crocker and petraeus went for long runs and david q. over issues. petraeus put a satellite office next to crocker's office and they would talk about almost everything. he would go and meet with prime minister nouri al maliki and they would know their lines should be. they do without promptin knew wt he would talk about. it wasn't a state and when crocker left afghanistan and iraq in 2009, immediately they began having disagreements with general ray odierno who was in charge of the military. it just wasn't a natural state. >> one more and then we will start taking questions from you all. all. there's a microphone over here to the right. just please queue up and then we will let you have that. actually, two questions. in the writing of the book, did you learn or stumble across more junior or mid-level officers that you think somebody might be writing a book about in the years to come in terms of their performance and then what would you say to people that are considering the career and who might be a little intimidated and put off? >> i did come acros

this commission belonged to ambassador ryan crocker when he was appointed to serve as u.s. ambassador to syria in 1998. do you want to talk about commissions and credentials? katie: the first ambassador was the ambassador to great britain. before that, people who held the post were called ministers. alison: ambassador crocker served as ambassador several times in his career, not only to syria, but to lebanon, kuwait, pakistan, iraq, afghanistan. katie: a new commission every time. alison: he was no stranger to the part of the world as well as conflict zones. an interesting story of what happened to ambassador crocker when he was serving in syria, in december of 1998, syrians were protesting u.s. and british military actions that were ongoing in iraq at the time. and the protests grew to the degree that they ransacked the u.s. embassy, the british embassy, as well as ambassador crocker's residence, and did quite a lot of damage. this commission made it out unscathed, did not suffer any damage, although we do have another one of his commissions in the collection which was on

and the part around the corner, crocker. and he looks like a politician. the name of somebody people that follow his. and and i hope everybody recognizes the name from the store. this guy has potential. there is this talk about more than just talk. very serious. and this was the time of the civil war. and with solace in history. the treasury of the nations around the world and wanted to tie that to the east coast. the federal government was beginning to talk about financing the transcontinental railroad. huntington, crocker, hopkins and stanford eventually began to realize that and they need a plan and they come up with them. >> and crocker is going them -- to the construction materials. their ledgers and financial stuff, huntington is going to be the sharp trader and someone has to buy rails and locomotives and spikes. and they need somebody to bring some power to be able to try to wrestle the money the federal government is talking about, financing this incredible new price, certainly the most expensive and ambitious public works project until that time

his name was charles crocker. many of you will recognize that name. even more so is the hardware store owned by a fellow man and his partner. these three guys are not buffoons. i will start with them because the word sharp is applicable to him. he was known in the power louts as a sharp trader. he was again to get his hands dirty. heck no, that wasn't his deal. he landed here. he got himself a little rowboat. when they decide when the weather is going to be. you know i can get awful choppy out there. he rose out he buys them for super cheap. f and he sells them for two or three times. he is a smart guy. he was an accountant. and then the partner around the corner look over and they say he looks like a politician. he is the name of someone that people will follow. he is rather stoic. everybody recognizes the name from the store. the sky has potential.is this is the talk very serious moves to have that railroad. this is the time of the civil war. t in the nationn as we are today cannot compare it all to what we head at that time.re also very concerned a

i also frequent the crocker galleria often for meals and i know most of the tenants and retailers that are there. and my hotel literally supports this. they have been great partners when they were discussing the project, they were great neighbors and shared all the great improvements. and i am a resident of san francisco. i feel this will bring more of the local residents a place to come. i personally love the popos because we used to do yoga classes for our customers there. so i'm looking forward to the enhancement. i think people do go up there, but i think with the enhancement there will be more people that go there. i'm a huge proponent because i believe san francisco needs more public parks. and actually we have this amazing architectural tour guide, he takes a lot of the tourists and local customers from my hotels and starts at my hotel and tours the space. so whatever we can do, i think it will be a great addition to sutter street. we don't get a lot of business and foot traffic on weekends, so i think whatever i can do to help support our ownership group is also in support of t

the project before you is downtown project authorization for the crocker retail galleria 50 post street. it is a three story building with vaulted glass ceiling. in addition it is fronted with a small third frontage on the west side. the galleria and project also including the three story retail building located between the main portion and the ad jaysant -- adjacent hotel. it was approved in 1979 and constructed in 1983 as part of a larger project which included a tower and 25 montgomery and 111 sutter. that is all into the new galleria. the project today only involves the building itself and no modifications to the office tower. the original project called for open space in two main areas first on the roof of 1 montgomery and second above the three story retail building between th the daller ria. it includes increased tables and seating and movable seating. the proposed project consists of interior and ex steeria alterations and no building expansion except for elevator extension on the sutter street side of the building which allows for existing elevator to be brought up to the rooft

think almost friday that's the last of my ex in the future so crocker was. as for. the leading political scientists martin guillen's came out with a study of the relation between public attitudes and that would mostly what he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. they might as well be and some other country. and the population knows. what it's led to is a population that angry frustrated and i hate institutions. and it's not acting constructively to try to respond to this. there is popular mobilization and activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused anger attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets that's what happens in cases like this. it is corrosive of social relations but that's the point the point is to make people to hate and fear each other and look at only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. one place you see it strikingly is on 15th. april 15th is going to measure the day if they are taxes of how democratic a society is a different. sleep deficit is really democ

is getting ready for his big performance in the not crocker christmas by the way. says every morning for hours. being a ballet dancer is beautiful but exhausting and i know that especially if you come from the country and try to make it here here in front of us stuck in an offshoot of the moscow academy of choreography also called the bolshoi school ballet. the good it is for the 1st time i heard them say pulling your tail i thought what tail and how can i pull it in order to turn your knees rotate the thighs outboards. that for over a 100 years russia has been known as the place where the stars of classical ballet are trained with the competition is fierce some your needs more than strong legs he needs to have a strong character. ready for over 3 months the 11 year old has been living in a boarding school and there was talk he really sees his mother. today she traveled from their hometown of. 1000 kilometers away to see her son simone's big christmas from near. the finish had limited him so much to go where also so proud of our boy. did you miss me to. move lovey

to hubbell the idea was now i know what optics they need into the light path and then it came and crocker has his head rolling around trying to come up with a clever way and then goes into the shower he's really tall he moves the showerhead to the right height and adjust the till and it dawns on him a mechanism that could extend with small arms could be exactly the way to get the corrected optics. and that was the corrective optical device. >> and was carried in 1993. and now here is galaxy one would. and that's the way it looked immediately after and if you image this with hubbell with all of the upgrades through 2009 that image would be hundreds of times better with the technology those optics are put into place every time a shuttle crew went back to service. this is what you get if you point hubbell in focus mode to a patch of the sky that you were positive was empty and then stare at it for a while. that might be a star but every one is a galaxy like our galaxy hundreds and hundreds of galaxies of all quadrants of the sky and of course exquisite structural detail to interact and scrol

. >> ambassador ryan crocker, thank you very much. appreciate your analysis. still to come, how the attacks in bagdad may open another conflict zone in the middle east. >>> with the senate trial expected to begin next month, democrats want key white house officials to testify. one republican says she's open to the idea. you're watching msnbc. we'll be right back. ♪ hey. hey. you must be steven's phone. now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network... only with xfinity xfi. download the xfi app today. >>> welcome back. a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former national security adviser john bolton's one-time deputy charles kupperman. he was asking for a ruling on whether the white house could legally block him from testifying before congress. kupperman filed his lawsuit after he was subpoenaed to testify in the house impeachment inquiry. the judge ruled the question was, quote, moot, because the house ultimately withdrew its subpoena but warned kupperman might actually reappear before the co

[laughter] [laughter] crocker bank, got swallowed up by wells fargo and pacific bell got eaten by verizonso what you do about all this given the great uncertainty? here's the good news. there are already several startups building giant scrubbing machines that will literally pull the co2 out of the air and several those cases will turn it into products. one turns it into jet fuel because that's one of the things that's hard to make. it's hard to make electric jets. one makes it into plastic some other do some other things. which none of those will be the winner? i don't know.e maybe none of them.but sorta like the pc industry in the beginning where it was hard in the beginning to know which company would have would last. but you knew pcs and computers were going to last. likewise with the co2 scrubbing stuff i don't know if any of these specific startups will last but it's a thing and it's going to be an industry and it's going to be a big deal and governments would presumably pay a lot for it if they thought it was a danger. and then you also have nuclear energy. if you are not up on nucl

lockheed engineer jim crocker got his head rolling about all the problems and issues and trying to comesome way to cleverly get these mirrors, small corrective mirrors into the telescope goes into the shower one morning at his hotel room in holland and he's a really tall guy so he loosens the showerhead and moves it up a pole to a nice height and a justice tilt and it dawns on him that a mechanism that could extend up out of one of the science instruments with small arms that would spring out and put these mirrors in just the right place could be exactly the way to get the corrective optics into hubbell. that became a device called costar the corrective optical device that was, there we go. press the right button kathy. there you go. that was carried aloft by the 61 crew in 1993. they installed that corrective device and hears galaxy m 100 the way hubbell saw it in its first phase of life here's the way that galaxy looked immediately after that correction and hubbell if you image this galaxy today with hubbell, because of all the upgrades to the instruments that have been made over the

the problem -- the middle steps, she just leapfrogged over and went right to thinking she was betty crockermuch equity do you have today? rachel: i have 90%. lemonis: who has the other 10%? rachel: friends and family gave me $100,000... lemonis: okay. rachel: but i put in most of the money. lemonis: so, you got the facility. rachel: right. that's when i had to -- i needed more money. lemonis: and how much did it cost you to make the place look like this? rachel: $780,000. lemonis: $780,000? where did that money come from? rachel: these guys came to help me with finances. that was the investors. lemonis: you had people come in? rachel: yeah, and they gave me debt. and i said, "i know i'm gonna need more for working capital," so now i have like $1 million in debt. lemonis: in addition to the $780,000? rachel: yeah. lemonis: and is there any other debt in addition to that? rachel: yeah, a little bit -- well, not a little bit. michael: there's some credit card debt of about $100,000, and then on top of all of that, there's some loans from different commercial entities for another $100,000. lemo

but i want to read what ryan crocker toew inters as part of this project. "our biggest sgle prect sadly and inadvert btly may have been the developme of mass corruption." wasn't the corruption also our fault, because w spent so mh money so quickly and the country >> afghanistan was corrupt before 9/11 and before we went and overthrew the taliban and displaced al qaeda. corruption was a preexisting condition. by the way, it's one of those conditions that we did not appreciate sufficiently that could have aemllpowered or influenced, informed our strategy. but it was there beforwe got there. our pouring tens of billions ofh dollars, thinto that corrupt economy simply inflamed it and made it worse. and in a way we have created a war economy that is vey corrupt and which depends on our continued post-traciatic stress nts. >> schifrin: we help fuel the war. a lot of our money was going to insurgents and corrupt officials ewho were entrusted by afghan people. >> that's right, and also corrupt officials who demonstred by way of their corruption that they could not

and was built to follow suspects in the years after the 911 attacks says richard crocker a former counterterrorism chief for presidents clinton and george w. bush set up the program in 2008 with other americans and it was sanctioned by the u.s. the unit's focus went further though targeting human rights activists and both the governments of qatar and football's governing body fifa over the 2022 world cup bait well let's speak to robert pritchard about this is a director of the cyber security expert this is a firm that advises institutions across europe this approach and also used to work for the british government on cyber security related issues is via skype from chamonix in france thank you so much for your time and for being with us on al-jazeera i think we've always suspected that the iraqis had this elaborate site cyber spying network and i think what we did know is that senior american officials n.s.a. officials were involved in setting up this operation does this surprise you in any way. so i think it's important to know that these are people who are at lest the u.s. government organization

they have betky crocker, pillsbury, cheerios. look you can teach an old dog new tricks, stuart.as an old dog? >> i would never do that, never, no. stuart: i would never take offense. do it any day you like. merry christmas to one and all. >>> dennis gartman still with us. he likes to hang around the studio, doesn't he? >> you guys let anybody on, won't you? stuart: not everybody. but most of the people we've had on this program recently said yeah, we have a really phenomenal bull run at end of this year, it goes into next year. what does dennis gartman say? >> i have doubted the veracity of the bull market for a while but we're at the point we're moving pair billion i cannily. stuart: what does that mean? parabolically. >> you brits know that i thought you had good educations over there. those short in uncomfortable position. those underinvested find themselves in uncomfortable position. after a stock operator said after all it's a bull market. it want to go higher. trend from lower left, upper right. mark this down, it will stop when it stops and won't stop until it does. that