talk about that, mika brzezinski . when you are in your most pain, hungry, lightheaded, everybody says -- >> the feedback was amazing. >> amazing. >> starting to show. people like your mom, work, to kids. your amazing. you would not believe the designers that would throw free close at me. >> and he started writing this book. you produced it the happiest year had been on tv was this summer at the conventions weighing 135. >> and that just like a mom. >> and you would wear a sweater. the first time he had been on t and wore jeans, sweaters, weighed 134, the most comfortable yet never been. what happens when you weigh 135 forces won a team? what i am saying is, when you'r at a weight that is unhealthy you get rewarded when you are a a healthy weight. and suddenly they stop throwing clothes that you. is weird. >> i'm at the stage when i'm done with it. a way of coming clean and putting that behind me because am really tired of trying to be a size i am not. at out think it is healthy, honest, and the science behind what you

i get respect for brzezinski one of the smartest minds in washington i wish they'd listen to him more we have heard similar plans the british media leak plans out of ten downing street where tony blair and george bush were talking about bush was president bush was talking about going on invading saudi arabia and pakistan it's cold as irrational exuberance on the part of conservatives thinking there is a military solution to all these problems they could impose the west's will in all these troublesome countries it's been disproved and i hope it's wrong and it's not going to happen right and he did call it a policy crew of seizing upon the power of the blank check going to the government after nine eleven obviously if the author of seen house meyer down we got iraq one of the countries he didn't mention is north korea of course you've been talking about the asia pivot moving focusing on china strategically in the future is that why we're seeing so much rhetoric about north korea lately to kind of strategically arm or selves for a future position against china well the america is deeply

brzezinski.e forecast. >> that was a hit, too, you can believe it. it's friday, everyone. one huge big apology to everyone in new england for this memorial day weekend. it's going to snow -- snow in some of the highest peaks and elevations. it's 39 in buffalo. that's the cold air that's going to mix with the rain and then turns to snow as we go to the upcoming weekend. just ridiculous. soggy forecast, rain filling in now from d.c. up to eastern pennsylvania. it's raining pretty good from boston northward. we got the rain. it's going to continue, maybe flooding problems in new england. weekend forecast today's getaway, besides new england it's not that bad out there. as we go through the weekend forecast it doesn't change. middle of the country chance of rain. rain in new england. new storm coming in memorial day for the west coast. we're looking okay actually on the east coast for all those memorial day parades and just a few thunderstorms as we go throughout the midwest. no tornadoes or anything

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zbigniew brzezinski.y and he said he read your book, that every sentence was like a paragraph and that he had to read it three times. >> good p. he is trying to memorize it? >> he was just trying to understand it. he thought it was important. >> so talk about what you just saw the president's approach on syria. what does he need to do moving forward? >> i think he has to bear in mind the fact that we are watching as sectarian war. not struggle for democrats but the sectarian war and really a war in a region that is volatile. the name of the game, i think, is to preserve some degree of american influence without american becoming the chief practi proceed twe have to keep that thing in mind. if we can fashion something with the russians, that is all to the good. if we can't fashion something with the russians, then we can support what we call democratic opposition which is the least flungs of the groups engaged in violence so we keep some degree of influence. my warning is don't plunge in on our own. no boo

for peace in the caucasus headed by one of the biggest russian friends so-called friends zbigniew brzezinski that's where we are right now and overall a full force i believe. is the boston attack and they have a kind of a healing psychological effect on the american society american government well i was in a you just mentioned that. western counterparts should stop giving . you know potential insurgents from. the status of refugees as it happened you know earlier western countries were quick to grant a refugee status to cox's insurgents after the church and conflicts but do you think now this policy is likely to be reevaluated perhaps. well i hope so. i'm not really there up to mystic about it because unfortunately in the last several decades the position of the united states was so different from the position of russia regarding church now regarding the caucasus or regarding the overall disintegration of the russian federation but of course the moment i'm more optimistic than i was let's say a couple of months ago definitely more domestic but i was before the boston attack well you see it

mika brzezinski wants to start a conversation on the issue. mika joins us now.o i don't, but i have some other issues and i think as a country we have a problem with obesity and our overall relationship with food. >> what is it? >> it's i think, an addiction, and i think there's a growing amount of science out there to prove that the sugar, salt, and fat that is engineered in a lot of the food that we eat causes a lot of people to have a reward in their brain in the pleasure center of their brain that is far more -- it's as intense as an addiction to alcohol or drugs for example, in my opinion, and there are some experts that actually come forward and say that's worth looking at or i'm already there. and think this is why we are having this conversation today. >> mika you talk a lot about -- on "morning joe" with dzhokhar breaux about food addiction an obesity in america but what you've about done is say i suffer from some of the same problems as those who are obese addictions to food. why did you want to share that type of story? >> that seems leak a stretch. t

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that's why i have trouble with that incrementalism, and i think brzezinski is right there. if we're not prepared to go down that path, i don't think we should, given the local realities and all else we have on the plate. i think we ought to be prepared to provide arms to the select members of the opposition, let them fight it out, if that's what they're prepared to do. >> richard, i just want to open this up to our folks in new york. dexter filkins basically asserts that the president may have waited too long. he writes -- in essence the president has reasoned that the war is too complicated for the u.s. to have too much influence. perhaps obama is right, but its also true the reluctance to act has allowed the war to run off on its own course. so you look at the dynamics of this conflict. it's sucking the region in. by proxy hezbollah, iran is in and out involved, you have the refugee crisis, it's affecting turkey and jordan. you talk about stability in the middle east. syria just isn't in an area that you need to get involved, but you could say strategically it is a proble

i heard doctor brzezinski on msnbc, "morning joe" the other day, say exactly that. respect his opinion highly. and agree with him. >> what do you say to those, though, who argue that you've had 80,000 people die. and that america has to do something? >> america has to do something. we have to use all diplomatic channels we can. even though the russians are blocking a number of those channels. we have to be offering as much humanitarian assistance as possible. we have to be talking with all our allies in the region, including turkey, saudi arabia and qatar who are arming certain elements of the rebels and trying to insure that their weapons are not going to groups that are hostile to the u.s. and some of our friends in the region. such as the group, japa de japa del nusra who says we are al qaeda. >> we what we have is a potential stalemate. you have saudi arabia, qatar and the brits and the french who are going to join in arming the rebel groups, some of the rebel groups. and on the other hand you've got hezbollah and iran and russia certainly, propping up the assad

brzezinski at the time, national security adviser to president carter to combat a harder line if you change names in history you can be talking about writing a story on today's front-page about the internal divisions. >> guest: i think those things are very similar to the. the thing what was new and then of course is that nobody had ever encountered an islamic revolutionary movement like this. people didn't know what to make of it. people at the time were looking for all kinds of comparisons. there were people comparing ayatollah khomeini ghandi peay it was that simple. when you look at this policy few, that isn't putting too much on it, between the secretary of state, the national security adviser at the time you see competing views on what this means, what's going on here, and because a was very hard to understand at halftime. on the islamic revolutionary fundamentalist is pretty new. >> host: that is two points i want to follow on to it as a historical point it is striking to recall in historical terms what will the hostage taking of the dominican diplomats play in resolving the i

secretary of state vance was much more in favor of negotiating a more conciliatory stance than brzezinski at the time. the national security adviser to president carter took a much harder line and if you take names you could be talking on today's front page about the internal division within the united states government. >> guest: yeah and of course many are similar today. nobody had a friend countered an islamic revolutionary movement like this. people did not know what to make of it. people at the time were looking for all kinds of comparisons and for example there were people comparing ayatollah khamenei to gandhi. what other comparison do we have? yes a religious leader that let an independent struggle. it was that simple of them may look at this policy feud if that is not putting too much on a between secretary state in the national security adviser at the time. what you see us competing views about what this whole thing means in what's going on here. because it was very hard to understand at the time. we have to remember the word islamist and didn't even exist at the time. the islam

his new book is called "the dispensable nation: am$j$can foreign policy in retreat" zbigniew brzezinski writes about this book "an impressive and sweep regular view of the escalating geopolitical challenge that the united states needs to address more intelligently." m pleased to have vali nasr back at this table. welcome. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> rose: you and i have had many conversations at this table so now that you have written this book, you say the following as we continue quoting. >> my time in the obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience. so the question is that arises is what were your expectations and why were you disappointed? >> my expectation was that the administration would be serious about engagement, about diplomacy about reversi some of the trends that emerged during the bush period and that it would be serious about the strategic issues that were confronting the united states in afghanistan and pakistan and the middle east. and given the turbulence in the region it was necessary for us to take some serious change in our a

then at 3:45 p.m., mika brzezinski examines the social, political and economic impact of obesity. you can watch these programs weekend long on booktv. for a complete schedule, visit booktv.org. >> there is no word the processed food industry hates more than the a word, addiction. and i do try to use it sparingly because they can rather convincingly argue that there are some differences between food cravings and narcotic cravings, certain technical thresholds. however, when they talk about the allure of their foods, again, their language can be so revealing, they use words like crave bl, snackable. >> salt sugar fat is our online book club selection this month. share your thoughts so far and see what others are saying on twitter at hash tag btv book club and on our facebook page. then join our live, moderated discussion online at both social sites. tuesday night at 9 eastern. >> you're watching booktv. next, david rohde argues that u.s. engagement in the middle east, gives his analysis on the arab spring and current events on syria. this is a little under an hour. >> thank you, and

mika brzezinski presents her thoughts on beastie in america if identity obsessed: america's food addiction and my own." walter cronkite iv and maurice isserman present a collection of letters that walter cronkite sent to his wife during world war ii in "cronkite's war: his world war ii letters home." in "big -- being poppy," kramer profiles george w. bush. george h.w. bush. andre lankov in "the real north korea: life and politics in the failed stalinist utopia." in "keep it pithy," bill o'reilly. margaret coyle, chief washington correspondent for the national law journal examines the supreme court under chief justice john roberts now in its seventh year in "the roberts court." look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. booktv.org. >> you're watching c-span2, with politics and public affairs. weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events and every weekend the latest in nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our web site, an

number 7, at number 7 on the inspirational list, the brzezinski family. ian, was deputy secretary of defense for europe under george w. bush. daughter, mika, is a prominent political journalist and co-host of msnbc's "morning joe." she refused to read a 2007 story about paris hilton's release from jail. her co-host restrained her from setting the script on fire but she turner t tore it up on air. >> i don't mean to question the integrity of the magazine. all i can envision when i think of my family is my brothers, mark, mr. ambassador s, and ian with donald rumsfeld beating the crap out of me on the front lawn threatening to kill my rabbits. >> i'm a brother too. i know what that's like. we grow up a bit. >> thank you. that's incredible. other families moving on. wow. barnicle. i have to say hold on. my mom made that bench. she's an artist. >> we didn't get to mention your mother. she's an artist. >> she's the hidden star of the family. she's the sculptor. she makes these beautiful pieces out of tree trunks. they are 2,000 pounds. i just installed one in

intib knew brzezinski and wrestling over afghanistan, of course, my main job was to bring him lunch ine. work hard and good things do happen. george shows that. george was actually a visitor professor at columbia in th the '90s. boy, are we so happy he decided to change careers. have a good weekend, george. >>> i'll show you pictures. i would like you three and you at home to play a little game with us. what are you looking at right here? >> yeah, i see it. see the cat. >> yeah, that's a cat. >> i didn't see it. >> this is called cat bearding. this is the latest internet craze apparently. people spend a lot of time who have decided -- >> and a cat. >> decided to pose with their cat. to look like a beard. recently tumblr used captain awesome sauce. >> what? >> a user on tumblr, he brought together some of the best cat beers on the web. on catbeard.com has been shared over 85,000 times and that, everybody, is your look at a very strange friday "pop news." >> yeah. >> ginger zee, you are following cat bearding, i dare you. up there in the park. >> okay, yeah, yeah, well, look at this crow

zbigniew brzezinski, and i imagined deep dives into gop political strategy, wrestling over afghanistane on the 13th floor. hot pastrami on brown bread. soon i learned my first lesson, all work has dignity. >> indeed, it does. indeed, it does. >> that's great. >> and what a great example. work hard and good things do happen. george shows that. george was actually a visitor professor at columbia in the '90s. boy, are we so happy he decided to change careers. have a good weekend, george. >>> all right, i'm going to show you now some pictures. i would like you three and you at home, frankly, to play a little game with us. what are you looking at right here? >> oh, wow. yeah, i see it. i see the cat. >> yeah, that's a cat. >> i didn't see it. >> this is called cat bearding. this is the latest internet craze apparently. people spend a lot of time who have decided -- >> and a cat. >> and a cat. >> decided to pose with their cat. >> yes. >> to look like a beard. recently tumblr used captain awesome sauce. >> what? >> that's a user on tumblr, he brought together some of the best cat beards on t

martha: anna zbigniew brzezinski, -- anna, is a attorney for us.hether he can seek murder charges based on those forced miscarriages we're learning about? >> the simple answer he can, in ohio, he you can be liable for a murder not just for killing another person who has been born but also an unborn. in ohio, they have actually the most expans sieve view of what that means if you unlawfully terminate the pregnancy of that person, even after fertilization and after a live birth that is in the ballpark that is expansive as any state has. in this case he is liable for not just murder but aggravated murder. as you say that carries with it if he is pleads guilty or grows to trial and is convicted there are two sentencing options. one is life without the possibility of parole. also he faces the ultimate which is the death penalty. >> anna, in ohio how does it work in terms of sentencing? does the judge make a recommendation to the jury about the sentencing? or does the judge do the sentencing? >> the first thing that happens just because the prosecutor de

"obsessed," it may be hard to think that mika brzezinski had an overeating food problem. this problem all of her life. how we can live and eat healthier. the four-page fold that folds out. >> oh, no. >> that is a very good review. >> when you look at the science behind the addiction to certain ingredients i think more and more people are behind it. >> how about joe? >> he is doing more than you expect and we will reveal that next week. >> a dozen glazed doughnuts? >> the munchkins. >> the timing for "obsessed" is fantastic and a topic people are loving. if you're in the d.c. area, thursday, we are so excited that you and joe will sit down with us on stage in d.c. for a playbook cocktails. 6:30 on politico's website and look and see mika and joe in person and talk about the book "obsessed." tomorrow jim vandehei and i are running our first marathon. >> i did one. mile ten, you'll hurt. they are both going to do it. alex was asking if you were going to split it! mike allen, thank you. thank you, donny. >> touche. >> touche. >>> coming up next, steve rattner will explain why

i think miles has done four brzezinski books now. he has.stic guy. a lot of love in the room. because i think mika has a real cross-section of respect. obviously people in the media community. young women look up to her. it was a great crowd. but it's an important, important book. i'm just fwoigoing to do a 30-sd plug. you've had two best sellers. this is at a different level because i think this touches everyone. >> we did a philadelphia event. usually we go there and people ten minutes in will ask questions about you. unflattering questions about you. they want to talk about the show. on this, we're there for 90 minutes. not a single question about the show. they all wanted to talk about "obsessed." >> for two reasons. it touches everybody on a human level. particularly for women. everybody struggles with weight. obviously the good reverend is going to talk about that. it also touches on everything political at the same time. it's very rare to bring those. if you are a pundit type and if you're an "us" magazine type either way, you're goin

night, "the new york times" best seller list for june 2nd, two weeks for now, "obsessed" by mika brzezinski't know that. ted cruz talking about budget negotiations and not raising the debt ceiling and then what happened? take a look. >> the senior senator from arizona urged this body to trust the republicans. let me be clear. i don't trust the republicans. and i don't trust the democrats. and i think a whole lot of americans likewise don't trust the republicans and the democrats because it is leadership in both parties that has gotten us in this mess. >> mike, mike. what? i just -- i don't know. maybe joe ought to chime in. joe? mr. cruz, is this just sort of -- >> it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun from ted cruz is standing in line in the cloak room to get hot dogs. >> yeah. >> how do you -- >> what do you do with that? >> this is a guy that, obviously, has decided he is going to be a lone wolf and you can be a lone wolf. no. on the house side. you go in the cloak room, eat hot dogs or sandwiches or whatever. any way. mike allen, this guy is obviously got no interest in working with a

brzezinski? >> my dad!anted and reached out to was the greatest basketball player to ever live, michael jordan. the quote from the head of it, this project said jordan was not independence. >> yeah. >> good thing jordan didn't say yes. so we could be treated to some of this. >> when you said you loved kim and think he is awesome were you aware of his threats to destroy the united states and his rah jej regime to surrender the record on human rights? >> i don't understand what he is doing and couldn't condone that by saw people respect him and his family. >> aren't they forced to? >> i say no, because i think he is going to change something. he's a great guy. if you sit down and talk to him, perception. >> -- >> a great guy who puts 200,000 peep in prison camps? >> it's amazing how we do the same thing here. >> we have prison camps in the united states? >> we don't but this is all politics, right? he loves basketball! i said the same thing. i said basketball. he want obama to do one thing. call him. >> he wa

you need to read "obsessed" by mika brzezinski. >> i have been obsessed by reading "obsessed". >> thetion of creativity, the fact you can talk about nate silver, shows creativitity can be applied to anything. not just about creative things. it can be crunching numbers can be done creatively. >> you're talking about politics and things going on in washington and how things stop. business for good or bad is the vehicle for change and progress in our world right now. creativity is coming out of there. that's what we're trying to encourage and highlight. >> and we've talked about, obviously, tv, we need to talk about number 8, brian canston remarkable actor in "breaking bad" but sometimes the greatest ideas, most of the times, the greatest ideas are the most simple ideas. talk about number 10, water. >> i'm sorry? >> number 10, chat irty, water. >> charity water. >> number 10. this guy -- >> scott harrison had such a remarkable concept. >> simple idea. >> so simple. water something we take for granted but is a tremendous danger and costs lives all across the world. he's gotten people exci