other guests included general colin powell, scotty , and the national symphony orchestra. in the marine corps from 1965 to 1971. a long time ago. we came home from the war years and years and years ago. they did not like this. everything has changed. anna-lysa: that was ralph all the world from tampa, florida, who we just heard from. he is excited to hear from: colin powell. live outside the capital, anna-lysa gayle, abc 7 news. [opera singing] tonight is the 28th annual national memorial day concert. that concert on the west lawn of the u.s. capitol at 8:00. last night's had much better weather, and it grew big crowd away as australia. as josh mentioned, some rain to fall during the show tonight. you might want to sign up for weather text alerts at wjla.com. arlington national cemetery draws crowds on memorial day weekend as well as the. and pay tribute to the lives lost. last week, the cemetery placed flags at the gravestones. today, hundreds of volunteers from around the country added something special to it. brian hughes shows us how they express their patriotism. one

you have this conflict between those guys and secretary of state colin powell. one of the great untold stories in that chapter of my book is that james baker, the former chief and george bush 41, the president's father were so worried, so concerned, so alarmed by the way secretary of state colin powell was being cut out by the other guys. baker would privately to colin powell with bush 41's blessing and said you need to go into the president and tell him this is not what you signed up for. you need to fall on your sword. and as baker put it to me he never did that. he had never talked about that before. but andy card had made it extremely difficult for card to perform the role of the honest broker. i think that he was outmatched at every turn by cheney and rumsfeld and some of the others in that white house. >> and the president, president george w. bush i know this not of my own personal observation but having talked to a lot of people, president george w. bush had a very close professional relationship with condoleezza rice, the national security adviser so th

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colin powell, don rumsfeld, condi rice. these were astonishingly experienced, smart people with a great deal of knowledge of how the government worked. one problem, they hated each other. well, that's not going to serve the president well if his team doesn't function well as a group. and those differences of opinion, of style, personality, only got greater and wider, they became exposed in the midst of the crisis post 9-11. so finding a team that not only serves the president well but that works well together, extremely difficult to do. >> there is an inevitable first year crisis. almost always something on the national security -- national security side of the ledger. >> last night, i ordered u.s. military forces to panama. no president takes such action lightly. >> in george h.w. bush, the first president bush's administration, ned a crisis in october of their -- they had a crisis in october of their first year. president bush said manuel noriega had to go from office. he was a dictator in panama who was connected to the

mcmaster and little by little they're colin powelling him, like the bush administration did saying colins the highest ratings. we're going to put him out there to answer the questions. the question is whether he, the national security adviser, was consulted before donald trump made commentary to the foreign minister about james comey. take a listen. >> when he gave that information to the russians about interfering in our campaign, he didn't even ask for your advice. >> george, what i would like to talk about is where i am right now, in saudi arabia. >> did the president ask your advice about this before he talked about james comey? >> the president always asks for advice before these sorts of sessions, but the subject of the fbi investigation, to my recollection, didn't come up. >> jonathan, has h.r. mcmaster been damaged at all by this situation? >> oh, absolutely. without question. poor h.r. mcmaster. he looks like he's in a bit of a hostage video there. here is a man who had a sterling reputation before he took that position. and now finds himself in a situation ere he's having to de

distinguished commencement speaker as former president bill clinton and former secretary of state colin powell. >> when i look back on what my father did in this past election, and the risk he took. >> reporter: clinton got $150,000 for his speech in 2002. another speaker told cbs news they were paid $60,000, plus first class airfare. the trump organization wouldn't say how much the president's son received but told us he's "been participating in business-related speaking engagements for over a decade." >> you can do it all! >> reporter: during the presidential campaign, trump jr. hammered bill clinton for accepting speaking fees from foreign entities while hillary clinton was secretary of state called it "pay to play." while the university is private, sources tell cbs news dubai helped found and holds a continuing stake in the school, raising the ethical question of whether a foreign government could be trying to curry favor with the president through his family. >> donald trump jr. is, you know, is part of his father's business, but he doesn't really have other experiences that would make hi

the colorado colin powell is the best you are going to get. believe it or not i any we are over 50.dea is, we have had plans on the books since the early:niernlts, some of which i was directly involved in planning regarding going in to do something to get these nuclear facilities it's always been a political policy decision to not do something. this may change. president trump has been change all sorts of paradigms. i think we are on the road to getting sufficient critical mass. but you may see something out of this administration taking direct action against north korea. lou: if you will, roll the video. a dangerous heart-stopping twist on the slim of and slide. this is what we call a giant slip and slide on a cliff 500 feet hide. the daredevils slipping and twisting through the air before they pull a parachute and lands safely below. you have got to have a desperate need for an adrenaline rush. another foreign company announces investment in this country. >> we want them to create higher-paying jobs in america. lou: steve forbes joins me right here next. taxes, jobs, economic grow

the colorado colin powell is the best you are going to get. believe it or not i any we are over 50. i don't think we are at 80 yet. the idea is, we have had plans on the books since the early:niernlts, some of which i was directly involved in planning regarding going in to do something to get these nuclear facilities it's always been a political policy decision to not do something. this may change. president trump has been change all sorts of paradigms. i think we are on the road to getting sufficient critical mass. but you may see something out of this administration taking direct action against north korea. lou: if you will, roll the video. a dangerous heart-stopping twist on the slim of and slide. this is what we call a giant slip and slide on a cliff 500 feet hide. the daredevils slipping and twisting through the air before they pull a parachute and lands safely below. you have got to have a desperate ne f an adrenaline rush. another foreign company announces investment in this country. >> we want them to create higher-paying jobs in america. lou: steve forbes joins me right her

, he did not run against bush, colin powell has ever lied on him. i remember being in the cabinet room and president bush, being early for him was being about 10 minutes early survey meeting was at 8:00, he better get there at 7:45 a.m. because he might let the door. in this instance, this would happen. cabinet meeting, everyone know, president is congress secretary of state? people say, he is not here. presence is not here. present as, locked the door. five minutes later you hear a knock. bush let him not for about another 30 seconds or so and said, the door. lin, don't evero be late again. so the impression you have to the media and when you work with different thing sometimes. i can't think of a funnier bus with a more wicked sense of humor and him. >> thank you for a illuminating why bush and powell did. always get along. ] aughter >> thank you very much for having this conference. veryirst 100 days are important. thank you very much have wisdom and vision. less than one minute, when ronald reagan campaigned he was opposed by everybody, even rid

general colin powell and vanessa williams will always be here. is to unite the country around our men and women who lost their lives serving for our country and those who are active in the military. there are things that you cannot bring. ken becontainers, going through bags and backpacks. don't bring things like knives or gunfire or lasers, and also, pets are not allowed out here unless it's a service dog. security is going to be tight in light of what we saw in the bombings in manchester. so they want to remind people, that you'll be waiting in line a little bit longer than usual. you'll see a very -- you'll see a lot of police officers out here. so some changes, but it's all trying to keep us safe. back to you. >> meagan, in light of everything that's happened in the world, i think we'll put up with a longer wait. thanks so much. >>> here's a look at some of the other stories we're following you. we've learned what caused the strong odor in richie elementary school that made several kids sick. gasoline spilled into a storm drain and fire offic

and former secretary of state colin powell. the quotes weren't provided specifically for the book. the first daughter used them with citations and credit. the founder and ceo of girls turned to twitter and said don't use my story in "women who work" unless you'll stop being complicit. ouch. >>> she's one of the more intriguing figures in this white house because you hear she's one of his most trusted advisers. we just don't know how. >> she's said she's easing into the role. she's learning how to be this adviser on the job. be interesting to see how that role evolves. >> where she moderates. >>> palestinian president mahmoud abbas set to visit the white house today. can he and president trump find common ground on the middle east? a live report is next. joint pai. blue-emu continuous pain relief spray, it works fast and you won't stink. (i've done every night isince i was a kid,hing empty my pocket change into this old jar. it's never much, just what's left after i break a dollar. and i never thought i could get quality life insurance with my spare change. neither did i. until i sa

presidents, those with military experience like colin powell and dealing with at the time sharon, theeader here and others who have had far more experience have had no luck in bringing these two sides together. now you have an aging weak palestinian leader and a historically maybe not strong politically but adept politically prime minister of isreal who has managed to out flank all of his challenges and opponents. hard to imagine. i was really struck by something. you know this region so well. i've visited it for decades. my first assignment at nbc news was covering the camp david accords back in 1978 and 1979. and i know it's before many of you were born. something that comes with experience. it's just stunning to me that the secretary of state on air force one flying to isreal was asked if he'd been to isreal before. he's not a young fellow. he's an experienced man who's spent four decades in the oil patch. >> he knows the broader arab world very well. >> very well. said it's not his first sword dance in that same air force one conversation. he was asked about the fact that he knew

colin powell admitted he had used email. you don't hear anything from condoleezza rice. everybody has crickets. it was because people didn't understand the ramifications. she at least tried to get a private server to help secure the information. they just wanted a way to communicate outside the state department when they are traveling and all of that and being able to have that "unit and without all that oversight -- that open communication and without all that oversight. and the fact that he released that 11 days before certainly had an impact on the election. i don't like the way he still feels he is the moral compass for america. that investigation should have been remained private. if she had been elected, they could have easily impeached her then. pedro: that is lynn in arizona. director comey saying he had no choice but to inform lawmakers about the investigation into late october. thousands of emails had been removed from the last stop used by former new york representa tive anthony weiner. continuing to speak about the rapidly unfolding developments, we had to wa

and henry kissinger differences between weinberger and george schultz, the difference between colin powell and donald rumsfeld, and your differences with symantec's -- mance, does that work? mr. brzezinski: i think he really is useful for the president to have different opinions. these days intion which the decision-makers circle around the president is very small and very unanimous. i think that is part of the explanation for the mistakes we have made in iraq. i think this agreement within bounds is useful. animus influences the positions people take. a think that becomes counter productive. can not the one who conventionally say that the conflict between me and vance did not have personal animus and it. is somek there opportunity when you're interviewing president carter, you can ask and. hear members -- he remembers. my guess is that carter will confirm what i am saying. namely, i did not go to the president and gossip. to the contrary, i preferred him to remain secretary of state. frankly, i preferred him because it was easier for me. in the competitive relationship over policy, i felt

there are some who have pulled it off, colin powell, al gore, dramatic impact on environment being outof office. so i don't know, but i intend to keep, raise the money if i and have the resources to continue to have a team so i can engage and speak out. and who knows where it's all going the go. >> janet hook from "the wall street journal" sitting in the cheap seats over there. [laughter] >> thanks for being here, governor. i have to follow up on that last thing, you're keeping a political team -- >> well, i hope to. advisers. you don't just come up with stuff overnight, you know? you have of to exam issues -- examine issues, you have to kind of work at this stuff. you have to work at communicating it the right way. >> -- [inaudible] the opportunity presents itself -- >> no, no, it's not about ready to run. maybe, but it's not really about ready to run. it's a willingness to be heard and a need to be heard if you think that things are going in the wrong direction. but, you know, i have a team that's removed from my office. it has nothing to do with my job as above of ohio, but it's a s

colin powell used to sit -- and i'm sure condi rice and other secretaries have done the same and go over books. they were three to four inches thick just to master the details so that when things came up that were serious, he was ahead of those with whom he was negotiating. that's what successful negotiations are about, being more prepared than the other side of the table. if donald trump thinks he's going to take the kind of swinging from his hip type actions that he's shown us so far into international negotiations, then we're going to pay. >> i want to ask you about a comment that wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, former business magnate made about the missile strikes that were ordered against syria. he was describing at an event what happened that night at mar-a-lago. just as dessert was being served, the president explained to mr. xi he had something he wanted to tell him, which was the launching of 59 missiles into syria, ross said. it was in lieu of after dinner entertainment. as the crowd laughed, ross added, it doesn't cost the president anything to have that entertainment. w

what ben carson, also very high-profile republicans like condi rice and colin powell, which you reach out? >> connect to powerful people makes a lot of sense. one of the things i want to stress here is there's a bunch of many different ways to be black that manifest and is expressed in politics. not necessarily a lot given policy difference like some unlike herd and obama. different regards to the way peggy is talking about, connecting people and being able to reach out across the aisle and build coalitions. this is something for african-american republicans in the party, i talk about this in "black elephants in the room." one other thing -- let them learn. one of the things i struggle with is trying to broaden those connections, connect and policies to things people care about coming to the identities that motivate them. oftentimes black republicans will say the frustration if there is a stifling ability to get the method out, message out that here's how this conservative policy connects to you. black citizens in tampa or chicago or california. instead, the only way you can talk abou

i'm from the colin powell school of republicanism, which is honor and country first, right?y politics have absolutely nothing to do with that book. that book is an intelligent analysis of what we saw with regards to that operation. logicals to be a terminus for an operation. you don't just do it for fun. the risk of doing this against the dnc, literally carrying out watergate, means it would have to be approved at the highest level of russia, which is the former kgb director, vladimir putin. he became an autographed, now fsb russia and has made his the heroes of the post-soviet union, now the republic of russia. that means he had to have done this to affect a result, and he wasn't just going to do it to damage hillary clinton. there is evidence that that is why he did it, but there is two parties to this, and no information whatsoever was stolen or used against his opponent. when you extrapolate that and boil it down and when you tie it to some of the connections the trump campaign had, that operation was done to affect donald trump to become the president of the united stat

now we've had a black president, i've been secretary of state, colin powell has been secretary of statefect, which i think is a very poetic way to describe it. i've never heard it described that way. >> a birth defect is something that's something with you but also something you can overcome. i think in this case we see that this birth defect of slavery colors the way we look at 50e67 other. we're not a colorblind society. we probably never will be. sometimes it causes us to look at each other with suspicion and that's at the root of any number of problems including issues of policing that we've been concerned with. so i like to describe it in that way, but i like to remind people every day we get up and we try to make this imperfect democracy a little bit better. try to include more people and that's america's story. >> let me ask you. in this book, you write, americans seem to be experiencing a kind of crisis of confidence about our own democracy, who we are and what we value. that's true under president trump? >> we've seen further a long time. americans are losing confidence many th

for a commission, three democrats, republicans three folks, put someone like condoleezza rice, colin powell people with integrity to get to the bottom tf this russia election, wikileaks, roger stone. get all of it out and have folks deal with it outside of the political rancor. >> shannon: there are a number of congressional committees investigating and other law enforcement agencies investigating. so many thing going on. the calls are being shot down that it won't happen. there are republicans who are calling for some sort of outside body or investigation. mark, i want to read something from a former speech writer for former president clinton with the brennan center for justice. the president says -- this has every appearance of a cover-up, a possible act of obstruction of justice as much as nixon firing archibald cox. the only precedent i can think of. he called it terrifying on multiple levels. >> it's ridiculous. who is pushing back on the nixon comparison? the nixon library tweeted out. fun fact. richard nixon never fired anyone in the f.b.i. even they reject the analogy. in the 1970s

funniest stories i love to share is that an early cabinet meeting and everyone thought, oh, well, colin powell, he didn't run against bush and powell has an upper leg on him. i remember being in the cabinet room and president bush being early for him was about being ten minutes early. if a meeting was supposed to start at 8:00, you better get there at 7:45 because if he hits the door and you're not there he might lock it. in this particular instance that's what happened. we had a cabinet meeting, everybody was there. the president walks in and said, where is secretary of state. i said, mr. president, he's not here. he said lock the door. that was it. about five minutes later you heard this -- and bush let him knock for about another 30 seconds or so and he said, open the door. he looked at him and said, colin, don't ever be late again. so the impressions that you have of a president, of how the public perceives them through the media and what they're like when you work with them, it is something else. as it relates to dig cheney, i would have to say i can't think of a funnier boss that i've ha

colin powell and i went nose to nose, number two in the national security staff at that time.s ronald reagan -- i wouldn't have written that speech for anyone other than ronned reagan. we speech writers are always trying to give ronald reagan back to his speech. we knew his mind, what he would respond to and i wouldn't have written that for anybody else and nobody else would have overruled the foreign policy apparatus to delivering that speech. like-wise the trump administration, i don't know the speech writers there, i know steven miller. it's clear they're not trying to invent donald trump. they're trying to take the policies, they understand the principles he believes in, the speaking style that he has so well-- well formed. they're not trying to invent a voice. they're not trying to invent policies. they're writing material at that comports with donald trump himself. david: stay with us. we have another gentleman who knows how the white house operates and speeches are delivered and chosen by the president, mr. pat buchanan now joining us on the phone. pat, i'm sure you saw

so as you mentioned some of the talent we have plus you've got the national symphony orchestra, colin powellain. it's a cross second of musical acts and dramatic readings and i just encourage people to carve out like i say it's not asking much to take 90 minutes out of three day weekend to help you understand why we have this holiday. >> ali since this is your first time to d.c. what are you most excited to see while you're here? >> come on, don't make me ch choose. um, oh, i really can't say. just driving through i'm surprised by, first, the quiet cold right now. but it's also really green and it's remaining me of home. so if i can actually just get out of the hotel and walk really happy. >> we don't quite boast the same weather as hawaii but we love it here. nonetheless. we get for good seasons. joe what would be your advice since you're veteran coming to the city or what's your favorite place to see. >> when we first sat down i was town ali i was pushing the smithsonian aero naught tick and space museum only because for the first museum you would go to in the city that i think is the kind

bottom line is sort of, reminds me of colin powell, that it's yours, you broke it, got to fix it. >>aby whether they want it or not. >> there are, some say should not passed any bill, should let it die, doesn't matter anyway. we have good polling. people understand that the republicans are in control of both houses of congress and the white house. it is up to them to deal with issues relate to federal government, after obamacare, health insurance is an issue for the federal government. the republicans will have to deal with it one way or the other. charles: is the bottom line also though, that health care, no matter how anyone may feel about it, you know, just referenced polling, do americans believe it's a right, that federal government has to figure out a way to get it to us? >> the republicans seem to agree with that precept. as they tarted continue through the work dealing with these cut as are changes to obamacare, they consider it a leading precept, important concept nobody loses coverage, that coverage is the responsibility of the federal government. that is where we are. both

charles: i remember the powell doctrine, colin powell say go in overwhelming force, win quickly, create have been loathe to do that particularly since the vietnam war brought ugliness of and horror of combat to our living rooms. it has been sort of a piecemeal thing. 3,000 doesn't sunday like a lot to win per se. it sounds like enough to stop the tide. are they setting up to perhaps negotiate with the taliban, formal exit because everyone is saying no matter what, the taliban will be part of afghanistan's government from here on out? >> i don't think we can allow the taliban to be part of the government. clause said part of war is imposing your will upon another. we haven't done that with the taliban. they retain radical islamic perspective. we can't allow that in the 21st century. we need to defeat the taliban. defeat the ideology there. not allow them to ever have a sanctuary. they will launch attacks out from the sanctuary they established. charles: coming into yesterday, america had lost 2396 troops, soldiers in afghanistan including four fatality this is year. so we better be sure

stuart: joining us now is robert charles, former assistant secretary of state to colin powell. welcome back to the program. very poignant moment i think. there was a meeting this morning, a joint press conference this morning, between president trump and mahmoud abbas who leads the palestinian authority. mahmoud abbas is paying relatives of dead jihadists as rewarded for their terror. now the president of the united states confronts that. what do you make of all this? >> well i think the manchester event quite frankly puts a lot of this in perspective. it punctuates the president's message on this trip, evil, the balef good and evil crosscut religious lines, muslim, jewish, christian, doesn't really matter. that event puts in stark contrast the evil that we're confronting in islamic terrorism. when you're killing children that is pretty graphic. i'm reminded, frankly of just this morning of win ton churchhill and his statement that victory is never final and defeat is never fatal. it is courage to continue that matters. i think president trump has done an extraordinary job on t

let me quote secretary of state colin powell when he stated, and i quote -- kyoto, this is not talking out of school, was not handled as well as it should have been, and when the blowback came, i think it was a sobering experience that everything the american president does has international repercussions. that was general powell warning us about the importance of international diplomacy and our actions have consequences. hindsight on the impact of u.s. participation in kyoto would have had on the protocol's success on the u.s. economy is another debate entirely, and we'll leave that for a different day, but a clear lesson from the episode is that the u.s. must not underestimate how seriously the world takes the issue of international cooperation to combat climate change. should the trump administration withdraw the united states from the paris agreement, it will be an incredible insult to our global partners and severely tarnish the trust nations have in the united states, that this will be in all areas of u.s. negotiation and cooperation. while the paris agreement does not have enfor