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dr. brzezinski, d.c. some things that we might all could agree on and the next decade or so -- do you see some things -- that would be positive for the united states? >> i can certainly think of a lot of things we should agree on. i'm not so sure we will agree but in order to agree with have to talk to each other. i'm not quite sure that in recent years particularly in the face of a novelty of the challenges that we face that there has been enough of a bipartisan dialogue about these critical issues. highest level, including obviously you members of his very distinguished committee irrespective of who actually controls executive office. i think we have to ask ourselves how is the world different today. i am a little skeptical about the resilient system as being in any way relevant because it emerged in europe when they were already in a being different country with some territorial definition. this is not the case in many parts of the world. china was unique in having a real advanced dates earlier than eu
dr. brzezinski, d.c. some things that we might all could agree on and the next decade or so -- do you see some things -- that would be positive for the united states? >> i can certainly think of a lot of things we should agree on. i'm not so sure we will agree but in order to agree with have to talk to each other. i'm not quite sure that in recent years particularly in the face of a novelty of the challenges that we face that there has been enough of a bipartisan dialogue about these...
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dr. brzezinski? >> basically i have the similar perspective. i would only add so as not to repeat in addition to what he said, i think the breaking off of the negotiations or the collapse of the negotiations would at rest and reverse the painful and difficult process of increasing moderation within ukrainian political life. we're dealing with a revolution of extremists and revolutionists but there a ukrainian society a significant change, which every visitor to iran notices, a more moderate attitude and lifestyle and temptation to emulate western standards including how the women dress and all of that indicates that iran is beginning to evolve into what it traditionally has been, a very civilized about important historical country but we have to be very careful not to have this dramatic and suddenly reverses and not to mention the negative consequences for global stability this would have and the reduction and willingness and iranian willingness in some fashion to prevent the extremists and the fanatics that are tempting to seek control over th
dr. brzezinski? >> basically i have the similar perspective. i would only add so as not to repeat in addition to what he said, i think the breaking off of the negotiations or the collapse of the negotiations would at rest and reverse the painful and difficult process of increasing moderation within ukrainian political life. we're dealing with a revolution of extremists and revolutionists but there a ukrainian society a significant change, which every visitor to iran notices, a more...
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dr. brzezinski. i found them having interesting about putin and that, in fact, you were concerned about some of the statements that have been overlooked that he has made that have referenced nuclear weapons. and including some of the overflights russia has under taken in scandinavia, westport gal, other areas. so i wanted to follow up in light of the potential and i think actual violation of the inf treaty we've seen and that i know general scowcroft you wrote about as well. you wrote in op-ed in 2014 this should be a real concern to nato because they embarked in across the board neutralization of nuclear forces. if russia developed a cruise missile in violation of the 1987 inf treaty, obviously, that type of system could virtually reach all of nato europe. how do you view, both of you, the violation of this treaty in light of where we are right now and some of the statements you heard putin made. what should i concern be about that. i appreciated your comments dr. brzezinski that we have to show com
dr. brzezinski. i found them having interesting about putin and that, in fact, you were concerned about some of the statements that have been overlooked that he has made that have referenced nuclear weapons. and including some of the overflights russia has under taken in scandinavia, westport gal, other areas. so i wanted to follow up in light of the potential and i think actual violation of the inf treaty we've seen and that i know general scowcroft you wrote about as well. you wrote in op-ed...
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dr. brzezinski? >> in different ways i think we ought to strive to, first of all, engage the other major powers in the world to be involved. it shouldn't be our baby only. and i have in mind particularly and i have said this this morning, russia and china. secondly, i think we have to minimize the visual involvement in the problem of other powers who could be helpful, but whose record in the region is so negative because of their involvement with colonialism that they, in fact be handicap the effort of dealing effectively with the region. and, third, we have to try to involve -- and that's a difficult process -- those states in the region that have both viability of sorts of some inclination to be moderate. >> you've each answered my question in the strategic and tactical sense, and i actually meant it in the institutional and constitutional sense. the president started a unilateral campaign against isil that is now in its sixth month justifying that based on the two previous authorizations that were
dr. brzezinski? >> in different ways i think we ought to strive to, first of all, engage the other major powers in the world to be involved. it shouldn't be our baby only. and i have in mind particularly and i have said this this morning, russia and china. secondly, i think we have to minimize the visual involvement in the problem of other powers who could be helpful, but whose record in the region is so negative because of their involvement with colonialism that they, in fact be handicap...
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dr. brzezinski, you draw a line when it comes to the baltic states. and i'd certainly want to agree with you there. let me ask you this, could you explain a little more your idea about work with nato on trip wires in the baltic states? what do you think about that idea as you understand it having been described? and what can we do to get our nato allies to take national defense and western defense responsibilities seriously? we asked them to spend a mere 2% of their g.d.p. on the military and frankly it's only two or three that do that. if you'd comment on those and dr. brzezinski you can begin. >> first of all, on your last question, i think we should address that in nato and perhaps some device, some procedure could be formulated whereby nato members which fail to meet that 2% standard lose some of their entitlement to participate in key decisions. i don't know precisely how to work that out but seems to me if you don't pay, you don't decide. and that might make them more conscious of the fact that collective obligations should be treated seriously.
dr. brzezinski, you draw a line when it comes to the baltic states. and i'd certainly want to agree with you there. let me ask you this, could you explain a little more your idea about work with nato on trip wires in the baltic states? what do you think about that idea as you understand it having been described? and what can we do to get our nato allies to take national defense and western defense responsibilities seriously? we asked them to spend a mere 2% of their g.d.p. on the military and...
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dr. brzezinski. i do think it's important for the baltic countries are members of nato and i think it is very important to show that kind of support. the question is whether they are rotating troops or they are permanently but i do think the united states needs to be a part of a grouping which also requires other countries from nato to be there. i know dr. brzezinski spoke about the importance of the germans and the brits etc. being there but i do think it is an important aspect of our common approach to this through nato. i also do think that nato is at a stage where we were talking about organizations that have been started many years ago that our support for nato in getting the other nato countries to pay up what they're obligated to do under the 2% of the gdp for activities. as i have understood the new secretary-general he is talking a lot about the necessity of this rapid reaction force in making nato more capable to deal with the kinds of problems that are evident in the region. >> thank you.
dr. brzezinski. i do think it's important for the baltic countries are members of nato and i think it is very important to show that kind of support. the question is whether they are rotating troops or they are permanently but i do think the united states needs to be a part of a grouping which also requires other countries from nato to be there. i know dr. brzezinski spoke about the importance of the germans and the brits etc. being there but i do think it is an important aspect of our common...
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dr. brzezinski general mattis and others, and we have heard consistent things. our foreign policy is reactive. we need to repeal sequestration. we should not withdraw from afghanistan on arbitrary calendar-based timeline, and we need a strategy that matches military means to the president's stated goal of degrading and destroying crisis. we will export these topics and many more with today's outstanding panel of witnesses. i'm honored to welcome three former separatist a state among our nation's most admired diplomats and public servants. dr. henry kissinger, dr. george shultz and dr. madeleine albright. our nation owes each of these statesmen a debt of gratitude for the years of service advancing our national interest. secretary schultz has held nearly every senior position of importance in our federal government or in his own lustrous career. dr. albright was an instrumental leader during key points in our nation's history influencing policies in the balkans and the middle east. and, finally, i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge the personal debt of grat
dr. brzezinski general mattis and others, and we have heard consistent things. our foreign policy is reactive. we need to repeal sequestration. we should not withdraw from afghanistan on arbitrary calendar-based timeline, and we need a strategy that matches military means to the president's stated goal of degrading and destroying crisis. we will export these topics and many more with today's outstanding panel of witnesses. i'm honored to welcome three former separatist a state among our...
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dr. brzezinski. and joining us from paris jeffrey goldberg. jeffrey, bring us up to date in terms of the big picture here. >> reporter: i'm getting the news that you're getting about this kosher grocery store shooting at the same time. if this is actually happening it is part of a larger pattern. the "charlie hebdo" massacre was not the first massacre by terrorists in transin the last couple of years. there was the shooting deaths of three children and an adult at a jewish school. you know these jihadists are targeting various aspects of the french public jewish minority journalism the general public. i'm always hesitant as a reporter to tell you what the mood of an entire country is. but it does seem as if this is a shock in some ways to france over the last couple of days. on par in some ways with the shock that americans felt with 9/11 that the spanish felt spain felt after the train attacks, london after the bus attacks, you remember. it does feel like if you will but, again, not a new, not a new phenomenon. we had last month three car att
dr. brzezinski. and joining us from paris jeffrey goldberg. jeffrey, bring us up to date in terms of the big picture here. >> reporter: i'm getting the news that you're getting about this kosher grocery store shooting at the same time. if this is actually happening it is part of a larger pattern. the "charlie hebdo" massacre was not the first massacre by terrorists in transin the last couple of years. there was the shooting deaths of three children and an adult at a jewish...
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dr. brzezinski. this isn't about dr. brzezinski.ou, the wise men. >> the realist that we've gone -- i think the take is we've gone from a president who tried to do too much to a president who has tried to do too little. both risky for the united states and for our position in the world and what you're seeing people like brent and brzezinski who represents the waterman of our era to try to find that golden mean. what he was talking about it's not simply providing lethal aid to ukraine but nato right now, there's an amazing gap between our commitments and our capacity. we've got to close that gap. we have got to -- >> jim, in closing, there are political mp my indications for what's happened, too. just like george w. bush's overreach had real political implications. barack obama's let's just say passiveness, lack of action is actually shaking things back up in the republican party. a guy like rand paul is not going to be away to get away with on the campaign trail like he did two years ago about bringing america, bringing troops home
dr. brzezinski. this isn't about dr. brzezinski.ou, the wise men. >> the realist that we've gone -- i think the take is we've gone from a president who tried to do too much to a president who has tried to do too little. both risky for the united states and for our position in the world and what you're seeing people like brent and brzezinski who represents the waterman of our era to try to find that golden mean. what he was talking about it's not simply providing lethal aid to ukraine but...
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dr. brzezinski was president carter's national advisor intergallon in striking the -- integral in striking the national accords. when you have these very authoritative and on a bipartisan basis essentially saying climate change is a big national security issue that, i think, is the context we have to view so many things, and in particular this issue of the keystone pipeline. and the second issue is there's an obvious need in this country to create jobs. in fact, no pun intended, that is job one for us. there are jobs associated with the pipeline, and these jobs, if they are of short duration, they're still pretty good jobs. but the point has to be made that we probably have to do much more particularly for our construction workers than one single pipeline. i've been told that the long-term employment of the pipeline once it is built, is a very small number for our personnel. but we have to do much more. that's why i think we have to be very serious about an infrastructure program that goes way beyond keystone. roads, bridges sewers, all these things that we have let decline. and if you loo
dr. brzezinski was president carter's national advisor intergallon in striking the -- integral in striking the national accords. when you have these very authoritative and on a bipartisan basis essentially saying climate change is a big national security issue that, i think, is the context we have to view so many things, and in particular this issue of the keystone pipeline. and the second issue is there's an obvious need in this country to create jobs. in fact, no pun intended, that is job one...
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dr. zbigneiw brzezinski discussed unilateral negotiation on to iran's nuclear program, giving it sufficient time to reach a conclusion. they urged this body not to press forward with additional sanctions. this matter is being discussed at this very moment in the banking committee and indeed i have to leave here and go there because i'm a senior member of that committee also. and my colleagues will be taking up the slack, particularly senator king. i want to thank him. i will return, i hope, to ask questions of the panelists. much of last week's discussion revolved around the administration's strategy in iraq and syria for confronting the regional and global terror threat posed by the so-called islamic state of iraq in the levant or isil. they stressed that efforts to take on isil require a comprehensive approach which includes both political and military elements. we also received testimony last week from the department of defense on the administration's program to train and equip the vetted opposition in syria. this is just one aspect of administration's approach that the isil threat in ir
dr. zbigneiw brzezinski discussed unilateral negotiation on to iran's nuclear program, giving it sufficient time to reach a conclusion. they urged this body not to press forward with additional sanctions. this matter is being discussed at this very moment in the banking committee and indeed i have to leave here and go there because i'm a senior member of that committee also. and my colleagues will be taking up the slack, particularly senator king. i want to thank him. i will return, i hope, to...
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dr. brzezinski. >> >> i appreciate the opportunity to present some of my views on issues that the chairman and ranking member have laid out in the world, which is difficult for all of us. my opening comment hope can contribute to your deliberations over some very vexing issues and choices that we have. the world we live in is full of problems. some of them seem to result from new or novel portions and influences and i intend to focus on them. let me begin my comments with just a few words about the cold war. the cold war was a dangerous time in our history where problems abounded. a mistake could have resulted in a nuclear war, but the cold war had one advantage. we knew what the strategy was. we argued mightily over tactics, but we were always able to come back to what is it we are trying to do them a and that was contained the soviet union until such time as it changed and that helped enormously in getting us through the cold war. with the end of the cold war that cohesion, largely disappeared. but shortly thereafter, we were subjected to globalization, the blending of many worldwide tre
dr. brzezinski. >> >> i appreciate the opportunity to present some of my views on issues that the chairman and ranking member have laid out in the world, which is difficult for all of us. my opening comment hope can contribute to your deliberations over some very vexing issues and choices that we have. the world we live in is full of problems. some of them seem to result from new or novel portions and influences and i intend to focus on them. let me begin my comments with just a few...
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dr. brzezinski former national security adviser talked about putin's comments around using nuclear weapons ukraine conflict and suggesting that that might be a possibility at some point. so you know can you -- to what extent do we believe that russia continues to be very concerned about iran developing a nuclear weapon, and how is what's happening in the ukraine affecting that? >> senator, i think it does share that concern which i think explains largely why it has been at least again, until now a constructive partner in the efforts to make sure we put in place something that denies as a practical matter the ability to develop material for a weapon. there have been reports over the course of the negotiations of iran starting to do deals. excuse me russia starting to do deals with iran. none of that to date has materialized. and indeed if russia or any other country seeks to evade the sanctions i know that the treasury department will come down on them as it has on sanctions violators throughout this process. there's pressure on russia to look for new markets, new customers, new countries w
dr. brzezinski former national security adviser talked about putin's comments around using nuclear weapons ukraine conflict and suggesting that that might be a possibility at some point. so you know can you -- to what extent do we believe that russia continues to be very concerned about iran developing a nuclear weapon, and how is what's happening in the ukraine affecting that? >> senator, i think it does share that concern which i think explains largely why it has been at least again,...
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dr. brzezinski was on the show. he said you don't want to see yourself in a war with islam.hose sensitivitys as well. in terms of what happens from a religious point of view in terms of this ongoing debate. the islamic world does not really have large, there are two groupings, the sunni world the predominant one the only single body that issues these kind of respected fatwas or religious rulings is in cairo. every country has its own system. >> that main institution issues those verdicts. now, in recent months and if years, it has become more moderate. it generally has been a source of tremendous enlightenment and education. you will be surprised of the fatwas and rulings over the years. this debate falls into a bigger problem we talked on this show many times that has to do with freedom and the ability for people in general to interpret and to express their freedom. that simply doesn't happen in the arab world. >> quickly, you said something last week i think during this discussion i found absolutely fascinating. you were talking about islamic extremism and specifically sau
dr. brzezinski was on the show. he said you don't want to see yourself in a war with islam.hose sensitivitys as well. in terms of what happens from a religious point of view in terms of this ongoing debate. the islamic world does not really have large, there are two groupings, the sunni world the predominant one the only single body that issues these kind of respected fatwas or religious rulings is in cairo. every country has its own system. >> that main institution issues those verdicts....
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brzezinski. >> today we will celebrate the birthday and life of dr. martin luther king jr.esterday people joined the cast and crew of "selma." we've got oprah winfrey and director among those marches from selma's city hall to the bridge where police officers assaulted and tear gassed demonstrators during the historic voting rights marches of 1965. >> this is what i know for sure. everybody who crossed that bridge on bloody sunday and then had the courage to get up and go again on tuesday and then do the final march every single person who was on that bridge is a hero. >> dr. king was a man of words but he was a man of deeds as well. and i just want to pray the grace and favor of god over selma today. because you guys are doers. the march took place here. that was action. that wasn't just words. and our prayer is that this just won't be a spectacle for a moment but that this will be a day beyond which selma is changed. incredible things happened here. and this place deserves to move forward. >> wow. there was also a nighttime ceremony on the bridge including a musical perfor
brzezinski. >> today we will celebrate the birthday and life of dr. martin luther king jr.esterday people joined the cast and crew of "selma." we've got oprah winfrey and director among those marches from selma's city hall to the bridge where police officers assaulted and tear gassed demonstrators during the historic voting rights marches of 1965. >> this is what i know for sure. everybody who crossed that bridge on bloody sunday and then had the courage to get up and go...