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dr. brzezinski, there's a lot to talk about.h syria, t"the nw york times" this morning had a searing editorial basically saying the blood of the syrian people are on the hands of moscow and beijing. what can we do to move syria forward to accept the arab league's position on this? >> the russians will have to learn by themselves because of off the ra six, i think the international community is extremely critical of russia's position, of china's position. but at the same time we have to face the fact that this is not libya. i think the options, the military options are much more limited. in my view, we ought to be working as closely as we can with turkey. turkey is a key player here. turkey is a friend. and i think if we work with the turks, we might make some significant progress. >> so let's talk about motivations, just so americans at home reading "the new york times" editorial and following the syrian story, can have a better understanding of the self-interests self-interests, that would move russia and china to oppose what s

dr. zbigniew brzezinski is former security adviser to president carter. called "strategic vision" about the united states' role in the world and whether our power and our influence is on the decline or not. we'll talk to him about that. let's start with the situation out there. what's new, richard, about the prospects for an attack by israel on the iranian nuclear program? their facilities? >> what's new is that the israelis do feel that their window to operate is shrinking. that the iranians are working on their program, making progress every month and that they could reach a point of no return. a point at which it is no longer possible for an israeli air strike, missile strike to slow down the program in any kind of effective way. and according to what is playing out right now, it seems that washington, particularly defense secretary panetta, saw this as a real possibility and took this very unusual step of making public statements through david ignatius to try and signal to the israelis, don't do this. allow the sanctions more time to play out. don't b

dr. brzezinski soon, right?talk about his book. >> i would like -- >> isn't there something that would prohibit me from entering there? >> my father would be fascinated by you. >> by the way -- >> please somebody ask donny to lunch at brookings. >> okay. we'll be right back. bob, thank you. >> thank you very much. ♪ we were skipping stones and letting go ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, rich dark chocolate, toasted oats. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ nature valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ i want to fix up old houses. ♪ [ woman ]

dr. zbigniew brzezinski, former national security advisor for jimmy carter and professor for -- at john hopkins university, author of "the new york times," best seller, "strategic vision, america and the prices of global power." captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> the key for coming over and visiting, once again. >> -- >> and thank you for coming over and visiting, once again. >> it is once again. >> yes, you are right around the corner. how have things changed in the last 25 years? >> fundamentally. things have changed for domination in germany, involving communism. and then american supremacy. over the last 20 years that supremacy has become more difficult and uncertain. they have become more politically active in the world the way that all of humanity is politically active. the balance of power has shifted from west to east. politically, we live in a very different world. >> when people say that american power is of the blame, is that real or imagined? -- on the wane, is that real or imagined? >> america is still developing. so, we are still growing. resource

dr. brzezinski, your book "strategic vision" that is "hardball" for now. "the ed show" starts right now. >>> good evening, americans, welcome to "the ed show." president obama on a role. american jobs are roaring back, wouldn't you know, republicans they don't have anything to do with it. this is "the ed show" i got a lot to say tonight. let's get to work. >> the economy is growing stronger. the recovery is speeding up. >> good news for the country means bad news for the republicans. >> while unemployment rate is down slightly the american people are asking where are the jobs. we go inside the number with ezra klein and robert reich. >> i'm not concerned about the very poor, i misspoke. i wish i wouldn't have said it that way. . >> mitt romney is trying to cover his tracks. but he's only making it worse. bob shrum on his downward spiral. >>> the komen foundation, reverses course on funding for planned parenthood. or was it a head fake? terry o'neill is back with the latest. gasland director josh fox got arrested tuesday. >> this is a public hearing i'm wit

dr. brzezinski. your book is called "strategic vision." that's "hardball" for now. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. >>> welcome to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead, a victory in stopping the gop's war against women. the susan g. komen foundation, the nation's leading breast cancer charity, bowed to huge pressure today and reversed its decision to cut funds to planned parenthood. komen's founder and ceo issued a stunning apology. "we want to apologize to the american public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives. we do not want our mission marred or affected by politics -- anyone's politics." planned parenthood responded, quote, the outpouring of support for women in need of life-saving breast cancer screening this week has been astonishing and is a testament to our nation's compassion and sincerity. minority leader nancy pelosi celebrated a victory for women. >> the decision by the susan g. komen foundation to reverse their decision about planned parenthood just goes to sh

dr. brzezinski, of course, was the chair of of the security council for the carter administration. >> host: john zenelis, when you pick the books to go in these display cases, who cure rated this, by the way? >> guest: several of my colleagues in the special collections and archives area. they made the selections, showed the works to be highlighted, and they made the an annotations accompanying each of the displayed items, and they chose to select a question asked on the "book notes" televised program by brian lamb and then reproduced the answer, the response provided by the author to that question. >> host: and here again in the ben franklin book you can see a lot of notes taken while reading the book. when you put these books in the cases, did you look for varying points of view as c-span does in general? >> guest: yes, exactly so. earlier i mentioned one of the criteria was to reflect the broad perspective involved in "book notes," and that's exactly the point. there are various subjects covered in the 801 books, and secondly, many m points -- certainly, many, many points of view from a

government on three of those important issues. >> rick, congratulations, it's mika brzezinski in new york, we have drset here. carl has a question. >> senator, congratulations, it's very impressive. >> thank you. good morning. >> you were not considered among your republican colleagues to be the most popular member of the class in the senate, i don't think that's an understatement. and so my question to you -- >> hold on -- wait, wait, wait -- carl, hold on, let me just start -- let me just say that i was elected to leadership as a 42-year-old senator to the number three leadership position in the united states senate. because of the fact that i was out there, yes, i mean i wasn't popular in the sense that i was taking on a lot of tough conservative issues, but i wasn't maybe popular, but i was respected enough to be in a position of leadership and reelected twice and was actually in position to take a higher leadership position. >> i don't think there's any question about that. my question goes back to among your colleagues in the senate, how many of the present republican senators do you think want

brzezinski, but i think we weren't able to get him l to agree to publish the interview. >> host: and we have been talking with i.m. destler, "in the shadow of the oval office." dr. destler, thank you for your time. >> guest: it's been a pleasure, peter. thank you for having me. >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and be books on c-span2's booktv. >>> booktv explored the literary culture of beaumont, texas, with the help of our partner, time-warner cable. watch an interview from our time there next on booktv. >> i'm amelia wiggins, educator of public programs at the stark museum of art, and i'll take you through the making of medieval manuscripts in conjunction with our exhibition, medieval manuscripts here at the museum. so in the middle ages, books of hours were made from different art supplies than books would be used -- made from today. instead of paper, medieval bookmakers used parchment or animal skin like the calfskin on view here in the case. a calfskin in particular is called vellum, but parchment or animal skin was also made from sheep or goats. the skin would have been, um, pulled from the animal, soaked in water and lime to dehair it and