brzezinski's funeral gave credit to the opening to china to dr. brzezinski.im. let historians make that decision but, please, that was jimmy carter's white house. that was jimmy carter's administration, and dr. brzezinski did extraordinary things. but in that moment, i wasn't thinking about dr. brzezinski, i was thinking about the humility of a man who engineered -- jimmy carter -- the greatest, most significant opening in american history. and even late into his life, unlike all great leaders that we study, jimmy carter was giving the credit to someone else. in part because he did have an impact but also to bring comfort to a family and friends and loved ones. it spoke so much about jimmy carter's character. >> it did. and it does, and he was a loving man, and he is a loving man and he certainly had enormous taste in people. and it just made me cry to some extent to read john's book and think of someone like president carter and dr. brzezinski working together to make our families safe. compared to now when you have donald trump who all too often appoints pe

the next prime minister a libya well i think it's more more or less if you mean the head of the brzezinski council i think it's sort of the greed that mr ibish honors like the likely contender from so far and he has some kind of agreement to hear oral agreement among the different parties you know just to kind of to reward him before he leaves the whole political scene the country but then frankly dad you know there's a reason why i ask you this question most of you do understand that the president is not going to have any biggest say of the near future it is going to be the government when it comes to the government we're talking about prime minister the one who's going to take over from phase assad has and he's most likely someone who is politically backed by people in tripoli and most of. my that's this is very difficult to say because there are traitors different names you know but the government such a government will actually have less ball look more power and if there's one you know one thing i could add here very important there is just for geneva agreement to yesterday's divac tha

between stan turner and berzin key and jimmy carter and all of that, to me, is really fascinating -- brzezinski. but one of of the caveats about all of this, i suppose, one of the great sources i spoke to was stu eizenstat, just a brilliant guy. he's still very active and a really persuasive voice on foreign affairs and wrote a book on carter recently that was terrific. eizenstat was saying that, you know, our intelligence was just terrible during this whole period and that we often just completely misunderstand other societies. and this was a classic example. and, certainly, vietnam before iran was a classic example of us just not understanding the societiment -- society. but at the end of the day, you also have to wonder if we had known that the shah was on the verge of collapse, what would policymakers have done with that knowledge? you know, what exactly could we have done to have changed that pivotal moment in history, you know? would there have been any way to have arrived at some modus vivendi with the ayatollah? i'm not sure the odds are all that great that we would have been smart enou

. >> let's bring in the author of "the world, the brief introduction" richard haass and mark brzezinski served on the national security staff under bill clinton. we have a few topics to get to. i want to talk about the outbreak in europe. this should not be a surprise, we have been warned that the fall would be more difficult and we're starting to see that re-emerge in europe as well as the united states. how is europe handling it? >> it's not handling it well. as the days get shorter, people go inside and it shows how vulnerable you are to new spikes and we are seeing it throughout europe. behavior isn't changing sufficiently given the threat. this will real implications for economic recovery. it will slow it down, it's building new barriers between and among the countries of europe. but for us, this is a real warning of what happens with premature reopenings if the way is not sufficiently -- above all if people aren't wearing masks. >> and mark brzezinski, let's move from europe to north korea right now and talk about how europe with unveiled a quote monster missile, intercontinental

brzezinski said, put yourself in the enemy's shoes and of course, they're supporting donald trump because get out of afghanistan, of course vladimir putin is supporting donald trump, he wants to move our troops out of germany. of course kim jong-un wants donald trump to win. donald trump has shown he's also soft on south korea. so why wouldn't our enemies be supporting donald trump's re-election if you just look at their selfish geopolitical needs. >> joe, i think you can see around the world countries positioning themselves to try to benefit from what they can, what's left of the trump presidency. certainly you see that with turkey, which is moving for a much stronger role as a regional hedge aamon and becoming a bloody war with many hundreds killed. the u.s. is basically not at the center of the diplomacy. russia is. in terms of afghanistan, i don't think the president could do anything that would undermine the very difficult, delicate diplomatic negotiations that are going on with the taliban that would be more destabilizing than to promise an early withdrawal of american troops which

this general area, sir, of arms control, president carter's national security adviser, zbigniew brzezinski, said, a nuclear freeze is a hoax.'yet the basis of your arms proposals, as i understand them, is a mutual and verifiable freeze on existing weapons systems. in your view, which specific weapons systems could be subject to a mutual and verifiable freeze, and which could not? >> every system that is verifiable should be placed on the table for negotiations for an agreement. i would not agree to any negotiations or any agreement that involved conduct on the part of the soviet union that we couldn't verify every day. i would not agree to any agreement in which the united states security interest was not fully recognized and supported. that's why we say mutual and verifiable freezes. >> now, why do i support the freeze? because this ever-rising arms race madness makes both nations less secure. it's more difficult to defend this nation. it's putting a hair-trigger on nuclear war. this administration, by going into the star wars system, is going to add a dangerous new escalation. we have to

ambassador to sweden under president obama, mika brzezinski.. bruce, i'll start with you. is there still time for those abroad to register to vote? or are we running out of time? >> for some number of states we've missed that deadline. but for a lot of states there is still a lot of time left. and a lot of swing states, too. look at texas. you've got till friday to get your federal ballot. but for others the ballots have already been sent out and we need to get those ballots back. so if you haven't sent your ballot back, you need to do so right now. 30 states will allow you to email or fax them. but another 20 states you need to get that hard ballot back. and we're recommending that you use a courier service given the problems with the mail service. but that isn't over yet. once that ballot's in, you need to make sure it's accepted. and we're finding that in some cases, the signature didn't match with a recent case in florida. you need a plan and you need to put it forward. but votefromabroad.org or dot com, either one, get in there and registe

brzezinski and you can probably guess why.ry on harry truman and the truman doctrine that it's one of the great ironies of modern american history, postwar history that three of the most effective presidents were only elected one time. harry truman, jimmy carter and george h.w. bush in '88. you look at jimmy carter a record on the opening to china. look at what jimmy carter did with the camp david accords. that ended a generation of war between arab and israeli states on the ground, and we haven't had a ground war between those two since. the further we get away from jimmy carter's presidency, the more impactful and historical it becomes. >> absolutely. and, you know, just to take one of the things that mika's father was involved in, china. recognizing china. jimmy carter and tsao ping established the most bilateral relationship at that time. they had a gdp of sub-saharan africa. now the global economy is basically established because we normalized relations with china. and that may be carter's most lasting accomplishment. you