of course dick was ambitious. of course he wanted to be secretary of state but it was used to a cause. so the capacity, the cause, that... the capacity for friendship, too, endearing him to us so he could put up with anything. >> rose: let me just ask this for history's sake les, frank, dick, if in fact john kerry had been president, would dick holbrooke had been secretary of state? >> i hope so. >> i hope so but i don't know. >> there's no way of knowing, charlie. >> rose: if hillary clinton president? >> if al gore... you can imagine it. there would have certainly been plenty of people who would have screamed and complained but we won't know what the circumstances will be. we know that... what we do know is there was no finer foreign policy mind in our generation than richard holbrooke. nobody better able to deliver the goods, nobody better able to build a team of loyal people around it. nobody who believed more deep the profession of foreign affairs than dick holbrooke. >> rose: let me put it this way. of cours

like kenneth ♪ ♪ my dick's got much success yo dick's stuck on tbs ♪ ♪ ay yo, my dick's got multiplever gave that to michael jackson. i can't -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: really? he did well with it, though. >> he did. you know, i knew michael when it was the jackson five. my earliest show on abc and this group came on, and one night, at "rocky horror," somebody yelled, "do you know michael jackson?" and i said, "yeah, i knew him when he was -- black." [ laughter ] well, am i getting away with that with you? >> yeah, yeah, yeah -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: did you see me wince a little? no, but -- you never look better than in that ladies unitard that you had on. >> tracy: thank you. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. >> that was something. was that suit padded in any way? >> tracy: no. [ laughter ] that was all me. >> oh, i meant in the shoulders. >> tracy: no. >> jimmy: he meant in the shoulders. >> what did you think i meant? oh well. >> jimmy: congratulations on this book. look at this -- is this your second book or third book? >> well, there was a book called "cavett," then there was one ca

i was able to track mel dick down in miami, florida, and this is mel dick's story. when he was 8 years old he lived in brooklyn new york, played hook ky from school, went into new york city to a gym, steelman's gym where sugar ray robinson happened to be sparring. now, mel dick is white, and he told me to story when i found him, and he was the lone white kid in the gym that day just sitting in the audience watching sugar ray robinson spar. he played hooky from school, and he didn't tell mom and dad where he was going. sugar ray robinson noticed him out of the corner of his eye, and after he was finished sparring, he walked down and was talking to the other people, and he bent down and asked mel dick who he was. he said, sir, i'm melvin dick, and he said, why are you here? where's your parents? he said, well, my mom and dad are at home, and they do not know that i'm here. sugar ray robinson said, well, why are you here? for heaven's sake, why are you here? he looked up at sugar ray robinson and said because you're my hero, and i love you. for the next 45 years, mel d

dick is guilty. he pleaded guilty in open court, but he does say, he said, in open court, i came to the con conspiracy late. he was drawn into it and i'll close off by saying dick's lawyer from san fransisco, a very good and powerful criminal defense lawyer explained to me how it was not technically entrapment, but it seems like it. he was not actually and agent of the federal government, therefore, it wasn't entrapment, but he thought, i call a strong motion around outrageous conduct by the federal government in creating the crime, and that was heard before judge biggers in oxford and listened to it for three hours not allowing them to call judge lackey and dismissed it. judge lackey refers to him in the journal as scum and scum of the earth, and in open court later in another side case, he referred to him as a monster, so, you know, this is hardly a man that was kind of favorably disposed to dick to begin with, so i hope i haven't rambled on too long, but i'm prepared to talk about this at length b

tavis: [laughter] that's why we love dick cavett. for more on my conversation, go to my website at pbs.org. his new book is called "dick cavett, talk show confrontations." i have not scratched the surface on the brilliance of his commentary. i am sure you can tell that you want to read this and did it. >> you have a future in television. tavis: i'll take that from you. until next time, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org tavis: the join me next time for conversation with oscar-winning filmmaker danny boyle on "127 hours." >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by con

to london and and to also on the irish public or how do you i will react to the allegations that dick marty made in his report because we have the prime minister of course of all threatening to sue him but i think you know it's fair to say that this investigator dick marty has a pretty good road record i mean two thousand and seven with extreme rendition he was proven very correct on those so i mean given his background a lot of people wanted to smirk his character but he's got a pretty good record mr ambassador what do you think about all these charges well i would like to start with the two previous speakers and i think that they put the scene a little bit wrongly or suiting their own particular interests i think that the whole think didn't start with the k.l.a. in causal. the whole thing in kosovo started with the policy of the milosevic regime of. which actually had been trampling underfoot all the national. other human rights that every people in every nation should enjoy and as such they had stripped kosovo from the autonomy that it had before completely only laterally abrogated

>> osgood: ahead, on a trip with dick van dyke.istmas, my true love gave to me, a patridge in a pear tree ♪ >> it's sunday morning on cbs. and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: from patridges in pair trees to swan a-swimming, 184 birds in all are presented as gifts if you add up all the verses in the 12 days of christmas. according to this year's estimate by pnc bank, those birds would cost you $44,593.52. that's small change compared to the tab for the pricey birds our liz palmer takes us to see. >> reporter: okay. it's not ideal weather for bird spotting. >> the birds don't behave differently from country birds. >> reporter: but david never let a little fog get in the way. he's a well known figure on the british birding scene. >> by the age of 8 i was taking out my fellow school buddies and showing them birds in the local woods. i remember pestering my mum to get me a pair of binoculars. >> reporter: this morning's tally is low. a few star links and a shy crow. no matter. ever sighting is a feather in his cap. >> you feel

first up, second highest ranking democrat dick durbin. yesterday he joined leaders from both parties at a white house meeting. then there will be joined by gary hart. the former colorado senator is up with a new book. it is called "the thunder and the sunshine". a look at the future of the democratic party with illinois senator dick durbin and gary hart coming up right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. >> nationwide is on your side >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- tavi>> i thought that

it was thanks to dick's drive and energy. i think there are people from southeast asia who are livig he was showing me, you know, i didn't have a copy at home but i wanted to hear what he had to say. he said this section on the creation of the national security state after world war ii, that's the part that's most relevant. >> he was sort of an op-ed machine too when he was out of office. and he had incredible curiosity. he went to a lot of places that he had had nothing to do with of before. i recall him taking a trip to afghanistan prior to taking this job at his own expense. and at considerable risk. when i was serving in central america, he came to visit honduras. he had no reason or interest any central america except he wanted to learn what all the fuss was about back at that time. that was the kind of intellectual curiosity that dick had. >> lehrer: now how is his absence likely to affect the afghanistan situation? of course the review process is underway this week. holbrook will not be there. what is going to be m

check out dick morris.com.ectly ahead, glenn beck also has a little take on assange and wikileaks. he is going to be here. then, body language breaks down whoopi goldberg's appearance on the factor. should be interesting moments aw >> bill: in the at your beck and call segment tonight, our pal glenn is roaming around the country. we have to do his segment early this week. he annualized the weeks situation so that's where we begin. here is beck, the busiest guy in the world. you did manage to work in on your very fine programming seen here on fnc at 5:00 p.m. >> 5:00. >> bill: is that when it's on. >> 5:00 p.m. so you know, it's christmas. that's his charitable giving. >> bill: i get you and cavuto mixed up. >> i know. >> bill: he is on at 4:00. you you are on at 5:00. you were pounding this wikileaks thing in a way that was different from everybody else. you can explain? >> i don't think is he sincere here. yes, actually i can. i think what this is is a clear attempt to cause chaos around the world. >> bill: by

we were -- dick and i were frantic.ing french to the french forces that were around there. small arms was going off. these people were mangled in the road down. it was just a terrible, tragic loss. and yet, you know, he put the team back together and we went back and did the job that president clinton assigned us to do. >> wes, jamie rueben here. i know you accompanied ambassador holbrooke on some of his crucial missions to milosovic and maybe you could give the world a sense of how powerfully he used the imagery of the military to add to american diplomacy. >> well, he always liked to have a military guy with him and wherever he was, he liked to be able to display america's military power and then get into the reasoning of it. and so i was along, general don carrick was along. jim pardu who at the time was an army colonel assigned to the office of the secretary of defense was along. before that colonel nelson drew was along. so we always had a good military team around him and we could always make the connection back s

the aforementioned dick morris purveyor of dick morris.com joins us now. you glee.ou don't think the far left is dead. >> you are on a losing streak. i don't agree with you the last three shows. >> bill: i'm on the losing streak? who owes me 18 dinners? go ahead. >> when the left wins power, it loses momentum. when the left loses power, it gains momentum. the left survives from losing. they elect bush, the war on terror, he gets eelected. and suddenly they are empowered because everybody is mad at bush over the war in iraq. >> bill: what you are saying is when there is a reason to protest like in the vietnam war. the war in iraq. then the left rises. but i submit that their standard bearer, barack obama, who gave them a lot of wind in the sales now has abandoned them basically. >> yeah. but that's great for them. as soon as obama got elected the left went into decline because obama was doing what they wanted and the left is a protest movement. that's its nature. >> bill: they attacked fox news. >> targets but the wind went out of their sales. the tea party had all t

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dick holbrooke was -- he was one of the best of his generation.e just two or three people in his generation that were anywhere near as good. i was there in the clinton administration when he came in, and he literally just sort of picked up aspects of foreign policy. just huge blocks of foreign policy and moved them. he was a force of nature. and had hillary clinton been president, dick holbrooke would have been her secretary of state. she had enormous faith in him as does her husband. i think president obama called him a towering figure. that's exactly what he was. he started in foreign service way back in the vietnam war. he's been in and out of government ever since. he's been a major, major figure in foreign policy. and of course, right in the cockpit for afghanistan and afpac as he called it. these were very hard years for him these last couple of years. >> david please stay with us. veteran diplomat richard holbrooke, the president's point person on afghanistan and pakistan, david noted going back to the vietnam war. in the clinton days he wa

and let out why he didn't dick ought to be on the ticket. dick agreed with him. took me a while to persuade vice president cheney to be on the ticket. i will tell you this, i'm glad i picked him in 2000. as i sit here in 2010, i'm glad i picked him in 2000. he was in my judgment, a superb vice president. >> a couple of people that were not eager for you to run for president in 1999 and 2000 were two people very closely related to you. and they -- there's some connection there with what you state is your biggest mistake in the 2000 campaign, or biggest mistake with respect. >> well, you are referring to my daughters. you can understand why, they were just graduating from austin high school. the idea of their father running and winning and they go to college with secret service was just really not appealing to them. michael is referring to the biggest political mistake of my life was not revealing to the people of texas that i had been arrested for drunk driving. i was in maine, and john thought me ought to drink beer out of mug with no hands.

for the code advisory committee, recommendations are jerry cunningham, mark cunningham, eileen dick, ira doerter, edgar fennie, fredric freund, rene vignos, stephen harris, shane o'reilly, arnie lerner, zachary nathan, lee yvonne phillips, jim reed, tony sanchez-corea iii, kevin wallace, tony lau, and robert wong. seats to expire august 18, 2013. before we nominate or whatever, there are a few new people. most of the people on here are people who reapplied or were reappointed. we got very few applications -- i believe we got a total of five -- and if you would like, maybe we could introduce those new people, or if you want to go one by one. >> why don't i say a little bit about what happened at the nomination committee? the nomination committee met just a week ago, a little over a week ago, and we were surprised that there was not very many public members -- in fact, there were no public members at the meeting, and we usually get a handful to a dozen people talking to us about the applicants and who applied and the merits of everybody. so what the commissioner -- what commissioner he

>> anderson, it was also a very different side of dick holbrooke. he was tempestuous and larger than life. i think he was difficult to live with. his first two marriages ended in divorce. he had a couple of kids, sons, of whom he was very proud. but in 1995 he married kaat ifdz marton who had been married to peter jennings. that became one of the great romances of new york city especially in foreign policy circles. he told me on many occasions just how devoted he was to her and how important he was to her life. there was a soft side, a vulnerable side to have dick holbrooke that kati filled. i think a lot of people who knew them will remember them as that romantic couple. >> i want to play something for our viewers what president obama said earlier. >> richard is relentless. he never stops. he never quits, because he's always believed that if we stay focused, if we act on our mutual interests, that progress is possible. wars can end. peace can be forged. this is the conviction that an mates his -- an mates his work in afghanistan and pakistan. >> hi

so i would read dick and jane all the way up to julius caesar. when i came to a word difficult, he would say work with it little sister. he wouldn't jump in and tell me. he would let me work it out so i did. i learned to jump into words. that built my confidence, grandmother and ggrandfather were from the old school. i can remember

with us to help answer this and many other questions is dick morris. first of all, clinton stayed there for an hour, dick. i mean, i'm in charge here and you know. almost like an al haig moment. >> it was, it was so cool. people are making a fundamental mistake when they compare obama's surrender over this bush tax extension deal to clinton's moving to the center. when clinton moved to the center it was because he won fights for things he wanted. he wanted a balanced budget deal, without cutting medicare and that stuff. he held out for it, he got it. he won the government shutdown did the deal. he wanted a welfare reform bill. he campaigned on it. he vetoed two that he thought were bad a bill, signed it and pushed it through. those were acts of victory as well as centristism. obama is an act of surrendering to move to the center. difference between moving to the center and fleeing to the center. barack obama faces a cosmic choice. either he's gonna lose in 2012 because he's too radical or because he's too weak. >> sean: interesting you bring up this cl

dick durbin is number two in the democratic leadership in the senate. he is doing the same on these issues. they're both here at the table with us this morning. so, gentlemen, yesterday, the senate did exactly what everybody knew the senate was going to do. we got these votes out on whether to extend the bush tax cuts for the people who make $250,000 or less. and the senate did... voted exactly the way we knew it would come out. they voted no. because the republicans say they want these tax cuts for everybody. so here we are. we've got the posturing out of the way. you might call it something different. but now, senator kyl, is the senate going to get down to business and resolve this whole business of the tax cuts? >> i hope so. we can. we should. i would just make one point. nobody is talking about tax cuts. we're talking about extending the rates that have been in existence for the last decade, so just to be sure. i think that most folks believe that the recipe would include at least an extension of unemployment benefits for those who are unemployed,

so i would read dick and jane all the way up to julius caesar. when i came to a word difficult, he would say work with it little sister. he wouldn't jump in and tell me. he would let me work it out so i did. i learned to jump into words. that built my confidence, grandmother and ggrandfather were from the old school. i can remember borrowing $25 from my grandmother. i was taking out my checkbook to pay her. she said no, darling, don't give me a little piece of paper. what did i give you. i said a 20 and a 5. so bring me that. they went to the light company and paid their light bills. they went to the department store and paid whatever. they went there once or twice a week to take care of business. the process of going through things, my grandmother would take me to the library. all along the way there were places where we couldn't go to the andrew jackson hotel, we couldn't go to morten's cafeteria. there was a paramount theatre, we had to go in the back door, separate water fountains. it was a very negative experience. when i got to the library,