger spoke everyone knew that he was speaking for nixon. when john kerry spoke it was quite clear he was not necessarily doing so for the president of th

there was one thing that we have not discussed on is the middle east other than kuwait.nd george bush were on the cusp there is a chapter by dennis ross has been advisor five or six u.s. presidents on george bush and the middle east. one of the things he most regrets and jim baker said it before if we would've had a second term, we were on the edge of orchestrating that field. the middle east would be very different right now if you would have had a second term. the things that have not resolved now it's still been resolved but who knows we cannot tell. >> i have another question hear from zack who is a recent grad skidmore college. in the last few years of the soviet union the power struggle between yeltsin and gorbachev seem to define much of the politics. they took steps to remain actively neutral and the only one call directly after the signing did bush take a position, a stance. why do you think bush remains neutral for so long? does that get back to the notion of trying not to interfere too much or impose his will but to respect institutions? i think bush realize t

when we helped to liberate kuwait, he did not fall to the seduction of going all the way to baghdad. and he built a coalition. he worked with the rest of the world to kind of keep saddam hussein under wraps. and i think that was tremendous restraint. and what he did in panama was really quite restrained. he went after one person rather than the people of panama or their military, and made a difference. so there's not much written in the book here about what happened in panama and obviously we had challenges in yugoslavia that were emerging at the same time. so it's not that he solved every problem that america faced during his tenure, but he set the stage for us to better understand what it takes to solve the problems facing america around the world, and this book is a wonderful -- it actually should be read by anybody who wants to be president or wants to serve at usaid or the state department or the defense department. i think it's a great collection of kind of real life challenges that were well addressed because you had leadership that showed compassion and vision and they did no

>> i went to kuwait but i droent -- >> between -- before the liberation of kuwait. during that period of time, several months, i thought some point you visited the troops in -- >> oh yeah, that may have been. yeah. but it was also i think kuwait on the same trip. i'm not sure. >> okay. >> i did go over there with clinton but that was another time. bosnia, a nato thing. i did go with bush. where did -- somewhere. >> thanksgiving. >> yeah, thanksgiving. >> in between the. >> yeah i remember being out in the desert somewhere. lots of sand. i remember that. man, he was toughing up the troops. yeah i remember that. yeah. that's right. what year was that? that was. >> oh, well it would have been '90. in the fall of '90. because the war began in january of '91. >> yeah. that's right. and later went with hillary and bill. because of the troops. so. >> and of course you also had an encounter with daniel ortega. in nicaragua, while he was in power. >> yeah. as i recall i wasn't -- that was more of a commentational meeting, not as bad as melosivic, but i met with him a couple

i was in kuwait.ting alcohol in kuwait is harder than getting alcohol in iran and, so, they have found to maneuver these hardlines, these confinements and censorship. i think that there is so much to say in this maneuvering of life. >> what does that look like. in speaking to the people that you spoke with, when does becoming part of the community look like from their perspective what do they see in the region and the role of iran in the world? >> i think originally speaking, that people are probably set up with the government stands on the issues. they constantly say that, you know, there government is responsible for their well-being spending around money on the people. they are quite frankly set up with that. so, they understand that position. that has been a frustrating issue for them for years. i think so much of it comes dowo to the economy and finances. iran'sar economy is a breaking point. the maximum pressure campaign. it was, quite frankly, only an bolded and the conservatives which is drawn

so there is the risk of seeing some showers in kuwait even power up some thunderstorms on friday. believe your temperatures well above average is should be 8 degrees overnight, but we've got you in 417 off the pakistan right now. things are settled, save for a few showers and snow showers to the foothills of the himalayas. we do have some snow showers and cobble with the high of 3 degrees after turkey. really unsettled here cyprus in the levant, which we are speaking about. but really soggy weather pattern for is stumble over the next few days windy as well, could see those winds crank up to about 40 to 50 kilometers per hour through the tropics of africa. we've got our storms closer to that west coast. so we're talking about congo into galvan and cameroon. now we're going further toward the south and some really organized bands of rain. here are brown bill, a way of stretching into eastern portions of south africa. and for now or cape town on wednesday, has a high of 23 degrees, but wait for it, some hearse on the way your temperature shoots up to 32 just in time for the weekend.

on the basis today and kuwait and uae did not exist before 9/11. so it backfired spectacularly.. there are some people who sort of believe that's to accept one's own failures. >> and longe's on the run after 911. he was surrounded at bora-bora. when i think is not asleep bin laden's choices but america's choices. explain what happened and bore borja folks listening in the decision-making among americans. ask about this pointedly later on but the process of withdrawing from afghanistan. there was a moment in bora-bora 20 years ago now where the immediate goal after 911 with al qaeda and finding bin laden might have been achieved and it was not. what happened there? >> i don't do a lot of them in the book what state we capture and kill of it much harder to continue the afghan war that might have been easier to make a deal with the taliban that might have been harder to make which is predicated not on mass destruction but bin laden had been captured orr killed. one interesting document is a believer of al qaeda he really sees in 2015 we hit a very specific account of what bin laden

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. >> going to kuwait but - >> before the liberation of kuwait. drama. there were several months when others some point you visited the troops. >> that may have been, gap. but i think that was coined in the same trip and i did go over there with clinton but that was another time and that was of bosnia and nato think. yes, i did go with bush. yes. those thanksgiving pretty. >> in between the - >> there was a desert and there's lots of sand and he was pumping up the troops and yes. when was that, that was - >> in the fall of 90. the war began in january of 91. >> and later elizabeth we went with hillary and bill to visit the troops trade. >> you also had an encounter. that was in nicaragua when he was in power pretty. >> as i recall, that was more of a confrontational meeting. not as bad as another but i met with him a couple times and he was well, he or we didn't understand him. i guess i was still there because we're trying to do something thousand joe biden was holding me. but he had the dining room there and we are in the next room and we were there fo

the final destination of the symbols of the season our troops stationed overseas in kuwait and bahraine tells us operation holiday cheer started in 2004. >> my mom came into the store 18 years ago and asked my father if we could send a tree to her son who got deployed. >> reporter: they made it happen with dhl and the partnership goes wrong. >> we got emails back and pictures of them with the trees, something you will carry for a lifetime. you want to keep on doing it. for colonel thomas sullivan received a tree in 2006 when stationed in iraq. >> we don't expect much, to get the trees and care packages was amazing. we were on the minds of so many people within this community. >> what the survey shows is one simple conversation, one little act of kindness can turn into 18 years of amazing work. >> reporter: maybes trees make your christmas away from home a little more merry and bright. >> we are on the lookout for your bright spots this holiday season, email us pictures and videos or tag us on social media and you may see her holiday lights on tv. >>> officers freezing for good reasons,

the invasion of kuwait, saddam threatening saudi arabia, bin laden offered his troops to the saudi royal family. he had a number of projects in this time all ofwa which did not go well. he wanted to intervene in the timeyemen which at the was a quasi-marxist state that he wanted over though. the saudi government wasn't in favor of that. they favored a unified yemen which is what happened. he wanted to intervene in afghanistan with the soviets had beenn defeated but there was a comment his government. the afghans didn't treat him seriously. they saw him as a money guy, not as a military guy which is exactly right. every military engagement that involved in, the battle, he was rescued by the afghans essentially peer to battle in jalalabad was a fiasco in which a lot of his men were killed. 9/11 was a tactical success but strategic failure. this guy was not a big military genius by any stretch by military training and it is thought of this military organization and i think he had a big ego or something. >> peter, two questions. yoyour book documents two key. it's it's here that i think have

and that is for the book and i was in kuwait but that is harder than getting alcohol in iran. so there is a way that the iranian people have found to maneuver the hardlines there is so much to say about their savviness and belonging to theti international community. >> what does that look like what does becoming a part of theof international community from their perspective? what do they see from the role of iran in the region and in the world? >> originally speaking with the government stands on issues. a constantly say their government is responsible for spending iran's money on a the people. so quite frankly they are set up with that. so they understand that position. but so much of that comes down to finances. iran's economy is a breaking point with the national pressure campaign. it has a only emboldened to the hardliners and the conservatives. itne has sidelined with that collapse the economy with ordinary people and citizens so i think young iranians so they want to do business. as a young and talented and educated society. with job opportunities and then to diversify.

and i think we did that in kuwait. and we may be called on to do it again. but i would guess the one thing i would hope when they catalog all the amendments and all the bills and do all the commentary is that whenever it's all over for us here, that we've left our children something other than a legacy of debt. i mean, our children are important, and none of us have a perfect solution. but there's got to be some solution where we can come together, republicans and democrats, because everybody loves their children. everybody loves their grandchildren. we have all these young pages here. we have an example every day of young people who want to get ahead, who are willing to work. they just want the opportunity. and i think if i could hope that anything might happen -- it probably won't happen today, but this year, next year. and i felt strongly about the balanced budget but not -- but not enough people d. but that will be around. and so i would close, with again, thanking all of my colleagues. i don't believe -- i'm just trying to think back. i don't think we'v

activity rolling across the levant areas of the rock, and we may see some showers across saudi into kuwait. and another area we're watching is back that we show you the 3 day forecast, the risk of some showers thursday. i think the better bet will actually be on friday in your temperatures, while above average for this have the year. next up, we're going to pockets on plenty of sun here, a bit of instability rolling across some parts of the country, but nothing major. where we are seen a lot of disturb, whether it's for turkey, really ra conditions here, low temperatures, this stumble, 6 degrees, the have got the rain. and you've also got the wind and we're seeing that spread further toward the east tribes on had a beautiful day on wednesday. that changes on thursday. equitorial countries through africa, no surprise or storms here. round lake victoria through democratic republic of congo, congo, gab, on rate, through, into cameroon. actually a bit more dry and cameroon, on thursday. and then we've got a lot of what weather botswana inches in bob way, that eastern portion of south africa. i

that's what happened basically if people do compared to what saddam hussein saddam hussein said kuwait is ours. who chill is saying was saying, you know, cream? yes. our so i have a next, by the way, despite the fact that he's a creamier, is there at the cranium. don't ask well, natives muslim natives to korea, but their views were totally ignored by by russia. so yes. as a result of rushes, actions. who till last you claim that's true. what we are afraid off now is not on the large military offense. we also have free over so called limited military offense because which and may try to cease one or 2 strategically important c. eastern you crate. like she did in february 2015 when, despite the cease fire, despite all the promises which russia di to invest and partners, russia can i, you know, if i could do a regular and see if i could just jump in here for a moment, alexi if, if, what, what kind of assistance would you be wanting from, from the united states and the west if it's not in the form of, i mean, if, if russia were to invade ukraine, if you believe if it's not in a form of dir

all you have to do is think back to the highway of death out of kuwait or to the last battles about what happens when you lose air superiority. we cannot let this army face that again. they need to be asking us and we need to be thinking about how do we better organize their air defense and the same could be said about counter defense, coastal defenses and other things to give them some sea control. as you so recently in the last several days, we sent some cyber teams there to help them because this gray zone attack going on now, not waiting for it, the gray zone attack has only intensified across the last several weeks inside ukraine needs to be addressed. there are places we could help in these gray zone areas, >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. >> the world changed in an instant, but mediacom was ready. schools and businesses went virtual and we powered a new reality. because that mediacom we are built to keep you ahead. >> mediacom support c-span as a public service, along with these television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> both the house and s

be showers coming through kuwait sees and big down pause. i suspect there will be some flooding. perhaps some flooding turns eastern parts of iraq, western pass of a ransom heavy down pulse he and some snow over the high ground evening to pray us him cause we will see the chance of a shower or 2 as you go through the next couple of days. with some lively scorely winds for a time and something to watch out for that will push its way down across the u. e. into the eastern side of a man that wet weather that we have across east side of the med. also affecting the far northeast of libya, running down across northern parts of egypt. i will make a fair pick progress a fair way south ashley. so by friday because he some wet weather into central parts of egypt as well. central as of africa, sing the usual storms, the lively showers rolling through showers their heavy at times into as in bob way northeast and parts of south africa, southern areas of mozambie. but try to the west. ah, from the al jazeera london, gro kath intact to people in thoughtful conversation with i know limitations.

so this becomes a story for western areas of the dawn, dropping down somewhat weather into kuwait as well. and we may power up some thunderstorms of the pocket sun, a cool pool of air here. temperature is below average islam above the hor, and same in the south, his wall karachi, a hive $24.00 degrees, disturbed weather across turkey and de levant. we've got some periods of heavy rain come natur for lebanon. so the 3 days forecast in beirut will show us what and windy conditions on monday, in your temperature, while below average central africa for eastern portions. that's where we find the bulk of the activity, the wet weather and more so toward the west stains have dried out quite nicely. we do have some heavy periods of rain to be expected through zambia, also central areas of mozambique and that eastern corner of south africa in town like a cape town, 30 degrees in the sunshine and we're going to keep it going. so show the 3 day forecast right now. for cape town, you shoot up to 34 degrees on tuesday. that's almost a good 10 degrees above average. that's it. enjoy season ah, in t

a group consists of saudi arabia, cat, bahrain, kuwait, oman, and the united arab emirates is the 1st meeting since the end of the blockade on cat are in january. talks ongoing in vienna, in an attempt to save the 2015 nuclear deal under which iran agreed to limits nuclear program and exchange for sanctions relief. the countries nuclear chief, as rejecting demands by the ends, international atomic energy agency to gain access to one of its sites for inspection mobile foreclosure. oh, the secure, the talks we had with the un nuclear watchdog chief, was centered on the allegations. in addition to the issue of garage nuclear facility were still negotiating these issues, which are governed by other political considerations, let alone the psychological aspects under the maximum pressure policy issue of carriage facilities should be resolved within a broader package. that includes other allegations that will to reco temperatures have been reported in the arctic circle in more warring evidence of climate change . first was the hottest stay ever known there at 38 degrees celsius in russian to

from london, and some of the general director of libya based thing tank. saw that institute from kuwait? yes. me. it has now an expert in north africa as and board member with the institute of saharan studies. alonda, thank you for joining us. must offer the general feeling was that basically it went to the 4th of december was going to be the culmination of a mammoth task that started years ago. that would have been the way for presidential elections. and that was going to be the moment when people were going to say violence and instability is over. that is not happening anymore. well, no 1st small house and thank you for having me. you. all right, it's not happening anymore. and even if a last minute dash, you jumped off somehow by the local actors or the national actors in this case, it would be quite difficult. logistically speaking, as well as legally the election commission has failed so far too. but just to find the list of the contestants of the president's election as well as it was dean i'm . it was required by law to give them some time to can be something like 2 weeks time to

so some showers for tater on that's also dropping down into kuwait. so few unsettled days ahead, extra go into pockets. i little cool. here we get a cool pool of air, especially toward the north la hor, 17 degrees. we look at the next 3 days and your temperatures lock in around there. you should be at $22.00 for this have the year. low temperature is also the name of the game across turkey, really raw feeling here with that wing coming through the boss for us. there's that disturbed weather as we look toward lebanon, they root with a high of 15 degrees. things are drying out actually across western portions, a democratic republic of congo seemed as for congo and cameroon. really, the bulk of that, what weather is falling further toward the east? now we're going to the south and really unsettled picture here is some bursts of heavy rain botswana in susan bob boy, zambia as well into central parts of mozambie, some showers in store for johannesburg with a high of 17 degrees. but as we look further toward the south, its temperature divide, cape town, fee

the group consists of saudi arabia, cat, r, bahrain, kuwait, amman, and the united arab emirates. this is the 1st meeting since the end of the blockade of cattle. in january, frances ambassador to the united nation says that talks to bring iran back to 2015 nuclear deal. on nearing the end of the road, a pessimistic assessment came as the unsecure to counsel discussed the slow process of the talks which are ongoing in vienna. we are working tirelessly and in good faith will or pot nurse in vienna to deliver a deal to saver and restore the juice buey iran as walked back up thought compromises reached after many weeks of challenging negotiations. while at the same time presenting additional maxima, his demands, we are nearing the point where he runs escalation of its nuclear program. we left completely hollowed out the juicy buey. the d promoting door is firmly open for iran to a dealer. now, iran, as to choose between the cut ups of the g she buey and affair, and comprehensive deal for the benefit of the iranian people and nation. iran's continued nuclear escalation means that we a

we are going to see some intense rain effects, southern areas here for the showers edging into kuwait from light winds blowing across the gulf. but down for the south, it is looking a lot finer and dryer. it's to the west, around the red sea that we are seen, those coastal showers, pickups, brisk, a winds, blowing down as well. and those tie up with a wet and windy weather that's been plaguing north eastern areas of africa. the temperature in cairo has been below average thanks to that wet and windy weather and it is going to get weather for the north west places like morocco and brisco winds blowing. and we will see the temperature come down in the days to come. now across central areas of africa, the seasonal range has shifted further south within some heavy falls across the d. i. c, as well as places like malawi, edging into northern parts of mozambique. and the further south we go the where to read gets the south africa, ether teeny, as well as the su too, will have thunderstorms in johannesburg through the week. and it's going to get cloudy and windy in cape town. that's weather

all you have to do is think back to the highway of death out of kuwait or to the last battles about what happens when you lose air superiority. we cannot let this army face that again. they need to be asking us and we need to be thinking about how do we better organize their air defense and the same could be said about counter defense, coastal defenses and other things to give them some sea control. as you so recently in the last several days, we sent some cyber teams there to help them because this gray zone attack going on now, not waiting for it, the gray zone attack has only intensified across the last several weeks inside ukraine needs to be addressed. there are places we could help in these gray zone areas, our ukrainian brothers and sisters. >> thank you so much. important points. andrew, your foreign minister wrote in foreign affairs ukraine needs air and missile defenses now and that ammunition and medical equipment are helpful. does sending this deter putin or merely provide putin with another pretext for invasion? >> no, any assistance from the west clearly helps to deter. the