command general hoar was briefing the group and the group was chaired by vice president cheney condi rice was on george tenet was sitting in front of me i was no taker top people and during the course of the briefing general hoar said. things are going so well since we've crossed the border we can be in tehran by august and george tenet paused for a second leaned forward and turned off his microphone and turned to me the note taker and said did he say tehran or did he say baghdad and i said he said tehran and he said to me have they all gone mad and then he turned back around and turned his microphone back on and sat silently well that's typical we all have a political opinion when the policy is set the policy is the policy now were these text messages inappropriate yes they were in a lot of different ways and they should have been cheating on their spouses at the same time you know that just feeds this whole notion of a conspiracy but did it affect the investigation probably not. there are many musical genres that everyone can agree on fans of hip hop and country come up and mix well and

. >> with his father condi rice went over and made concessions from the united states giving them foods easily sold on the black market and fund unfrozen. you are not seeing that here. it's north korea making concessions to us. i think there is hope. trump is managing expectations. the big difference between the the trump and bush administration is the willingness to walk away. he said we'll bail on the summit if it looks bad. >> i think this is the rope-a-dope president trump is using to pull him in. china is desperately peek into this. if they are pushed out and president trump brings in north korea closer to the world war enemies they once had. they don't want to see north korea get closer to south korea, japan and the united states. this is a way to pull them in and make him realize occupying the entire peninsula is no longer a good idea. we are watching the state dinner. china, the negotiation on trade will involve a role on north korea. it makes it seem like more likely we can get something done. >> the section 301 sanctions for the infringement of u.s. intellectual property. ste

white house and changing the direction with the first go around with those recommendations like condi rice but now he says i want people that i feel compatible with who are smart and basically on my weekly obviously they will not always agree, but that is what he is going for and i think that will work out well. >> why didn't he reach out to romney? it was confusing to those people who voted for trump. >> but just like steve benton who liked his position on china and reince preibus that he would be a good idea trump said he looks up are and he is big on the parents. so at first romney confided that he didn't think he would get the job at the second time he was prepared but in the end with all the considerations about who had supported and in the end rudy giuliani wanted secretary of state but trump wanted him to be atty. general but he did not want that. so giuliani was not his biggest supporter by sessions was and went around to say sessions would be perfect all the trump has reservations so to make remarks about him. and with the agenda but. >> what is the difference between kalli and re

direction there is something to that with the first go around he was given recommendations like condi ricerecommended m1 but now he says i want people that i feel compatible with and that i'm comfortable with who are smart and basically on my wavelength we will not always agree obviously that that is what he is going for and i think that will work out well. >> why didn't he reach out to mitt romney that it was confusing for people who voted for trump after everything he said. >> romney was approached by steve bannon on china and also reince preibus that it would be a good idea and trent said he looks the part for the appearance so he met with him at first he was not impressed but he wasn't really thinking he would get the job at them the second time he was prepared but in the end with all the considerations over who had supported to him, loyal and in the end giuliani got secretary of state or wanted secretary of state he wanted him as attorney general that he did not want that giuliani was not as big of a supporter but sessions was a big supporter so he said he would be perfect even though

but condy's rice, i can't tell you enough about bono. i was a little skeptical about him, i must confess when he was coming to the white house and i confess he might have been slightly kept cal about me. [laughter] but we formed this fast friendship. here's what i learned about the guy. he's the real deal. if you want to talk about poverty issues, you better know your stuff because bono is one of the most well-informed people i met in washington, d.c. i don't know if the facts were true that he was spewing out. but -- [laughter] but he was convincing. so i want to tell you a story about this. and bon -- bob gets a huge mount of credit. so laura and i went to rwanda to see a catholic charity , when they mature so they can thwart of predatory men. and one of things that made this successful is that we included this organization but faith-based organizations on the theory that if you're motivated love a neighbor is the kind of people you want loving a neighbor. there were a group of orphans getting ready to watch this catholic charities pro

only 13 votes against condi rice and the democrats if you were not up for election this year in a red state and you are a democrat, you voted against mike pompeo. it is wrong tr our country. david: it is mike pompeo that is making this issue one that will resonate in november because it is clear that democrats were putting politics above national security. he's going the distance and changing history with north korea or attempting to do so and we're on that road and they were willing to put their political gain above. that i've got ask you quickly because they're giving me a wrap on what the president said on "fox & friends" or the way in which he said it on "fox & friends" this morning. i don't know if you saw the whole interview but quite extraordinary how unleashed he was in coming out with his rage. what did you think? >> well, look, he's got strong opinions. i wish he had not made the comments he made about the mueller investigation. i think at the end of the day, the mueller investigation is going to show there is no effort on behalf of president trump or the people close around

you hear bob gates, condi rices and colin powells, they worked for and around the first lady of the unitedf the united states. some of that credit goes to president bush, president h.w. bush but they always talk about barbara bush checking in on them and just being human. >> you saw the former national security adviser to president george h. w. bush and secretary bob gates. you saw john sununu, former white house chief of staff. >> who had great moments with barbara bush. >> yeah. >> she was an enforcer inside the white house. in many ways, i would say, she was to george h. w. bush almost like he was to ronald reagan. many thought that he was weak because he didn't speak up in meetings. he didn't think that was his job. he thought his job was to deal with the president privately. if he had something to say to ronald reagan, 99 times out of 100, he did it in private. he didn't think it was polite to publicly challenge the president of the united states. people thought he was weak. barbara did that for george h. w. bush. she didn't do it in public. if she did, you knew you were way over the

sarkozy, tony blair, kevin rudd from australia, henry kissinger, colin powell, rick levin, condi rice, richard haas, yo-yo ma and others. if i run outside and look in and say -- the alumina not a -- illuminati. what does that mean? niall: it means schwarzman is the brains and the mind behind the rolodex. steve was able to bring this roup together. as well as me to do the teaching. there are two points one can make. the first is clearly there is an enormously important network and you have just listed some of the key nodes in that network. you could find similar names and combinations of names if you want to the world economic forum. or you just hung out in new york at the four seasons. this is a real elite network and it is very important to recognize that it exists and is not trumped up by conspiracy theorists. second point, this is an elite that seems in this case to be trying its best to do something i think is good, mainly to build a new kind of network that connects china to the west. the schwarzman scholarship program was a kind of version of the roads scholarship, which used to

he surrounded had himself by seasoned advisers, colin powell, condi rice, runnells feld.ou knew he was in trusted hands. in this case, sean hannity is not seen as a trusted hand, a subject matter expert who never graduated from college is giving policy advice to the president of the united states and i think that's the concern and anxiety this story that robert so ably reported on creates within the american people. >> is that the overlay, the day, red line here, robert, as you report it? not that he's giving him political advice which sean would be good at. he does have his ear to the ground. he's on four hours a day. he knows what's working with the conservative base. the poll, the right wing poll but he's not an expert on regional studies with china or studies with the middle east. is he getting policy advice or political advice from sean hannity? >> the way it's described to me by friends of the president is that it's feedback. that hannity to the president represents that base, that base conservative voter who listens to talk radio, 0 who may have voted for president

dignataries who arrived, including many members of the bush senior and junior cabinet there, i noticed condi rice melania trump and all of this around the st. martin's episcopal church. so they're all getting in place and it's quite a crowd to shuffle in, isn't it? >> no question about it, you've got very close people close with the 41 family, the bush 43 family, two presidential teams, basically, over the years, and so a lot of v.i.p. guests early this hour, former president george w. bush held a reception, and we've seen guests coming in, actor chuck norris, former congresswoman gabby gifford. karl rove, our former colleagues at fox and tight security at st. martin's church and everything has been orderly in terms of bringing people in on buses and people seem to be respectfully rolling with it and getting to the church and getting to their pews. yesterday, of course, was a very public portion of this honoring of mrs. bush and a lot of people told us they loved her because she thought she exuded class. as a tribute, many folks wore mrs. bush's favorite color blue or perhaps some pearls and we'v

but go back before trump, both john kerry and hillary clinton received 94 votes in the senate, condi rice85 votes in the senate. there are a lot of people who look at this confirmation and at tillerson's as well, process and say democrats are sending a message to donald trump that this is about president trump and not the man being nominated for the position. what do you say to that criticism that you want to knock on president trump and that this isn't about what kind of secretary of state mike pompeo would be? >> well, i'll say there are other republican leaders in foreign policy who could have been nominated who i think would have gotten 75 or 80 votes very easily. steven hadley, nikki haley, i mentioned bob corker and others. i do think tillerson given his long and close association with putin and russia and his leadership of exxonmobil and the circumstances of the timing of his confirmation vote faced a number of head winds and i think mike pompeo, given some of his past statements we've already covered faced some head winds but more broadly, willie, you're right that there is some b