depthful experience, depthful knowledge of history on a george c marshall, former defense secretary, robert gates, former defense secretary, frank carlucci level. big, smart people. pete hegseth is a young man. has never worked in such an organization as defense. he is a culture warrior. that's good. the world needs culture warriors. he's a morning tv host. i'm glad. the world needs them too. is that person right for that job? again, i'm so glad our republican setup, the senate, will sit down, ask him every question. i'm sure he'll have been speed-reading thucydides and then will have quotes. do you know what i mean? but you better be serious about this, senators. you better make sure he's the right one for this job. he doesn't have to be. and if you decide he is not, very good. withstand the pressure. make your decision. make your vote. these are life and death questions for the country. they're not just, "gee, trump put up six appointments and they're the bad ones. he had six good ones, six bad ones. how many can i reject without getting in trouble?" that's not the question. the question is, wh

jordan as don't speak to robert gates, been sold about this is a lecture in peace and security at durham university. thank you very much for talking to us again. robert. the stakes are very high in syria, and there are a lot of stakeholders as we saw at that meeting in, in jordan. do you feel that they are setting the bar high very high, perhaps for this new administration, syria, especially on issues that they themselves have failed to resolve in syria over the past several years? yes, i think so, but i also think there's a degree of never to ability to the end, the davis, i teach to us as an organization that was previously tied to i. so it was previously tied to al qaeda. and i shall shara who we previously knew was al galani. well, gilani began his career if you like, as a for and you had his flight to in iraq fighting for what then became isis an ice sales. so there's obviously going to be a degree of suspicion. there's going to be a kind of fear the okay, he's saying the right things at the moment, but do what, what he does on the ground, will that actually match his rhetoric? is h

that generation may be better, but, 14 years ago when i was working for robert gates, to quote him, pulling teeth to get the air force to fly more. a single biggest billing system on the battlefield, probably more terrorist than special ops teams have. it is a remarkable weapon system could not get them. he had to personally get involved. culturally, it will be very hard to embrace it. that will be the human dynamic. on that point, i will go to something that elon musk tweeted a couple of days ago where he said and this is the person who was supposed to figure out how we can be more efficient and have fewer people. he said that people that support building more f 35 are idiots. he said that, should i say this year, their main purpose was to allow air force pilots to get laid. because it makes them sort of the best of the best. is that -- [laughter] -- what does that say, i guess that is one way of going at the kind of big ticket items and saying, look, you can get all of this other stuff. he was comparing it to drones and how you can get it more cheaply. your lethality can be spread wider a

. >> the best story i get is i remember being with secretary robert gates outside of moe's old in iraqthere was another threat of a government shutdown and when we asked about though war years, what are the impacts of these? i think it is a good idea that you could pay that guys with bullets first. this is serious. there are national security waivers that are written into the law, powers the president has. the military can still function in the country is protected. more than a tsa agent having to sell video games. there are benefits, assignments that get frozen, families that get frozen. luckily, we won't have to go through that this christmas time. but, buckle up for march. we will have more in just a moment. programming note. tomorrow, house minority leader hakeem jeffries will be a guest on inside with jen psaki tomorrow at noon. don't go anywhere. more with jasmine and kevin and dana after the break. er the br ♪♪ not all toothpastes whiten the same. crest 3d white removes 100% more stains for a noticeably whiter smile. new personal best. crest. what causes a curve down there? can

didn't make it down the living person from the american side i know who was probably there was robert gates. he had a low, low level position in the cia at the time, and he came close to admitting it. he was vetted for whatever advice. secretary of defense, i know, i guess where there's lots of that took place and we know now that casey had a meeting in madrid with another representative as ayatollah casey's. the pages of casey's diary and journal from those days so far is missing. and if we ever find that i believe where we are because i mean i've researched much history you you claim you never go find it but if somebody keep looking long enough and they're in existence okay that was and what i didn't put in the book because i didn't write a whole book. this subject is some of the low, low level people in the campaign, one of whom was what's his name is it paul manafort and his friend were very involved in it and they were involved at a level i can't understand, but they had all to do with foreign money and and all of that. they were extremely involved. it and when it all over reagan of bo

robert gates, pen full. joining us here on the news our of the war on guys and now and these really forces f one bonded northern guys overnight and into sunday morning. full palestinians were killed in an s right. going to school housing, the space people in bates, i know, and natalie attack and guys a city killed at least 14 palestinians rescue teams. how to use sledge time is to break through the rubble and recover bodies. the attack targeted residential buildings in the middle of the night. children among the dead. let's speak 2 ounces . here is honey, my mood in a minute. but let's show you what's happening there by the way. and these really as try to get it a make shift camp housing, hundreds of the space, palestinians that attack at around midnight local time, killed 3 people and destroyed several tents. that's now speak to honey. my more to has been down by central guys or for us, so honey, more residential buildings targeted across guys. i bring this up to speed with what's been happening. well, it's more of a whole fail killing right now with the bombardment the president in there

these are enormous burdens we pace on people like robert gates, leon panetta. i don't see how someone like pete hegseth is ready for those kind of burdens on any of these accounts. >> michael, we had already heard last week, before the thanksgiving holiday, that hegseth's nomination was in trouble now that gaetz had bowed out. he was the one that republican senators were starting to feel leery about. >> sure. >> in the wake of these new allegations, this new reporting, where do things stand now? do you see at least four republican senators who would say no? >> i suspect that this letter in the new reporting from "the new yorker" will make that possibility greater. as you said before this wasn't looking for pete hegseth before the thanksgiving break. senators were giving him the benefit of the doubt saying we will allow him to come sit for his hearing and we will have those conversations but there was a lot of the skepticism, right? he was receiving a lot of that scrutiny and we are hearing from senators they wanted to see more information and i suspect this wil

a more recent example, robert m. gates is the only secretary of defense is asked to remain in that office. he served presidents of both political parties. prior to his appointment, gates served in the central intelligence agency for 27 years and was the only career-level officer to rise from entry-level employee to director. imagine that. during nine of those years, he served on the national security council for four presidents that is zoning. and he served of our country's seventh largest university, texas a&m. george herbert walker bush appointed him as the secretary of defense in 2006 and president obama requested that he remain in that position. his background ghaif him special intelligence the management of large budgets and foresight and devoted 31 years of service to our nation. i have had the privilege of serving in congress who rose to the position of secretary of defense. these include leslie aspen, leon panetta of california and dick cheney of wyoming. though those views differed widely, they were respected as s

robert gates, head of the cia, i worked directly for. leon pinetta, i worked for. record, i respect that. there are other options out there. if you look at ron desantis, he served in combat. he was the navy j.a.g. in the middle east. his combat record is just fine, but he's pretty clean on the other issues of charter we talked about. >> richard, pete hegseth said in a book he wrote and in multiple interviews that women should not serve in combat calling them, quote, a distraction. he was asked about this yesterday and he said, i think they're already in combat. he doesn't want them to be, but what's he going to do about it. we heard from lindsey graham yesterday saying it's very difficult for pete hegseth. i have a lot of questions for him about his behavior and his past. where do you think this is heading? >> it's clear where this is heading. there's precedent for this. george herbert walker bush, his first nomination, john tower, he had problems with alcohol. it then became dick cheney. you have someone who has these personal issue, it's not going to happen. if i

robert walpole and. somehow he and the gates's each other i think the most persuasive speculation or theory for that is gates his mother may have been a housekeeper for bolton, and they got know each other from from that. but anyway, bolton is going to be really the first patron and gates is going to benefit from a number of different patrons early in his life that's going to allow him to from a pretty middling background to someone of pretty pretty substantial significance later later in his career. so in 1745 in response to jacobite rebellion in scotland john bolton raises a regiment help put down that rebellion. and gates is going to be commissioned as an engine and then later lieutenant in bolton's regiment. so this connection with bolton is going to give gates his first military commission as a year old in. in 1745. and one thing i want to point out on the screen here, which is one of those crazy coincidences of history, which is almost hard to believe. buif you look on the left there is a record of gates, a 45 commission at the national archives and in in london and this commission book has a hundreds

robert will home. and somehow he and the gates know each other. i think the most persuasive speculation or theory for that is that gates' mother may have been a housekeeper bolton and they got to know each other from that . anyway, bolton is going to be the first patron and gates will benefit from a number of patrons early in his life that will allow him to rise from a middling background to someone of substantial significance later in his career. so in 1745, in response to the jacobite rebellion in scotland, bolton raises a regiment to put down the rebellion and gates will be commissioned as an ensign and later attended in bolton's regimen. this will give gates his first military commissionasa 17- year-oldin 1745. one thing i want to pot out on the screen he, which is one of those crazy coincidences of history which is almost hard to believe, but u look on the left there is a record of gates's 1745 commission at the national archives in london and this commission book has hundreds of pages, and even on this individual page as all the officers and

elect bring us to talk through 2009 end of the forefront of addressing challengesthe gates foundation support robert project from your you on the many on intelligence the relation. >> conversations are really important. let me spend a lot of a little bit. from the standpoint of intelligence what needs to change? i get accused dovish on a little bit more nuanced the u.s. to along with airborne hockey activities network's magnitude scale and this is at minimum we need to come to an agreement. i would hope go beyond we are much more careful and dovish. >> can you tell us a little more about incident and as a member of congress dealing with these? to be careful because a lot of what we know is not in the public domain. we are in the early 20th century with the mechanisms respond to write every person in front of the committee and no requirement around critical infrastructure. the phone calls of the united states president and it will be a fight of companies will say we are victims. the government is in the airlines business. >> i'm going to be a little crisp on this in my opinion, probably the biggest t

gate bridge. >> time now to talk winners and losers on wall street. we have financial expert rob black joining us this morning. robert, looks like the markets are pulling back just a little bit were in the red, not by much, but it does show some pullback. good morning. yeah. friday we got record close us. a little bit of pullback today. not. >> completely unheard nvidia is getting hit today and to 3% 180%. plus for the year china saying that it looks like an anti monopoly situation look into it. the november jobs report. ultimately, james on friday gives us, you know, it's a strong economy. inflation is mostly under control. then on top of it, we have job and we have jobs we spend and where they spend economy moves, economy moves, stock market as well. so we're ending strong. >> yeah. still dealing with inflation, though. i mean, i saw the headline. chipotle raising prices again, which obviously. doesn't make the average consumer feel great. >> because those and dairy products. and it's the 5th increase in 4 years. so if you put that into perspective, this 2% doesn't feel as bad as last from those 4%. the last increa

gate coming of age between the arabs and israelis. in 1956 to 1978, the good spy, the life and death of robert ames. ames perished in april 18, 1983. truck bombing of the american embassy in beirut and the american prometheus. the triumph and tragedy of j. robert oppenheimer with coauthor martin j. sherman, which won the 2006 pulitzer prize for biography or autobiography. his latest book, which we're going to talk about tonight, the outlier the unfinished presidency of jimmy carter, is a rich and human story of jimmy carter marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political adversity. author and historian douglas brinkley calls the outlier a profound, clear eyed evaluation of a leader whose legacy has been deeply misunderstood. for tonight's conversation with kelly, we are fortunate to have joseph crespino. joe is the jimmy carter professor of history at emory university. he's an expert in the political and cultural history of the 20th century. you united states and of the history of the american south since reconstruction. joe is also the author of three books. his most recent book, atticus finch, the biography. harpe

known, robert's designs touched many iconic california places such as your somebody park your woods and your beach. in marin county, fort mason, crissy field and i've been up arboretum in golden gateark in san francisco. his home city of berkeley's popular fourth street, paseo, and the street art district's berkeley walk. now, a national poetry landmark, roberts generally begins to work on a project by paying attention to the history and culture of each place. considering its its functional and the needs of the humans, animals and plants that formerly or already inhabit the space or are projected to be its future habitats, he explains he tries to understand each place unique, physical, sensual, emotional and cultural implications to achieve what roberts calls and underlying all roberts is his observation that quote entire, civilizations have collapsed by neglecting the underlying ecological support systems for their built environments. and it is often the water systems that fail. it is imperative for our survival and for the health of the planet. that the places we construct nurture the long term sustained logical health of our settings and. water is the key. welcome john roberts.

robert kennedy jr. will get confirmed? do you think it's hard to believe they all will? >> yes. one is already gone by the wayside matt gaetz, but he never got to the starting gate. he really wasn't formally nominated so i would say it will be a surprise if one or maybe two of the other very controversial nominees are not confirmed because at this point, the republican senators want to demonstrate some independence from trump, at least the handful of republican senators who are from states that are not really strongly pro-trump. >> and it is worth noting that the gop would have a record small majority if the current house results hold, with 220 seats to the democrats 215. after the november elections. what could that mean going forward, do you think it's going to make it difficult for trump to get any controversial legislation through, especially in the first couple of months? >> why? because it really isn't. 220 to 215. trump has already drawn three incumbent republican representatives out of the house to other appointments in his administration so they're going to have to resign in order to take those other jobs. well, that brings the total down to 217 republic