it's show or you know or barclays or deutsche of bank or whatever they're members of the council on foreign relations. corporate membership and well as one of these massive corporations getting out of it if they're actually financially backing the council oh well they're they're getting advice from the council think tank people they have fellows they have something like one hundred fellows at the council you know we had there's a pretty big endowment so it's it's yearly budget is somewhere around sixty seventy million dollars so with that they buy some top talent. you know thinkers flaws from observation so on and those of those people advice so if the g.p. morgan chase wants to know about where this should they should get into some country you know did and maybe they're already in it maybe you know most countries in the world but maybe they want to add one some obscure country then and do much about they can go and talk to the council senior fellows that are experts in that particular country and as with looks like a good investment so you've also said that at least fourteen cia directors have been

that now security advisor and so on seventy five percent of those were members of the council on foreign relations seventy five percent of all the top policymakers since one nine hundred seventy six a bit members of this one organization no other whether it's brookings institute or any of the others you might name have anywhere close to that coverage of top leadership as and their members. you could talk about other things there they have they also have besides their members individual members. they also have corporate members and if you look at the list of their corporate members you find all the top you know multinational transnational corporations in there you know whether it's. exxon mobile was chase manhattan j.p. morgan chase whether it's mckinsey whether it's show or you know or barclays or deutsche of bank or whatever they're members of the council on foreign relations. corporate membership and i would ask what are these massive corporations getting out of it if they're actually financially backing the council oh well they're they're getting advice from the. think tank people they have fel

restore two basic balances-- one is a balance within foreign policy, amd one is a balance within national security between the foreign and the domestic. - council of foreign relations president richard haass argues for a recalibration of america's domestic and foreign policies. it's just ahead on "global ethics forum." - mr. haass, as many of you know, is the president of the council on foreign relations. before he joined the council, he had a very distinguished career in government, having served in 4 presidential administrations, most recently in the bush administration as director of policy planning in the state department. he is also the author of several books. most of them have focused on foreign policy. we are delighted that he accepted our invitation to discuss his latest publication,

i'm joined by the european council on foreign relations. what is she likely to announce? >> that is a big question. it will be hard to find a coalition partner. the fdp was crushed. the former party cpd is struggling after their loss four years ago. the green party is covered by internal things. there is big trouble inside the party between left and right wing politicians. therefore very hard to say, actually, what will be - who will be the coalition partner. >> the biggest number of germans would like to see a grand coalition with the spd, social democrats. what kind of direction would that take germany and europe - were this to be formed. >> for europe it would be a good decision. the social democrats backing angela merkel's crisis management and they are pro institutional reforms. they had a broad chapter in their manifesto on european affairs. that will be a good day for europe for the next four years. >> would it suffer austerity in places like greece? ? >> yes, they were specific parts in the sdp. he made it clear that he disliked austerity. that will be a good time

michael levy from the council on foreign relations sees both opportunities and risks in the gas discoveries. he worries that maritime border disputes could erupt. >> if you disagree about where your borders are and you both claim areas as your own, if something valuable is discovered there, you're going to have some conflict, at least diplomatic, over who gets to develop the wealth of that area. >> reporter: but he also sees opportunists. >> we're looking at israeli exports into the palestinian territories and into jordan, that will intensify the relationship between those parties. and you'll see discussions about new trade relationships. for example, will israel be able to strike up trade arrangements with turkey. >> reporter: better israeli/arab relations, they say, with god's help. but whatever happens, gas and oil will make israel a wealthier country, less reliant on others. and that's no joking matter. >>> this is pbs "newshour weekend" saturday. >>> finally, the connection. making sense of the scattered news iteming bombarding you every day. sorting through contradictory marijuana law

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shibley telhami, professor at the university of maryland and also works as a member of council on foreign relations and served as an as aor to the u.n. and member of the u.s. delegation to the trilateral u.s. anti- incitement committee. we are taking your calls and questions this morning. michael is next on our republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. opinion on how the average citizen throughout the middle east feels about the american people, not their government? thank you very much. guest: this is a fantastic question. we know going back decades -- latin americans or africans or people in the third world who were frustrated with american foreign policy. peoplemired the american and loved american values. what we see in the middle east -- we hadt decade what we thought was a clash of values. when you ask people, name countries where you find most freedom for their people? they wouldry identify would be a western country, including the united states. when you asked them what do you want to study, the u.s. was always high up there. overwhelmingly they say policies and not values. point

joining us here now is charles a fellow at the council on foreign relations as well with us our correspondente los angeles witsheila with . you have served under president clinton, you have been following the international reaction on this and we got to a bit of it in the piece before. but there is sort of a sense that europe is quite divided on what should happen next. >> i think the longer that this plays out and the more debate there is in the united states, the more you could see the europeans go wobbly. if you go back to the beginning of this debate when it looked like obama wanted to move quickly, there was a sense of we are going to go to nato, nato will lay on hands, there will be a blessing and this will look like libya or kosovo, that blessing will provide legitimacy. since then the bricks have bailed. the germans haven't said peep. french are behind us. but that's kind of an unusual situation. and now the president says i am going to go to congress. and you can't fault him fo fault him for that. we are a democracy he needs the backing and the legitimacy of a congressional vote. but

on u.s. foreign policy. he served as national security adviser to president jimmy carter and richard haas is the president of the council on foreign relations. he served as director of policy planning at the state department and he is the author of "foreign policy begins at home." welcome. let me start with you. secretary kerry revealed on cnn on the preceding show that the united states now has independent confirmation of sarin signatures. do you believe that this case is now both clear and important enough for the united states to act? >> i think the fact is that we are very heavily committed to act. presidential leadership is at stake. american credibility is at stake. i think the worst outcome would be now to act indecisively. the vote in congress, for example, if it turns out to be split evenly or if there's a very heavy vote against it will further complicate issues. i hope the united states acts now in keeping with its commitment. it has made a commitment. i hope congress supports the president. i hope we then close the chapter on two years, as you have correctly described them, are very inept performance by the united states interna

secretary, the head of the council on foreign relations, for example, says that in fact, president obamae his words, from leading from behind to not leading by going to congress. he says that it raises doubts about the united states reliability and determination. can i get your response on that? >> absolutely. of course you can. the fact is that the president of the united states is leading and leading very powerfully and leading in the right way. if he didn't do this, i can hear all the critics saying why didn't the president go to congress? he could have asked, he had time to ask. it didn't make a difference? >> but then they could ask why didn't he go sooner? >> the president made his decision first and he announced his decision. his decision is that he believes the united states of america should take military action to deter assad from using these weapons and to degrade his capacity from doing so. now, that's the president's decision. but he wants -- >> no matter what congress does, no matter what congress does? >> he has the right to do that no matter what congress does. that is hi

welcome to the council on foreign relations meeting. this is part of the history makers series. this features individuals and made a critical contribution at junctures in u.s. policy. the crisis qualifies. the series is made possible by the continued generosity of hbo. let me start with a question that is on the minds of many people in the public. when you look at the entire picture and a number of prosecutions, the sec charges, executive compensation, the public statements of contrition, or lack thereof, do you think the people who were responsible for these decisions that led to this crisis have been held accountable? >> wow. i know that is a question on the public's mind. i will say something that may not resonate with a lot of public. if you except my explanation of the crisis, the excesses have been building for years, that a giant credit bubble burst, that a definition of a bubble is something that the market never fully understands until it burst, and my explanation that every financial crisis in history has its roots in flawed government policies and manifest itself in t

about foreign affairs, to write for the other experts, to write for our friends at the council on foreign relations of assuming people don't know anything about it because they're not very smart and i should talk down to th them. i think there were intelligent people who were busy and didn't have time until right now and finally they said, man, i have to figure out what's going on. >> you have got the publisher's award at "the washington post" and buzz feed has done their own parity which is nine questions about the new iphone you were too embarrassed to ask. your new boss cited it twice in meetings and i don't know if you know this but the gossip blogger put it in his recommended section. how do you walk the line between doing this, which obviously has tremendous success, but also not making it seem as though you're dumbing this news story down. >> right. you know, a lot of people say it's about lists. it's about the trick. it's this. it's that. it's actually simple. there is this diagram that we think about in foreign affairs news where people know all about the story and there's everybody else.

secretary, the head of the council on foreign relations, for example, says that in fact president obama gone, these are his words, from leading from behind to not leading by going to congress. he says that it raises doubts about the united states' reliability and determination. can i get your response on that? >> absolutely, of course you can. the fact is that the president of the united states is leading and he's leading very powerfully and leading in the right way. if he didn't do this, i can hear all of the critics saying why didn't the president go to congress? why didn't the president, he could have asked, he had time to ask. it didn't make a difference -- >> then they could ask why didn't he go sooner? >> the president made his decision first. he announced his decision. his decision is that he believes the united states of america should take military action to deter assad from using these weapons and to degrade his capacity from doing so. that's the president's decision. >> no matter what congress does. >> he has the right to do that no matter what congress does. that is his righ

and he said to the council on foreign relations tonight, i was elected with a mandate overwhelmingly for a moderate course on foreign policy and to fix our economy. and that's what i have to do. now, we've seen a little bit of twists and turns, where he talked about the holocaust and then the government news agency said he'd never really said that and he said, then, to charlie rose, yeah, i did say that, and repeateded it. and, you know, he didn't shake hands with president obama. that was probably too much, too soon for the people, for the audience back home, acknowledging a lot of people have acknowledged both in their mission and externally, that, you know, there were diplomatic problems, political problems back home with the hardliners. but he has certainly more running room than we've seen with previous -- >> and just the fact of them meeting and talking, it has been years and years and years since anything like that has happened, isn't it? >> it has been a formal meeting at this level since 1979, since the revolution. >> since argo. >> exactly, the real argo. andrea mitchell, ch

joining me now on the senior fellow from middle eastern studies at the council on foreign relations, ed hussein, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> trace: we asked for a list from syria, and surprise, surprise, we get it in the nick of time, but as jonathan said, we don't know if this is the whole thing. we have no way to verify exactly what they have or if what they turned over is all they have. >> that's entirely true. but the difficulty, of course, is imagine the alternative situation, in which we're not engaged with assad and his henchmen, and we bomb syria, end up spreading these harmful toxins and weakening a regime in which he is replaced by supporters of al qaeda and these weapons find themselves in the hasn'ts of people who are much more despicable than he is. the process, however flawed, and the risk of the cat and mouse game that saddam hussein played in the past, may be played by assad but it's much better to be in this place, having sanctions and diplomacy and inspectores going into some facilities where we have some idea where they are, and then ap

secretary, the head of the council on foreign relations, for example, says that in fact president obama has gone -- these are his words -- from leading from behind to not leading by going to congress. he says that it raises doubts about the united states' reliability and determination. can i get your response on that? >> absolutely. of course you can. the fact is that the president of the united states is leading and he's leading very powerfully and he's leading in the right way. if he didn't do this, i can hear all of the critics saying why did not the president go to congress. why didn't the president -- key have asked. he had time to ask. it didn't make a difference. all of those -- >> but then they could ask why didn't he go sooner. >> the president made his decision first. and he announced his decision. his decision is that he believes the united states of america should take military action to deter assad from using these weapons and to degrade his capacity from doing so. that's the president's decision. but he -- >> no matter what congress does, the president -- >> he has the rig

welcome to today's council on foreign relations meeting. this is part of the council's history-makers series which features individuals who make a unique contribution in critical junctures in u.s. foreign policy or noteworthy period of u.s. history which i think the crisis qualifies. this is made possible by the continued generosity of hbo. let us start with a question on the mind of a lot of people in the public. when you look at the entire picture, the number of prosecutions, the sec charges, executive compensation, the public statements of contrition or lack thereof from the leaders of wall street, do you think that the people who were responsible for the decisions that led to this devastating crisis have been held fully accountable? >> well, i sure know that's question on the public's mind and i'm going to say something that may not resonate a lot publicly but, if you accept my explanation of the crisis, which the excesses had been building for years, that a giant credit bubble burst, that a, that a definition of a bubble is something t

taking place at the council on foreign relations, this is an hour. >> thank you. [laughter] [applause] you, margaret, for that long and glowing introduction. >> i can take we enjoyed many hours on the bus together. let's margaret and i spent many hours together on the straight talk express. i have often mentioned margaret after i lost i slept like a baby . sleep two hours, wake up and cry, sleep two hours -- i want to thank -- it is nice to see old friends and enemies here in the audience. i appreciate the fact that the council on foreign relations would allow me this invitation to speak. it is always good for me to be back in what i believe is one of the premier institutions on the discussion and debate in america on our national security and foreign policy. it is an honor always to be back. i have ouraret and conversations, i would like to say a few words about syria. talk tome again if i seriously with you. it is an issue of great seriousness. i would like to begin by saying i wish i could see the recent agreement between russia and the united states to rid the

. >> tomorrow the council on foreign relations will host a conversation with bar next frank and henryuss what changed in the financial sector and what more could be done to prevent a similar situation from happening again. that's live at 12:30 p.m. on our companion network, c-span 2. >> c-span video cam is under way. we're doubling the number of winners and prize money. create a five-to-seven minute documentary on the most important issue that you think congress should consider in 2014. c-span video showing varying points of view and they're due by january 20, 2014. need more information, visit studentcam.org. >> in a moment, q&a with andrew bacevich talking about "breach of trust." then british prime minister david cameron takes questions from the members of the house of common sense. after that, the european commission president jose manuel barrosso with questions from straszburg, france. >> your new book, "breach of trust" talks in the beginning some about vietnam. how much did your time in vietnam impact what you think today? >> very

he was interviewed by margaret warner at the pbs news hour at the council on foreign relations. >> thank you. [applause] thankthank you for thor for thag glowing drug -- introduction. >> we spent long hours on the 2008 campaign and 2000. both of which because of her coverage i lost. la [laughter] no. i often mentioned to margaret after i lost i sleep like a baby. sleep two hours, wake up and cry. sleep two hours. and i want to thank, nice to see old friends and enemies here in the audience tonight and i appreciate the fact that the council on foreign relations would allow me this invitation to speak and it is always good for me to be back in what i believe is one of the premier institutions on the discussion and debate in america on our national security and foreign policy and it's an honor always to be back. an before margaret and i have our conversations i would like to say a few word about syria and forgive me again for if i talk too seriously with you but it is an issue of great seriousness. and i would like to begin by saying i wish i could see the recent agreement between russia an

it was hosted by the council on foreign relations. this is one hour. [applause] >> thank you, margaret, for that introduction. say we enjoyed many hours on the bus together. of hours on the straight talk express. not only on the 2008 campaign but because of her coverage, i lost it. i have often mentioned to margaret after i lost, i slept like a baby, sleep two hours, wake up and cry, sleep two hours -- [laughter] old friends and enemies here and i appreciate the fact that the council on foreign relations would allow me this invitation to speak and it is always good for me to be back in what i view as one of the premier institutions on the discussion and debate in america for national security and foreign-policy. i would like to say a few words about serious and forgive me seriyria, but it is great seriousness. i wish i could see the recent agreement between russia and the united states to rid the assad regime as a major breakthrough unfortunately, i cannot. i derive no pleasure in saying this nor am i seeking to score political points. i have sought to

i will briefly read a paragraph written by stephen cook, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. he said in the face of an attack, assad will remain defiant. he would step up the balance to exert control in his country and to demonstrate united states and allies cannot intimidate him. the regimes supporters would increase their investment in the conflict, meaning more weapons and fighters, resulting in more supporters. this environment would heighten serious substantial divisions, divisions, pulling the country apart. the secretary said the only thing we know that if we do nothing the situation will continue to deteriorate. this sounds even worse. everyone has come to different conclusions. i simply believe the risks of action today outweigh the risks of inaction. given this resolution commits congressional support for arming the syrian rebels, i worry that we have now committed ourselves to a level of support that will have to endure past the fall of assad. given the commitments were we're making today, it will be difficult for the american government to untie ourselves from su

working against the violent extremism reign we have a senior fellow for his studies at the council on foreign relations9/11 extremism. you said an aide to 10 years, we can do that successively. how is that? >> there is some minimization with little or no amount of money going in. and there's lot of support. we are confident that the minority movement can be effective. jenna: it brings up the question, which is what you are saying, invest in groups that are counter using this raising this extremism on the ground and help to foster them with the local people. the narrative on one side is unwilling to hijack a plane and kill themselves for the cause. we don't really have an answer to that because we would never do that. so how do you create the right narrative? >> it is a cause that has sympathy and in other words suicide bombers believe in something they call this certainty including al qaeda and egypt and these are real voices into this certainty and if anything it is going towards hell and that information needs to be strengthened. jenna: how confident are you in the messengers that you just mentioned?

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he is ahead of the berlin office here for the european council on foreign relations. you. >> nice to see you. >> so why isn't germany's relationship with the rest of europe a much bigger issue here in these elections? >> i think because like you said, most of the issues, these are domestic driven ones. two years back, if we had elections then, it would have been a big issue. but there is no euro crisis and all what's coming up next are more technical details, economic governmen government. >> is this going to change after the elections? there's been a view that once we're through the elections, angela merkel can take a more engaged approach to resolving the eurozone debt crisis. is this just a pipe dream or could it happen? >> no. i think the expectations are that germany are much bigger than what's reflected, what we know so far from statements by the politicians. so i think she will pretty much continue on her path of crisis management in a very step by step approach. so there is no big european vision. there's nothing actually no plan b or a master plan in her desk

the senior fellow from middle eastern studies at the council on foreign relations. >> you lived in syria during the iraq war. you saw firsthand the consequences of american mistakes in the middle east. what do you make of this possibility for diplomacy here? >> i think this -- this trick is something that is very important for people in the middle east to see. during the bush era, for all its rights and all of its wrongs, i'm not taking a political pop here, i think it's worth mentioning people in the middle east often thought there was a trigger happy attitude in the united states, and there was a feeling that this was a cowboy nation in parts of the middle east, but whatever mistakes we may want to mention in terms of the obama administration, what we have seen is close deliberation, thought, caveat, thinking. we have seen intelligence, we've seen diplomacy, greater coop rashz with all of its allies, with faults, it's not perfect, but it corrects the impression that america was in the path to being too happy to pull the trigger, and working with the allies in the

joining me now, ed hussein, senior fellow for middle eastern study, the council on foreign relations, ten dawson, consultant and former senior adviser to governor rick perry. doreen mourn, columbia university, and dr. nina kusheva, associate professor in the graduate program and senior fellow at the world policy institute, the great granddaughter of nikita kruschev. i want to start with you, nina. in part this question of whether or not what we have seen here is, is strong leadership, good leadership by the president or just lucky so far where we've ended up. >> i think what we've seen now is a political process which is not good or bad on its face. the problem i think is that there's a lot of rhetoric around that process, and for politics it's way too much rhetoric, especially with some complex sides involved in this conversation. so i wouldn't even judge barack obama's policy so much. however, i would very much judge his foreign policy advisers in those who write those speeches without thinking what the next -- the next could bring. that's where they ale rheally failed. they failed

shibley telhami, professor at the university of maryland and also works as a member of council on foreign relations and served as an as aor to the u.n. and member of the u.s. delegation to the trilateral u.s. anti- incitement committee. we are taking your calls and questions this morning. michael is next on our republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. opinion on how the average citizen throughout the middle east feels about the american people, not their government? thank you very much. guest: this is a fantastic question. we know going back decades -- latin americans or africans or people in the third world who were frustrated with american foreign policy. peoplemired the american and loved american values. what we see in the middle east -- we hadt decade what we thought was a clash of values. when you ask people, name countries where you find most freedom for their people? they wouldry identify would be a western country, including the united states. when you asked them what do you want to study, the u.s. was always high up there. overwhelmingly they say policies and not values. point

thank you to the european council with the foreign relations. one of the outcome of this election, however the real outcome is up for the german voters to decide. >> nick, thank you very much. >>> some news now just coming out of syria and we're getting reports that water has landed inside the russian embassy compound. what are you hearing about this? >> sources on the ground are confirming that. the russians attack and not saying -- but if you look at that same area today and the fighting and the government forces are try to come to the area controlled by the rebels. they are hold territory an 48 hours in the outskirts. by the way the opposition made it quite clear that they consider russian epl pacy and targets that it will continue targets. >> and with the hearing from the russian foreign minister who oh says russia is ready to send troops to syria. >> reporter: to reach the international community that they are the deal as far as destroying the weapons. they are going to be with the russians along with the international troops to perfect the mis

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i will briefly read a paragraph written by stephen cook my senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. he said in the face of an attack, some will remain defined. he would step up the balance to exert control in his country and to demonstrate united states and allies cannot intimidate him. the regimes supporters would increase their investment in the conflict, meaning more weapons and fighters, report -- supporters. more this environment would heighten serious substantial divisions, pulling the country par. secretary said the only thing we know that if we do nothing the situation will continue to deteriorate. this sounds even worse. everyone has come to different conclusions. i simply believe the risks of action today outweigh the risks of inaction. commits congressional support forming the syrian rebels, i worry that we have now committed ourselves to a level of support that will have to endure past the fall of the -- past the following assad. given the commitments were making today, ill be difficult for the american government to untie her ourselves from support for the opposition a

joined by managing editor of syria deeply, and senior fellow for middle eastern studies on the council of foreign relations. thank you both for joining us. steve, if i can start with you, president assad is suggesting that there will be repercussions from others in the region if america launches air strikes. do you believe that any of assad's allies would take military action on his behalf? >> well, it's certainly within the range of possibilities, that we would see some sort of retaliation on the part of hezbollah striking either at the israelis or american interests, either in the middle east or around the globe. remember, hezbollah was once described as the a-team of international terrorism and truly does have a global reach. so i think that, you know, assad's interview this morning was a lot of bluster. but there are certain consequences of an american military action that certainly should be given consideration. >> okay. laura, you, i know, will be interviewing the secretary of state tomorrow. here's what mr. kerry said in london earlier today. take a listen to this. >> a very limited, very targeted,

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and ray takeyh is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations.please take a look inside the report. i will mention the other members of the task force. chris carney, professor elliot cohn, dave deptua, larry goldstein, retired admiral gregory johnson, retired general chuck walls. they are the other members. i turn it over to mort. thank you. >> thank you very much. as i was driving here with a driver who was not sure where we were going, it reminded me -- thank you -- can you hear me? as i was driving here with a driver who was not sure where he was going, and brought to mind the old adage, when you do not know where you are going, any road will do. still not working. >> get closer to it. >> there is an old phrase which is when do you not know which way you are going, any road will do. every now and then i have had that feeling with the way the administration has been conducting itself. there is a point that we must now look at and that was the president's response to the chemical weapons attacks by assad of syria and whether that affects viabili

run and i'll briefly read a paragraph written by stephen cook is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations in washington post. in the face of an attack, saad would remain defiant. he probably step up the violence to exert control in this country and demonstrate the united states and allies cannot intimidate them. the reigning pitcher this would increase investment, and many more weapons that were fighters results in more atrocities and on the other side during opposition groups care more about killing allies in shiite. this would heighten ethnic and political divisions, pulling the country apart. i've heard secretary kerry say the one thing we know is if we do nothing common situation will continue to deteriorate. this sounds even worse. i think everyone has come to different conclusions. i simply believe the risks of action today outweigh the risks of inaction. second, given the resolution also for the first time commits congressional support for arming syrian rebels, i worry we've now committed ourselves to a level of support that will have to endure pass the ball of bashar al-assad in t