kissinger and mr. ford. in many instances, we have made agreements like in vietnam, that have been revealed later on to our embarrassment. recently, the president of rhodesia announced he had unequivocal commitments from mr. kissinger that he could not reveal. the american people don't know what those commitments are. we have seen in the past, the destruction of elected governments like in chile and the strong support of military dictatorships. these kinds of things have hurt us very much. i would restore the concept of the fireside chat which was an integral part of the administration of franklin roosevelt and i would also restore the involvement of the congress. heas not afraid to have a strong secretary of defense. strong secretary of state. but he also made sure there was bipartisan support from members of congress, part of the process. before our nation made a secret agreement, before we made a bluffing statement, we were sure that we had the backing not only of the president and the secretary of state,

kissinger and mr. ford. in many instances we've made agreements like in vietnam that have been revealed later on to embarrassment. recently smith, the president of rhodesia had unequivocal agreements from mr. kissinger that he can't reveal. we've seen the government in chile and support of military dictatorship there. these kind of things hurt us very much. i would restore the fireside chat, a part of the administration of franklin roosevelt and restore the involvement of the congress. when harry truman was president, he wasn't afraid to have a strong secretary of defense, of state. and the bipartisan members of congress, vandenburg and george were part of the process and before our nation made a secret agreement or a bluffing statement, we were sure that we had the backing not only of the president and secretary of state, but the congress and the people. this is the responsibility of the president and i think it's very damaging to our country for mr. ford to have turned over this responsibility to the secre

kissinger and mr. ford. in many instances we have made agreements like in vietnam that have been revealed later on to embarrassment. recently the president of rhodesia announced he had unequivocal commitments from mr. kissinger he could -- the american people don't know what those commitments are. we have seen in the past the destruction of elected governments like in chile and the strong support of military dictatorship there. these have hurt us very much. i would restore the concept of the fireside chat which was an integral part of the administration of franklin roosevelt. and i would also restore the involvement of the congress. when harry truman was president he was not afraid to have a strong secretary of defense. -- secretary of state. he also made sure there was a bipartisan support with member's of congress. they were part of the process and before our nation they do secret agreement and before we made a public statement we were sure that we had the backing not only the president and the secretary o

peter: the forward for your book was written by henry kissinger. preaches by james baker, two republicans. stuart: yes, because i wanted to show that what's critical about diplomacy is that it be bipartisan. if we're going to be successful, we have to show a united front and one of the concerns i have really in today's world is there's so much domestic polarization where your opponent is not just the honorable opposition. they're your enemy and when the foreign countries with whole american diplomats are negotiating see that kind of division at home, they are strengthened against us and we have less leverage so, for example, putin now in ukraine. he looks at the fact it took six months to get in panel of funding and he feels like he can just wait us out so this polarization is tremendously i think, a weight on the shoulders of di policemen city and to have a very good diplomatic posture, the u.s. needs to be strong militarily, economically but also politically. i wrote the book really for three reasons. the first is, we're living in an era of seemi

we had martin indyk writing about kissinger's middle east experience in terms of kissinger's very realist view. don't go for grand transformations. go for the best stability you can achieve. for the longest period of time, you reach for the grand prize. you more often than not. not only fail, but you make things worse. how do you place kissinger in this balance squarely? in the theodore roosevelt tradition? he and richard nixon were the most realist we have had in the postwar period. but to show you the of woodrow wilson kept i think woodrow wilson's desk in the oval office he believed woodrow wilson although he was not a wheel and he was an anti wilsonian. henry kissinger first book his doctoral dissertation the world restored is about the peace conference at vienna following, the great napoleonic wars, which aimed not at transformation but at stability and. kissinger is very approving of the statesmanship of those who made the peace. vienna. i have always read that book as an indirect of woodrow wilson for trying to go further and yet realize i'm settling for what you get. try not tryin

kissinger to his face? i said of course i would.never imagined a few weeks later i would get invitation to have a cup of coffee with mr. kissinger and, of course, we went into the typical conversation. i would not go into details of the conversation. i think he gave very interesting responses, but he concluded on something that stood with me up until today. he said when you're a great power, there certain responsibilities that come with great power. the u.s. is becoming a modern power and a european light power. and if we do not assume that this is the responsibility of a great power, the europeans will not take our place but the chinese will. this was in 2005. the thing is in this conversation when we talk about american soft power, i would use chris walker's concept of sharp power, particularly rented to china. the broader question is that this questions cannot be tackled independently from the question of the chinese influence. i think the u.s. should have a clear policy towards china whatever the response is. and it happy to see

as the mccain institutes, kissinger fellow zoar eventually will use her vast diplomatic leadership and policy making, experienced a push for new elections and a democratic path forward in her country. now the georgia in parliament speak uh commented on the nomination of the for my georgia and president by the american institute saying that she likes another georgian president, stuck, has really had never subs the interest of georgia almost 12 years ago. a similar gesture was extended to another ex president mikhail psychiatry really at tufts university. both of them willingly took up the offer. despite having pledge allegiance to georgia alone, psychiatry really later became a ukrainian citizen. and zora bish really to eventually is likely to return to her native france. it is clear now to our compatriots, exactly as we have been saying, all along that neither of them has ever been in the service of georgia and both of them went back to the entity that employed them. now the editor in chief, all the goods and farm georgia news agency says that nothing should have been expected from the

and in his kissinger said they did it for educational reasons.they were trying to educate the american military. the soviet military, the american politics, soviet politics that there was something more than fighting with each other. the question i have then is have any of you given any thought, obviously, there's a lot of dual use technology and a lot of -- you know, military technology. but there are intergalactic space probes. there know, space telescopes to look at distant galaxies things of that sort have you given any thought to the prospect of a u.s. chinese spectacular outer space, you know, cooperation that might set the stage for attitudes in both country which is is again what nixon and kissinger did with apollo it was a stunt and showed that there was a potential beyond war. thank you. >> thank you. and that's an excellent question. i wish one of us on the stage were a space expert here. but since we're not, i hope you'll -- hope you won't mind if i -- if i tailor your question a little bit to think about the moment maybe in the food

kissinger in 1975 declassified it. it wasn't it before it came out in the foreign relations, the us series that i work on. it's a kind of an enduring mystery. there was certainly particularly sensitive about it from my read in one of the points in the document itself was that there should be of the american public on the nature, the threat and another account of it, i think another historian writes that it was a document would lend itself to preaching something of that nature basically they wanted the ideas out there they people to understand the threat what to do about it essentially so it wasn't just strategy document was that entire push to to deal with the cold war as it was existing and to your point i mean it was a life's work for me instead of just keep on trying to to move america into the position he thought was was required and then else that i thought was was very interesting the book was this idea that we lost strategic superiority that really troubled him because we'd had it really ahead of the cuban missi

man, there was at that time the for an minute style for and said free of the united states, henry kissinger. and there was on a so d o a minute step code ship is zaki omani. and at that time, that is when the quantum, the of the wire, the was a dollar eyes on, through the doing that. or i vision all the international economy, the whole idea of the pit for a girl that came about as i speak to you now. on my see does may very well be conservative, almost 80 percent 7, something between 70 to 80 percent of international trade is a i mean they that in the united states dollar, in other words, i'm in nairobi, kenya, and i use a visa card or american express it is expressed in don't let them know the words, the banking system internationally is controlled by the west. it is swift. swift may be registered in belgium. but if i'm transferring money from after i and gone, uh, there's 2 legacy nigeria. it must go through a corresponding bank in new york before it comes back. that is how i don't mean and the international money for the system is got to see of the west. and if you're not dealing with th

kissinger saying -- i was in a different position by that time and he said not since napoleon have we looked with dread at moscow, we came along, improved nato, put it back together again, put it back together again. did you think japan would spend 2% of gdp on defense? why? the world is so small, so small. what happens in my neighborhood will affect the every neighborhood. south pacific, indian ocean, the quad. everything is changing. i've known vladimir putin for over 47 years, i met with him between the time we were elected and before we were sworn in or after we were sworn in, no before we were sworn in. now after we were sworn in. dealing with weapons, talking about russia changing and eight time zones. i said yeah, eight time zones. the arctic circle. the ice is melting. what is coming out is methane, you're never going to control it , what are you going to do? so much is changing. if we don't leave the world's food leads? who has the capacity? not a joke? we can do it since we came to office without sending american forces so let me close with the senate point of personal privi

board of directors of general hewlett packard and she just and she until recently was the ceo of kissinger associates kissinger of course is past but she's down on a down days on board of of a large for foundation all the american actually foundation which supports us british relationships. she worked at lehman bank barclays but she was the deputy director of the cia. from 1983 cia. from 1983 to 2005. and there was one other woman who was in the cia as well. so they have intelligence connections her morgan's daily compensation was 370,000. she's that stock worth 2.5. she has shares. she gets gm gives her 361,000 b on their board. and she has shares. they're worth a couple, 300,000 in titans. i address consequences of the investments that negatively impact people around the world. the titans invest heavily in tobacco, alcohol, plastics firearms, gambling and private prisons and. identify each of those areas and the degree to which titans are invested. tobacco alone kills million people a year and the titans invest over $103 billion of the five largest tobacco companies. 24 million americans

so what richard nixon and henry kissinger -- can be kissinger had this amazing ground breaking openinge to the west in 1972 they are trying to open the relations back up, they take mrs. nixon along. she is of thehe women on the trp because she's so good behind the scenes of diplomacy. she's like thewi secret sauce tt helped president nixon make decent deal. she and the chinese remarriage in one night and there's a pen with pandas on it she says i love pandas, this acute. i'll give you some. she thinks he means cigarettes by the means pandas, a pair of pandas. so ever since thenhe and now ths is been over 50 years ago there's been this exchange of pandas between our country's and it's a barometer of how our relations with china are going. and this is all thanks to pat nixon. >> host: heath hardage lee, 1974 come when did pat know the end was near? >> guest: i think pat until the better end -- bitter and was not ready to give up on her husband. however, so let's go back a little bit. 1972 in june there's a a brean at the dnc. that is upsetting to her. she's aware of it but they are remem

but another newsweek contributor, i was there was a guy named henry kissinger and i he had more clouthan i did. so, you know we were working uphill to get over that. and you realized even though the washington post company, which owned newsweek, you know, had done watergate aid and they'd had this terrific success when they had a real adversarial, honest, adversarial patience with the nixon administration during the reagan, things changed. and i think people a lot of reporters fell prey to the glamor of the reagan administration. they hanging out that way. you know, when i was in my early career, one of my mentors was the late, great journalist, i.f. stone. and when i was around three or so, i was i was in washington and i was talking to him and breakfast with him once a week. and i told him i was going to a party and i was going see i think it was senator, senator teddy kennedy back then. he said, no, you're not. you start hanging out with them. you're to be carrying water for them. and, you know, the is i think it's all about to it up to today. it's about access and too many reporte

you had kissinger, einstein. but then we also wanted to have people you had never heard of. so i mean, in some ways my favorite is maria dahm. >> a marine born in russia. >> we were in the orphanage until we are four, adopted by a couple in long island. >> she is four years old in siberia, basically in an orphanage. she is adopted by an american family. she comes here and for some reason decides she wants to be a marine and became the first woman ever to be a combat infantryman. you didn't have to be rich and famous. people come here from many backgrounds. >> it does seem curious, though, that you selected someone from ukraine, s■omeone from afghanistan, a female combat veteran. these are all issues that are just beneath the surface in the news cycle that are germane to the argument republicans are having with themselves right now. >> right. well, and for example, republicans might tell you they are anti-immigration and say okay, how about afghans who risk their lives and who will be killed by the taliban? oh, well that's an exception. so you start going down the list. and t

henry kissinger famously said negotiations in the middle east do not end in exhilaration.d in exhaustion. brinksmanship is par for the course. it's clear -- and the news coverage is wall-to-wall. saturation, prime time. it is clear that israel would like, in the negotiations, hostages frontloaded, as many as possible in the early part of the cease-fire. and, whether hamas wants to hold others back, i don't know. it is clear that they will -- there will be prisoners. the hostages will be released. the sequencing, according to news reports here, and what i am hearing from officials, not everything is finalized. and they are waiting for mohammed sinwar in the tunnels somewhere in gaza. the most part people in gaza are holding the actual hostages. whatever is being discussed in qatar actually has to be proved in gaza itself. we need to see. but i expect brinksmanship. things never go smoothly. there are always final sticking points. i do think it will happen. but i just think we have to be careful making predictions about the coming hours. your correspondent was right. it coul

you could say it might have peaked or reached its apogee in the cold war under henry kissinger, who soldrations on dirty wars and proxy wars and funding, training and arming right wing militaries to oppose left wing governments or activists who enabled deadly terror in chile and argentina and south africa and indonesia. where, to be clear, kissinger's support for a right wing dictator dictator led to the genocide of 200,000 east timorese people by a us equipped army. one of the great moral stains of us foreign policy in the last 60 years. in el salvador, where us backed forces fueled a civil war and murdered catholic bishops, catholic nuns and social workers, an outrage that led the carter administration to suspend military aid to the nation. and as the cold war finally wound down, there was one lawmaker who made an indelible contribution to rolling back these abuses and attempting again, attempting to set a standard for american behavior abroad and the behavior of our allies that we armed. that was senator pat leahy, democrat of vermont, in 1997, the so-called leahy law expands our curr

like the late diplomat henry kissinger, who fled germ german 1938. >> if i had known it was a dictatorshipt was pers persecuting people of my ethnic background. >> we'll talk with the former speaker about that, politics, and get his thoughts on president-elect trump's plans for immigration reform. he power. with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. and i'm keeping the weight off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy® is the only weight-management medicine proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and obesity. don't use wegovy® with semaglutide or glp-1 medicines, or in children under 12. don't take if you or your family had mtc, men 2, or if allergic to it. tell your provider if you plan to have surgery or a procedure, are breastfeeding, pregnant, or plan to be. stop taking and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or any of these allergic reactions. serious side effects may include pancreas inflammation and gallbladder problems. call your

when you look at einstein and you look at henry kissinger, they were refugees to this country.missions at very low levels first term. he's talking about block refugee admissions this term. is that a mistake? >> well, i think we're going through a period of, frankly, reacting to an extraordinarily disastrous immigration policy, so you're going to have some twists and turns. in the long run, we do want to have an ability to allow legitimate refugees to come here. we also, and participate of the reason callista and i made this documentary for pbs, we believe strongly that illegal immigrants are a major contribution to america's success and to its exceptional nature and we want to make sure that as many americans favor legal immigration as oppose illegal immigration. it's very important to distinguish the two, and we want to strongly communicate that legal immigration in a variety of forms, refugees is one and another is various work permits, but we want people to be able to come to america if they do so legally. >> you said immigrants inhabit the very soul of what it is to be an a

is that make you miss henry kissinger? you know, the, you know, i'll just leave it at that. no, no, no. what i'm so what, what my, my point is, my point is, i'm a, and i'm obviously being provocative here. michael. but, you know, the, the, you know, the, be the, the going to try nixon going to china? things like that. this is what diplomats do. i mean there's, there's a lot of collateral damage, obviously, but that was thinking strategically about the national interest, even if we disagree with the outcomes. but the point is, is it, and i think it's already been mentioned here, is that now the secretary of state is just the cog in the works. and diplomacy has no role in american foreign policy. unfortunately, i don't think it's gonna change as all the time we have gentlemen want to take my guess and tests good. and here in moscow. and of course i want to thank our viewers for watching us here at r t c. you next time. remember, the, the russian states never is as tight as i'm one of the most sense community best most i'll send, send the progress be the one else calls question

well, kissinger well said, the us as my permanent l, as in my opinion of emily's only payment of interests. and this is what it's going to be coming through because, i mean, they've been deemed industrialized and bankrupting done the by doing so. i mean, but much is done to try and it's just going to be more blogs and all this and then on the by that. and so i'm just going to be non diploma. so you will find with about rather hash and the magic loans would reveal exactly what doesn't just say, here's a guy which people somehow do, don't even seem to live in zalinski is now seems like he's trying to make trump of boogeyman for europe, claiming that he shows little regard for america's european allies and he's urging them to actually um, boost their security independent of washington. what are your thoughts on this new tactic as well as their limbs g is best for us? and the desperation increases goes up. we remember that during the us presidential elections, he hitched is the way can was the wrong wrong. was he hitched it was the democrats and tamala harris and the boys. trump doesn't to get