so condoleezza rice at the time national security adviser said to him, there needs to be talk. >> host: giving black candidates for admission that extra measure. >> guest: and the problem was that someone, i don't know how it happened but someone said she supported president bush. they wanted to make sure that her story was told properly. i will never forget before i came to work that morning and heard it in the news and had to go to a dr.'s appointment, i got a call from the white house press secretary at the time who said, do you said do you want to interview condoleezza rice. i said sure. so we talked and she made it perfectly clear that she supported targets of opportunity that some would consider affirmative-action. she she was against the train of thought that there should not be -- that there should not be preference in admission to university. >> host: and the specialty media reporter like you get that message to the audience that cares the most. >> guest: and this is the great thing. it reverberates. and now into a bc at the washington post. i'm now the person, they go to pers

and so condoleezza rice at the time national security adviser said advisor said to him, there needs to be targets of opportunity: is the word she used at the time. >> host: giving black candidates for admission that extra measure. >> guest: and the problem was that someone, i don't know how it happened someone said that she supported president bush. they wanted to make sure that her story was told properly. i will never forget i heard all the hoopla about it in the news had to go to a dr.'s appointment. i got a call from the white house press secretary at the time. sure. and so do you know what is going on? yes. so he ultimately talked. she made it clear perfectly clear that she supported targets of opportunity that some would consider affirmative-action. so she was against the train of thought that there should not be preference admission at the university. the specialty media reporter like you get that message to the audience that cares the most. and this is the great thing. now it reverberates into the new york times into cnn got to abc the "washington post" not just specialty media

a mentor to rice of course condoleezza rice a mentor to hadley in the bunch of others.n in some ways there is this continuation of kissinger to scowcroft and then a lot of subsequent talks with top officials. i am not sure if that answers your question exactly but he was very attentive to this. one of the things a good national security advisor is able to do is figure out how we will make decisions and that what level and how that will work. i mean, some would say the current administration is micromanaging. the 370 person nsc doing too much of the actual substance. they had a very lean staff and one, of course, where there was commandery and in general pretty good trust between -- despite the competition. they were kind of suspicious over the plans about reunification of germany but despite that they were able to you you know work and have this lean organization and really include and work pretty directly with different agencies and their deputies whereas if you do not do that then the defense or state department are disaffected or you get crosscutting policies and so

president i've been in extensive conversations with former secretary of state condoleezza rice who i know has tremendous respect on this side of the aisle. she sent out a release today in response in response to this amendment that's coming before us today that the proposed iranian nuclear agreement is classically an executive agreement and doesn't need to be a treaty with the advice and consent of the senate. this is our former secretary of state under george w. bush. but congress should be able to opine given the congressionally mandated sanctions would have to be lifted. i think that everybody on our side of the aisle understands that with four tranches, four tranches of sanctions that congress put in place we brought them to the table with senator menendez leading that effort. and in each of those cases like is traditionally done, we gave a national security waiver. no one ever thought the president would use the national security waiver to kick the can down the road for years on the congressionally mandated sanctions without our approval. but everybody in this body that's been h

i remember condoleezza rice meeting in iraq. and sharmila chase in 2005 wanted to talk to the then iranian prime minister talk. she went after him and he ran away. he did not want to be caught in the same photograph frame with a person from the united states. there will be challenges. -- there will be channels. if they will be protective channels, that is to be seen. john limbert: the differences are still there. they will not go away. the difference might be, how do we deal with them? can we deal with them? we have differences with a lot. what is diplomacy? making in perfect agreements with people you neither like your trust. -- like nor trust. with iran, we have not been able to do that. that, in itself, not that these disagreements will go away, not that they will become a jeffersonian democracy tomorrow or respect human rights of -- i wish they would. that would be wonderful. if it happened. but, that will take time. now, we have some things that we have not had for over three decades. that is the ability to talk about issue

. >> -- there was a cia agent that was briefing condoleezza rice while she was in labor.. >> that's made for tv drama. in fact if you had a cia agent in labor talking to a cabinet secretary, people wouldn't believe you but that actually happened in real life. real life is stranger than fiction. always good to see you guys. thanks for your time. >>> coming up he wants to be a man of the people specifically the hispanic people. jeb bush's ballot blender is an alliteration and it is next. introducing preferred rewards from bank of america the new banking rewards program that rewards our customers, every day. you'll get things like rewards bonuses on credit cards... extra interest on a savings account... preferred pricing on merrill edge online trades and more... across your banking and investing get used to getting more. that's the power of more rewarding connections. that's preferred rewards from bank of america. most of the products we all buy are transported on container ships. before a truck delivers it to your store, a container ship delivered it to that truck. here in

in the top-down sense from the white house not just the president himself, the figures like condoleezza rice and stephen hadley. all through the bush administration of the religious influence was maybe not predominant, but certainly very prevalent. there were a lot of of demonstrably religious officials presiding with people like donald rumsfeld and paul wolfowitz and others were not the most spiritual men, but a lot of pentagon briefings begin during the presidency with powerpoint slides that would start with a biblical scripture or verse were some sort of usually christian but overtly religious invocation. this is also true in the bottom up since we have heard a lot about this already atomized into a bush politics which not only recognized but encouraged the political activism command this is true in the domestic sense but also it was repeated in the foreign-policy sense. the foreign-policy through and through maybe wasn't indicted were driven by religious and i'm not saying the united states at a had a certain foreign-policy in pursuit of particular religious goals but in a very obvious w

. >> his main girl condoleezza rice, condi, how are you? know the name is broken down condi, that's the person you see on television, you know with the nice hair and very professional and then there the leezza. the one with her hair wrapped up with her girlfriend watching b.e.t. >> what happened to you? when you were sworn in you looked like the guys from the all spice commercials and now you look like louis gosset sr. i never said this to anyone before but maybe you should start smoking again. >> an honor to be here. if you told me as a kid i would be sitting on the same dais as president barack obama. would i have said the president's name is barack obama. >> joining me now are my colleagues ronan farrow and crystal ball who is hosting a special red carpet show on "shift msnbc." thanks for showing us. >> good to be here rev. >> especially with all the parties in time. >> a lot to go to. crystal will look much better on the red carpet. >> why has this become such a hot event in washington krystal? >> well, it's this crazy mix of d.c. and p

andy card, condoleezza rice. it was a stolen's gaffe for even a trip like that. we circling.nt back to the galley crew in the back. back. what do you have on here for dinner? it was clearer going to be out there for a while. one sandwich on board enough fuel to get back to washington. .. i would call the abc news and data for reports or desk and jennings would put me live on the air. i knew the tone of my voice, the clarity of detail and specificity without any emotion would be the best way to tell the american people and in fact the world that george bush didn't want anyone thinking the american government had been brought to its knees. c-span: what time did you get back to washington? >> guest: we left florida around 10:00 in the morning. we left the first refuel at 1:36 in the afternoon eastern time. we were back on the ground at andrews air force base at 7:00. the president flew to the white house and for the first time ever they had a helicopter and allowed two reporters to stay on so one per reporter and the associate press and it tv crew. we took off in her own helicop

president, i served under condoleezza rice as instant secretary of state on these kinds of issues sanctions on iran and i saw that when the executive branch was working with the congress, we were stronger. we were stronger. so as i mentioned when then-senator biden mentioned these words about congressional approval these were wise words and yet now the vice president secretary kerry, president obama -- all members previous members of this body -- are ignoring their own previous advice and previous wisdom and they're ignoring the american people in the process. the american people through their representatives in congress. so where does that leave us today? my own view is that the president should have reached out to the congress from the very beginning and said he wanted to work with us for its approval on this important agreement so we could be stronger as a country. the executive branch and the congress working together, unified to enhance america's national security. he should have looked to the constitution and said that this potential agreement whether one -- whether the biggest state

condoleezza rice passes him this note that says mr. president, iraq is sovereign. at 10:26 iraq time. he writes back let freedom ring. it is a nice little note passing at the summit. even while something like a nato summit is going on, they are still taking time to account what is going on outside of this one little meeting. not that it is little. [laughter] but this is a monumental thing that happened. hurricane katrina. we wanted to show you some things that the president saw. he went and actually viewed these places. but right after the hurricane went through his staff put together these maps to kind of show him the level of this the station that happened in the areas that were affected -- of devastation that happened in the areas that were affected. it would actually have a stamp that said the president has seen. this is something that he touched and did take all of this in. mrs. bush, meeting with displaced persons from the hurricane. christina: we do not have very many museum artifacts that relate to katrina. one, it was not a moment that people, for instance

so condoleezza rice at the time national security adviser said to him, there needs to be talk.

got donald trump making $1.5 million for his speaking engagements, ben bernanke 100 to 200 and condoleezza riceok, the inevitable they have created incredible energy among democrats to get them to the poll. >> does that allow them to line their pockets while she's secretary of state? >> let's pretend that we're going to actually take hillary clinton's premise for the 2016 election and say, it's going to be based on these populist fault lines. who is the better messenger to a populist? somebody who is the democrats' poster child for opulence and wealth and made her money through using the influence of her husband, herself -- >> that's not true. >> potentially leveraging her position in government to benefit from that or someone like a scott walker, marco rubio. his wealth is 72 -- these are the people with a much better opportunity to make the case two people who believe that the system is stacked against them that crony cap lists on the republican and democratic side benefit too much from the things the clintons have done. >> richard, i'll go to you. aren't you concerned about the fact that eve

the task force cochaired by former governors haley barbour and ed rendell former secretary condoleezza rice and henry cisneros and former members of congress business leaders advocates and other former cabinet secretaries including our first speaker today secretary michael chertoff. before introduce the secretary just a couple of words about the topic today. as immigration reform legislation has been debated in congress over the last few years and in particular last summer which saw the arrival of thousands of unaccompanied children and families from central america and it the cost challenges for our border agencies one key area keeps coming back and immigration discussion and that is the issue of securing our border. while this has been a continuous problem for many leaders and put forward by some as a precondition for immigration reform, it is a very ill-defined concept and it's rather not well understood. in fact when it comes to border security that lack of understanding in solid data tends to make a secure border something that is in the eye of the beholder. yet this isn't a good way t

this is condoleezza rice peeping in at me.n people. -- people whole. -- peep hole and, ladies and gentlemen, this is the vice president of the united states looking through ap -- looking through a peep hole. and dick, i hope you are not doing what it looks like you're doing. next are, a new president will be sending a pair. i am surprised we do not have more presidential candidates here tonight. like, if any. senator mccain is not here. he probably wanted to distance himself from me a little bit. he is not alone. jenna is moving out, too. the two democratic candidates are not here, either. senator clinton could not get into the building because of sniper fire, and governor obama is at church. [applause] but i'm sure whoever the next president is will show up at these dinners. especially like the dinners at 2005 and 2006 when we had surprises up our sleeves. >> so they asked the old guy how to get to the next town -- >> not that old joke again. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, i have been attending these dinners for years. j

if we were talking about condoleezza rice or colin powell or james baker or someone else, wouldn't you you're a smart and curious guy, about whether or not there had been any connection? wouldn't it be fair to look into it and ask these questions about whether or not the giving of foreign money to a foundation that belonged to that family in any way influenced the action that person took as secretary of state or as a presidential can candidate? >> yes it's a legitimate issue. as secretary clinton said yesterday, that kind of skrutity comes with the territory of running for president and yes, people should go to and look at secretary clinton's actions. they're public and she -- >> but we kind of can't. because what should be in the public record or at least viewed by the state department has been scrubbed. >> so i guess that's the next question, david. we have these things stacking up. is it fair to actually ask again going back to the e-mail controversy whether in fact there may be information there that could help us figure out whether there was a quid pro quo? because at the end of t

condoleezza rice says it's not a treaty.i don't think she would have said that if there had been any doubt in her mind. i have had discussions with other republicans who have served in prior administrations and they have come to the same conclusion. so we had a vote, which was a good thing and the concept of it becoming a treaty was voted down. the debate was worthy of the senate and i applaud all those who were involved. there are aspects of amendments that are pending that i would embrace in a new york minute but i believe that some of these amendments no matter how much i support the concept would break apart a bipartisan coalition that's taken a year to form. to senator cardin and corker, you've struck a balance that i think makes sense to me. a democratic minority i don't believe is going to turn all the power regarding this deal surviving or being struck down to the republican majority. if i were in your shoes i would not do that. and to my colleagues who ask that the democratic minority with a democratic president ced

i know that he's had conversations with the former secretary of state condoleezza rice as i have multipletimes and she agrees that this is an executive agreement. let kneel you why. the reason it is an executive agreement is right now the president has the ability to go straight to the united nations working with the other members and alleviate the united nations security council sanctions. he has the ability to do that with the executive sanctions that he himself put in place. and what congress has done -- and i know the senator participated, because he, too wanted to make sure that we sanctioned iran to bring them to the table as we have -- but i know that this senator has been here long enough that in three of those times he gave -- he gave the president the unilateral ability to waive these sanctions. i was very concerned about this and wrote a letter to the president about two months ago asking how he planned to do this and the president -- and obviously i got a response from the chief of staff and they made it very clear. they plan to go straight to the u.n. security council and it