. >> we are hearing from ben rhodes this there will not be a major announce think.the arms deal a done deal? >> reporter: right, ben rhodes the national security adviser conference called a few days ago in anticipation of this. the question is will there be an arm sales to saudi arabia. that's not unusual at all the figure from the knocked times $1 billion. the saudis have been big purchasers of u.s. arms, they fly dozens of the maids u.s. f15s ash carter the defense secretary had been in saudi arabia recently was the missiles, bombs, munitions outfit odd the f15s the president, the white house publicly speak big the need for regional actors to i want great in a missile defense system for saudi arabia and others within the region. that is also something that's being discussed, randle. >> so, mike, what about the u.s. relationship dealing with oil production, as we know the saudis have been pumping like crazy holding the price down and of course that is causing big problems for u.s. oil producers with the fracking production. >> reporter: well, that's absolutely righ

white house deputy national security adviser ben rhodes. ben, thanks so much for being with us. do you not fear at all that president obama in meeting with putin is undermining the many attempts to isolate him? senator mccain says the president is giving putin credibility with this one-on-one. >> no, i don't think so at all, jake. on the issues where we disagree, we've been very clear. in fact we put very strong sanctions on russia together with our european allies. the fact of the matter is it would be irresponsible to not meet with president putin given the opportunity we have here at the u.n. to deliver some very clear messages. one is going to be on ukraine and the need to follow through on the minced diplomatic process and our european allies very much wanted the president to deliver that message to president putin. and the second is going to be on syria where the president will be underscoring our efforts against isil need to be joined with pursuit of a political resolution to the conflict. >> we'll talk about that in a second, but first big news from the region with russi

deputy national security advisor ben rhodes really tried to down play what is clearly an escalation in this region. take a listen to what he had to say. >> everybody's looking at putin as if this is some offensive maneuver. again, they've had bases in syria for a very long time. this is their principle client state in the arab world. it's been collapsing. he's trying to prop it up. i think that's hardly someone who's in a strong position. >> reporter: now this all comes two days after president putin and president obama met at the u.n. we know that the two leaders clashed over the issue of sir gentleman but they did talk about the possibility of some type of coordination with the two nations launching air strikes. when you talk about that clash though, brian, it is on this issue of assad. again, president beauten believes that the key to fighting isis is propping up assad whereas president obama and the obama administration believe that assad has to go. they have been calling for a political transition for quite some time but the reality is they don't have a policy to actually make tha

what we weren't in favor of was boosting assad and once again, ben rhodes made the point this morningn is that they don't think there is any military solution, either by the united states or russia, to this problem in syria. but clearly what we're seeing is an escalation and we will be waiting anxiously to hearer what they say later today at the briefing. but right now at least hearing from ben rhodes just a very short time ago we're not hearing any change in position from the administration right now. >> chris jansing, what could be a very, very busy day at the white house, the state department, the pentagon. chris, thanks. >>> let's go to the u.n. here in new york. as you may know, the general assembly gathering has been taking place and is still taking place. eamon, let's talk about isis, because at this large summit yesterday, a summit within a summit, we learned according to experts some of the new numbers about isis, its strength, its funding, its membership. >> reporter: absolutely. all the indicators in terms of the recruitment, the number of foreign fighters heading to that b

. >> white house deputy national security adviser ben rhodes joins me now. what is putin up to, and what is the president going to try to do in their meeting today? >> first of all, what putin is doing is an increased version of what they've been doing for years. the notion they've been supporting military support to assad is not new. what president obama is going to say to president putin is, we do share a common enemy in isil. we do believe there is a place for all nations to join in effort against isil. but, importantly, we need a concurrent effort to resolve the political situation in syria, an effort that involves assad leaving power. frankly, you're not going to have the stability you want in syria if 2/3, if not more of the country, is completely rejecting the leadership of a dictator brutalizing them. >> how many years ago did president obama first say assad must go? now, we're going to be working with vladimir putin if this works out to try to keep assad involved, at least during this diplomatic process, which could take years and years. >> the basi

before their talks began, i spoke with the white house deputy national security advisor ben rhodes. how can the president really work with russia on syria when, as we heard president putin say today, he sees assad a solution. >> even as we've had enormous differences with russia over the last couple of years on ukraine and syria, we've been able to work with then -- them on issues like iran. the main case we're making is it's in your interests to pass a resolution in which assad transitions. >> how is this managed transition going to work in your view? >> you have to have elements from the opposition and laments from the regime who are willing to come together in a transitional governing structure of some form. we insist that assad leave power as a part of that process and the people of syria determine their own future leaders. >> the russians say it would be dangerous to abandon assad when he's the only military strong man. >> i think it's dangerous leaving him there. he's lost more and more of his country. assad controls much less of it today than even a year ago. that may be why

we have heard from the deputy national security advisor, ben rhodes, saying the amount of progress thees are going to get on cyber security issues and their difference could be determined by how well this closed-door dinner goes tonight. and what kind of announcement could be seen tomorrow. already, the chinese halted the working group level dialogue of last year after the u.s. indicted five officials on allegations of hacking korea china said, ok, you are going to do this, we are going to walk away. we have already heard from a foreign ministry spokesman saying they are not going to restart the talks. it will be interesting to see how much progress. of obama officials have raised the possibility of issuing sanctions if not enough progress is made. is a new survey showing there are new concerns domestically at home. what are people worried about? stephen: there is the difference between the bilateral issues and domestic issues. this is the queue research center. 84% of the respondents of chinese adults surveyed between april and may say corrupt officials are their number one concern. a

and ben rhodes the president's personal aide. more trel noted these points were not good and he took a heavy i' d a heavy editing hando them. it was agreed jake would work closely with the intelligence community to finalize points. it was agreed that jake would work closely with the intelligence community. >> i think mike morell is next on our list. we have six or seven coming up, but they will all be handled the same way, private transcribed interview. >> reporter: a ranking democrat told reporters he continues to push to have these transcripts knead public, especially after the nine-hour deposition yesterday of clinton aide cheryl mills. he says it seems absolute because there were so many leaks about that closed door hearing. what we learned is an abedin did answer all the questions but she had a lot of memory lapses more from the questions from the reps on the committee than the democrats and you can make of that what you will. >> reporter: the negative headlines are take their toll on hillary clinton's presidential campaign

. >> less than a week after the attacks, sullivan agreed to work with mike morel and ben rhodes on theing points you see here that blamed the attack on an obscure video. he noted these points were not good and he had taken a editing hand to them. it was agreed jake would work closely with the technology community to finalize the points. we were able to confirm with the chairman of the benghazi committee the next witness up will be mike morel. >> i understand that you also have new information on the w s witness who will take the fifth. >> a source told fox news that investigators wanted to question a low level it guy that put the server and maintained it for mrs. clinton on the legal issue, in layman's terms that's the destruction of evidence. some committee members believe there are significant gaps in the paper trail that remain. even with the witness being questioned today, for example, in may when the benghazi e-mails were released. there were 130 references to sullivan, but now there are more than 1,300. it's hard to explain the discrepancy. the co-chair of the 2012 state departme

. >> i want to play this from ben rhodes, advisor to the president, his take on the russia position. is looking at putin as if this is some offensive maneuver. again, they have had bases in syria for a very long time. this is their principle in the arab world. it's been collapsing. he is trying to prop it up. i think that's hardly someone who is in a strong position. >> hardly someone, jonah who is in a strong position. >> the last thing the administration should be doing is doing pr for the russian regime. it seems often to be what they are trying to do. they often seem to be doing this high school debate tactic of saying, you know, well with, iraq didn't work out for us. this won't work out for them. you know, such great solace one takes when one is being bombed in one's home that the bombers are on the wrong side of history. they seem to have this idea that somehow each moment of failure that we get into won't have consequences down the road. yet, josh earnst this week says that the president has zero regrets about not following through on the red line because things would have be

that happened we've seen some of the president's top advisors were holding these meetings like ben rhodesnational security advisor and other holding meets in the vatican. i think it was interesting that pope francis did not specifically use the word cuba or call for an end to the embargo. because he's not here. he knows that his position is not here to lobby these members specifically. and that would not have been received well. so i think it takes a couple readings of the speech actually to really see how heavily freighted with meaning it is. but that is certainly one point of that. but republicans do not seem to mind that. they certainly knew his position going in to this. no surprises about where the pope stands on most anything. >> that's true. if you're just tuning in pope francis has boarded his american airlines charter a boeing 777 nicknamed shepherd one. shepherd one, as it takes the pope -- i guess he changed planes here in washington, d.c., from washington, d.c. to new york city. and it will take him in the coming days to philadelphia. we're joined here by father timothy kesick

ben rhodes, the deputy national security adviser was on our show an hour ago and said, it's a lot of body language. it's the way putin sits with everyone. it's clear that this is not going to be an easy conversation. what we want to know is, more clarity as to what they are up to in syria. rhodes said that they've always shared this intelligence. yes, iraq is the new factor in the game. they've always shared intelligence, so this was mostly public relations. he's coming to new york for the first time in a decade, speaking at the u.n. and wanted to put on a show and take advantage of perceived or real american weakness on the syria point. you have congressional investigations this week, pointing out how badly the strategy of arming the moderate rebels has failed. >> we have to look inside makings of vladimir putin and what he feels about russia nationalism. last night he sat down on "60 minutes." he was asked about that russian nationalism. take a look. >> translator: well, it's not the goal in itself. i'm proud of russia. it's true. we have something to be proud of. but we do not hav

. >> that's not what this is about, ben rhodes. this is about the russians going to our embassy and telling us they're going to bomb and that we should get out of the way. many of the president's critics are not buying the idea that russia is vulnerable in this matter at all. instead, they say russia is taking advantage of the united states' weakness. >> the white house has said it's unclear exactly what russia's intentions are. if the white house is confused about putin's intentions and plans in syria, then the united states is in even worse trouble than many fear because it's not hard to discern what vladimir putin wants. >> so what does he want? senator mccain says putin wants to prop up the syrian dictator, bashar al assad, and expand russia's power there. it raises the question, why is president putin buddies with this murderous dictator in the first place? it's a longtime alliance that goes back to when assad bought weapons from russia. that deal reportedly continues to this day. one russian lawmaker said today that russia, q

senator bob corker, thanks so much for joining us. >>> welcome deputy national security adviser ben rhodeshe atlantic's jeffrey goldberg. [ applause ] >> good morning. >> good morning, everyone. >> i've always wanted to get you on the couch. if you want to lie down, we could really psychoanalyze obama's foreign policy. thank you for doing this. and i would love to get up to 30,000 feet as quickly as possible, but we have to talk about the news of the morning and the previous week. russia is apparently now engaged in air strikes against what it says are isis targets. in the last week we've seen russia form an alliance with our putative ally, iraq, our putative adversary, iran, our target, syria. there's certainly a feeling in republican circles and in a lot of foreign policy elite circles in washington, that putin is activist in the middle east, that your boss is withdrawing us as quickly as he can with possibly dire consequences. tell us the thinking in the white house right now but what you're doing, and more to the point, what you're not doing. >> first of all, with respect to what russi

. >> and what we heard today from the deputy national security adviser ben rhodes is, well, this isn't operational we him saying this is what we have going on. but again, it is just another part of this incredible chess game that vladimir putin has come in and done and let's look at a little bit of history. he's done this before. you know? when this all first started, when we saw that the gas was being used against, you know, assad using it against his own people, then -- >> the red line -- >> -- then the president drew a red line and putin said i'll be the savior of this and doing the same thing with isis. >> and that's the biggest point that you hear people in the region diplomats complaining about. not necessarily the u.s. is doing to solve the problem. it's what the u.s. is going to try to contain or prevent russia being the main player in this conflict. that isn't happening from the united states right now. that's the criticism you're hearing from a lot of arab diplomats this week. >> putin on "60 minutes" and i want to play a clip of the relationship with president obama. >> tran

senator, i wanted to play the deputy national security advisor, ben rhodes, speaking at the atlantic conference today. because the white house and other officials at the state department are trying to downplay this russian move. let's watch. >> everybody's looking at putin as if this is some offensive maneuver. again, they've had basis in syria for a very long time. this is their principle state in the arab world. he's trying to prop them up. i think that's hardly someone in a strong position. >> is vladimir putin in a weak position as you've heard testimony from david petraeus saying he's broke, spending money on military engagements and he could be going to the banks for more money with very poor cash flow coming up in the next couple of years. >> but don't forget, david petraeus advocated very strongly that we establish a no-fly zone, a buffer zone, to take down bashar al assad's barrel bombing capabilities in significant escalation of our behavior. also, david petraeus took note that in the past, dictators who have domestic problems sometimes strike out. i can only -- david ignat

prioritized targets as their targets and after the bilateral meeting we heard ben rhodes say that iteems that the russians are focused on isis but knowing what another administration official said just today and knowing what they're doing is in no way related or at risk with what the coalition is doing, does that change your view that they are focused on isis or raise serious questions? >> reporter: well, again, i think at this point it's -- well, let me say a couple things. the other thing that the two presidents agreed upon in their discussions at the u.n. on monday was the risk that isil poses to u.s. interests, to russian interests, not just around n the region but around the world. both countries shared that priority and so the question show what what can we discern about russia's military strategy? and i think i would just -- i'm no military expert but it does seem unwise to start drawing those firm conclusions bush administrationed on military strikes that have just taken place over the last few hours. so we'll have a variety of ways to get greater insight into their strategy.

director of the cia mike morell said in a series of emails he would work closely with sullivan and ben rhodes to work out any issues they had about the public explanation that would be offered on the sunday talk shows. that explanation did not adequately reflect the intelligence at the time. and just this week i learned from a former military intelligence official the intelligence was so specific within 24 hours they not only might was terrorism, they identified the groups and the likely suspects. gregg: what about the fallout from yesterday's deposition of cheryl mills, a former chief of staff of the secretary. >> reporter: she gave a 9-hour deposition behind closed doors. she came out with the republican chairman as well as the ranking democrat who clearly agreed to give one single statement to the media. they said it had been professional and respectful and answered all the questions. she did answer some of the questions, but there were many issues she had simply forgotten. >> she did. she does not have a good memory. but you have to understand this has been 2 1/2, 3 years ago. but she did

when the book cannot october 1, ricardo -- or perhaps ben rhodes, said to me informally we thought you guys had gotten the story. that somehow, our secret talks had leaked. but then we saw the book and realized we were still safe. kind of ine to share the last phase of the 18 months of the talks that obama representatives undertook. we met with state department officials. john kerry's advisers came over to find -- to the national security archives. people read the book. that it held, i think, were useful. now, the point is to talk about how this all happened. president obama and his top this diplomacy. it was ultra secret. they use media areas, much like the presidents before them. the used third countries. other presidents, such as clinton, have used mexico. carter set up secret meetings in countries like -- in mexico as well. obama used canada. and of course, the administration recruited the pope to give his political moralng and use his persuasion, which only he has in the most unique way, to provide both a catalyst and political cover for the change that was taking place. and to he

ben rhodes was taking meetings with alligators and ngos -- with ngo's to "ice congress". . to create a structure that would circumvent congress. whether or not that was justified -- secretary kerry said they didn't pursue a treaty because they couldn't get 2/3 rds. a strange admission to make in those terms. times, that at various congress was less cooperative and in more senses cooperative. there has been an enormous appetite in congress for the last two years to pass on a nuclear sanctions, which are explicitly permitted under the jcpoa. "please don't, mess this up for us." of course you are allowed to do it, but please don't. and congress didn't. and republican and democratic houses and congresses did not. provided anress has enormous amount of breathing instinctsthe better of many of its members. i think it was senator booker, but one of the democratic senators who recently came out in support of the jcpoa or against a resolution of disapproval. he said, if we could go back, i think we would have made mistake not pursuing sanctions resolution. forward, congress will hav

now early as january 2014, in the case of this particular meeting, the national security advisor ben rhodes was taking meetings -- withator's validator's to discuss how congress could be iced out of the process. that meeting was to create a front that would circumvent congress. whether or not that was justified -- the secretary kerry said the reason they did not pursue a treaty is because they knew they could not get 3. -- could not get two thirds. i think that at various times, -- less was left cooperative and at various times more cooperative, but there is been an enormous appetite in congress for the last two years to pass nonnuclear sanctions, which are explicitly permitted under the jcp away. they were told to not mess this up for us. of course you are a lad to do it, but please don't. and congress didn't. republican and democratic did not.s i think congress has provided an enormous amount of breathing room over the better instincts of many of its members. i believe it was senator booker, one of the democratic senators who came out in support of the cpoa, he said i think we haven't mad

. >> national security advisors ben rhodes put aside the talking points, both sides.alk cyber security, what are you going to do to stop the thiefery. >> how do we know that president obama will negotiate something hard with china. >> there will be a point presser. -- a joint presser. >> he's not going to press hard becaused on the past. stuart: they're stumbling badly. >> our economy has held up in the face of china's falling over. if you look at past history, negotiations aren't this president's strong suit. >> that's for sure. by the way, boeing has received an order for $38 billion worth of planes from china. china paid 38 billion, but there's a caveat to that. boeing will open its first factory in china, i believe they've got to paint the exteriors of the 737's. that's happening now. look at volkswagen, vw, the ceo has resigned, you know that. now, listen to this, it looks like bmw, may have an emissions problem of its own. may. ashley: there's a report in german newspaper says that the bmw x-3 spews out more pollution than the diesel cars we were talking about a

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rhode. after that, presidential candidate ben carson in ohio and after that, presidential candidate john kasich. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," stanford law school professor deborah rhode. professor rhode talks about the high cost of law and the lack of diversity in that the law profession. brian: deborah rhode, author of "the trouble with lawyers." why are you one? [laughter] deborah: well, i went to law school at the height of the civil rights movement, and i wanted to help save the world. so i thought maybe i could fight poverty or racial injustice and look where i ended up. brian: stanford law school. deborah: writing about social injustice. brian: go back to a new first got interested in it. where were you and what actually got you connected to the civil rights movement? deborah: i read a book by richard cougar called "social justice" which was about brown versus the board of education and it was a gripping narrative. and i thought, that is what i wanted to do. brian: where were you? deborah: oh, i was a high school student in chicago. brian: was there any person in your family -- debora

after the bilateral meeting we heard ben rhodes say that it seems that the russians are focused on isis. but knowing what another administration official said just today and knowing that what they are doing is in no way related or at risk with what the coalition is doing, does that change your view that they are focused on isis? does that raise serious questions? >> again, i think at this point it's -- the other thing that the two presidents agreed 307b -- upon in their discussions if he u.n. -- at the u.n. on monday was the risk that isil poses to u.s. interests, to russian interests, not just in the region but around the world. both countries share that priority. though, is uestion, what can we discern about russia's military strategy? i think i would just -- i'm certainly no military expert, it does seem unwise to start of firm hose kinds conclusions based on military have just taken place over the last few hours. we'll have a variety of ways to get greater insight into their eventual strategy strategy. that will include conversations between secretary kerry and the foreign minister.

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