colin powell well joining me now are encrypted link from falls church virginia is someone who is colin powell's chief of staff and sam adams award winner laurie wilkinson retired colonel thanks for coming on the show i just going to watch because we played a sound bite there would you recognize that israel has nuclear weapons because obviously there is a continued denial of that fact from the u.s. government now of course they do at least part of the technology they stole from us with the acquiescence i think a limited base johnson then present the united states in the sixty's they have nuclear weapons let's just quickly go to the situation in kashmir because while the most of the media are interested in the talks in hanoi and and the lawyer giving evidence in your country what is your take on the kashmir situation and why it suddenly flared up given your background as a chief of staff this is an.

correct us well joining me now are encrypted link from falls church virginia is someone who is colin powell's chief of staff and sam adams who would win a lottery wilkinson retired colonel thanks for coming on the show i just going to watch because we play the sound bite there would you recognize that israel has nuclear weapons because obviously there is a continued denial of that fact from the u.s. government now of course they do.

colin powell well joining me now are encrypted link from falls church virginia is someone who is colin powell's chief of staff and sam adams who would win a lottery wilkinson retired colonel thanks for coming on the show i just going to watch because we played a sound bite there would you recognize that israel has nuclear weapons because obviously there is a continued denial of that fact from the u.s. government now of course they do at least part of the technology that stole from us with the acquiescence i think a limited base johnson then present the united states in the sixty's they have nuclear weapons let's just quickly go to the situation in kashmir because while the most of the media are interested in the talks in hanoi and and the loire giving evidence in your country what is your take on the kashmir situation and why it suddenly flared up given your background as the chief of staff. this is an extremely dangerous situation even in two thousand and two when we took great interest in the situation between pakistan and india and dispatched some high level diplomats there to deal

colin powell has said the objective of war needs a political base.ly, he says that once there is a sound military objective, there has to be decisive force to support it. the last military person, david petraeus, was a major in the army when he received his phd from princeton university. his thesis was entitled "the lessons of history, and the lessons of vietnam." david petraeus worked his way up the army latter to become a four-star general and rector of director of the cia. he said that senior generals have drawn three lessons from the vietnam war. one, there are finite limits of american public support from u.s. involvement in a protracted conflict. two, civilian officials are responsive to influences other than objective conditions on the battlefield. finally, the military recognized there are limits of military power when attempting to solve certain types of problems in world affairs. let's hear from the other side. as we saw in prior classes, various veterans groups started up during the vietnam war. one group is vietnam veterans of america. as

colin powell is not a fan of invading iraq. he has the famous expression, the pottery barn rule. going to have to rebuild it. on the other side, rumsfeld and cheney, they just want to go in. >> when you're dealing with terrorist networks that can attack at any time at any place using any technique, you know before you start that you can't defend against that. therefore, you have no choice. we know they have weapons of mass destruction. we know they have active programs. there isn't any debate about it. >> powell was the odd man out here. he realized he couldn't affect the decision itself, so, at that point, he changed gears and persuaded the president to get public support. >> the democrats are opposed to the war. george bush is happy to have this become an issue. bush actually pushes the idea of having a resolution supporting the use of force in iraq before the congressional elections. so that members of congress will feel compelled to vote for it. >> congressional opposition in both houses finally came down to a few hardcore liberals who worried congress was giving up its right

in britain targeting m i six is so gay script coming up on the show all the chief of staff to colin powell colonel larry wilkerson on donald trump at war from venezuela to iran to korea alleged russian state sponsored mudda with former k.g.b. operative an espionage historian eggs on the vassily of oliseh ball coming up in today's go. on the ground but first the prime minister of nature's closest ally in the middle east israel is said to be indicted for corruption and bribery it was of course binyamin netanyahu oversaw last year's u.k. armed killing at the twenty eighteen gaza border protests not that it stopped to resume inviting the man israeli police wanted done for fraud to downing street promised to come back to the downing street very soon to have the opportunity to talk with. jordan for the range of issues which will clash with a very good relations. with israel and a number of areas that i hope we will listen to which he spent some time talking about the issue of regional security instability instability least important of course to israel but to the rest of this is has become netan

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including a convert program of kidnap and torture the secretary of state at the time was general colin powell his chief of staff was colonel larry wilkerson today he says that operation was a terrible mistake and still doing irreparable damage to the united states moral position in the world as a leader of human rights and human dignity and rule of law and so forth we no longer are seen as a leader indeed by more than two billion people in the world according to polls were considered the number one threat to their future. and isn't case in lives near johnston regional airport one of the two north carolina airports used to say good rendition flights she took me that. so if you will look down there that's aero contractors. are a contract is our local firm that supplied planes for the secret cia program. in the years following two thousand and five allison and her friends began to investigate air a contract is she realized that some of the people involved with the company with people she knew one was an attorney. who had children the same age as my and it was shocking right because they were pro

. >> conned lee za rice with bush, colin powell with bush sr., is it not a striking contrast, yet they want to appeal for black votes. i asked you to name them -- >> because i'm not going to participate in the attempt to make this all about race. it's ridiculous. how many black people were in abraham lincoln's west wing? >> first of all, you've got to go back to abe lincoln, you really need to -- george bush. >> is abraham lincoln a racist because he didn't have a black person in the white house? the this is insane. this is an insane discussion. >> you can't name a black in the west wing because we can't find one, katrina. i pity you. i'd sympathize with you, come on. it's unthinkable in the 21st century that even a spokesperson for president trump can't name a black in the west wing. >> absolutely. and you contrast that with the range of diversity of our candidates on our side of the presidential primary this time, the record number of diverse members of congress elected on the democratic side this last time. it's such a stark contrast and it's an embarrassment that you can't come up

including a convert program of kidnap and torture the secretary of state at the time was general colin powell his chief of staff was colonel larry wilkerson today he says that operation was a terrible mistake and still doing irreparable damage to the united states moral position in the world as a leader of human rights and human dignity and rule of law and so forth we no longer are seen as a leader indeed by more than two billion people in the world according to polls were considered the number one threat to their future. alyson case and lives near johnston regional airport one of the two north carolina airports used to say good rendition flights she took me that. so if you will down there that's aero contractors. are a contract is are a little firm that supplied planes for the secret cia program. in the years following two thousand and five allison and her friends began to investigate air a contract is she realized that some of the people involved with the company with people she knew one was an attorney. who had children the same age as my and it was shocking right because they were promine

bush, ronald reagan, colin powell, condoleezza rice, whether you're a republican or democrat lookinglican leadership? my lifetime and saying the kigty that they brought that sort of character to the oval office to the white house is something that you would teach a child in civics class and now we have somebody saying, you know, well, if it sticks, i'll say they hate jews, and by the way, the argument in the press office was not whether he said that some remarks were abhorrent. she dodged. the argument was, he said that the democrats hate jews. let's make sure we understand what she's t said about abhorrent remarks. he talked about hating jews. >> you can disagree over the way the democrats handled this because there are, you know, you could say they weren't direct enough with the congresswoman. if they should have been more direct or they handled this in a political way they shouldn't have. have that argument, but don't say that democrats hate jews. i mean, that's silly. >> and israel, too. >> oh, yeah. they hate -- >> made that accusation the other day. >> okay. >> and supposedly i

influenced, as we talked about, by colin powell. the weinberger doctrine is really the powell doctrine. the idea, if you're not going to be in this place to win or you do not have an exit strategy, quagmire could come. and so he says, we cannot do this mr. president, and reagan sides with weinberger. but, the hostages remain even though our troops pulled out. what is cooked up in late 1984, but really 1985, 1986, is what becomes known as iran contra. which is selling weapons in this particular case, the tow antitank missiles to iran which they will use, how? why would they want these sophisticated weapons? they are in the middle of what becomes an eight-year war with iraq. iraq is being funded or supplied by the soviets. the u.s., macfarland, poindexter, ultimately oliver north, the staff member, we believe that if we cultivate what we think are the moderates within iran, they will get the hostages back for us and it is ok if we sell weapons to them because well, we can make sure that there is no clear winner in the iran-iraq war. w

so there was a lostt of wisdom to colin powell's statement. it's a classical case of you break it, you own it. there is no appetite. there's not a single leader in likud who is actually proposing this. >> thank you for this presentation. it seems to me that most factors that could go either way are pushing a little bit more towards likud. so i'm looking for some way to change the playing field more in my direction. it also seems to me that the upcoming apac policy conference where netanyahu is supposed to be speaking provides an opportunity for that. so they have already indicated they want to try to repair some of the relationships with the american jewish community, with the democratic party that netanyahu has hurt over the years. i'm wondering what you think, how you think this could play out possibly in the election if he is able to make a good case and offer some promise for restoring the bipartisanship around israel and helping to mend the relationship between israel and the american jewish mainstream american jewish community. >> i have

. >> colonel wilkerson, you worked for secretary of state colin powell.m not a diplomat, but the civilian understanding of the way these things work is you don't put the entire deal on the table up front, right? the regime of kim jong-un and his father both wanted recognition, wanted the prestige of being able to meet with the american people. they have gotten that twice. donald trump declared in advance he'd already achieved denuclearization. that was not true. he said he didn't believe our intelligence officials. they said it wasn't true. the idea of adding to that and lifting sanctions on north korea, would that not just essentially hand everything to kim jong-un in exchange for essentially nothing? >> well, joy, i don't disagree with what christine said in its large message. i think the diplomatic aspect of this was fractured by the fact that you really didn't have unanimity amongst trump's team, particularly bolton and trump. let's look at what pompeo -- and i have a look at this from a state department point of view. i read the state department's co

i believe it was colin powell that brought it out bluntly to everybody that to criticize the government is not anti-semitic. criticizing the religion would be anti-semitic. they are playing this to keep us busy and not looking at what is really happening behind the scenes. it is sad and unfortunately mainstream media is helping them do that. the 1960's,nce mainstream media, which is owned by half a dozen people, 90% of media in the country, has been dumbing down the public so we will be fed this propaganda, as they used to call it in russia. host: what is your biggest disagreement with the policies of the government of israel? caller: they have been treating the palestinians worse than the south african apartheid. they kill the people. they take their land. start building the settlements where they were supposed to stay out of. that was supposed to be the palestinians' land. it goes back to the uss liberty. israel's secret service, their motto is, by deception, thou shall do war. they try to get somebody else to fight their battles. i do not want to sound anti-semitic. i have nothing wi

what stunned me at the time -- i was working with colin powell at the state department.rocess. there wasn't a single meeting, a formal decision was taken. when i wrote about it, i said the decision happened almost passive. there wasn't a moment where the president sat with the senior advisers and said what are the pluses, what are the negatives? what could go wrong? what are our alternatives? there was nothing that systematic. in thinking about where we are today in the decision we're even talking about the with the golan, yet again making consequential decisions informally and one of the lessons of the iraq war is that process is there to protect us. when presidents make big decisions without process we really make ourselves vulnerable. >> congressman, maybe one of the other lessons is that wars are not quick and easy ever. there's no such thing as a quick and easy war. even with afghanistan, that was served as mop-up duty, go in, take out the taliban, mop up al qaeda. we just reported breaking news that two more american service members died there. we don't have inform

colin, how dramatic do think it will be? collin: i think it will be dramatic certainly below two. the issue with jay powellnt to hear what he has to say, but that has been more problematic versus the past. the fact that he is going to talk much more is going to be an issue. i think they are going to come down to one. that will validate that they continue to be behind the curve on where they should be. we will see where it goes from here. i wish he would speak less rather than more. jonathan: do you agree with that on the jay powell communication? it was about 12 months ago when powell came into the job. everyone was excited about him when he first came in. what are your thoughts on his communication? >> i think he has been tone deaf at the very least. you usually accept a mistake -- expect a mistake from a new fed chair when they come in from communicating. i think he has had a few mistakes now. i think with this dovish pivot and the comments he has made after the first of the year, it certainly signals that he is listening. i think that tone deafness that we have seen should go to the wayside. jonathan: c