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we interviewed colin powell, we interviewed john poindexter, the greatest failure as national security adviser who presided for the egregious iran-contra affair in the reagan administration. but we talked to lots of other people too. and we organized a series of round tables in which we talked about how the process had worked in particular administrations or for particular issues. and these are on our, the web site of our center for international and security studies at maryland, cissm.com. and if you look for national security council round tables, you will find discussion with former officials in the nixon administration, one for the clinton administration, one for the george h.w. bush administration, etc. and these are aimed at giving people a real sense of how the process worked. and they're totally open. they're on the record, they're available to scholars. and in the, and we had one with former national security advisers. and to that we taped the text of our interviews. we also had an interview with brzezinski, but i think we weren't able to get him l to agree to publish the inte

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colin powell and again the soul cross out the u.s. presidential race i'm joined by john mchenry in washington he is a partner and vice president of ayres mchenry and associates also in washington we have doug there now is a senior vice president at s k d knickerbocker and in dallas we cross the katrina pierson she is the executive director at watch the vote dot org and a board member at the dallas tea party all right crosstalk rules in effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want katrina if i go to you first i mean after florida we have mitt romney again for the fourth time seen as the frontrunner for the republican nomination is going to stay that way. i don't think it's going to stay that way actually and what we're experiencing is this huge up and down the road coaster. you know newt gingrich is receiving endorsements rick santorum is receiving endorsements i think this race is going to stay divided for quite some time i do see this going all the way the convention as it should what do you think about that i mean is mit

cameron powell has the -- colin powell has the story. "special report" starts at 6:00 eastern.>> bob: i used to do a lot of stuff to that song. and a pastor arrested two years ago. i will say this. i know i get upset on this issue. in this country, we were to put someone to death who converted from christianity and islam, we'd have uproar here. the iranians do enough bad things. the idea to pick on christians like this, the muslim world has to rise up and say we have a right to be christians, no matter where we are. you have to stop this stuff. >> dana: the saudis, there is no loved lost between saudis and the iranians. it would be interesting if somebody from saudi in the royal family stood up and said absolutely not. not to create more problems amongst sunni and shiaias but not a moderate choice but a strong voice to say it doesn't happen. >> eric: the saudis are equally as nervous about iranians as the rest of the middle east. 'canes no. they are, but if they want to make sure there was a lot of unity around the world, they might consider sticking up for innocent person. >>

also served as special assistant to secretary of state condoleezza rice and colin powell. good to see you. one of the great, one of yate look backs among a lot of journalists we've been more skeptical in the run up to the war in iraq. if we had been more skeptical and asked better questions and held our officials to account, we wouldn't have been, well, led into a war that didn't need to happen according to a lot of analysts. they had no weapons of mass destruction. what is to make us believe this time we're fed the truth. >> shep, that is clearly on the minds of intelligence officials. they also have iraq lists in mind. they will be careful what they say. i think we have to keep in mind, that iran is not iraq. iran has a quite overt nuclear program. hates uranium enrichment facility and we can see what they are doing. they have other elements and plenty of information, it's not as though they are hiding a lot of this stuff. the concern we have in the west, they say it's for nuclear energy. but you look at massive oil and gas reserves. you look at the stockpile of uranium

. >> yes, that's former secretary of state colin powell. is this the answer to our energy problems?> i think that's too big a claim to make. i think it is part of the transformation of the energy system. but i think the bloom boxes will make a significant contribution. >> to make a contribution in k.r.'s mind, bloom boxes will power not just our richest companies but remote villages in africa and all our houses. >> in five to ten years, we would like to be in every home. >> how much do you think it's gonna cost the average person to have one, to buy one? >> a unit should cost less than $3,000. >> you are an idealist. >> you know, it's about seeing the world as what it can be and not what it is. >> ieeing a bloom box in the basement of the white house. >> absolutely. i would love that to go on the lawn. >> so forget the basement. you want the bloom box in the rose garden. >> maybe next to that organic vegetable garden. i would be happy with that. >> since our report first aired in february 2010, the company told us they've received over 100 new orders, including ones from pg&e, calif

and without colin powell, barack obama would not have been possible. these are just some of the stories, ladies and gentlemen, that i love in this book that i wrote first of all for my dad, but also for our children. for our children, our african-american children, and all american children because the blacks to become a black history is american history. there is no american history without black history and ironically there is no black history and there is no african-american history without american history. the inextricably intertwined and we do a disservice when we separate them. i want these stories to be fundamental part of the american history curriculum. but i also want within our own black institutions, institutions like jack and jill, you remember jack and jill. i would never go to jack and jill. for those of you don't know, that was [inaudible] [laughter] it was to learn to use a few were ever invited to the white house. [laughter] it was to learn how to be middle class. why can't jack and jill b. black history for us? why can't that be a f

like i saw colin powell choose to withdraw from a confrontation and colin powell's a very well-trainedre you practice, the better you'll get when you need to do it. >> you say something interesting in the book. you talk about women creating a work self. >> yeah. >> which is a different self from the self you have at home around your husband or your friends or your children. so, is that putting on an act when you're at work? >> no. here's the way -- i think it's so liberating. so, you have all these parts of yourself and when you go to work, you get to use the part of you that were never tapped before. so, it's immensely exciting. i mean, you don't have to be mommy. you don't have to be the lover. those can be very wonderful robes, but at the office you get to be someone else. and it's very important not to pursue the traits and relationships. joe, you were talking about relationships. what i think makes women vulnerable is that we want to be liked and we want to be popular, we want to make friends. >> you have to get over that. >> and at work it's actually not so much about those thing

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