secretary of state, condoleezza rice. what does she have to say? nick: she was the secretary of state under george w. bush, and she is writing alongside a former defense secretary, robert gates. explaining -- the argument here is that if diplomacy follows the facts on the ground, then the united states must create its own facts by working for no-fly zones, safe harbors, and it must provide robust support for kurdish forces, sunni forces, and iraq special forces. condoleezza rice is stressing d conflict.ital to they had to be no incidents between russia and the united states. she concludes, let's stop pretending we are trying to figure out what vladimir putin is up to. we all know what he is doing. he is trying to secure his own interests in the middle east. molly: there is a piece saying that the west has to pay -- has to play it cool on all of this. >> and nyu professor of global affairs says that vladimir putin one minute is on the ropes, then he is the master of geopolitics. the answer for the west is simply to stop fearing from this perception

condoleezza rice did not have that problem. colin powell did not have that problem. amy, let me just finish, though. amy -- >> let her reply. go ahead. >> amy, you and i both know that black americans are not a monolithic group. we are very different in all of the ways that we exercise the franchise, but people have a problem when someone who is an absolute genius like ben carson can come out and attack barack obama the way he did at the national prayer breakfast with the president sitting only a few feet behind him when the only people who are going to applaud that are blue collar, highly uneducated whites who feel that the country is being taken away from them. >> go ahead, respond. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. when ben carson gave that speech at prayer breakfast, a lot of people were applauding him across the spectrum racially, educationally, and in terms of their income. and i absolutely disagree with michelle's characterization of those who were applauding ben carson over the prayer breakfast speech. when it comes to the column, with dr. tweetie, if he is so offended, w

condoleezza rice does not have that problem. amy, amy, let me just finish. >> go ahead. >> you and i both know we're very different in all of the ways that we exercise the franchise but people have a problem when someone who is an absolute genius can attack barack obama the way he did with the president sitting only a few feet behind him when the only people who were going to applaud that is blue collared highly uneducated whites who feel that that country is being taken away from them. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. when he gave that speech at prayer breakfast, a lot of people were applauding him. racially, educationally and in terms of their income and i absolutely disagree with her characterization over those applauding ben carson at the prayer breakfast. why is the column coming out now? it's coming out now because he's running for office and that's what happens in politics. ones icons come down to earth because politics tend to be polarizing and this is boiling down to his race. where is the column saying, hillary clinton, as a white

i talked to condoleezza rice. this is after the commission had been dissolved. brian: back in september, you came back in the news through math by -- through matt bai in "the new york times." he didn't talk much about this book. gary: it is irrelevant to the book. brian: you allude to the media. after your situation back then, the media started covering the personal stuff. gary: at the expense of more serious things. brian: why do you think that happened? gary: back to the question of the journalist asking me why i thought they did what they did. i don't know. ratings, revenues, who knows? i've never understood the broadcast media at all. brian: what did you think of that book? gary: i skimmed through it. brian: it was about you. gary: i know it was, but i don't particularly like reading about myself. brian: he said that, -- but in your case -- you go back to that moment, you have not spoken much about that over the years. gary: why should i? no particular reason to. single instant in my life. i didn't get to be president. i thought i would and i thought it woul

the other alternative is condoleezza rice. and everybody loves condoleezza rice.e hillary clinton, rights? >> well, look. he also served in government for decades. >> not as secretary of defense, henry. >> he is referring broadly to rumsfeld and powell, remember that as well they were feuding. but, yes, here is where i think it's relevant in his book robert gates pointed out he overheard a conversation at one point between president obama and then secretary of state clinton where they were openly saying that they opposed the surge in iraq back in 2006-2007 because of politics leading into 2008. he said he was disgusted by that. >> no doubt he means hillary clinton. >> that's the kind of thick. she is in a very commanding position right now. the whole idea she is craven and all about politics this kind of antidote. >> craven record of the day. one more question, henry, is that a pink tie pocket hankie combo you have on? >> i wore this just for you and the pocket square has some polka dots, too. >> it does, okay. and where are you going for dinner tonight because i

condoleezza rice did nothing to pulse the committee about the threats that were out, the potential threats out there. those, if the community had been pulsed, maybe al qaeda recruit who is in prison in minnesota whose trying to fly a 747, that might have been picked up. there is a lot of might have beens. i agree overall we don't know but we do know for a fact that the bush administration was basically -- was very unconcerned about this matter both in their public and private statements and meetings and actions. >> the problem i have here, this is with hindsight misreading what took place in the summer of 2001 and in the summer of 2001, the system was blinking red about terrorists attacks to the embassies overseas, which did get the attention of everybody in the administration that led to closings of embassies and security measures to protect abroad and nothing happened in the summer of 2001. in large part because intelligence was wrong or because the protective measures that we took. then you had the issue of the presidential daily brief that said bin laden determined to attack in the uni

keep in mind colin powell and condoleezza rice have not turned in one page. we have microscope over her entire tenure as secretary of state. going to be interesting. >> dickerson: it is indeed. thank you for being with us. we'll be back in one minute. mpa, the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about. that's where at&t can help. at at&t we monitor our network traffic so we can see things others can't. mitigating risks across your business. leaving you free to focus on what matters most. want to see your future? you're me, right? (engine rev) i obviously haven't slowed down at all! what do you think? the key is to stay hungry. by the way, our wife's in there. seriously?? the audi a8. ambition never rests >> dickerson: joining us from chicago is democratic strategist and cnn senior political commentate or david axelrod. thanks for being with us. what is your sense of the hillary clinton stakes? >> i think there are stakes but they have been reduced by the circus around this committee, some which you discussed in your inter views

condoleezza rice has the quinty eyes and weird gap-toothed smile and w, right here, he has the bushy brows. beady eyes and a smirky smile. [laughter] and then cheney, he's got like the big forehead, kind -- kind of a pointy nose sort of and a weird thing down here. [laughter] >> so i drew them like all carved into the side of a mountain and the caption was mount rush-to-war. >> [applause] >> watch that entire event tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern ere on c-span. >> a signature feature of "book tv" is our all-day coverage of book fairs and festival as cross the 1cri789 here's our schedule beginning this weekend. live from austin for the texas book festival and the following weekend, live in the nation's heart land for the wisconsin book festival in madison and then nashville for the southern festival of books. at the end of november, we're back on the east coast for the boston book festival. and at the end of november we're live for the 18th year in a row from florida for the miami book fair international and the national book awards from new york estimate just some of the fairs and festi

fighting cartoons that were 10-12 years like rumsfeld, he has a small nose and big c hin, and condoleezza rice -- and beady eyes --, has the big forehead, ird thing.e, and we are t i drew them cards into the side into the side of a mountain, and the caption was, ."ount rush to war t you can watch that tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern. homeland security jeh johnson talked about threats to national security recently at the armyiation for the u.s. annual meeting. the security review and vetting process for searing refugees resettling in the u.s. this is 35 minutes. [applause] secretary johnson: this is my second address. somebody may get the impression that i like the army, i do. as usual, i've taken my prepared it, said, that is very interesting, and prepared my own remarks, which means i will tell you what i really think, within limits. i asked my staff last week, what ausa? i say to the very simple, just tell them how great the army is, you love the army. ladies and gentlemen, i'm here to tell you you are great, the army is great, i love the army. why do i say that? for real. when i left the depar

three former secretaries of state, hebry kissinger, madeleine albright, and condoleezza rice are on the committee. the design has been approved but not evan in congress is on board. >>> we now have the information on how easy it was to get around. a lot of people said traffic was light on those days. they say traffic on highways was just 4% less on the days that the pope was here. however, congestion went down by more than 10% at that time. your ability to trust getting where you were going on the time went up by more than 30%. >> but a lot of people stayed home. they didn't want to deal with traffic. >>> we had drn a lot of teleworking with us going on. it was a jewish holiday too. so it lightened all the mooning around for the best. >>> let's check in on the forecast with chuck bell. >> aaron and eun, quiet enough to get your thursday under way. no rain this morning. you can leave your umbrellas at home. that won't necessarily be the case all the way through the next seven days. next best chance for rain comes up unfortunately on sunday. second half of the weekend, nothing heavy. if w

we don't really know how other secretaries of state, john kerry, george schultz, condoleezza rice mayave dealt with political donors because their emails have not been the focus of freedom of information act suits and federal investigations. what we're getting now is sort of a first-time window into how hillary clinton operated at least through the emails that she has turned over so far. >> tom, thank you very much. >> thanks. >> okay. the latest email problem a major problem for secretary clinton's campaign or no big deal in the "on the record" political panel is here from the hill. a.b. stoddard and rick klein. big deal or no big deal? >> one week from tonight hillary clinton is going to face down her democratic rivals for the first time and what's interesting is that the argument that you are hearing from some of those rivals, like bernie sanders, like martin o'malley is that the influence of big dollars on government is too much. so the way this question, even in the confines of a democratic primary. this isn't kevin mccarthy making this case, this is going to be fellow democrats

rememberd to try to what happened with condoleezza rice under w bush, i looked it up on google. tch, 15 on her embassies and consulates attacked, and over 70 people died under her watch. sit, unlessld not ts next toa rice si them. let's find out the real truth, not politics. host: all right. here is how some lawmakers reacted to represent a mccarthy's comments. gerry connolly wrote on twitter, gop leader revelation that the gauzy committee is all about damaging hillary clinton is shameful, using tragedy to score political points. said thattive ellison mccarthy's comments on the ghazi committee showing an electioneering scandal to discredit hillary clinton. mary is next. good morning to you. caller: thank you for taking my call. i think it should have been investigated by a bipartisan committee, so to speak, and maybe it was. ifpoint is, i want to know c-span has any type of charge to account for that $4.5 million that was spent. i want to know where my money went. do you have any idea on your buildanything showing who all of that, -- billed all of that? host: we do not have a cha

. >> but in a "washington post" op-ed today, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and former defense secretary bob gates piled on with more criticism quote. no fly zones and safe harbors for populations are not half-baked ideas, they worked before and warrant serious consideration. citing the u.s. failed involvement in another civil war, vietnam, one frequent administration critic agrees with the president that putin's gambit is risky. >> the last thing you want to be is a third-party player in a civil war. >> in another sign of weakness that goes far beyond syria, the u.s. announced it's withdrawing patriot missiles from turkey. and with the carrier "uss roosevelt" pulling out from the persian gulf, the u.s. will have no carriers in the gulf. the first time in years. >>> house republicans are still trying to figure out what to do about finding a successor to apparently outgoing speaker john boehner. the pros was thrown into chaos yesterday, when the front-runner, majority leader kevin mccarthy suddenly pulled out. chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel has the latest from c

i saw your op-ed with condoleezza rice. what do you make of vladimir putin? >> i think it's not all that complicated. this is a guy who is all about lost power, lost glory, lost empire. he's all about, he, i think internalized hugely the humiliations that russia went through in the 1990s. the poverty, the weakening, the collapse of the russian empire. people forget. with the collapse of the soviet union, the russian empire collapsed. putin is all about how do you reestablish russia as a world power, as a power to be reckoned with. you ignored us on serbia, you ignored us on ukraine. you ignored us on kosovo, you're not going to ignore us any more. i'm going to assert russia's national interest. i'm going to recreate a buffer of pro russian states on the periphery of russia. and by the way, in doing all of that, i can poke the united states in the eye. i will leap at the chance. >> this guy is really all about reassorting russia's role in the world. that's his strategy. but he's very opportunistic. and frankly, i think if resisted, will stop. he's not crazy. h

i saw your op-ed with condoleezza rice. what do you make of vladimir putin? >> i think it's not all that complicated. this is a guy who is all about lost power, lost glory, lost empire. he's all about, he, i think internalized hugely the humiliations that russia went through in the 1990s. the poverty, the weakening, the collapse of the russian empire. people forget. with the collapse of the soviet union, the russian empire collapsed. putin is all about how do you reestablish russia as a world power, as a power to be reckoned with. you ignored us on serbia, you ignored us on ukraine. you ignored us on kosovo, you're not going to ignore us any more. i'm going to assert russia's national interest. i'm going to recreate a buffer of pro russian states on the periphery of russia. and by the way, in doing all of that, i can poke the united states in the eye. i will leap at the chance. >> this guy is really all about reassorting russia's role in the world. that's his strategy. but he's very opportunistic. and frankly, i think if resisted, will stop. he's not crazy. h

security issue, and traveling abroad and engaging with foreign leaders and outside experts like condoleezza rice and others for the national security which is what i care for the most, thhe clear think best choice and would do a great job. >> thank you, mac thornberry, the chairman of the house armed services committee. and the chairman of the senate armed services committee john mccain will be joining me later at 5:30 eastern. >> and hillary clinton has attacked people investigating her e-mails. and elijah cummings will be on next to talk about this more. that just tastes better. with more vitamins. and less saturated fat. only eggland's best. better taste. better nutrition. better eggs. >>> hillary clinton is using her republican's own leaders to yus a campaign ad which is going to take aimt at kevin mccarthy's comments about benghazi and the select committee. >> and the republicans finally admit it. >> republican kevin mccarthy say hag that the committee investigating benghazi is really meant to deis stroi hillary clinton. >> we put together a benghazi special committee. what are her numbers

. >> i would recommend people read robert gates and condoleezza rice wrote an op-ed in the "the washington post" today that was spotlight on about stop psycpoanalyzing putin. >> it cost us $500 million, $100 million per fighter. by the way they stopped the program. >> we should of sent in rhonda rousy. >> they asked $600 million for next year for 2016. i would stop sending them money. yesterday josh earnest said the white house thinks president putin is playing checkers. have you seen the air strikes?s going all in. you may have questions where they are going, who they are hitting but they are not playing games and certainly -- we should learn the game of checkers they are playing. as for the putin has, is driving the russian economy into the ground? i don't know where you get that. the russian economy is based solely on the price of oil and minerals. oil price dropped by over $80 a barrel. that's what's driving the russian economy back into the ground. >> is it the cia's fault they can't get them trained? is that what you're suggesting? >> i'm saying they handed over $500 million. they we

i can remember hearing condoleezza rice say, if we had known.and that struck me when i heard her say that on tv. if we had known they were going to fly planes into the building. so investigate who knew what and -- and when. host: the main move on to the next caller. caller: sharyl attkisson, we are so darn proud of you back here, i can tell you. you are doing good stuff. it takes a lot of bravery to do what you're doing. i know the pressure that is put on you. so, darling, you take care of yourself. we love you back here. don't ever forget it. we are behind you 100%. host: are you from michigan? guest: no, but i will take it. back to the first color, the benghazi select committee has said their testimony -- they have talked to witnesses these other committees have not talked to, seen documents that other committees have not seen. and discover the existence of the mouse over that mrs. clinton used, which was the first clue i had that my freedom of information request had not been properly filled when i filed them after benghazi nor in my view hav

. >> but in a "washington post" op-ed today, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and former defense secretary bob gates piled on with more criticism quote. no fly zones and safe harbors for populations are not half-baked ideas, they worked before and warrant serious consideration. citing the u.s. failed involvement in another civil war, vietnam, one frequent administration critic agrees with the president that putin's gambit is risky. >> the last thing you want to be is a third-party player in a civil war. >> in another sign of weakness that goes far beyond syria, the u.s. announced it's withdrawing patriot missiles from turkey. and with the carrier "uss roosevelt" pulling out from the persian gulf, the u.s. will have no carriers in the gulf. the first time in years. >>> house republicans are still trying to figure out what to do about finding a successor to apparently outgoing speaker john boehner. the pros was thrown into chaos yesterday, when the front-runner, majority leader kevin mccarthy suddenly pulled out. chief congressional correspondent mike emmanuel has the latest from c

>> not condoleezza rice. >> hillary clinton? >> oh, yeah, fifth grade. >> do you trust hillary?any respects, i do. >> why is she hiding and deleting all of her e-mails? >> she's doing that now? >> do you trust hillary? >> yeah. >> yeah, i think she's a lesser of the evils, i would say. >> then why is she hiding and deleting her e-mails. >> something i am willing to forgive. >> if hillary can't protect her own ambassador, how can she protect a country if she's president. >> this is that show where you talk to, like, college-aged kids and get them to not answer. and then you have goofy sound effects like doing. ♪ >> where do you get most of your news from? >> i no longer have cable. >> orb economy is tough, isn't it? >> oh, yeah. >> yeah, i don't watch any news. >> so how do you know what's going on? >> npr, oh, yes. >> the liberal media. >> i can tell. >> what do you do all day? >> i work all day, basically. i go to castings if i'm not working. >> you're a model? >> anything scandalous? >> no. >> okay. just checking for my friend over here. >> i work at a gym down the road. >> yo

. >> condoleezza rice, christine legarde, they were sent to college campuses and a few spoke out. pretty much pushed them out and comedians, jerry seinfeld stood up and said he would no longer deliver a commencement address because college students can't take a joke anymore. president obama has spoken on this complaining college students are cobbled and protected from different points of view. is it worse now than ever before? >> definitely worse than when i was a kid but part of growing and learning about ideas and expressing yourself is hearing both sides. i love seeing op-eds on both sides. in the classroom presenting both sides, let them argue. my youngest son comes home with the shoes and says i got to do the pro and the con so he has to learn both sides of the issue, you learn your opponents and the strength and weakness of both sides but if you ban one side because it is a sensitive subject we are not going to talk about it, college should be the absolute place, people are not yet decided, this is a great place to have a discussion and review and discussion on college campu

. >> i would recommend people read the robert gates and condoleezza rice wrote an op-ed in the "washington post" that i thought was spot-on about stop psychoanalyzing president putin and here's concrete things you can do to try to improve the situation. >> how do we fix it? >> we don't do as we did, as dana points out. we trained five fighters, it cost us $500 million. $100 million per fighter and they stopped the program. >> we should have been defending rhonda rousey, more effective. >> they asked for $600 million for 2016. i would stop sending them money. they can't figure out what they're doing. yesterday josh earn bt says that the white house thinks president puten is playing checkers. have you seen the air strikes? the russian air strikes, they're going all in. they're not playing games and they're not playing -- we should learn the game of checkers they're playing and try that game little bit. as for putin is driving the russian economy into the ground? the russian economy is based solely on the price of oil and minerals. oil prices dropped by over $80 a barrel. that's what's drivin

he's regularly for years been consulting outside experts like former secretary of state condoleezza rice. so he's the serious guy when it comes to national security, and, remember, when it comes to a speaker's job, you're third in line to be president. you got to be serious about national security and i know kevin has been for a long time. >> well, maybe that resume you just cited is the issue. a lot of people are looking at the establishment right now and saying you haven't gotten enough done. we want an outsider. we know that jason chavitz is speaking out. what do you know in terms. the votes? >> i think he's in good shape as terms of the votes. it extends beyond that. we talked about leadership in congress. we really need to work on followership because 200 people in the house are willing to stand together and work for a common objective. depending on the day, we have 20 or 40 with personal ambitions or other agendas and don't care what happens to the broader effort. that's what we got to worry about. the only beneficiaries for internal republican dissension in congress is president o

9/11, your party didn't spend 15 years for blaming george bush for leaving the door open or condoleezza rice. people know things happen. surprises do occur. not everybody is guilty when something goes wrong. ronald reagan, who is now a saint in the republican party, positioned our troops in a place the local troops. marines in lebanon called khameneiville. nobody spent the rest of our lives talking about it. isn't this just about nailing hillary because they can't beat her in a debate? after this week i think they're sure they can't. >> as you know chris, every time the tragedies happen we have oversight and extensive hearings. out of 9/11 came the 9/11 recommendations. it took years to get them put into law but they were put into law. at some point, once the recommendations are brought forth in a bipartisan, sane manner, you move on. they keep having these same hearings over and over again and we're finally starting to get words on the street from republicans themselves about what's going on here. i think the beauty of this debate was, first of all, of course, the civility we saw between ou

secretary of state in 1997, that never had an email account, or let's go back and ask colin powell, condoleezza rice to provide... >> mr chairman... >> i'm telling you, it doesn't smell right. >> if i could respond n the course of trying to answer and archive information, the state department determined that they did have gaps in their record keeping. the people who always go in when disaster strikes, they pulled out. that doesn't include 20 other and it was much more than me, it was gaps in respect to others, other secretaries, and others within other state departments, and the technology in the state department and within the entire government is notoriously difficult, and often unreliable. i think it was the state department's efforts to try to fill the gaps, so i didn't know at the time that there had been such a meeting. i learnt of it subsequently, and when i received a copy of the letter that was sent by the state department to me and three other proceeding secretaries of state i immediately said let's hem them to fill the gaps, even though i believed the vast majority of my emails were in th

it existed certainly around condoleezza rice and colin powell, but certainly it was only elevated once obama rose to the presidency. you have a party in terms of republicans who not only are battling this i am imagimage th not a broad party, an inclusive party. they have an answer where they can refute that idea. they all of a sudden appear to be a much more diverse party. if you think about the history of the republican party, never before has a black person won a single primary state or caucus state in a presidential primary. in that way i think carson does represent a hope among republicans to move forward and kind of be a more diverse party. in some ways i think murdoch was hitting on that theme. >> but when i was a child growing up in the deep south, and armstrong, you're southern. malcolm x, martin luther king throughout history, booker t. washington approached, marcus garvey. yes, rupert murdoch stepped right into it, comparing him to someone else who was an african-american, basically saying he will become the real black president as if armstrong says his opinion matters to any

condoleezza rice, big forehead, squinty eyes, gap-toothed smile. eyes, bush brows, beady smirk. cheney has the big glasses, big forehead, pointy nose, the weird thing. [laughter] into the them carved side of the mountain, and the caption year was, "mount rush to war." [applause] watch the entire .m.nt tonight, 8:30 p eastern here on c-span. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is in jerusalem for talks with senior leaders. this is his first overseas trip since taking the job october 1st. the meeting comes amid a spike in violence israelis and palestinians. the meetings had been scheduled for sometime, but ongoing violence may be a topic in the discussions. four more palestinians were killed by israeli police officers today, including a 16-year-old killed in jerusalem after reportedly trying to stab some officers who asked him for identification. the violence has been part fueled by palestinian fears israel is trying to expand its presence at a major muslim-run shrine in jerusalem. israel denies the claim. the palestinian and israeli ambassadors to the united nations address

clinton, barack obama, condoleezza rice. it goes on and on. when they thought for these kinds of people to go on the record about race. you do not hear people of this magnitude going on about certain issues. they returned to talk about issues of race and that is an issue right now. i would encourage you to pick it up and let me know what you think. . thank you. we will continue our conversation late lesson in a minute. we will allow our speakers to get up and leave the room. we will continue the conversation in one moment. how about another round of applause? [applause] thank you. >> today on c-span, washington journal is next, live with your phone calls, tweets, and facebook comments. good education and terry arne duncan on improving standardized testing. in tributes to outgoing house speaker john boehner. and nancy pelosi talks about women in politics. and her 45 minutes children on the decision to send toe u.s. combat advisors help in the fight against isis. then a discussion of the recent -- linkinging process meats to cancer. we will talk

this came up earlier, fact checker for the post wrote a book about condoleezza rice, he has tweeted that. there's 200 ambassadors. there is a chain of command. there's a hierarchy, sometimes that can become os fied and that's a problem, but you can't have 200 ambassadors all around the world direct dialing the secretary. this is why they have the professionals. plus, hillary has a lot of gifts, but she's not an expert on embassy security. so the state department has permanent career people who are experts on embassy security. that's where those requests go. >> hang on all of you. we're going to take a very quick break. when we come back more coverage and hillary clinton will be any minute back in front of the benghazi committee. we're going to take you back there live. also more commentary. stay with us. plaque psoriasis... ...isn't it time to let the... ...real you shine... ...through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla's

state in 1997 that never had an e-mail account and let's go back and ask colin powell, contin condoleezza rice and me -- >> mr. chairman -- >> i'm just telling you, it doesn't smell right and so i yield back. >> well, if i could respond, i think in the course of trying to answer and archive information, the state department determined that they did have gaps in their recordkeeping and it was much more than about me. they had gaps with respect to others, both other secretaries and others in the state department and the technology in the state department indeed throughout our entire government is notoriously difficult and often unreliable and i think it was the state department's efforts to try to fill some of those gaps. so i didn't know at the time that there had been such a meeting. i learned of it subsequently and when i received a copy of the letter that was sent by the state department to me and the other three proceeding secretaries of state, i immediately said let's help them fill the gaps even though i believed the vast majority of my e-mails were in their system and we did, we conducte

of state in 1997 who never even had an e-mail account or let's go back and ask colin powell, condoleezza rice, and me to find all this information -- >> mr. chairman. >> i'm just telling you, it smells -- it doesn't smell right. and so i yield back. >> well, if i could respond, i think in the course of trying to answer and archive information the state department determined that they did have gaps in their recordkeeping and it was much more than about me. they had gaps with respect to others, both other secretaries and others within the state department, and the technology in the state department, indeed throughout our entire government, is notoriously difficult and often unreliable. and i think it was the state department's efforts to try to fill some of those gaps. so i didn't know at the time that there had been such a meeting. i learned of it subsequently. and when i received a copy of the letter that was sent by the state department to me and the other three preceding secretaries of state, i immediately said, well, let's help them fill the gaps. even though i believed that the vast major

at that time, condoleezza rice, senior official in the bush a administration, was defending the rightof the president of the united states to assassinate individuals, including u.s. citizens, based on intelligence they never had to make public. there wasn't another drone ,trike in yemen until 2011 2012, the obama administration really starts to intensify drone operations in yemen. despite the fact that at times pakistan was being bombed once every three days by drones, you had an active drone program in afghanistan, it wasn't until may of 2013 that a sitting u.s. president gave an official address where he acknowledged that drones were being used by the united states. it was a scenario where you would have the president making jokes about killing the jonas brothers at the white house correspondents association dinner, he would talk about it on a google hangout in response to questions from people talking to the president, but they never really fully owned this thing in public. what we published is an extensive look into how this program has operated historically, but specifically, und

topic, first of all, that i noticed an op-ed that you and secretary -- former secretary of state condoleezza rice wrote recently on the situation in russia and the engagement that russia is taking in syria to keep assad in power in cooperation with the iranians. and wanted to ask your thought process about as we look at what russia is doing right now what you think that their goals are and also what you think we should be taking as steps. we recently had testimony before this committee from general keane and general jones, both very distinguished retired generals, and one thing they said really struck me that they believe that if we continue the current course with our interactions with russia they believe it could be the end of nato if nato doesn't further step up, also, to help address, not only this -- we think about what's happening in syria but also the situation with ukraine and what is happening in that region. so i wanted to get your thoughts on russia and where you think we should be stepping up. mr. gates: well, i had a number of opportunities to interact with mr. putin when i was secre

for the second, i briefed condoleezza rice. her deputy steven hadley and another deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism, fran townsend. so, i'd like to divide my comments into two parts. first, what i would call the prep part. what my life was like getting ready for the briefing and secondly, the key elements of the job as the briefer in the room with the policymaker. my wife was not thrilled when i mentioned i was taking on the job. when i told her well, i'll be going to bed at 6:00 tonight, dear, because i got to get to work by 12:30, so i would spend from 12:30 a.m. until 6:30 a.m. getting ready to be the briefer that day. so, you might ask yourself, why do you need six hours to prepare? it's a pretty small book. four or five pieces. what's the problem here? the short answer is as david noted, i'm really a rush at hand from the past and suddenly, i found myself having to brief about nuclear programs, nuclear proliferation, weird goings on in north korea. take your pick of the world and suddenly i had to brief

of the legal advisor of the state department, which was headed at time by secretary of state condoleezza rice. he has worked in the private sector. he has served as assistant general counsel for enforcement and intelligence at the treasury department. he has served on the national security council staff. mr. president, this is a nonpartisan and fair-minded individual who clearly has the skill and ability to lead the office of legal advisor at the state department. he's been waiting nine months for confirmation. nine months. a person who devoted his career to public service, that's no way to treat people who want to give their service to this country in important roles. we need to carry out our responsibility. at the usaid, the administrator position has not been confirmed. the assistant usaid administrator for europe and eurasia has not been confirmed. the inspector general of usaid has not been confirmed. these appointments have been here for some time. mr. president, i've listened to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle talk about the refugee crisis. we have approaching the number of pe

i can't remember condoleezza rice saying if we had known, and that struck me when i heard her say thaton tv. if we had known they were going to fly planes into the building. so investigate who, wet, and when. host: okay joe let me move on. iris is it an independent. >> caller: well hello cheryl we are so proud of you back here. you are doing good stuff. it takes a lot of bravery to do what you are doing because i know the pressure that is put on you. so, darlin' take care of yourself, we love we love you back here. don't ever forget it. >> are you from michigan. >> no. guest: the benghazi select committee has said they have testimony and from witnesses and they have seen documents that other committees have not seen. they have discovered the existence of the e-mail server that mrs. clinton used which was the first clue i had that my freedom of information request had not been properly filled after i file them after benghazi. nor had document requests in court cases. so that is a problem. some of these documents we may never see. who knows what will come up, maybe nothing, may be someth