himself mth former clinton administration aid and author of first, gary ginsburg, talks about the political influence wielded by confidantes and close friends of u.s. presidents. sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. you can listen as a podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. federal reserve chair jerome powell held a news conference yesterday to discuss monetary policy and the economy. he announced they would hold its benchmark interest rate near zero. mr. powell also answered questions on rising inflation, the labor market and the impact of the pandemic on the u.s. economy. >> good afternoon. at the federal reserve we're strongly committed to achieving the monetary policy goals that congress has given us, maximum employment and price stability. today the federal open market committee kept interest rates near zero and maintained our asset purchases. these measures, along with our strong guidance on interest rates and our balance sheet will ensure that monetary policy will continue to support the economy until the recovery is comp

i worked in the clinton administration. the dynamic between the leaders'best friend and leader himself and how the best friend could speak in a way that no aid or staffer could speak. could speak more bluntly and act more naturally. i saw with warren beatty and the gary hart campaign, how he would fly in for major campaign event, and speak to the candidate in a way no one else around him would , and he would say, stop acting and talking like a politician, gary. gary would listen and change the way he spoke. i also saw how he would relax in late-night conversations and late-night dinners. i saw the same dynamic in the bill clinton campaign with vernon jordan, and how they were of equal stature, and what that allowed clinton to get from jordan, in a way he could not get from anyone else you worked on the campaign and in the administration himself. >> former clinton administration aide, and author of first friends, gary ginsberg, talks about political influence wielded by confidantes and friends of u.s. presidents, sunday nigh

order of service, sool jamie, i think that -- i'l start with you given your service in the clinton administration. >>on thank you very much, judge. i think t the prohibition, if y will, is of efforts by the white house or others inhi the administration to influence enforcement matters. and that is primarily criminal but sometimes civil as well. so i will tell you that we never discussedyo criminal enforcemen matters except at a policy level. weus would like more cases of this, we don't care too much about that. exceptut when i initiated a conversation where there were foreign policy considerations that i thought should be brought to bear in our own decision making. in civil cases, there were matters in which we gave kind of heads-up about what we were doing, and of course, we brief the white house on important criminal matters like the progress of our investigation into the oklahoma city bombing. i will note, just parenthetically, that several members of congress during my tenure did ask me about a pending criminal case and i politely said that is not something i can discuss with you. soth people

now as i understand it, the clinton administration fired all 93 u.s. attorneys as they have the right to do and replacing the norm. if somebody was or wasn't doing a job properly was a huge mistake and was in the bush administration. >> yeah, if i could briefly follow up. in the book that i wrote with jack, we talk about that investigation and the report that nora danahe produced and that was the substance of her conclusions about where the legal lines lay was adopted by the obama administration and delivered to congress in a letter, notice to congress in a letter. we actually think that out to become more formal guidance on these issues. so that is -- i'm glad you brought that up. >> i have one last question for the group. this may take us to the end so apologize to those of you who have submitted written questions. but our discussion has been historical for the most part. we have one or two brief mentions about the current administration and the policy prepared by the biden white house council's office. but i did want to ask as the current administrat

. >> former clinton administration aide, and author of first friends, gary ginsberg, talks about political influence wielded by confidantes and friends of u.s. presidents, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span q&a. you can also listen to una as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> next, a discussion on infrastructure investment in the developing world. panelists talk about the challenges and opportunities of global infrastructure development projects. they will also discuss the g-7 global infrastructure initiative known as the build back better , world. the center for strategic and international studies (csis) hosts this one-hour event. >> good day, everyone. my name is matthew goodman. i am senior vice president at csis, delighted to welcome you to the special event on build back better world, meeting the global infrastructure challenge. delighted to have you with us. on behalf of my colleague, john, who directs our reconnecting asia infrastructure project, and myself, who directs the economics program at csis, we are delighted to have you here with us. this will be a very spec

of the great things about the speakers we have today is they represent four different administrations, from the clinton and trump administrations which will give us some added perspective to this program, so let me say congratulations to the federalist society for putting together such an outstanding panel on a very timely topic. you know, it's my experience that really few, if any, organizations can do something like what the federalist society has done today with this program. our topic is the relationship between the department of justice and the white house and the notion or norm of doj independence. i use the term norm because at least by law the constitution, as we all know, empowers the president to take care of the laws to be faithfully executed and the attorney general who we customarily think of as the chief law enforcement officer of the united states is, of course, a member of the president's cabinet and serves at the pleasure the president. how doj acts independently from the white house is a pretty frequently discussed topic and one that perhaps has varied over time and administrations an

itself. >> former clinton administration aid and author first friends, gary ginsberg, talks about the political influence wielded by confidence and close friends of u.s. presidents, sunday night at 8:00 he turn on c-span q&a. you can also listen to q&a as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including midco. ♪

as i grew older, i started to work on campaigns and i worked in the clinton administration and i started to notice this dynamic between the leader's best friend and the leader himself and how his best friend could speak in a way that no aide or staffer could and speak more bluntly, act more naturally. i saw it with warren beatty and the hart campaign. speak to the candidate in a way that no one else around him would at the time. and say all the time, stop acting like a politician and he would get quite -- he would listen and he would change the way he spoke. i also saw how he would relax and then at night with late night conversations, late night dinners. then i saw the same dynamic that played in the bill clinton campaign and how they were equal stature and that allowed clinton to get from jordan than he could from anybody else. >> former clinton administration aide and author of "first friends", gary ginsberg, talking about confidents and close friends of u.s. presidents sunday at 8:00 p.m. you can listen to q&a wherever you get your podcasts. >> at a news conference on wednesday, fede

>> this is the clinton administration in the 1990s. >> how has social media changed it? >> i'm sure that people are sending pictures are on the internet. >> absolutely. there are so many things going on from games to the easter egg rolls, reading activities with the children, and with the benefit of social media, you can now see that in realtime instead of having to wait even a few hours for the internet article to come out. this is instantaneous. >> amplifying the event over and over again. i wonder if any country around the world under leaders have also a replicated the easter egg roll since it worked so well in the united states? >> that is a good question. i don't know, but i do think there are some presidential sites that post on easter egg rolls every year. i was in mentor, ohio for a family birthday at the james and garfield's historic site. they're hosting one this year, probably have some snow. >> let's talk about our most recent presidents. two terms of the obama administration, they had young people of stories, how did the obamas use or host the white house ea

it was democrats who served in the obama administration and clinton administration who warned them if they spend more trillions, inflation will come. and it's come every single month. and what's their answer for the future? more trillions. they probably would try to call us back in august to make sure inflation grows a little more. if that's not enough, just yesterday, we missed every indication and every prediction for growth in america. americans can't take this much longer. november can't come sooner. inflation is a tax on every single american. for those who don't know it, spend a little time with real america and you'll realize it. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. scanlon: madam speaker, my community in southeastern pennsylvania was deeply impacted by the terrorist attack of september 11, 2001. members of our community were among the fli

he also helped to formulate the white house's first cybersecurity strategy during the clinton administration hopefully, we have classified intelligence both in the united states and with our nato allies that confirms this in ways that we could never discuss publicly but, on a public basis, there is essentially tradecraft that these groups employ that is repeated. the privateers, as i call them, the hackers that work for themselves, sometimes for the governments, they are great, talented, but essentially lazy and do the same thing over and over again. each hacker group has a profile or fingerprint that you can identify. again, i don't believe our government or the uk government would be so public in accusing these groups of chinese government complicity unless we had more sensitive intelligence to back that up, but it is not a very difficult thing to figure out, actually. the privateer analogy is very striking, isn't it? that there are privateers or pirates are out there that can be used to manipulate, or be manipulated by the state, effectively. yes, it is back to the future from 400 years a

as i grew older, i started working campaigns and then clinton administration. i started to notice this dynamic between the leader's best friend and the leader himself, and how that best friend could speak in a way that no aide or staffer could. speak more bluntly, act more naturally. and i saw it with warren beaty, flying in for major campaign events and speak to the candidate in a way that no one else would act at the time. stop acting like a politician. he would get quite roused by and he would listen. he would change the way he spoke. and i saw the way he would relax and ignite with late night conversations, late night dinners. i saw this same dynamic in play with the bill clinton campaign with vernon jordan. how they were of equal stature. what that allowed clinton to get from jordan in the way that he couldn't from anybody else who worked on the campaign and then in the administration itself. >> the aide and author of first friends talks about the political influence wielded by confidantes and close friends of u.s. comfort danlts. sunday night on q & a. yo

and -- former clinton administration, talks about the political influence by close friends of u.s. presidents. sunday night. you can listen as a pod cass wherever you get your podcasts. >> dived stewart used to practice law in washington d.c. he gave that up over 15 years ago to write history. his first book was about the constitutional convention in philadelphia called the "summer of 1787." that was in 2008. he wrote about the trial of andrew johnson and then aaron burr and james madison, he looks at george washington and in david stewart's words. >> historian and listen at c-span. org. south carolina clyburn and s.e.c. talk about expanding broadband.

the federal courts are a mix of judges appointed by the two bushes, by the clinton administration, byma administration. those judges are much more moderate, much more traditional than some of the judges that joe biden has already appointed, so we have to remember that a lot of these decisions and a lot of these regulations are going to wind up being challenged at some point. alix: if the back of your desk is any indication, you're still keeping busy, no matter what. frank: i like busy. it's been a busy first half, and i think the second half is going to be equally busy. if this regulation does anything, i think it is going to motivate boards and managements to try to move forward quickly with deals they are considering rather than waiting for the regulatory process to turn on and potentially make it more difficult to get certain transactions through. guy: in terms of -- the political objective is clearly to reduce concentration, to foster innovation by allowing more companies a shot at becoming bigger. i am wondering ultimately how you see this working out. what do you think of the ai

wendy sherman was the coordinator under the clinton administration.ad: just quickly before we get back to the air. we'll be looking at what is going on here as well as the selloff in asia continues to worsen here on the tech side. let's get back to pyongyang here. when we got this news, we got a little bit of a push yaup for the so-called peace dogs there. what were they? >> we saw stone hitting its daily limmed limit of 30%. hyundai elevator rose the most in a year. but the fact of the matter is though it has effects after the summit taking place, it is not really longer lasting. an analyst -- these stocks are like game stocks. fueled by retail investors buying. manus: thank you so much. in hong kong with the latest on north korea and south korea. coming up, it is a big week for big -- kicking off the earnings report for the energy majors. we dig into the numbers. this is bloomberg. ♪ manus: day break europe with me, manus cranny and rishaad salamat. to the oil market. above $70 a barrel and taking some of the pressure off the largest energy companie

i referred to an air strike during the clinton administration, and the one where president obama tookk the people in miami are extremely frustrated and they want to make the biden administration is looking at all options. there seems to be a sentiment that there is a helplessness here in terms of what we can do to help our brothers and sisters in cuba. the united states has been in in a variety of things throughout the world and it is hard to see something happening without a real u.s. intervention at this point. >> mayor, to your point about military options being on the table, being one of the potential tools in the tool box of this administration, what would be a potential target of an air strike or targets? >> again, to be clear, i'm not advocating for a particular strategy. i don't have the intelligence of our military. our military would make those kinds of decisions and i'm sure whether or not it is public those are being had right now. but i think publicly there should be a discussion of a variety of different options. i know that we're all here in yam trying to provide a serv

. >> mark: better react than the clinton administration as you explain no need for the relevant oligarchis going to be an art collector. his name ever to emerge, is there? >> no, no. and i love these art critics who are saying well, this is a little bit like kurt cobain's sweater. everyone will want to own this because of its historic value. wait a minute, kurt cobain was a pop culture icon. hunter biden, god bless him, his only accomplishment is being joe biden's son, running up a tab at strip clubs and some diamond status points at the rehab clinic. let's be honest, when you look at the art as you showed earlier, mark, it's not georgeer is rot. this looks like rorschach splatter or as you said covid under the glass. it's not edifying. >> mark: no, i think someone called it bad hotel art. and i certainly am never going to check in at any hotel that is hanging hunter biden in the lobby. thank you for that raimondo, we raymond we will see you with laura tonight or as the week goes on. >> tomorrow. thank you, mark. >> mark: friday. i lost all time. cnn one time favorite democratic presiden

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we got very close at the end of the clinton administration when a proposal was made and it was refused by the then plo president. i think is possible in the future and i think the rainbow coalition government may, over time, begin to move in that direction. i also think the palestinians need to have new elections which they said they are going to have and i would hope for an opportunity to bring hamas back into the fold and for there to be a well-run palestinian's -- well-run palestinian where there is peace. i think that is the future and it would make the area safer. i think it would make for a much better relationship with the united states. host: the subtitle, with a half minute left. what is the overall message? guest: i want us to regrow a political muscle to confront hard problems. i think when you look at the history, the congress in particular has not done everything it should and everything it used to do. congress used to be an equal partner to the executive branch. certainly on foreign policy. i think the bridge builder that we have, joe biden, stayed in congress for decades

during the clinton administration tom served as a speech writer for christopher, an albright and as a senior director at the national security council. from 2001 to 2013, tom was the washington director for the human rights watch, a highly respected n.g.o. dedicated to promoting human rights and civil liberties. he joined the obama administration as the assistant secretary of state until the end of the administration in 2016. since his election to kong, tom has served on the house foreign affairs committee including service for the middle east north africa and global terrorism. tom was named as the vice chair in the 117th kong. to kick off our kong today, tom will deliver brief remarks. following that, i will moderate the conversation and will try to introduce as many of your questions as comments as i can. for those of you joining on zoom, you can pose your questions using the chat function and by those joining by phone, please submit your questions using theer events at mei address. also for anyone experiencing tech any nickal difficulties contact our staff -- technical difficulties

couple of in that role and then two more years in domestic policy roles on behalf of the clinton administration in the white house. then president clinton nominates justice kay began to be a judge on the d.c. circuit, but the republicans have no interest in confirming judges at that time, so that doesn't come to pass. she then returns to academia, this time at harvard law school, joining the faculty there where after four years she becomes the dean of the harvard law school, first woman dean of harvard law school. six years after that president obama invites her to become solicitor general. first woman solicitor general that we have ever had. and then only one year after that justice stephens retires and president obama names justice kagan to the supreme court. she's now going into her tenth term here and we're very privileged to have her as the host of this evening. justice kagan? [ applause ] >> thank you, jerry, so much. as you can tell from that introduction before coming here i couldn't keep a job. jerry, thank you for everything you do, for the supreme court historical society and everyth

since i was a kid and as i grew older i started to work on campaigns and i worked in the clinton administration i started to notice this dynamic between the leaders best friend and the leader himself and how that could to speak in a way that no aid or staffer could and i saw it with warren beatty to speak to the candidate in a way that no one else would at the time and he would say all the time stop acting like a politician and he would get he would listen and change the way he spoke and i also saw the late-night conversations and dinners and then i saw the same dynamic in the clinton campaign and how they were of equal stature and what that allowed in the way he couldn't from anybody else on the campaign and then the new administration itself. aid and author of first friends talks about the political influence yielded by confidants and close friends of the presidents. sunday night at eight eastern on c-span q-and-a and you can also listen as a podcast wherever you get your podcast. thank you all for being here. i'm an adjunct fellow from the hudson institute center for dispense concepts

during the clinton administration tom served as a speechwriter for secretaries christopher albright asof state department policy planning staff and as a senior director at the national security council. from 2001-2013, tom was the washington director for the human rights watch, a highly respected international ngo dedicated to promoting human rights and civil liberties globally. he then joined the obama administration and the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor serving in that position from 2014-to the end of the administration in 2016. since his election to congress tom has served on the house foreign affairs committee including service on the subcommittee for the middle east, north africa, and global terrorism. tom was named as the vice chair of the committee inn the 117th congress. to kick off our conversation today, tom will deliver brief remarks.s. following that i will moderate the conversation and will try to introduce as many of your questions and comments as i can. for those of you joining on zoo, you can post your questions using the chat functi

i remember when i was young seeing an appointee for ambassadorship in the clinton administration not even get a vote because he was gay. not that the work is done, but to represent that, it means a great deal. >> what does it mean to the community, to the lgbtq community, our community? >> well, what i hope it means to the community is that there is one less barrier to belonging and that me doing this particular role has meaning for people, even if they never want to or care to be a cabinet officer or work in transportation, but in whatever world they're in, in their profession, in their community, in their family. that the president of the united states saying somebody like me belongs at the table he's setting in the cabinet is a symbol to which they belong or ought to belong at whatever table they care about. >> what does your appointment and your confirmation say to the world about america? >> well, look, around the world lgbtq equality is uphill in a lot of places. i think it means a lot to be able to see that in what is the leading country by at least many measures in the world

and was this the white house counsel's office in the clinton administration, and the policy council as deputy director. couldn't keep a job, apparently. taught at the university of chicago law school. and then after getting tenure there, moved on. and settled at harvard. not very long after that became the dean of harvard law school. then couldn't keep that job either and then became slitter general first, and associate justice of the supreme court. judge paul engle myer went to harvard. and harvard for law school as he will about. clerked for judge wald on the d.c. circuit and was in the solicitor's office when drew days was slitter general. then was in private practice before going on the bench. and professional randall kennedy n the it'll middle, to my left who was a rhodes scholar a graduate of the yale law school, clerked for judge scully wright on the d.c. circuit. joined the faculty in 1984 and has been a protective prolific author of books. most of his colleagues are writing law review articles. he is writing books. and a member of the american act me of arts and sciences and t

i worked in the clinton administration.itness some really remarkable close friendship between leaders and their best friends. and i saw how this friend could speak more bluntly, act more naturally than any staffer or aid could and even in some cases how the meaningful impact on pretty consequential decisions. to my surprise, there's been little written about this dyn dynamic. there has been books about first wives, first pets, first butlers, but nothing about first friends, so i decided to write the book. >> the confidant status, the idea that rapport is being build could shape our whole nation. i want to talk about this unique relationship between presidentd. i wonder how you see it based on your book and the close interactions that you have seen? >> i wanted to do a chapter on president trump and i engaged someone as close to trump as everybody to determine who that might be. we went around and around for more than two months until this person finally confessed that the president really doesn't have a first friend or real

labor secretary during the clinton administration.uthor of the new book, the system, who rigged it, how we fix it. mr. secretary, it's good to have you with us. let's start with your biggest take away just from today's jobs report. >> it looked pretty good. that is it's kind of a goldilocks recovery. it's not too hot to spur fears of inflation, but it is big. that is a lot of people are flooding back into the job market. and eve enbetter, higher wages. >> we'll talk about that in a minute. why do you think we're seeing the increase in that the president saying american rescue plan might have something to do with it. what do you think? >> well, by and large, this is the opening of the retail restaurant hotel sector of the economy after the pandemic. i mean, this is the big deal. people are -- again, free to go out and a lot of these places need workers, and they're not necessarily the same workers they had before. a lot of workers these days are still holding back because they're worried about the possibility. still the possibility of

period starting in september 1996, going into the spring of 1997, that was during the bill clinton administration. that's how it worked. but that is not the only time it has worked that way. in 1975, it was something called operation new life, during the ford administration after the long terrible war effort in vietnam came to an end. it was 130,000 of our vietnamese allies who we brought out, in a hurry. again, guam served as the safeway point, the u.s. territory where people could be brought safely to get them into safe housing, to get the medical care, to get them care for their kids who they brought with them. importantly to get them vetted and get their applications process where they could move on to new lives in the same place the united states had promised them here, in america. this was may 6th 1975. >> for the next ten days american ships like this one will be bringing vietnamese refugees to guam. in all the sea lived will have 85,000 evacuees. it the first evacuation ship the american challenger docked at the qualm navy station early wednesday morning with more than 5000 people on boar

. >> former clinton administration aid and author first friends, gary ginsberg, talks about the political influence wielded by confidence and close friends of u.s. presidents, sunday night at 8:00 he turn on c-span q&a. you can also listen to q&a as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including midco. ♪ midco support c-span as a public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> at today's white house press briefing deputy press secretary , karine john pierre answered questions on covid-19 mandates and conflicting information from the white house and the cdc regarding the delta variant. she also addressed the united states policy toward cuba the , eviction moratorium and voting rights. this is about minutes. 45 karine: here is my mask from yesterday. wondering where that went. good afternoon, everybody. happy friday. i have a couple of things for all of you at the top. today, the president and the vice president met with gover

then i worked on gary hart's campaign and later worked in the clinton administration and watched closebest friends. are with with hart i saw the actor warren beatty. i watched his friendship with gary hart during the 1984 campaign when beatty would parachute in from major campaign events and was the only one around hart who could talk to him in a blunt way. he said top talking and acting like a politician in a way nobody else could and hart would listen to him. i saw vernon jordan and the role he played with bill clinton in the 1990s when he was the only one around him who had actual stature and could speak to him in a way nobody else could. so i saw an entirely different kind of relationship between a leader and anybody else around them. i saw how this best friend could speak more bluntly, act more naturally to any staffer or aide. and in some cases, as i write in my book, actually affect important policy. i went to presidential literature and saw books about first wives, first chefs, first butlers, but there was nothing about this dynamic so i thought why not write it. >> and you beg

when i got older e worked on campaigns and the clinton administration.able close friendships between leader and best friends. i saw how this friend could speak more bluntly. act naturally than any staffer or aid. and everyone in some cases how the meaningful impact on consequential decisions. to my surprise there's very little written about this dynamic. in presidential literature. there's book about wives and chefs and butlers and pets. nothing about first friends. i decided o write the book. >> the relationship the status. the idea that repore is built. and shape the nation. you don't realize it. i want to talk about the unique relationship between president trump and rudy giuliani. and i wonder how you see it. based on the book and the close interactions you have seen. >> well, i wanted to do a chapter on president trump. i engaged someone as close as anybody to determine who it might be. we went around and around for two months. until this person was very close finally confessed that the president really doesn't have a first friend. or any close frie

himself mth former clinton administration aid and author of first friends, gary ginsburg, talks about the political influence wielded by confidantes and close friends of u.s. presidents. sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. you can listen as a podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. federal reserve chair jerome powell held a news conference yesterday to discuss monetary policy and the economy. he announced they would hold its benchmark interest rate near zero. mr. powell also answered questions on rising inflation, the labor market and the impact of the pandemic on the u.s. economy. >> good afternoon. at the federal reserve we're strongly committed to achieving the monetary policy goals that congress has given us, maximum employment and price stability. today the federal open market committee kept interest rates near zero and maintained our asset purchases. these measures, along with our strong guidance on interest rates and our balance sheet will ensure that monetary policy will continue to support the economy until the recovery is comp

and was in the white house counsel's office and then the clinton administration and then in the policy council as deputy director. couldn't keep her job apparently, that's why the university chicago law school and then after getting tenure there, moved on and settled at harvard after a long long after that became the dean of the harvard law school and then couldn't keep that job either and became associate -- solicitor general first and then associate justice of the supreme court. george paul engelmayer at the far end is judge in the southern district of new york and has been since 2011. i should've said you became on the court in 2010 and paul in 2011 in the southern district. we went to harvard and to harvard for law school as well. clerk for judge walled on the d.c. circuit and then was in solicitor's office when drew days was solicitor general. pardon me. and then was in private practice before going on the bench. and professor randall kennedy, in the middle to my left who was a road scholar, a graduate of the yale law school, click for judge kelly right on the d.c. circuit. join t

if the clinton administration had sent their solicitor general, i think things might have come out differentlysusan: there is a bit of what chief justice william rehnquist wrote. "we hold that maranda, being a constitutional decision of this court, may not be overruled an act of congress and we decline to overrule miranda ourselves." susan: jeffrey: it is a remarkable decision. chief justice rehnquist has said that miranda is not a constitutional decision and he would come to the edge of overruling it. he shots everyone by upholding it. jeffrey: why does he do this? one thing he says is that maranda has come to be accepted by the culture. this causes justice scalia -- his head almost explodes. he is so upset about this ruling. he said the court has converted maranda into the cheops pyramid of judicial arrogance. i did not know what it was or how to pronounce it before justice scalia reminded us that cheop was a king who was so arrogant that he believed he could build the biggest pyramid and history and killed a lot of people doing that. justice rehnquist was a pragmatist. much more conservativ

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when i got older i worked on presidential campaigns then i worked in the clinton administration.ers and their best friends and i learned to appreciate how this friend could speak more bluntly, act more naturally than any staffer or aide could. and even in some cases as i write, have a meaningful impact on consequential decisions. to my surprise there's been very little written about this dynamic, almost nothing in presidential literature. books about first wives, first pets, first chefs, even first butt letters, but not first friends. so i decided to write the book. >> you talk about the impact of history. how about israel? president true man's friend eddy jacobson. let's talk about the friend he had from the habadashery. someone with deep in securities yet out sized ambitions. the most powerful leader who never earned a degree. he used anti-semitic slurs but recognized israel. for the latter part in particular, it was eddie jacobson who played a crucial role. tell us about eddie. >> it was. i think that chapter is the most powerful example of how a lifelong friendship can change

chance that we could have some carpets made and so these were actually delivered early in the clinton administration, but they're designed using the plaster work of the ceiling the very 18th century english design feature of having carpets and ceilings reflect each other something that mrs. kennedy would have appreciated greatly. so it makes the room less noisy, but it also takes away some of the opportunities that the children once had the theater roosevelt children were noted for roller skating around the room and subsequent children have had their attempts at recreating the mayhem of the theater roosevelt kids. but the room is still used is still left largely unfurnished and it's used for all sorts of parties and entertaining. this would have been where the president mrs. kennedy held the very famous dinner for the nobel prize winners of the of the americas and president kennedy delivered the rather famous remark that i never quote quite correctly, but he said never has so much talent been assembled in the white house except when thomas jefferson dined here alone. oops, now, i'm moving too fast.

we heard that in the clinton administration that healthcare and drug prices were going to come down thanksthcare plan. during his administration, healthcare stocks were up 383.6% and market was up 263.5 and drug prices come down? not really, but listening to the president's speech, charles, was it was mind boggling, just the claims that were made, that because of competition, we've had massive layoffs. i don't know when that was but i don't think we've seen that for decades and we're really in an environment of worker shortages, so none of, i mean the platitudes were grade, but none of the substance was there and that's where the market is saying yup, it's more of the same out of washington, we'll get tweaked at the margin on regulations, but we're not going to see any sort of sea change. charles: so, you know, you mentioned the clinton era, and of course, president obama and obamacare, we saw the health insurance stocks go up like 500% but also president biden, he's bringing up teddy roosevelt in office from 19015-1909 teddy roosevelt 1933-1945 and by the way 1945 the rest of the world wa

we know the clinton administration was very close for a breakthrough that it didn't happen.ut in the aftermath of that, we have a number of understandings. lake land swap for example and this is how you could always advance with the notion of two states so this is whether jerusalem or refugees. all the's issues come at the time. but the drive toward them we should never lose sight of. >> thank youle very much ambassador. you mentioned earlier the important role of the united states but also egypt and israel. and moving toward something that you didn't talk about what that is and that basically describes the approach on badgering palestinian lives. is that attainable or are you hoping for more? >> i'm glad youou got me on that because that's my favorite topic and what the ambassador just said is to say i completely agree i think the ambassador would agree. sometimes the sports analogies might be another places but if you can't run a marathon at least run a five k race. but i spoke about eight or nine times. and he has always said to me. and to be 80 or 90 percent on the marsh

that was during the bill clinton administration. that's how it worked. but that is not the only time it has worked, that way. in 1975, it was something called operation new life during the gerald ford administration after the long terrible u.s. war effort in vietnam came to an end. it was 130,000 of our vietnamese allies who we brought out in a hurry. and again, guam served as the safeway point. a territory where folks could be brought safely to get them into safe housing, get them any medical care they needed, to get them nay care for their kids who they brought with them. importantly, to get them vetted and get their paperwork and applications process so they could move on to new lives in the safe place the united states had promised them here, in america. this was may 6th, 1975, "nbc nightly news." >> for the next ten days, american ships like this one will be bringing south vietnamese refugees to guam. in all, the sea lift will add 80,000 evacuees to the more than 50,000 who have begun moving through guam by airlift. the first evacuation ship, the am

he also represented three white house officials in the clinton administration.ant to start with you. you heard what our colleague cynthia oxney was saying, she would focus on ivanka trump as far as where this investigation is going. would you? >> well, i agree with cynthia because this is a small control group of the trump organization, and the indictment was clear that ivanka was the head of the trump las vegas company, a subsidiary or related company to the trump organization. in fact, all the kids are very much involved in the trump organization. and so if it's a small control group, and the prosecutor says -- wants a protective order to keep discovery confidential, who do you turn to next? it has to be the kids. >> yeah, barbara, erik trump difficult missed fears he and his siblings could face indictment saying, we've always lived amazingly clean lives. what's your take on this? >> i was amused by that. i recently read an article interviewing ivanka at a point she said she wasn't sure of allen weisselberg's title. she didn't know exactly who he was. she wasn

so you worked on presidential campaigns, in the clinton administration, and one of the catalysts forng this book is when you learned al gore didn't have friends. what happened? >> well, i wouldn't say al gore doesn't have any friends. what happened was, i was vetting him for the vice presidency and i went to see a wise old hand in washington who asked me a series of questions before we went for the final interview. and he said, i don't really care about his views on the mx missile or noxious greenhouse gases, i kcare about whether he has close friends, because if you don't have close friend, you can't be an effective president. so he went to the interview and asked gore to list his friends outside of a couple of members of congress or his brother-in-law and the senator then just kind of stumbled and he came out of the interview and harry was just really concerned that somebody who couldn't kind of list a series of close friends might be more challenged as president, having watched johnson, who he thought was basically friendless, struggle in his final years as president. >> so you sa