he had the colin powell philosophy.ut yes, somebody did in this book to her era, somebody did tell me that. host: for our viewers, if you enjoyed this book launch, please stay tuned for our social media online announcements for future book events taking place here at the reagan institute. please join me in thanking kristin for her book. [laughter] >> president donald trump appointed tesla and spacex ceo elon musk saccone lead a new department of government efficiency. mr. elon musk was the subject of a biography by alter isaacson. here is part of a discussion on that book. >> walter, talk to us first about your arrangement with elon musk, how it happened, how you found out that it happened, and whether your relationship with him about writing the book changed over the course of writing it. >> you know, i always like doing people who are pushing the edge of innovation and for elon musk, he was bringing us into the era of electric vehicles and he was bringing us into the era of space travel again, space adventure. i thoug

and the only person wanted working for him was, colin powell, who had just gotten a cushy gig over in germany and had no interest returning. i can see you guys know this story. so. so he calls colin on the phone and says, i, i'd like you to be my number two. and colin says, well, i thought you were calling me for my congratulations. ends right for your new position. he said, you know, colin says, i have no interest returning to washington. you know, frank, i hear all my his wife really likes germany. i'm commanding troops over here. i don't want to come back to to washington, d.c. he's like, i'm going to need a call from the president. so later that evening. my dad, president reagan, to colin, a call to say we need you back here. so, you know, he comes back. and that relationship of course, he you know, it came he was a military assistant. there was another example where uses cap weinberger suddenly reaches out to him, ask him to be his military assistant. you know, who is it? i hadn't fully appreciated the years that they had worked since then when. they switched. i think he was just

as far as ukraine, colin powell said one time i had to shake hands with some pretty bad people. i think that's what trump is doing, shaking hands and trying to get things done over there. host: cash patel was confirmed yesterday. what kind of changes do you think we will see at the fbi? guest: as a catholic, we need to stop the abuse. i shouldn't have been surprised but i was quite scandalized that during the obama or the biden administration, the fbi was spying on catholic parishes. then the fbi came out and lied about it and said it was only one field office and we later found out that it was multiple field offices viewing catholics as extremists, traditionalist ideologues, it's completely unacceptable to spy on christians simply for practicing their faith, the traditional faith of this very country, matter of fact. you also need to stop the abuse with the fbi and doj targeting parents who have legitimate questions about how their children are being educated. particul

uh, colin powell, i certainly did. aid was under andrew not sale since that time. and i watched the transition and transform ation in u. s. a. it wasn't for a member organization of on demand only bureaucrats, civil service, and foreign service running development programs in various countries in the world, in accordance with us express policy. to be a few of those people. very few of those people managing a horde of private contractors and that's the u. s. 8 of today. so frankly, is marco rubio and donald trump wanted to change that entirely. i would stay in the street in the blog because what the did was turn us aide into a fountain of complicity with intelligence services and other n g owners and quite all groups, quite as our government groups who's in tant, either known to them or unknown to them because they were infiltrated by the c, i was over throw government. how would you ride samantha power is a bit sure. she of course, was an administrator usa id after being ambassador at the u. n. veal country. i don't think samantha power knew the hassle for the i ju

as far as ukraine, colin powell said i had to shake hands with some pretty bad people. i think that is what trump is doing. shaking hands and trying to get things done. host: i want to ask you about kash patel it confirmed yesterday. what kind of changes you think you will see at the fbi? guest: the first order of business is to stop the abuse. i say this as a catholic myself. perhaps i should not be surprised but i was scandalized to see during the biden administration the fbi was spying on catholic parishes. the fbi came out and lied about it and said it was only one field office. we later found out it multiple field offices viewing catholics as extremists. radical ideologues, whatever nonsense euphemisms they used. despite non-christians for practicing their faith. traditional faith of this country. you also need to stop the abuse with the fbi and the doj targeting parents who have legitimate questions about how their children are being educated. in particular being exposed to leftist ideology, sexual ideologies. that has to be cleared up. selective prosecution. weap

obviously against the of that coordinate and those are starting to see why the fish are confronted colin powell of the washing purpose of my sis options. so that kind of thing. they did kind of go back to the yeah. yeah, and, and there was a famous scene when he was of the munich security conference where, where he says, i think to donald rumsfeld, wasn't it on that occasion? you know, we are not convinced by your arguments for the iraq war. yeah. so on the one hand, you know, in favor of liberal military intervention, when human rights are at stake, but against an invasion that they, so as a legal, under international law. and that was in the case of the iraq war. okay. so that's, that's part of the journey that they be not. let's 1st fluid again back to now 2025 and the party program that the green. so put out this year which is called suzanne and vax and so kind of to get the grow. what sort of grow together, basically in english, what order and this time around what they say about nato is very different. just remember what we just heard from 1998, talking about replacing nato and an antique

bush and colin powell, and a dramatically reduced in africa, but even that program has seen some misspendinggentially towards other programs. we need to look at every program, even when they are good, and make sure the money is well spent. >> john: all right, congressman, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. interesting hearing today, no question about that. >> any time we are saving the american people money it is a good day. >> john: i guess that depends on which side of the aisle you are on because there is a lot of democrats screaming is the wrong thing to do peered we will see who wins out in the end. thank you, congressman. >> sandra: there is a lot of detail coming out of the white house right now from president trump as he is speaking with reporters in the room, talking about these reciprocal tariffs. howard lutnick obviously a big part of this equation. trump says that let nick will come up with numbers that will make sense for the american people here. they are laying out very specific details on trade, how this is going to affect the american economy and the american consum

a year later in berlin by a high level conference appeared our secretary of state at the time, colin powell, many participating, and it led to the berlin declaration, which spelled out some of the initial commitments that governments would be expected to take to address the problem of anti-semitism. notably among them were really to identify, monitor, and react to hate crimes. the reality was, most governments did not even acknowledge such a form of attack, but a crime based on prejudice, directed in this case at jews or jewish targets, was something that needed to be flagged and addressed. so if we look now, really over this 20-year period, on the one hand, if we look at what governments has done or some international organizations have done, it is a remarkable progression, a very positive development. the position i had created at the osce in 2000 five, really the first special envoy on anti-semitism that existed get was true the office on legislating the office adopted in 2004, but the first u.s. special envoy did not take place until 2006. so i started something in motion, the reality t

uh, colin powell was the first. and he's also now no longer the highest ranking black officer in the military. >> we've been hearing a lot of about military readiness. a lot of these men and women who got got their jobs lost today have spent their whole life dedicated to defending the flag and defending this country, no matter the color of their skin, just like you said. and i think that that's what we have to think about military readiness, because that's what republicans have been using to justify some of the dni stuff that's been going on within the military and all branches of the government now that trump is in office. but these are real folks with real experience. you know, i've worked with groups like votevets around the country and worked with folks who i admire every day because of the sacrifices they make for our country. and thinking about these folks that's done this under this auspice and the voter out there and in the focus groups, the last election we were in, this is not sure everybody voted for chan

you know, commissioner colin powell would come from that atmosphere so. you all have a great future. i want to say one thing, one. of. oh, thank. bob was just sharing all of you. i love. for those of you who could not hear and for our audience on the livestream, bob was talking about his eight years serving on the commission that selects the white house fellows and the extraordinary group of people they are. and then he ended up by talking about the extraordinary service of secretary del toro having also been a white house fellow. and if i may just stuart, you know, it's an extraordinary program you're going to see the secretary up is founded lyndon johnson for the purpose making our nation that much greater. it's not just military applicants who apply. it's from profession across the entire scope of professions across the entire country, in each of our classes we've had ballerinas high school teachers, lawyers, businessmen, business women professional that anything you could possibly imagine coming together typically 800 or a thousand people applied per

as far as ukraine, colin powell said i had to shake hands with some pretty bad people. think that is what trump is doing. shaking hands and trying to get things done. host: i want to ask you about kash patel it confirmed yesterday. what kind of changes you think you will see at the fbi? guest: the first order of business is to stop the abuse. i say this as a catholic myself. perhaps i should not be surprised but i was scandalized to see during the biden administration the fbi was spying on catholic parishes. the fbi came out and lied about it and said it was only one field office. we later found out it multiple field offices viewing catholics as extremists. radical ideologues, whatever nonsense euphemisms they used. despite non-christians for practicing their faith. traditional faith of this country. you also need to stop the abuse with the fbi and the doj targeting parents who have legitimate questions about how their children are being educated. in particular being exposed to leftist ideology, sexual ideologies. that has to be cleared up. selective prosecution. weapon

powell heading back to capitol hill today following the latest read on inflation. welcome back to worldwide exchange i'm frank colinng up this half an hour. we're going to preview the cpi report. and what early trump policies what they could mean for prices and potential rate cuts. but first let's get you ready for the trading day ahead. we kick off the half an hour with a look at the markets, the major averages coming off a bit of a mixed day. the s&p basically flat, the nasdaq lower. following jay powell's comments on capitol hill that the fed was in no rush to cut rates. take a look at futures right now. you see right now actually the nasdaq just popped in very fractionally into the positive. the dow and the s&p just fractionally lower. the s&p down about five points. the dow looks like it would open about 60 points lower right now we want to check some of the biggest nasdaq 100 gainers as that index just pops very fractionally into the green. taking a look doordash right here at the top of the list shares up over 6%, followed by gilead sciences, nxp, ptt holdings and diamondback energy on the top five and then