charlie: bob gates has said his strongest national security concern, washington. we are vulnerable in terms of how we commit to the future, education. mr. lott: budget policies, defense policies, foreign relation policies. i did not work that much in the international area in the house. but as majority leader, you get to know king abdullah or meet with putin. the more you do that, the more it exacerbates the whole thing. we have had enormous turnover. they do not have the understanding, respect, or interest in developing relationships. that is where we suffer. charlie: here is what interests me. look at majority leaders on your side going back to lyndon johnson. think about you, harry reid. george mitchell. this is a different group of men. mr. daschle: it is. mr. lott: on both sides. both sides of the capital too. we talk about, when we were in leadership, there was a center. moderates on the democrat and republican side. i never camped in the middle, i was right of center, tom, left of center, but that group has kind of disappeared. both parties have pulled more

bob gates.feat isis; otherwise, we#<0÷ are going to fight them here.á?8s peoplef the o running.amed is so for that coherent strategy i mean, like who has that now? because now would be a really good time to tell the american people we are deep into this primary season and the g.o.p. i+ 7 >> well, i would hope that as part of the republican platform that we would, which i'm sure i will play a role in, that we will lay out a strategy to d5ñhpt+-ódic @ isis and, by the way, that will require some american involvement, boots on the ground about not 100,000. not 200,000. butmç about 10,000. because we will either fight taken byhn syrians and russians. not by anybody that we support. did you see the mash note that fidel castro sent to barack obama after histwo visit to cuba while he was tangoing while brussels was upheaval? >> indeed i did see the tango. anyway, senator, it's always nice to see you, sir. thank you. >> you and i can tango together some time too, greta. >> i would like to try that. [ la

i sent along with bob gates to our european allies and say you cannot have it both ways. you cannot complain that you are very heavily influenced by american foreign security policy then fields when your hands in your pockets to develop -- fail to put your hands in your pockets to develop a voice. you cannot expect to have a free ride on the back of american taxpayers which a lot of european countries have done. i would exempt the u.k. from that. we are being low along with other countries to have not been pulling their weight, particularly in the likes to the way the u.k. has alongside the u.s. in afghanistan and iraq to be lectured we did not play our part in our security. >> some suggested that the one person that will be celebrating a leave decision will be vladimir putin. dr. fox: well, i don't think that his invasion of georgia or his annexation of crimea or impressions into ukraine were pulled up by the members of the european union unless i am reatly mistaken. this is one of the great calculations. we have the strength of putin because of serial appeasement by the

in 2011 bob gates leaving the department of defense was blunt in his criticism. >> what did he say?ingly precious funds of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources to be serious and capable partners in their own defense. very similar to echoing what trump is saying. >> trump/gates 2016. right, ian? so so there has been skepticism not only from donald trump but bob gates and a lot of americans tired of the united states pulling the weight of the world disproportionately. what do you say to them? >> i think it's true that much can be done to improve burden-sharing in at alliance but it's a complete falsehood to say it's obsolete. look at the benefits nato brings. >> what's the most important thing it does? >> it's a force multiplier. nato provides mechanism by which we forge democracies. look at afghanistan. at the height of the operation, we had 130,000 troops in afghanistan. by "we" i mean the alliance. the united states had 90,000. the europeans had roughly 40,000. when you think about a military operation, for every unit you have in the field, you ha

if you go back to what bob gates, the former defense secretary said about nato and the fact that after with many people coming up that don't remember the cold war, who are now voting, there is a risk that they wouldn't understand the return on investment in nato. i think you heard much of that from trump. what is different here is that there are prescriptions about how you deal with that are entirely different so that mr. trump, for example, was suggesting that we threaten to xloot completely pull out of nato. he was suggesting we threaten if japan doesn't provide more support, although they already provide most of the support for troops there that we completely pull out of that. it a different understanding, anderson, of alliances. it's very transactional, where, in fact, our forward presence around the world provides significant benefit to the u.s. in intelligence, in early warning, in an ability to project power far from our shores. >> it's interesting, david gergen, i think with other candidates, if you ask something that maybe they weren't so familiar with, they might say, you kno

moments in the interview where you sort of wanted to ask, and i did at several points, you know, what bob gates used to see, robert gates, the former defense secretary, is the least asked question in washington, and then what? you decide you're going to show your pique at nato or the saudis and ditch them in some way. how does that change the international order? well, in the case of saudi arabia it would probably empower iran. in the case of nato, if we actually did pull out of nato or change it in a significant way, it might well embolden vladimir putin. if you let japan build nuclear weapons, you may well trigger a arms race we've been trying to avoid for 50 years in asia. so he's got a set of answers to his questions, but he hasn't spent enough time on these issues to sort of think about the next set of consequences. >> david, i have to say, in terms of technique i admire everything about the way you and maggie conducted this interview. and i'm wondering, for example, you would ask a question, donald trump would not answer it, but he'd give you a good 800 words of stuff without answering it

i suspect bob gates may have shown up. and me, the cia guy. we took this very serious. we could've been entertaining and talking about soft topics in building deeper intelligence cooperation. interrogations. i will never have this chance again. it was a very candid, very polite, very respectful, very valuable conversation. by about page two or three of my notes i saw the speech. we had good speechwriters. this is one i did some personal work on. europeans to the look, let's the candidate. let me tell you what my agency believes in my government believe in what i believe might come true. we are a nation at war. we are at war with al qaeda. its global in scope. takemy responsibility to the fight to that enemy matter where they may be. global, there was not another country in the room that agreed with any of those four sentences. that not only rejected them for themselves, but clearly felt we were not on solid legal ground in terms of applying them to us. you do have this dichotomy between ourselves and the european. there was another part of the book were talked about tar

i suspect bonn -- bob gates may shown up, condi. now they bring in me, the cia guy. and we really took this seriously. we could have been entertaining and talking about soft topics, belling cooperation -- building cooperation. i went with renditions, interrogations and detentions. [laughter] feeling i'm never going to have this chance again. and it was a very candid, very polite, very respectful, very valuable conversation. but about page 2 or 3 of my notes, i still have the speech. a as you know, we had good speech writers, right? but this is one i kind of did some personal work on. page 2 or 3 i just say to the collected europeans, look, let me tell you what i believe, my agency believes, my government believes and, frankly, what i believe my country believes. we are a nation at war. we are at war with al-qaeda and it affiliate withs. this war is global in scope, and i can only fulfill the responsibilities i have to my citizens to take this fight to that enemy wherever they may be. war, al-qaeda, global, take the fight. there was not another country in the room tha

i sent along with bob gates to our european allies and say you him and him and cannot have it him cannot have it both ways. you cannot complain that you are very heavily influenced by american foreign security policy him and him and then fields when your hands in your pockets to develop -- fail to put your hands in your pockets to develop a voice. you cannot expect to have a free ride on the back of american taxpayers which a lot of european countries have done. i would exempt the u.k. from that. there was a bit of irritation that we were being lumped along with other countries who have not been pulling their weight, particularly in the likes to the way the u.k. has alongside the u.s. in afghanistan and iraq to be lectured we did not play our part in our security. >> some suggested that the one person that will be celebrating a leave decision will be vladimir putin. dr. fox: well, i don't think that his invasion of georgia or his annexation of crimea or impressions into ukraine were pulled up by the members of the european union unless i am greatly mistaken. this is one of the great calc

i suspect bob gates was there. and then he brought me in, the cia guy. we took this very seriously. we could have talked about soft topics. renditions, detentions, and interrogations. feeling i would never have this chance again. it was a very candid and respectful conversation. about ph three of my notes, i still have the speech. we had good speech writers. this is one that i did some personal work on. i said to the collected europeans come let us be candid. believe,ll you what i and my agency beliefs. we are a nation at war. war with al qaeda and its the silliest. -- and it's affiliates. more, al qaeda, global, take the fight. there was not another country in thoseoom that agreed with statements. they rejected them for themselves but clearly felt that we were not on solid legal ground in terms of applying them to us. you have this dichotomy. there was another part of the book where i talked about targeted killing. killing of a leader in september of 2009. by the navy seals. there was no time to capture. this was a kill operation. i made the point that there is not an intelligence

i suspect bob gates may have shown up. so we took this very serious. we could have been talking about soft topics and building deeper intelligence cooperation. i went with renditions and interrogations. [laughter] it was a very candid, polite, respectful valuable conversation about page two or three of my notes as you know we had good speechwriters but this is one i kind of did some work on. page two or three i said look what the candid and let me tell you what i believe and my agency beliefs and frankly what i believe and my country believes we are a nation at war with al qaeda and its affiliates this war is global in scope and i've noticed the response abilities i have for my citizens to take this fight that enemy wherever they may be. the war, al qaeda, global, take the fight. there wasn't another country in the room that agreed with any of those sentences. they not only rejected them for themselves but clearly they felt that we were not on solid legal ground in terms of applying them to us and so you do have this dichotomy. there's another part in

february 27 recanted that at the time, when an intervention in libya was being discussed, secretary bob gates stated that qaddafi was not a threat to us anywhere. then the director of defense and intelligence agency, michael flynn commented that qaddafi was a thug in a dangerous neighborhood, but he was keeping order. how has the ks in chaos in libya, specifically the weapons from qaddafi's stockpiles in the infiltration of isis and al qaeda affiliates led to the destabilization of the middle east and threaten our security interest? >> thank you senator, the first affects of that destabilization was in molly when many of the fighters and arms ammunition explosives had that way which created challenges north africa and mali. the militias who have grown up in and around and used many of the animation stocks for their power and influence, not only only internal to libya, but external to its neighbors, and then the challenges have continued to grow because of isis and its brand of terrorism to threaten places like tunisia and then of course destabilize and total chaos in the area there has contri

secretary bob gates told me, sometimes you have to plant a tree you never stand under. first corinthians says we have to lay a foundation and a cornerstone in our life. and luke says the measure you give is the measure you'll give back. we need to quit trying to predict the future and go out and invent the future. that's what we're all about. let me close by saying this. tomorrow, look in the mirror. when you get up in the morning look in the mirror, tell me who you see. do you see george washington? do you see thomas jefferson? do you see margaret thatcher? do you see ronald reagan. if you do, we're going to win. if you don't, we're going to lose. efetion the armor of god tells us, put your helmet on, put your buckle on and boots on and raise your sword to the enemy and fight like heck. that's where we are today. we need to do that. i would say in close, get on your horse, buckle up, saddle up, suck it up, go be paul revere and make sure conservatives are elected and lead this country in november of 2016. thank you very much. mr. brady: thank you. thank you. question f

top security officials lined up against any military action in libya, including defense secretary bob gatesty advisor. still hillary prevailed with what she would later describe as an exercise of smart power. the president caved. so under the cover of a u.n. resolution advertised as an effort to head off genocide, u.s. air raids unleashed the gruesome overthrow of gadhafi and created a playing field for terrorists and warring tribal militias. adding to gadhafi's robust weapons stash, the pentagon launched a secret pipeline of weapons to rebel militias. many of which wound up with muslim terrorists across the middle east and africa. the militias cried havoc and libya as a country dissolved. we now know from the record that before she called in the bombers, mrs. clinton rebuffed several offers of diplomacy to establish a cease fire. instead of decisiveness, hillary relied on endless workshopping with members of her sorority about what the u.s. should do. there is not much you can say to a woman who has made up her mind to win the white house and roll the president. what she didn't expect arri

i used to sit along with bob gates and i would do part two of the lecture to our european allies and you cannot have it both ways. you cannot complain that you are very heavily influenced by american foreign security policy then fail to put your hands in your pockets to develop a voice. you cannot expect to have a free ride on the back of american taxpayers, which i think a lot of european countries have done. i would exempt the u.k. from that. there is a bit of the irritation in the u.k. that we are being lumped along with other not been pulling their weight, countries that have not been pulling their weight, particularly in the likes to the way the u.k. has alongside the u.s. in afghanistan and iraq to be lectured that we did not play our part in our security. that relationship did not go down well. heather: some suggested that the one person that will be celebrating a leave decision will be vladimir putin. your comment on the geostrategic implications of an exit from the eu. dr. fox: well, i don't think putin's invasion of georgia or his annexation of crimea or impressions into uk

-- whose contributions verged on laughable in terms of why european security, i used to sit with bob gates, used to do part 1 of the lecture, you can't complain they are influenced by security policy. to develop a voice of your own, if you don't agree to say there is a greater pay. you can't expect to have a free ride on the back of american taxpayers. there was a bit of irritation in the uk that we are lumped along with other countries who have not been pulling their weight. particularly the way the uk alongside the us and it ran and afghanistan to be lectured that we didn't play our part in security relationship. didn't go down well. >> host: one person celebrating the decision will be vladimir putin. your comment on the strategic implications? >> i don't think his invasion of georgia or annexation of crimea or incursions into the ukraine were put off by membership of the european union, this idea that this is one of the great calculations that was made in westminster is not one of the guiding factors. we have the strength of vladimir putin because of serial appeasement, cyberattack on e

times" report recounted at the time when intervention in libya was being discussed then secretary bob gates stated that libyan leader moammar gadhafi was not a threat to us and then director of defense intelligence agency quoted gadhafi was a thug in a dangerous neighborhood but keeping order. general rodriguez how has the chaos in libya specifically the proliferation of weapons from gadhafi's stockpiles and infiltration of isis and al qaeda affiliates led to further destabilization of north africa and middle east and threatened our security interests? >> thank you senator. the first effects of that destabilization was probably in mali when the fighters as well as arms ammunitions explosives headed that way which created challenges down there. so it has destabilized north africa. the other challenge is the militias who have grown up and around and use many of the ammission stocks for their power and influence not only internal to libya but external to neighbors. and then the challenges have continued to grow because of isis and its brand of terrorism to threaten places like tunisia and then

i had known bob gates for 40 years. i had known condi for 20 years. you know, you have a comfort with people and you have confidence with them and there's a presumption of good faith. and it really helps things get done. secondly, and i'd say the president, and i'd say the national security adviser, the inner agency process is the president's -- the president has to take responsibility for it. if it's not working and it's dysfunctional, the president needs to fix it. because nobody else is going to be able to fix it for him. thirdly, i think i would say to them, yes, get consensus, if you can, on lower level principles but take it to the president as a check because the president may not agree with the consensus. again, the national security council does not make decisions. it prepares decisions for the president to make. that's who the country has elected to make decisions. so, yes, work on consensus on lower level issues but bring the consensus to the president. and on the big issues, bring in -- or bring her options and let's have the president mak

he had not really thought through what bob gates used to call the "and then what" question. so you let japan get a nuclear weapon. what kind of arms race does that then start in east asia? you ask the saudis to pay for all of the american operations in the middle east. where else might the saudis take their alliances? so he hadn't done the second order questions and that's, i think, worth further exploration with it. >> and mark halperin, sam stein was talking about how unnuanced trump is in his answers and i remember seeing yesterday the interview with secretary of state john kerry about the brussels situation and the problems in europe and how unprepared in some ways on an intelligence level they are and yet kerry was so nuanced in his answers and so careful and even somewhat supportive in light of what they are about to do in terms of meetings there. i just wonder how trump would have been in that interview. i think he would have said everything. they're completely unprepared, the borders are porous, it's the wild west and they're going to have more problems. and then i w

he rode a kiss and tell book like bob gates has done. it was a mild embarrassment. thought that she was so traumatized that if she wanted to consult astrologer she was well within her rights. susan: we will talk a little bit more about that later on. jordan is in pennsylvania. hi, jordan. >> my grandmother has the same birth day as nancy reagan. she was born july 6, 1920. she was one of my favorite first ladies. did her mother live to be almost 100 when she was in the white house? judy: her mother lived to be elderly, but i do not know how old her mother was when she died. susan: do you remember of she was around for the inauguration? i think she was actually one year older. susan 1921 was actually her : birth date. sorry to pop your balloon there. judy: i am looking it up. susan: this helps us with the transition from the ge years, to politics, and ultimately, to the governorship of california. did nancy personally like politics, or did she learn to like it is she loved ronnie? carl: she did not love politics, and she was not built for politics. it was on the job t

february 27 recounted at the time when intervention in libya was being discussed then secretary bob gates stated that libyan leader moammar gadhafi quote was not a threat to us anywhere closed quote and then director of defense intelligence agency quoted gadhafi was a thug in a dangerous neighborhood but keeping order, closed quote. general rodriguez, how has the chaos in libya, specifically the proliferation of weapons from gadhafi's stockpiles and the infiltration of isis and al qaeda affiliates, led to further destabilization of north africa and the middle east and threatened our security interests? >> thank you, senator. the first effects of that destabilization was probably in mali when many of the fighters as well as arms ammunitions explosives headed that way which created some of the challenges down there. so it has destabilized north africa all the way down to mali. the other challenge is the militias who have grown up and around and use many of the ammunition stocks for their power and influence not only internal to libya but external to its neighbors. and then the challenges ha

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bob redell. >>> and we are finally drying out after that really wet weekend. let's take a peek at the golden gate bridge. on your left, downtown san jose. on your right a little cloudy but some sun trying to poke through that gray. let's bring in meteorologist kari hall with a look at our forecast. >> yes. now that the rain is over let's take a look at some of these numbers and how we're doing. for the month of march in santa rosa, this is what we get on average, about 5 inches in santa rosa, san francisco about 3.25 inches and san jose normally gets about 2 inches. this is what we've had so far and be findful we're only halfway through the month. santa rosa had over 9 inches of rain for the first 14 days of march. san francisco had over 6 inches of rain and we're bringing those rainfall totals in some spots almost close to double what they normally get as we go through this month. and then in oakland, we are over the amount of normal, also in livermore and san jose. so looking at the rainfall year, we are doing quite well, at least about 100% in many spots. we'll talk about those rainfall totals

gate field, you're all right. we'll track that through the area and over here that is what bob is talking about closing part of rheem. getting over towards st. mary's those are both open. ookay off of 24 if you're heading to the university. meanwhile, crash here for west 80. this crash is on the one on the shoulder. looks like all the activity has cleared and we haven't seen slowing, but track that. typical build in hayward and no surprises for southbound 101. back to you. >> thanks, mike. >>> politics sometimes called performance theater. when broadway and the white house collide. coming up next, a free-style rap featuring president obama and the award winning star from "hamilton." >>> we'll take a look coming up in "business and tech." we need to be ready for whatever weather may come our way. my name's scott strenfel and i'm a meteorologist at pg&e. we make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may impact their energy. so every single day we're monitoring the weather, and when storm events arise our forecast get crews out ahead of the storm to minimize any outages. during storm

bob. we have the americans on the run. they're at our gates, but they're headed the other way. we've been working on this strategy and it's working. it was like, what are you talking about? what world are you in? does that help? >> marco rubio had success among late-breaking voters. the problem is there just weren't enough of them. so i think the story of marco rubio's campaign so far has been always on the cusp of a breakthrough but never quite getting there. >> he won a state. people said he'd never win one. is that the same one mondale won? he won one. wasn't it minnesota? >> yeah, but here's the question. we got a two-week sprint. >> jesse ventura. >> most people in the party who don't like donald trump want all the candidates to stay in because that maximizes the chances of denying him a convention majority. so john kasich has been running behind trump but not terribly far behind. marco rubio has been running substantially behind donald trump in florida, but we have the word that super pac z are going to go hard after donald trump in florida. we'll see whether they can clo

bob, and he has kindly agreed to tell me everything i need to know about casting. i'm going to suit up and next, we're in the water. >> what any gentleman should do. golden gate angling has free lessons the second saturday of every month. we have equipment show up on the 9:30 on the second saturday of every month and we'll teach them to fly cast. >> ok. we are in the water. >> let me acquaint you with the fly rod. >> nice to meet you. >> this is the lower grip and the upper grip. this is a reel and a fly line. we are going to use the flex of this rod to fling away. exactly as you moved your hands. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> i'm a natural. >> push both arms forward and snap the lower hand into your tummy. push forward. >> i did gave it a try and had great time but i might need some more practice. i met someone else with real fly casting skills. her name is donna and she is an international fly casting champion. >> i have competed in the casting ponds in golden gate park in san francisco. i have been to japan and norway for fly casting competition. i spend my weekends here at the club and at the casting pond. it's a great place to learn and have fun. on a s