>> 275 including cheney, condoleezza rice, petraeus, everybody other than president bush who chose not to be interviewed. it was a great thing on the record, and we understand that it's history in a time to document what happened for the record. >> why days of fire for the diet l? >> he refers to 9/11 as a day of fire because the title was eights years of crisis they confronted, war and natural disaster and financial collapse. really, eight years of cay days of fire, and it was for them and the country, and the one we need to look back at and figure out what happened so we understand what's happening today because we have the same issues. >> peter baker, days of fire: bush and cheney in the white house. you're watching booktv.org on c-span2.

even by the secretary of state who he valued a great deal, condoleezza rice. and he decided this was a thing he had to do anyway. it was a very daring decision and similarly with t.a.r.p. even the republicans in the house very much against it. >> peter baker, he is the author of "days of fire." we recommend it to you. it's available online, in bookstores all over the world. thanks for being with us, peter. >> hey, thanks for having it vy and the election. >> the focus this week has been on obama care. in case you didn't know it, the fed held a big meeting as well. who better to talk about the future of health care and interest rates than retired doctor and congressman ron paul, right here, right now. >> from the fox business headquarters in new york city, it's the tom sullivan show. here's your host tom sullivan. >> thank you for joining us. here the top of the stack. we will get to the topic of the fed in a moment. but first, beyond all the computer problems, the big issue was the knowledge that the white house knew there would be massive insurance policy can

he wrote it with condoleezza rice. he is also a member of a strategy group and he directed from 2000-2003. by -- start by asking michele and philip a few questions and then open it up to e.e audience pulls out we are in a transitional. -- we are in a transitional period of defense. areasssons from earlier of american history guiding us now? when we both answer that question? >> good afternoon everybody. it is wonderful to see so many familiar faces around the table. i do think there are some lessons to be learned from our --tory in terms of keyword periods like this where we are coming out of a decade of war. we are facing severe budget pressures. there are two lessons that come to mind. the first is the strategic lesson. that is, when american comes out of the. period-- comes out of a of war, we are tempted to turn inward. to allow the isolationist impulse to assert itself quite powerfully. when i look at the world, fundamental changes are happening with new powers rising. changes in the balance of power in key region

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wrong you are right in the state department is probably continuing what hillary clinton and condoleezza rice before her started really targeting afghan women trying to help them have more freedom environment laws that are in their favor. why is it bad if she points out her experience? again i'm not -- i have not read every word i don't know what words she uses. but to tell the story >> i think it's fine for her to tell the story and i think that it's going to sell books. she is being sensational about it. i think it needs to be more balanced. but there is good work. let's not forget that 60% of afghan women have medical degrees and then you know, over 20 years of war, civil war, the u.s. occupation, the russian invation so much happened to the society and kabul is very different from peshawar the border. i wish she was a little bit more inclusive and academic and factual about it. i have been a feminist policy analyst in washington d.c. for a decade. i've worked on noble peace prize campaigns and let me tell you there is a lot of good work being done and the entire attitude is we're fine in

. >> gaddafi had an obsession with secretary of state condoleezza rice. >> another has gone under grounde to gadaffi. he was thinking she was so important. her real job was to take care of the woman. >> she says his sex victim also included young men. >> i p haven't heard of any system like gadhafi's system. >> how many women do you think at any one time were a part of his haram? >> around 13 but thousands of women have been raped qaddafi. >> in october 2011 qaddafi's reign of terror came to an end when he was captured and killed. libya remains in chaos as interim government struggles to take over the country. a new libya has yet to reemerge after the nightmare of the qaddafi years. few want to acknowledge his sex crimes. >> people don't talk about sex or rape? >> how is saria today? >> she is trying to make a future. she would like to mary. she would like to have a normal life. i don't know what will happen to her. >> are dictators a thing of the past? we have seen so many over thrown recently. >> dictators will be with us for a long time here. it is the interest of the great powers to

. >> and gadhafi seemed to have an obsession with former secretary of state condoleezza rice.oman named mabrouka sharif who has gone under dts grou -- underground. >> her real job was to take care of the women. >> gadhafi's victims also included young men. >> i haven't heard of any system like gadhafi's system. sex was used for him as a weapon of power. >> how many women do you think at any one time were part of this harem? >> i would say around 30, but thousands of women have been raped by gadhafi all those years. >> in october 2011, gadhafi's 42-year reign of terror finally came to an end when he was captured in the arab spring. the interim government struggles to take control of the country. >> it's a disaster. >> a new libya has yet to emerge from the nightmare of the gadhafi years, and few want to acknowledge his sex crimes. >> these are countries that people don't talk about sex, don't talk about rape. >> how is sariah today? >> she's not welcome in their family. she tries to imagine a future. she would like to marry. she would like to have a normal life. i don't know wh

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the first guest, we literally, like a game of dominoes, we got george clooney, howard stern, condoleezza rice, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and i knew we have a strong week. oprah was fantastic. she walked into the montage hotel in l.a., and with gayle, first time i met either of them, and as we walked in she goes, oh, gayle, remind me again why am i doing this interview with this guy we know nothing about? she said, i just -- gayle, do you -- have you ever actually mentioned -- she couldn't believe like we met like we've never met. that was a moment for oprah to realize i never actually met this woman who was pushing so hard for the interview. nor seen any of the interview. she gave me 40 minutes, gave me nearly two hours. she was more generous going out, she was launching her own network, own, and she went out on the red carpet for that for a week, just telling everyone what a great interview it had been, how tough i was. actually, loads of painkillers after, and a long hot bath, all those things. we coddle that as the ultimate pro moe that you could wish for. i don't know how we pulled it

character because he went to the university of denver and had many of the same professors as condoleezza rice spans the cultures and i think understands this is a moment, and he has been the guiding force behind pushing for a deal. iran needs a deal like never before. the value of its currency is gone, has been cut by over half. its oil exports have also been cut by more than half. they have an enormous incentive. everyone knew that today was going to be the tough day of negotiations. the hope is that tomorrow, that you get the kind of breakthrough that will allow john kerry to go back to geneva, the foreign minister from the permanent members of the u.n. to come back, announce we finally have a deal with iran that will open the way six months down the road to solve this problem. i would be surprised, i think, if we don't get a deal. >> really. >>eah. >> another big story obviously is in afghanistan right now, where it looks like there is a treaty of some sort that is finally taking shape. it still has to be voted on and approved by the loya jirga, right? that still has to happen. i just had

condoleezza rice just pooh- poohed everything. cheney got his war in iraq.hey had nothing but no-bid contracts, ok, and obama is doing the same thing. they did it with this affordable health care. and there are too many intelligence agents. when you compare world war ii and now, and i know it is a totally different situation, and you need more, but you have so many people. if you look at what the russians did with the atomic bomb, you know, we discovered it, and they got it, they got everything on the cheap because of our poor intelligence -- i don't know what to call it, you know, to prevent spying. -- there no so many indication between the departments, and you saw the guy who shot up the naval yard, the contractor that allowed him to have his job, you know, like, did a really great job, and then there is no penalty for people who break the law like, say, where they call when they grab the people overseas -- host: tim, you put a lot out there. we will let our guest respond. is ontohe caller something. after 9/11, people were frustrated about the inability

with secretary condoleezza rice, and we have discussed the issues, and some modifications along supposed police -- peaceful applications of nuclear power. i sensed a strong support on the activities of the iaea, but it is the nomadic rectus not to talk about the ongoing diplomatic -- practice not to talk about the ongoing discussions. talks?ming not too much.lks, some discussion has taken place in vienna. for the nextaring meeting, but i don't have much to report on this issue. >> two quick questions and then i will turn it over to the audience. in syria, how intact are those sites? is there still a place you can go and do proper verification? syria, we have so-called reactors that have some high amount of radium -- uranium, that need to be under the safeguards. regularlyhat facility , and that facility is staying in peaceful activities. not had the ability to go to the other areas for obvious reasons. we have not had any indication that things are getting worse. >> what about the other three sites you want to go to? have two different things. one is the syrian nuclear facility, and the

at the university of denver where condoleezza rice her phd.. so -- huh? so, you know, it's simply the these countries to agree. but what paul mentioned and -- your europe questions is are all of these that collateral issues debilateralize, that feels bilateral, it is global. global.ly is there are all of these activities elsewhere, which impinge on our ability to make a and selling our own iranians theirs, us, ours. >> you made a great contribution understanding of how complex the picture is. and filling in some of the blanks. know it would take a week to fill in all of the blanks. useful. was extremely thank you so much for coming out and -- >> thank you for having me. i appreciate it. thank you. iowa senator chuck grassley is our guest this weekend on news makers. e talks about some of the issues facing congress from budget negotiations to the security agency surveillance programs. here's a preview. will be t believe it very easy for us to make an agreement between the republicans and the democrats democrats want to increase taxes. hey want to forego se

he was an adviser to secretary of state condoleezza rice. when i first met him, the department of state, member of the president's intelligence advisory board, worked for president bush and president obama. he has written a number of books, germany unified in europe transformed. i did read that one. he is a member of the aspen strategy group. i will ask a few questions and open it up to the audience. we are in a transitional period for american defense strategy. are there questions? a building down we talked about of the pentagon. are there lessons in earlier periods in american history that could guide us now? i guess i should -- why don't you both answer that question. >> good afternoon. it is wonderful to see so many familiar faces around the table. i do think there are some lessons to be learned from our history in terms of periods like this where we are coming out of a period of war a decade more than a decade of war and we are facing very severe budget pressures on this type of budget. there are two lessons that come to mind. the first

imagine when you were in the state department this would've happened when you were advising condoleezza rice >> forgive me. i actually, the origins of it did happen when i was in the department to i mean that quite series of big the origins of this move were in the spring of 2006. >> that's true. >> a member what happened, it was highly criticized at the time by many of the same people participating in today's debate. it's worth keeping this in mind if i can strike a bipartisan note. appropriate for the setting of the aspen institute. 06 the big move was united offer to initiate with with no preconditions negotiations with the islamic republican of iran. even while iranian operatives were killing americans in iraq and so on. and they did that in a p5+1 process. because of that move, which the iranians substantialed spurned. the united states was able to get the foundational u.n. security counsel resolutions that was the premise for everything that happened in the last seven and a half year. everyone told us we could not get in the beginning of '06 and then the building framework for the glob

this has been the view now that i and condoleezza rice and others have articulated now for some time. therefore the argument is by giving them the chance to participate in global responsibility, by giving them a sense of being stakeholders you don't ensure that china will not become something dangerous and you have to do something that had gigantic danger but you reduce the likelihood of that outcome and promote the likelihood and the factions that favor a different kind of approach to the relationship with the world as they themselves are struggling to come to grips with a very new world horizon than the one that they grew up with. >> i would just add i do think it is the most important strategic question that we will face in the coming decades. there are currently both cooperative and compelling competitive elements and we need to try not only to support china becoming more of a responsible stakeholder globally but also incentivize them so that whenever there is a choice between choosing a more cooperative path, they see those committees he is see it's not in their self-interest to

. >> 275 including cheney, condoleezza rice, petraeus, everybody other than president bush who choset to be interviewed. it was a great thing on the record, and we understand that it's history in a time to document what happened for the record. >> why days of fire for the diet l? >> he refers to 9/11 as a day of fire because the title was eights years of crisis they confronted, war and natural disaster and financial collapse. really, eight years of cay days of fire, and it was for them and the country, and the one we need to look back at and figure out what happened so we understand what's happening today because we have the same issues. >> peter baker, days of fire: bush and cheney in the white house. you're watching booktv.org on c-span2. >> this is a special place because mrs. nixon designed it for the grand opening of the nixon library in 1990. she loved gardening, had a special affinity for roseses. she was instrumental for opening up the white house for tours in the spring, a tradition continuing to this day. this is the pat nixon rose, developed in 1972 by a french designer wh

so did former secretaries of state condoleezza rice and colin powell. as well as former secretaries of defense, bob gates and leon panetta, among others. in fact, here's what president bush wrote on pages 179 and 180 of his member wore "decision -- of his memoir decision points. there are things i wished had come out differently. i'm frustrated the military tribunals moved so slowly. even after the military commissions act was passed, another lawsuit delayed the process again. by the time i left office, we held only two trials. the difficulty of conducting trials made it harder to meet a goal i had set in my second term. closing the prison at guantanamo in a responsible way. while i believe opening guantanamo after 9/11 was necessary, the detention facility had become a propaganda tool for our enemies and a distraction for our allies. i would like to go much further, and this is not the quote of the president. this is my language. while i would like to go much further and close the facility immediately, the provisions in this bill will ease the transfer

i would be more than proud to have the likes of ben cardin or allen west or condoleezza rice or colinowell -- any one of these black individuals, who would have principles that are founded in the basis of our constitution. host: thank you for the call. many of you are already weighing in. we will share with you some of your comments. the senate is invoking the nuclear option. your thoughts? jennifer says wow, i thought they were against this. sick of them all. darla says republicans are not the bad guys. and barry says it is a naked power grab. democratshis tweet -- never follow the rules. this is all available online at hill.com. senator cruz is the leading critic. he announced this as a scheme to save the health law. the heart of this action is directed at attacking the d c circuit court. that is the court that will review obama's behavior. senator cruz says that the rule to pack theesigned court with judges who will be a rubber stamp. john is joining us from pennsylvania on the independent line. caller: good morning. it is about time that here he read got off his but ended this. re

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. >> condoleezza rice out on a barge managed to create hurricane katrina. >> yes.ply not be compared to a natural disaster. but it seems to me that this is one of the many headlines that we have began to see even from the left-wing media starting to distance themselves from the president some journalists feel like we were lied to as well you said we could keep our plan and now we can't. well, you know, the tide does seem to be starting to turn. and we are noticing it in hollywood as well. >> i think that's right. look, it's obviously ludicrous to compare obamacare to katrina. it's idiotic. if you are a "new york times" editorial writer that's the meanest thing you can say. that really is the ultimate lefty slur it's like katrina. it's like global warming. that's a cuff criticism. >> how many times has bush been the punching bag? >> punching bag over the mission accomplished aircraft land. come back to aunt them in political ads. some saying that the president's argument that you can keep your plan may go down as one of the biggest mistakes of his presidency and cou