and, david rothkopf, c.e.o. and editor of "foreign policy."has a new book, "national insecurity: american leadership in an age of fear." we welcome you both to the program. >> thank you. >> woodruff: david rothkopf, let me start with you, what do you make of ash carter to be the secretary of defense? >> he's a smart guy, he's very decisive, he will be candid with the president. he has a lot of experience. he's brilliant. but he's just one man. leon panetta, bob gates were excellent choices also for secretary of defense and as you noted in the piece at the beginning, they've had real problems in the white house. there haven't been changes in the white house so i'm not sure why we expect change in outcomes. >> woodruff: general mcginnis, what's your take on ash carter? >> he's solid. he's well prepared for this job. he's been at this business as the president mentioned for two decades. i've seen him work in the clinton administration and i've worked with him in the obama administration. he's probably much more qualified for the job than his two

this week's book of the week is david rothkopf's "national insecurity."book helps remind us that since 9/11 america has been too fearful, too reactivreactive, t tactical in its foreign policy. we saw that with isis trying to bait washington with vivid videos. he decides how the system of demission making in washington has broken down. it's an important book about the process of foreign policy. now for "the last look," actually it's the first look at e residency. in a ceremony in estonia, one of the world's most wired countries, edward lucas was given the world's first e resident card by the president this week. >> i'd asked him ages ago if you ever make these cards available to foreigners, can i have the first one, and he said yes and he was as good as his word. >> e residency is not the same as citizenship or legal residency. it is digital residency that gives you special powers, sort of like a super hero. are you sick of passwords like i am? well, maybe then e residency is for you. it could replace p-a-s-s-w-o-r-d as the most popular way to prove your i

. >> david rothkopf, you tweeted yesterday, "why does john brennan say my fervent hope is we can putld administration want it set aside." what is your point? >> this is barack obama. he came into office. he said he wanted more transparency. now that he's been sitting in the office for six years, he's saying perhaps that's enough. i think we need to ask the question why. i think drones are part of the reason why. i think the nsa scandal is part of the reason why. i think we're coming out of a period of maybe a decade and a half of the united states over reacting to the terror threat and doing a number of things that later on we are going to say that we've regretted doing and this administration has done them just like the bush administration has done them and that's why i think they would just like to take one step back and, you know, let the dim go away and perhaps change the subject to something else. >> will people be prosecuted? >> i don't want them to be prosecuted but i do think it's important that we acknowledge what we did, we don't play semantic games. this was torture. and t

she was formerly a top editor at thompson reuters and the ft and david rothkopf is ceo and editor of the fb. group, the publisher of foreign policy magazine. his new book is "national insecurity: american leadership in an age of fear." chrystia, i have to start with you because you know russia and ukraine well. the russian economy it feels like is in more serious trouble than even many people in the obama administration were predicting when the sanctions were put in place. >> that's absolutely right. there is a real economic crisis in russia and it's going to get worse. it's partly the sanctions. it's compounded by the fact that the oil price has fallen so sharply, and then the other thing is there's tremendous capital flight and a tremendous brain drain outside of russia. the russian businessmen i talk to, some of whom are close to putin, are incredibly unhappy. they can't believe that what they thought were real businesses, real fortunes, are just dissolving. >> david, russia -- i think the russian government gets more than half of its revenue from oil. people often say economic sa

closely at the impact of sony's decision to pull the movie "the interview," we are joined by david rothkopf magazine. and, in los angeles, sharon waxman, the editor-in-chief of the wrap, a ouws website about the entertainment industry. sharon, i want to start with you, seeny seemed to have the sympathy of creative types-- entertainers, directors, but now that's change. what happened in the last 24 hours. >> apparently at the premiere in los angeles there was a standing ovation after seth rogan publicly thanked amy pascall, the cochairnl of sony for putting out the movie. i think he probably feels very differently today. i think the creative community feels that they had the rug pulled out from under them. they were sure that the studio was going to go ahead, despite the threats, and put the movie out. on the other hand, the studio really had to take those threats seriously, as did the theaters that had booked thatç film, if there were to be any kind of violence or anything untoward that happened, i mean would it really be worth it for putting out a movie? >> sreenivasan: david what, about

david rothkopf discusses the tribes and those of american leadership in the world following 9/11. it's about one hour 10. >> good evening ladies and gentlemen. it is a real pleasure to welcome you here tonight. it's a pleasure for several reasons. i'm david rothkopf and i'm a visiting scholar at the carnegie endowment, and for me it's a pleasure because i'm here with friends but also because it symbolizes finally finishing this book. i was not really sure it was done until we came to the day that we were getting it out, selling it, so that's a step forward. but it is a special pleasure because to kick it off we've got it is gushing with three public servants who are among the most distinguished in their field, people who i have enormous respect for personally, and after having studied them, both in terms of what they've accomplished but also in terms of the content of the character. they are great guys and they think they will offer to you wonderful perspective. on the far left is general brent scowcroft who has served as national security advisor twice, both in the ford administr

host: we want to welcome to our editor of o and "foreign policy", david rothkopf. he is out with a new book, as well. given the title, i want you to did t to what the president yesterday with cuba. that the ll, i think cuban action predates the age of fear. because the early days of the relationship with cuba -- the call war -- i sometimes policy the -- because it was just as successful as a lot of the car. this has not worked for one minute. the rest of the world realized time ago that engaging with cuba was a better idea than trying to isolate them. of , you know, what do start the a policy go on for twenty, years and rty, fifty not work, then it is time to move on from it. from it was ng on smart and i think it will give us much more leverage with cuba. say that er critics will, with if you cuba -- they hope that it works better than it has worked with russia, north korea, iran. guest: well, first of all, korea, and a run are very different countries at this-- iran are very different countries at this point. slightly more geopolitically significant than, say, tr

now david rothkopf talks about the leadership following 9/11. it's an hour and ten. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. it is a real pleasure to welcome you here tonight. it's a pleasure for several reasons. i'm david rothkopf and i'm a visiting scholar here at the carnegie endowment, some for me it's a pleasure because i'm here with friends but also because it symbolizes finally finishing this book. i was not really sure it was done until we came to the day we were giving it out, selling it. so that's a step forward. but it is special pleasure because to kick it off we have a discussion with three public servants who are among the most distinguished in their field, people who i have enormous respect for, personally, and after having studied them, both in terms of what they've accomplished but also in terms of the content of their character. they're great guy guys and i think the they will offer to you wonderful perspective. on the far left is general brett scowcroft who has served as national security adviser twice, both in the ford administ

eastern, david rothkopf with "foreign policy" magazine talks about his book "national insecurity."9:30 a.m., a look at the impact of the medical device tax included in the affordable care act. our guest is mark leahey, president and ceo of the medical device manufacturers association. >> good afternoon. today, the united states america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. in the most significant changes in our policy in 50 years, we will end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to serve our interests, and instead, we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries. good morning, everyone on this thursday, december 18. that was president obama from the white house yesterday calling for a full restoration of diplomatic relations with cuba,

means, we're joined on the set with retired lieutenant colonel michael kay and joining us is david rothkopfining us from virginia is former fbi profiler and msnbc contributor clint van zandt. thank you for being with us. david, i wanted to start with you on what exactly isis is doing. we don't know of a direct connection but what is isis doing to encourage this sort of lone wolf attack around the globe? >> well, isis by its nature dross misfits and people who are seeking this kind of trouble. don't know that we're ever going to draw a direct connection between isis and this guy. the more we hear about this guy, the more it seems like he was not only a lone wonderful but that he was nuts, you know, that this was a disturbed man who had a history of bad domestic issues. a whole host of other things. >> delusions of grandeur here. >> i think. this is off your point, but i think it's worth us stopping for a second and saying, if this guy hadn't raised an islamic banner, would we have spent the last 15 hours covering this story? he is a nut who took over a store but he appropriated the mantel of

richard engel, shane harris, david rothkopf, appreciate your voices. >>> our coverage continues next with reaction on the hill. how do democrats respond to the claim they cherry-picked parts of this report? that's after the break. any minute now, president obama is set to push his immigration action in an unlikely location, but can you guess this report will make news there as well. it's all breaking news, all the time on this tuesday, december 9th. we're in "the cycle." i wish... please, please, please, please, please. [ male announcer ] the wish we wish above all...is health. so we quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. expanded minuteclinic, for walk-in medical care. and created programs that encourage people to take their medications regularly. introducing cvs health. a new purpose. a new promise... to help all those wishes come true. cvs health. because health is everything. cvs health. go! go! wow! go power...oats! go! made from oats cheerios! cheerios! go, go, go! go power oats! go! cheerios! go power! go...power! yayyyy! and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night,nd.

d then a discussion by david rothkopf. then mark leahey. you can join the conversation when we take your calls, facebook comments, and tweets every day on c-span at eight -- 7 a.m. eastern. economicrector of the committee talks to politico about the president economic agenda. atn the conversation live 8:10 a.m. eastern on c-span two. at 1 p.m. eastern, the director and chief of the u.s. army aviation gives an update on the army's aviation restructure plan. that event from the center for strategic and international studies live at 1 p.m.. >> this month is the 10th anniversary of our sunday prime time program q&a and we're featuring an encore presentation from each year. from 2005, kenneth feinberg's interview on the september 11 victim compensation fund. from 2006, the importance of the african-american experience to u.s. history. from 2007, robert novak on 50 years of reporting in washington. from 2008, the value of higher education in america and from essie kaup. p.m. eastern. >> next the announcement would normalize relations with kim a -