at stanford he talk about your colleague, condoleezza rice and "the beauty bias" as well. when you write about her? >> guest: there's a barbie doll that looks like condoleezza rice, which is one of the markers of some progress on this issue. >> host: house so? >> guest: well, at least we are giving kids a role model who not only is attractive, but has accomplished so much professionally. certainly when i grew up with derby dolls, they were all white in their sole career aspiration was to get married. there are a few stewardesses site inc. in the list. i made some progress on the barbie for in. also the basic problem is still the body shape, which is if you train it into what a normal woman sides of the digested number neverland. those proportions are not found in nature and assisted. >> host: the special scrutiny because prominent women. it penalizes them for caring too much or not enough and diverts attention from the qualifications and performance. the media had a field day with their appearance beehive. the disconnect between her hockey mom rhetoric in the $150,000 ward

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you for rekindling that feeling i had at the republican national convention after i followed condoleezza rice. thanks a lot. i appreciate that. [laughter] the four i want to get into the commencement, i have heard so many good things about benedictine college. my friend,, who spoke last year, yup and told me about this gold -- called me up and told me about the school. he said you are a tightknit and broad-minded, small sized and bighearted. i have spent a little bit of time here. p90x this morning. i got to do dinner with the archbishop. i got to check out the river. 90%i got to find out that of the senior class had a problem when they were freshmen. that is how many people stood up and complained. [laughter] .ou made me feel at home this is a special place. it is obvious. you have done a great honor by being here and getting a diploma. i want to thank you for sharing this. you know, as i have talked to you i have been struck by some of the changes you have seen. it is great to see one with dark hair. hope at st. a new peter's and the largest freshman class in history. on this beautiful day,

you talk about your colleague condoleezza rice and "the beauty bias." white you include her? there is one that looks like condoleezza that i think is one of the markers of some progress on this issue. >>host: house so? >>guest: at least the for someone to have accomplished but they have their sole career aspirations and was to get married. [laughter] maybe if you stewardesses that we have made progress and have paid to say is still the by a shame but chaffing into no movement sounds and you'll center's lunar renner one negative >>host: a special scrutiny in neat -- carney puts women the new win situation and penalizes them for caring too much or not enough to divert attention from the qualifications there was the disconnect -- disconnect between financed by a there times that with the taste of shoes, comfortable palm stand headline preferences, modest after becoming secretary of state her parents when visiting troops in germany inspire portrayal as a dominatrix with political cartoons -- spec women are really subject to the double standard and prominent women are subject to p

national security adviser condoleezza rice goes on cnn to alert the nation. >> the problem here is thatre will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. but we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. >> what i was hearing and what i knew, did not jive. i asked one time at langley, am i crazy or is there no credible evidence of an ongoing program? and i had a former deputy director of cia say to me, you're not crazy. >> but there are administration voices urging caution. secretary of state colin powell and his senior staff, who unlike their counterparts at defense, are all former military men, they press to give a chance for sanctions to work. for inspections to keep saddam in check. >> the concern was, we hadn't finished in afghanistan, and if we went to war in iraq, we would take the emphasis off afghanistan. which subsequently is exactly what happened. >> the administration has saddam squarely in its sights. the time has come to persuade congress to squeeze the trigger. >> one of the most serious responsibilities that congress has is to ca

condoleezza rice, luis mcnair, she was friends of the same girls. they came from that same environment. >> condi rice came from these name environment. one of the great civil rights lawyers in the country, too, you know? ,hink about that violence now that relationship with what has happened in tucson. even though we know that young man is deranged in some way, what drove him to that act, the nasty, just villainous violence that is happening. violence even during town hall meetings during the healthcare crisis. the healthcare debate and everything. all of this kind of violence. and then you think, the war, the war is key. talking about that violence, that violence comes home. at this time, and the videotapes we are seeing in this remarkable film, really bringing them back to life and having all reflect on them, you were an organizer. how did you end up in, well, taking the life journey you did, where you ended up today and sundance? it did not start with sundance. it was "lethal weapon." >> i will say this. i remember my first film, my first major ro

that's not the kind of job you give for that, and national security adviser condoleezza rice before shecretary of state. there are these other roles that still have to be filled are minorities being considered for them. when you look at hilda solis and eric holder, who is a hold over, but those are really significant prominent roles he was giving to nominating women and ethnic minorities to, and frankly we have not seen that in administration the second term, including the nomination this week which are not on the same caliber as those higher profile nominations even though i'm not taking anything away, i'm being candid. >> michael: it success does seem that they read your column. does the penny pritzker speak to women or women with money and power. >> you can read more on the root.com. >> michael: what is that queen. >> the root.com. you can talk about about this conversation it speaks to the nuances in my column. this is not the first time he tried to woo her to this nomination. she declined with family obligations, something that we see women do more than men. you look at sarah palin

he wrote there last november and set people's minds at ease about a condoleezza rice presidency, that didn't happen but wrote about pinatas, burritos and forget the alamo meaning every penny spent on the party called hispandering. this corner of the internet is front and center of mainstream politics. this arian nations supremacists of the nations crock is directly linked to the legislation that finally started getting its big mark-up in the united states estimate after months of build-up, the legislation if it passes will be as big a deal as health reform actually probably bigger. starting immediately after the presidential election there was all this talk the republican party were finally going to help see into law reform of our nation's royally screwed up immigration system. the writing was on the law after losing the presidency again and losing seats in the house and losing seats in the senate, the writing was on the wall, the republican party had to get right with latinos at least. the way it was going to do it was by supporting immigration reform finally. the day after the elect

but on the other hand, there was talk at one point about colin powell possible running, condoleezza ricerend jesse jackson paved the way for us to have this moment, african-american voter registration shot up over the last three decades. but clarence thomas is a sort of unique individual. he has a position in history as well as the second african-american to serve on the united states supreme court. let's hope that he's not the last african-american to serve on the court. >> i don't think he will be. >> he was pretty personal there. he voices a lot of what is a frustration that many conservatives have, which is that someone like barack obama when he was coming up, because he was seen as -- he was painted by the liberal media as more of a moderate, as more of a unifier whereas conservatives like him have been painted as divisive. that's the frustration coming out. but when you finally do talk, you build up so much anticipation, that every single statement he makes is itemized and dissected. >> but if clarence thomas thinks the media's preferred candidate always wins elections, not really

then comes -- condoleezza rice said, you know, it might be possible. and his chief of staff said it restored more than a billion something to the global fund? >> he -- his tour on the continent of africa will just be the most extraordinary thing. i cannot wait. he's going to go this year, that will be incredible. his relationship with the continent is completely horizon. he hates the verticals and so do they. so he's all about self-reliance. interestingly a more troubled ego could have walked away from the aids piece because his predecessor, george bush, was so all over it. >> rose: had made it his. >> not true. he saw in the life of his administration there was an opportunity to literally end aids. there's a graph and when it gets to the top and starts go down, it could actually happen in the next few years. certainly mother-to-child transmission of the virus of h.i.v. can be ended in the next few years. so he has really expanded on what president bush has done and it's fantastic. food security is very important to him. they've done some great stuff,

we start with condoleezza rice who talked to us about growing up in the segregated south. >> my motherster dress and we went into one of the big department stores and the lady said, the sales lady said she'll have to try it on in there and pointed to a store room and my mother said, looking her dead in the eye, either she tries this dress on in the fitting room or we don't buy it. >> i was offered a job and she gave me a big nudge to take that job. >> what was the defining thing for you? >> a mother of unconditional lo love. a woman of an indominable spirit to overcome. >> not only that she told us to turn off the tv and start reading books, but she was always sort of struggling to try to learn how to read herself or, you know, she made us think that she couldn't read. >> my mother used to put hot water bottles in bed to keep us warm and those post-war years in europe were interesting to watch the recovery. >> my mother used to say one of the many things she would say is, you know, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last. >> my mother started a busines

1990, they admitted their first black member and recently they admitted two women, including condoleezza riceut over the course of time, this was an issue. in fairness, the field at the masters which once was lily white now doesn't just include tiger woods, it's very diverse. it's internationally diverse. so in that sense, if you're looking at a snapshot right now, there isn't all that much to talk about. but if you're talking about in the '60s, '70s, '80s, the '90s, there had to have been a time when this circumstance should have been acknowledged and it never was. >> it was completely outrageous. what did you make of the jason collins thing recently? he came out as the first openly gay active professional male athlete in america. >> surprised that it took that long. glad that it did. i think he's a perfect candidate for a couple of reasons. one, he's obviously an extremely bright, well educated guy and he's able to understand and if he chooses to, speak articulately about the issue. but also, he's been in the league for a long time, so some of these vague notions that players may have, well

turned out to be false, there were civilian casualties, try to get a reaction like that from condoleezza ricefeel. they wouldn't give you a word about it. here is somebody who is saying we agonize over this. we have to deal with it. we have to confront it, but we do agonize. i want to show how the woman who spoke in the middle of the president's speech found her way into his conclusion toward the end when he was describing what victory will look like in this kind of war. >> our victory against terrorism won't be measured in a surrender ceremony at a battleship or a statue being pulled to the ground. victory will be measured in this parents taking their kids to school. immigrants coming to our shores. fans taking in a ball game. a veteran starting a business. a bustling city street. a citizen shouting her concerns at a president. >> that is the real test of freedom. >> absolutely. and when he was saying that, i kept just thinking, you know, freedom from fear. you know, that was one of the four freedomses that fdr laid out. it's impossible to have in a free society to be completely free from fe

the point is that you look at colin powell, condoleezza rice, a litany of african-american conservativesans that get called names such as porch monkey, uncle tom, house negro and guess what, they didn't use the term negro. they used something else, and get away with it. there's this double standard where, on the one hand, the establishment media allows these types of slanders to be asserted at black republicans and black conservatives and they all operate as a praetorian guard for people like president obama. >> if there was a liberal justice that was white that was appointed that hasn't said anything in 20 years on the court except what he said, except whatever scalia says, does he just have a stamp that says whatever scalia says? he's written nothing, he's said nothing. do you really think he was the most qualified person to be on the supreme court? >> that is actually not you true. justice thomas has staked out a position, a conservative position, that is reflective of his conservative upbringing and his life experience that is quite different than justice scalia. i completely disagre

and it was rather ironic because it was right after both secretary colin powell and condoleezza rice had decided that all these meetings in southeast asia was kind of a waste of time, song and dance session, they have some derogatory comments. that was not well received in southeast asia. and people said the u.s. has turned its back on asia. within a year or so that changed, and then last years of the bush administration they started to attend these meetings, and it didn't take long for added dinner, happened to sit at the table with the head of the chinese delegation, and he said, oh, the asean region form is nothing but a testament out of american foreign policy. we have gone from totally neglecting asia to suddenly co-opting the whole system of the organization. but i think those are the kind of things, the hadr and anti-piracy and proliferation, counter proliferation, the psi liberation initiative, certain ways that south korea can take a lead and i will play a collaborative role with its neighbors, hopefully china will get on board. china i think is one of the few countries out

smart move to secretaries of state have jared on the policy planning and state appointed by condoleezza rice and one of the few if only people reappointed or re-opt by secretary hillary clinton. he now runs and helped found google ideas based in new york which really applies technology and other things to the geopolitical issues. for example very recently they announced that human trafficking databases around the world, 60 or 70 of them, google gave them technology to figure out how to connect them all. their book "the new digital age" and i will start with eric, and i will say baghdad, how did that happen? >> let me start by saying that it's at the center of ideas that affect the technology center for at least two decades of life for the privilege of working with walter but also with charlie firestone in the new society program and now with her standard interest many issues so it's great to be here. we met it has various of us decided to visit the rock to see what it would look like if the fighting had ended. what does it look like to rebuild a society and as part of that i met jared on the

he is not of the statue henry kissinger or some of the people we have had or condoleezza rice in thatjob. and he is the invisible man in all of this. >> megyn: again national security advisor. >> who do you think was coordinating all of this? and he -- what he does is he leaks selectively. people leave him out of the source. he at the bottom of all of this i guarantee you on the talking points and all of what happened that night is tom donilon. not only does he need to be interviewed under oath, we need a select committee until we have a full investigation because the white house is in a full mode which is not to be truthful with the american people. let's face it they want to say it's politics. the president was just, i thought, really angry and we need to know the truth. those families need to know the truth. it wasn't a video that killed their children their family members. it was al qaeda. >> megyn: they said we changed one word. >> we were all mislead. >> megyn: they changed one word consulate to diplomatic post. now we see the heavily edited talking points edited at the request

best estimate on why we haven't seen someone like that on the talk shows front and center like condoleezza ricehen she had that spot. >> if you screwed something like that of that magnitude, would you talk about it? >>brian: i would demand it. >> his boss is barack obama and through him hillary clinton. between the three of them, who knows. >>brian: the night it happens, we don't really know what the president did after the early evening. we don't know who was in the situation room making the calls, if anyone. we do know this. former secretary of defense gates over the weekend weighed in and said if you want to talk about once the riots happened, i wouldn't. if i was in charge, i wouldn't have recommended the president send an f-16 or f-22 out there to buzz the area or help out the guys who would eventually lose their lives. >> the idea is to see the problem coming and react intelligently which they didn't do, which would be in advance use u.s. fleets, navy jets in the gulf, the air force if they have to. a lot of people are saying they could have flown in from av i ano in italy. there is an ai

condoleezza rice on the board of chev ron says what wonderful job chevron is doing for nyeee -- nigeriares to the occupation of iraq. and it's very important that we reflect back now as this country moves on, d well there are two different issues. one of is, should those who held high office be held accountable? should they be tried? and this is, as we cover movements, this is one of the movements that hat developed over the years. if people are not held accountable for their actions that history will repeat itself. now president obama has taken a very strong stand on this and says we should look forward, we shouldn't look back. but there are many who feel the only way to move forward is to hold those in power accountable. those who had power in the past. and the iraq war is a very important place to start, because we now know, you know, that saddam hussein did not have the weapons of mass destruction despite the fact that the new york times principled story after story on the front pains of the papers but judith miller, by michael gordon. about a year later they did write an article --

you for rekindling that feeling i had at the republican national convention after i followed condoleezza ricehanks a lot. i appreciate that. [laughter] before i want to get into the commencement, i have heard so many good things about benedictine college. my friend, who spoke last year, called me up and told me about the school. he said you are a tightknit and broad-minded, small sized and bighearted. i have spent a little bit of time here. i got to do p90x this morning. i got to do dinner with the archbishop. i got to check out the river. and i got to find out that 90% of the senior class had a problem when they were freshmen. that is how many people stood up and complained. [laughter] you made me feel at home. this is a special place. it is obvious. you have done a great honor by being here and getting a diploma. i want to thank you for sharing this. you know, as i have talked to you i have been struck by some of the changes you have seen. it is great to see one with dark hair. we have seen a new hope at st. peter's and the largest freshman class in history. on this beautiful day, there are

chairman to the joint chiefs of staff where he was a primary military advisor to colin powell and condoleezza rice. ofs of jobs, lots responsibility. we're honored to have you here today. let me turn it over to you, barry. >> thank you, fred. thank you, general, for taking time out of your extraordinarily busy schedule this year. in 2001, another momentous year when we were both working on the defense department strategic review. i think you are about to do that again from a somewhat different position, coming out with a strategy for the united states military to navigate these uncertain times. at the center we spent quite a bit of time looking at long range global trends. insort of long-range strategic challenges and strategic things that come and surprise us and change the way that we look at things, like the arab awakening and those types of things. you are spending quite a bit of time sort of mapping the army of the future in this year. where did you see the longer- term strategic strategies mature posturing to deal with in the future? >> one of the true challenges we have as we look at the fu