the next prominent adviser was brzezinski. he, like kissinger, had been a professor at harvard and brzezinski of columbia and both have been prominent foreign policy writers and intellectuals and he tutored jimmy carter wouldn't have much politics and was the personal stories and had very strong views on what policy should be. he tended to be more anti-soviet a huge are you the law of the secretary of state who was a strong but cautious middle-of-the-road person on policy and the -- brzezinski would speak out publicly for positions the president had not yet endorsed and that meant that the administration looks like it was speaking with more than one voice and the press got a hold of it and a reputation became very negative. people sit under brzezinski once or twice the president would give a speech the would look like half is written by. finally a predator introduced a bill saying the national security advisor should be confirmed and it's clear that we have the two secretaries of state we should therefore confirm the other one

brzezinski, taking that point we don't want to start more wars in the middle east.ted to the idea of iran not getting nuclear wes. how can we achieve that short of some kind of military intervention of one kind or another? >> well, i tried to address that in my book, and it seems to me, first of all, we have to be more judicious about what we say regarding the iranian nuclear program. the correction recently issued to secretary panetta's statements on the subject is a very good guide. we have some indications that they are very serious about acquiring a nuclear we, but they haven't crossed the threshold. the iaea, the international agency is still conducting inspections and so forth. so the threshold has not been crossed, first of all, which means secondly we ought to be very careful how we relate to the iranians. we should press them to abandon the program, we should punish them if they do not, but we should not narrow our options. if we go so far down the road of compulsion that we have no other choice than to use the force or simply giving up, then we are in very

brzezinski. >> i caught the column this morning and i think what he misses is the role of economics ins, and we've gotten to the point now where china has so decimated our economy and manufacturing base that we are incapable of playing any kind of regional role that he would suggest. the problem is china wants to drive the pacific fleet back to hawaii. they are engaged in the most rapid military buildup since the 1930s. ironically much of that buildup is based on the technology they stole directly from us, and we've reached a point now where they are feeling their oates, japan, korea, are freaked out, want the u.s. to come to their rescue in this containment vessel, but, hey, dylan, it can't happen unless we have a manufacturing base and we're making weapons which here which are dependant on parts made in china so it's quaint. one of my favorite expressions is don't play checkers in a chess world and brzezinski is playing checkers here. >> let me play devil's advocate here. >> don't look like the devil. can you not do that. >> hugh hendry's short china fund is up 52% for the first time

we also had an interview with brzezinski i should add but we were not able to get into the degree to publish to read estimate we've been talking with i.m. destler, the author inn chateau the oval office profile of the national security of pfizer's when the presidents they served from jfk to george w. bush. thanks for your time. >> it's been a pleasure. thank you for having me. the making of africa and america is the name of the book. professor year the university of maryland is the author and the subtitle for great migrations i gave the title greater recourse the trans-atlantic slave trade in the first middle passage, the movement of some 400,000 african to the mainland north america. second, migration is the internals late trade the movement over a million the old south as it is sometimes called the black belt to the deep south, georgia, alabama, mississippi, louisiana, across the mississippi river. third, great migration being the movement of black people from the deep south from the soft to the cities of the north and the 20 at century. the total is over 6 million, and of course t

way to know we're i here completely share the view or former national security advisor zbigniew brzezinski who just used the word catastrophe in describing what it would mean eve this war would begin. would be attacked this is a very dangerous path and i do believe we still have chance and time to avert this development and find a meaningful negotiated solution the u.s. is winding down wars seeing iraq and afghanistan but for example they're expanding their military presence in the persian gulf what will the american security architecture look like after the pullout we regularly exchange views with the u.s. on this issue regional security in the gulf is a very elegant topic with thing that the point here. to underscore my part would be first. the should be ensured a real local regional ownership for security arrangements should be made that no one feels that its security is threatened because of the u.s. pullout secondly with respect to afghanistan we are telling our u.s. partners that we cannot understand the for what purpose they're contemplating a long term presence informed of u.s. mil

he didn't get along very well with brzezinski the national security adviser because they wanted him to be under the ministry department and bob wanted them to report as president and bob a few years later said he was right and he was wrong and he should have been reporting back to the state. a lot of what i learned about bob is it from him. i learned about his warmth and personality and good sense of humor but as far as what he was doing on a day-to-day basis and the dialogue in the situation room it's been released and is that the carter library and you can research at so a lot of what i have in your didn't come from my family it came from the archives. [inaudible] >> i wouldn't give him editorial control over the book and that is because i had just come out of journalism school. i was all my our lady and i said no you can't read the manuscript or reprinting it and he didn't. his longtime assistant of 40 years did read in the early copy mostly for the major but i have also fact check the book on the phone so was sort of the way that i made sure i didn't have any major problems but he

. >> brzezinski. >> brzezinski and the pope talked about it a little bit. there were that lot of cold war heroes, newt gingrich was a back bencher. >> and this 48 hours after saying i didn't need the money to lobby because i made so much darn money when, clearly, it's shades of lobbying at the very least, but forget the lie, forget the lie, to be so disconnected from the people -- from the very people that you're appealing -- >> i'm afraid he believes it. that's the most frightening part. let's move on. >> there's this ad. >> let's run paul. i'd like to see it. >> i'll show it to you. it's the latest attack on newt gingrich coming from texas congressman ron paul. in a scathing web video, the paul campaign labels gingrich, "serial hypocrite." >> beyond the words, there's a real question of policy. and a real question of values. and a real question of seriousness. the real question of policy. >> we don't always see eye-to-eye, do we, newt? >> no, but we do agree, our country must take action to address climate change. >> newt gingrich has been on both sides o

the reviews of this portrays mika brzezinski racing to the show in a skimpy running outfit while joellie geist and the boys stagger in after a night of drinking, smoking, and partying. ♪ dance to the music >> my professional reaction? seriously? it's a parody. they make fun of themselves. they all played along. some of these critics are in dire need of a humor transplant. >>> this wasn't funny. a routine christmas segment on santas on the mall, but robin robertson chose to play the grinch. here's what she said. >> stop trying to convince your kids that santa is santa. febt about it. that's why they have high expectations. they know you can't afford it. ask some man in a red suit? >> no santa? says who? the next night she had to admit that kids might have been watching. >> it was careless and callous to say what i said in what could have been mixed company. i would never spoil it intentionally so, i sincerely apologize. >> don't mess with santa claus. at least in front of a television camera. that's it for this edition of "reliable sources." i'm howard kurtz. join us next sunday morni

1979 and because of all the attention that he was creating within the department of state and with brzezinskithey decided to bring them back him back and run the campaign. and they thought that he would be better served as chairman of the campaign. >> what do you think now when you see what is going on now and in the political arena? what are his feelings? has he told you? >> i can't speak for bob and i don't know how he feels but i know he wishes that they were more like it was 30 years ago when people were partisan politics ended at cocktail hour and the republicans and democrats had drinks together and then when partisan politics ended at the waters edge and a public face for the rest of the world, america came together. >> can you talk a little bit about bob strauss' relationship to george mcgovern and the 1972 convention? >> yes. talking about george mcgovern in the 72 convention and i heard you were a mcgovernite. you were a mcgovernite. so strauss did not have anything personally against mcgovern and vice versa. and they both thought the other one was perfectly nice fellow. but bob rea

neal degrasse tyson is coming out with space chronicles in february, zbigniew brzezinski strategic visions america the crisis and global power and robert caro is coming out with the years of lyndon johnson, passage empower. that is coming out at me and that is the fourth in his lbj biographical said. sarah weinman what has caught your eye for early 2012? >> well certainly caro. remember when can often make the announcement, think i did the virtual equivalent of the happy dance. mean his books are so good. he just managed to document every depth of lyndon johnson so far and of course his first book the powerbroker about robert moses caused a stir and continues to be a watershed benchmark for how to write a biography. so understandably, this new volume, which i believe still only gets us into the vice presidency and not even into his presidency proper yet, so even though caro, who is not getting younger by any stretch of the imagination has been working on lyndon johnson for almost three decades i believe now. his next volume he is going to have to address the presidency and will be interest

brzezinski, he's got a book coming out next month. as china rises, a new u.s. strategy.ows itself to be preoccupied only with the problems today is likely to end up mired in the conflicts of yesterday. a great power must be guided by a longer range strategic vision. for the united states, the central challenge over the next decades will be used to revitalize itself accommodating china's rising global status. a successful u.s. effort to enlarge the west, making it the world's most stable and democratic zone would seek to combine power with principle. a cooperative, larger west extending from north america and europe through eurasia, all the way to japan and south korea would enhance the appeal of the west east core principles for other cultures thus encouraging the gradual emergence of a universal, democratic, political culture. >> that's taken from foreign affairs article that he's going to be published in january and february. his book comes out, though, in january. >> late january, "strategic vision." he'll be coming to new york and doing events here. i look forward to

brzezinski, also sherrod brown. and a look at mitt romney's profile in sunday's "parade" magazine. here's a look at the weekend forecast with meteorologist todd santos. what's it looking like? >>> it was a windy set-up across a few areas in the southwest. i wanted to start off with that. not so bad at least this morning, again, high-wind warnings and that brighter color there, northeast 25 to 35 with gusts to 60, down in l.a. proper, though, seeing the gusts closer to around 35 miles per hour. later on saturday, may see soot chance for one of these events to set up. there's a look at the advisories extending up the sierra, gusts upward of 60 plus miles per hour. back here in the northeast and extending to d.c., cool temperatures in place. 37 in buffalo, back toward detroit, saw at least a few snow flakes, and again, your weekend forecast, calling this considering it's friday, the week's almost over, many of us it should be very quiet. looks like quite a bit more than what's falling here. getting in toward potentially buffalo. you saw the temperatures kind of borderline for many of