everybody thinks about colin powell.rship, which is extremely white, there are also certain combat units when you look at the pentagon and you look at, for instance, you don't see a lot of navy s.e.a.l.s who are not white or male. you don't see a whole lot of army rangers, the elite, the delta force, the green berets. when you look at the elite combat units, and these are the units that feed into the officer corps. these are the stars of the american military. you don't see much other than white males. so it's not just a question of just the leadership. there are certain units within the military where a lot of black people, where hispanics, where women say they've not been made to feel welcome. >> i have to say, i mean, you know, another generation ago, there was a campaign against political correctness, p.c. it was what people used to call -- what they now call wokeness. one of the targets was campus politics. even though i thought it was excessive and insane, it was true that campus politics could be pretty radical. t

colin powell was followed by condoleezza rice. we talked about my father being professor, and how he felt about women. my father thought women could do anything men can do. he never in any way indicated that was not possible. what happened was my father died in 1977. there were lots of flowers and tributes. among them was a ceramic pot in the shape of a piano with some leaves in it. i said to my mother, where did this come from? she said, it's from your father's favorite student, condoleezza rice. she was not only has student, she was doing her phd with him when he died. she had been writing about the czechoslovak military. that connection, i think, is stunning. this czechoslovak diplomat rep judy -- refugee a sickly at two women secretary of state. david: you think that if dolley madison were alive today, given her skills, she could have been secretary of state? have you ever thought about dolley madison? secretary albright: i do think about her. i think she could have. she was a people person and a dot connector. i love reading

everybody thinks about colin powell. that was decades ago.d another chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who is not a white male sense colin powell. we beyond the leadership which is extremely white, they also have certain combat units in the pentagon, and when you look at, for instance, a lot of navy seals who are not white or male, you don't see a whole lot of army rangers who lead the delta force, the green berets. when you look at the league combat units, and these are units of feet into the office of course, the stars of the american military. you don't see much other than white male. it's not a question of just the leadership. there are units in the military where a lot of black people, hispanics, women who said they have not been made to feel welcome. >> another generation ago, there was a campaign against political correctness. it was not people used to call the now call wokeness. one of the targets was canvas politics. i thought it was insane, but it was true. campus politics could get radical, pretty lefty, lots of new ideas. targe

guest: i had a contact who was a close friend with colin powell, who told me that dick cheney was talking up war with iraq. other people were pushing for more. we are going to war with the country that had nothing to do with 9/11, why? the last four months of the op-ed pages, the argument for going to work with iraq -- war with iraq. you do not hear that opinion more, because that war was pointless and made us more enemies. those who are worried about israel, it took away that buffer state between israel and iran. we backed saddam hussein and his war against iran. imagine if we still had him there, instead we have a vacuum that is the number one strategic concern for israel, iran. i do not know why we removed what was in effect in light of israel? that is common sense. we sided with the soviets during world war ii, we do not like them but we needed them. you do not want to stand against your enemy alone. those who supported the war, blew it. host: let's go to roberts in greenville, texas, you're on the air. caller: good morning. what a pleasure to hear chris. i want an opinion about somet

let's remember colin powell who was setting of state and he was also in charge of the pentagon. even he wrote in his book that even he as a high ranking official had felt some kind of injustice towards himself his entire life as someone with a dark complexion. even from the ussr days, in russia, we have always, always treated with understanding the fight of african-americans for their rights. and there are certain roots to it. there's a certain foundation for this. but no matter how noble the goals that somebody is driven by, if it reaches certain extremes, if it spills over into extremism, acquires elements of extremism, we cannot approve this. we cannot welcome this. so our attitude to this is very simple. we do support african-americans' fight for their rights. but we are against any types and kinds of extremism which, unfortunately, sometimes regrettably we witness currently. >> reporter: just to re-emphasize, i didn't bring up the subject of racism. president putin did when i was asking hi cyberattacks on the u.s. you may think that's an example of him using a divisive tact

it was john mccain and colin powell and bob dole and john warner, who just passed.ional security discussion and from our reality and right now, kim jong un is thrilled. our enemies all across the globe are celebrating. putin is thrilled. osama bin laden somewhere is gone and buried and celebrating. this is what our enemies have always wanted, our own government to push for its overthrow. mike flynn, everybody should understand, mike flynn still gets a military pension. he gets $100,000 from the u.s. government. he still has his rank. he should be court-martialed and put in jail and be treated like the national security threat he is but some folks seem to be so thrilled we've taken off our masks they're forgetting about the national security threat that is right in front of us. >> paul, i'm going to press you on mike flynn because we haven't covered it yet and i'm not going to play it here, but he said this. this is mike flynn, who as you said, doesn't just get a pension but in the sort of half of america that is still enthralled with trump and trumpism, they heard t

morgan stanley kicking off the mult multicultural conference today colin powell and others are attendingis, the head of client services group at morgan stanley with us carla, great to see you. almost like a reunion. we had the conversation once a year i hope to see you more than that you have been putting this event together for some time the back drop is different and has changed. i hope it has changed in the last year. i'm curious how you think it may be different >> good morning, andrew. thanks for having me on again. we are excited this year i think things are different there are a lot of things that transpired in the last 15 months with respect to and awakening, if you will. we learned how to pivot and innovative in the moment there is a different spirit of collaboration in the marketplace at large the conversation with the economy and national security strategy and assessing change through the eyes of diversity and equity and inclusion talking about the changing health care landscape. all of that is top of mind for leaders today. these are the things we will tackle in the next few

guest: i had a contact who was a close friend with colin powell, who told me that dick cheney was talkingraq. other people were pushing for more. we are going to war with the country that had nothing to do with 9/11, why? the last four months of the op-ed pages, the argument for going to work with iraq -- war with iraq. you do not hear that opinion more, because that war was pointless and made us more enemies. those who are worried about israel, it took away that buffer state between israel and iran. we backed saddam hussein and his war against iran. imagine if we still had him there, instead we have a vacuum that is the number one strategic concern for israel, iran. i do not know why we removed what was in effect in light of israel? that is common sense. we sided with the soviets during world war ii, we do not like them but we needed them. you do not want to stand against your enemy alone. those who supported the war, blew it. host: let's go to roberts in greenville, texas, you're on the air. caller: good morning. what a pleasure to hear chris. i want an opinion about something that afte

questionable or nefarious things on what they claim on the behalf of the country, whether it is colin powellng congress that weapons of mass destruction are in iraq and then we send troops and they are not there, or even going further back in time. in paperclip, they brought nazis over your post-world war ii in operation northwood, kennedy potentially had authorization to stage something before the bay of pigs to intervene with cuba and the iron curtain during the uss our conflict. trust but verify. that's all i want to say, is a great platform and i think everyone should be cordial with each other. i am an independent by trade but i think the country is heading in a good direction as long as people stay calm and talk to each other like human beings. host: as you have studied politics, are you less trusting of the federal government or more trusting as the years go by? caller: you know, it's funny, i am 32 years old. the more history i read, i think i become less trusting. that being said, i think there has always been less trust in the government. when roosevelt went down to fight the spani

. >> i keep going back to what general powell say, secretary colin powell said when he was on the show what we were saying at home and what we were watching and i'm sure what every american was saying that actually cared about this country. and that is where the hell are the police? where the hell is the national guard? where the hell are the reinforcements? why is this mob allowed to go through and put lies of members of congress and their staff in danger, beat the hell out of police officers, and we're all just helplessly watching it on tv. and yet you have republicans in the united states senate that don't want us to know the answers. it is shocking, by any measure. >> we'll never know about that three hours that it took trump to bring in the national guard. look i've sad this many times, the republican party has become the party of stupid in terms of they're just playing a losing hand at this point. but they've also abandoned the last bastion of they're not the law and order party anymore. they can't own law and order. i know a few people have talked about this already, but if you'