dr. carter what he had plan for sequestration. his answer, basically was, we don't have to do any planning for it. automatic we have to do is pull out the budget and take 8% off of every line item. and i think everybody in here probably understands the chaos that would create. i don't know how many contracts the department has. i know it's hundreds. those would have to go back and be renegotiated. pensions, retirement plans, health insurance,ll things that would have to be dealt with. further forcereduction, immediately. and then, sequestration kicking in. i, mr. secretary, talked to you about this. i put in a bill and dealing with everything we're talking about here today, the sequestration takes it right over the top. and we're looking the reports we're hearing about the rattling going on over in iran. the new leadership inkorea. i think the world is in a very serious situation. i know, general, you told us in a meeting a couple weeks ago in your 37 years, this is the most serious you've ever seen it. so i think these are seriou

dr. carter g. woodson had participated in the founding of black history month. he was involved in the group known as the oh, -- association for the study of african-american life and history. the local chapter of that group is what is now known as the african-american cultural and historical society. so it's an honor. we've been doing this for many, many years and it's great to see so many faces out here today. right now what i'd like to do is thank our partners and acknowledge them for their participateation. the san francisco public library much the california cultural arts program and we couldn't do it without the good folks in the mayor's office of neighborhood services. what i'd like to do now is strue -- shall truce -- intro duce tanish hollins from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. >> good amp, family. happy black history month. could we hear it one more time? [applause] >> we are so honored to be here. we look forward to this every year. it's a hall mark event for the city and county of san francisco. an opportunity to reflect on the many, man

dr. carter gene woodson -- actually carver, the scientist and his words that i'd like to leave with you. he said how far we go in life depends on us being kind to the young, compassionate to the aged and sympathetic to the striving and tolerant of the week and the strong because all of us, all of us at some point in our life be all of these. thank you for joining us. i'm ron -- ron swisher. see you next week.

dr. carter and yourself is that it's zero in terms of projected savings for the plan that was submitted there. so zero minus zero equals zero. if we don't do it, it's annulty in terms of trying to achieve the budget control act targets. and frankly, i think that's a very threshold question which the department has to answer before i think there is going to be any willingness to look at this at all. >> you know, i hear what you're saying, and the 2005 costs are frankly unacceptable, the way that process ultimately worked out in terms of how much it cost us. on the other hand, obviously in the long run, it will produce some savings. i guess what i would suggest to you is that we've been through three brac rounds. there are some lessons to be learned here. if we're going to do another brac round, as we have recommended, perhaps we need to do it in a way that tries to acknowledge some of the lessons learned here to make sure we achieve the savings that we have to achieve as part of the brac process. maybe that's a better way to approach this issue. >> it's my understanding that we're going to see

dr. carter, whom we all know very well, who was under secretary of defense at the time of the missile defense report, not assistant secretary, and is now deputy secretary, who is a noted technology and policy expert, rhodes scholar, oxford, long-time harvard faculty member -- >> former close friend of mine. >> -- ultimately will now be one of the key figures in the defense department as deputy secretary to oversee and evaluate the progress of the missile defense program. so i think we have the best capability we could have looking at this. this is a free and fair society and we're delighted to get the criticisms when they're on a particular point, i think the administration will -- by the way, i should -- finally, members of the congress and congressional committee staffs have some excellent technical experts and they've looked at these systems, too. so it's a work in progress but i certainly personally believe that the motivations are sound. they're in defense of this country, and that the capability that's been put into it is also quite high and we're continuing to work with the problem. an

dr. carter and yourself is it's zero in terms of projected savings for the plan that was submitted there. zero minus zero equals zero. if we don't do it, it's a nullity in terms of trying to achieve the budget control act targets. frankly, i think that's a very big threshold question which the department has to answer before i think there's going to be any willingness to look at this thing at all. >> i hear what you are saying and i -- the 2005 costs are frankly -- it's just unacceptable the way that worked out in terms of how much it cost us. on the other hand in the long run it will produce savings. what i would suggest to you is we have been through three backgrounds. perhaps there's lessons to be learned. if we do another one, perhaps we need to do it in a way that tries to acknowledge the lessons learned to make sure we achieve the savings we have to achieve as part of the process. that's a better way to approach this issue. >> my understanding, sometime in march, in terms of the proposal, again there is going to be a high degree of skepticism for those who have been tracking the ove

dr. carter woodson started this in 1926. it was just black history week at the time. now it is a month.mission still valid? do we still have to he enforce black americans' contribution in american life and culture? >> we absolutely do. african-americans have contributed so much through the years to american life, history and culture. even though we've made great strides and there's much more information that's published about african-americans than when we started this commemoration, we're still making history. we are still the american story that shows people that you can come up from very little and make great strides. so this celebration and this month is still very important to american history. >> yesterday we talked about a man that most people didn't know about who gave us refrigerated trucks and vehicles allowing food to go across-country with an eighth grade education. you are focusing with your luncheon this coming week on women who have contributed to african-american culture and life. >> absolutely. dr. woodson started this commemoration of nero history week which the associ

dr. carter what he had done, what was being done to plan for sequestration. answer basically was, we don't have to do any planning for it. automatic we have to do is pull out the budget and take 8% off of every line item. and i think everybody in here probably understands the chaos that would create. i don't know how many contracts the department has. i know it's hundreds. those would have to go back and be renegotiated. pensions retirement plans, health insurance, all of the things that would have to be dealt with. further force reduction immediately. and then sequestration kicking in. i, mr. secretary talked to you about this. i put in a bill and dealing with everything we're talking about here today, the sequestration takes it right over the top. and we're looking the reports we're hearing about the rattling going on over in iran. the new leadership in korea. i think the world is in a very serious situation. i know general, you told us in a meeting a couple weeks ago in your 37 years this is the most serious you've ever seen it. so i think these are seriou

dr. carter who we all know very well who was undersecretary of defense at the time of the missile defense report, not assistant secretary and is now deputy secretary who is a noted technology and policy expert, a rhodes scholar, a ph.d. in physics from oxford, a longtime harvard faculty member finish. >> a former close friend of mine. >> ultimately, will now be one of the key figures in the defense department as deputy secretary to oversee and evaluate the progress of the missile defense program. so i think we have the best capability we could have looking at this. it's a free and fair society, and we're delighted to get the criticisms when they're on particular points. i think the administration -- by the way, i should finally add, sorry i'm going on longer than five minutes there. members of the congress and the congressional committee staffs have some excellent technical experts, and they've looked at these systems too. so, um, a work in progress, but i certainly personally believe that the motivations are sound, they're in defense of this country and that the capability that's been pu

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. carter, who was undersecretary of defense at the time of the missile defense report and is now deputyretary is in noted technology and policy expert, erodes scholar -- a rhodes scholar, a longtime harvard faculty member. hopefully will now be one of the key figures in the defense department as deputy secretary to oversee and evaluate the missile defense program. i think we have the best capability we could have looking at the s -- this. it is a free and fair society, and we're delighted to get criticisms when they're on a particular point. by the way, members of the congress and the congressional committee staffs have some technical experts and they have looked at these systems too. it is a work in progress, but i personally believe that the motivations are sound and that the capability that has been put into it is quite high. we're continuing to work on it and it is a valuable investment of about $8 billion a year. >> thank you. again, we will keep the same order. feel free to comment. >> very briefly, the thing i like about ted's analysis is he raises one of the most challenging iss

and joining us now from washington, former national security adviser for president carter, dr.america and the crisis of global power." dad, great to have you on this morning. >> good to be with you, mika. >> let's start there. secretary clinton saying we have a stake in afghanistan for a good outcome, but could we ever have a good outcome there? >> she has to say it, because after all she represents america. she has to put up a great front for american foreign policy. so, i sympathize with her and i support her. but the facts of life are that you don't create democracy by war unless there is an early phase of historical evolution in that society which makes prospects for democracy somewhat promising. i think that in afghanistan, even worse in iraq, we are beginning to shed some illusions. you know, germany became a democracy after its defeat in 1945 because for the previous 100 years germany was earlier a democratic state. we forget that. even under imperial germany just prior to world war i, the mayor of berlin was a socialist. japan because of the major restoration became a d

it was reinstated by president jimmy carter a number of years later. so there is one woman, dr. mary walker, who received the medal of honor, and the story goes, she never took it off any time throughout her life, despite the demands to take it back. she kept it. and she received it more officially, was reinstated later on. thank you very much for your time. we'll be upstairs later on. [ applause ] >>> you're watching american history tv. 48 hours of people and events that helped document the american story. >> there's a new website where you can see the schedules and preview upcoming programs. watch featured video and history tweets. history in the news and social media from facebook, youtube, twitter, four square. follow american history tv all weekend every weekend on cspan3 and online at cspan.org/history. >>> i would like to start with a couple of questions, then open it up to everybody else to come in with things you may like to ask these men. the first one i want to bring out is during the action, if you read their stories, you would see during the action for which they r

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, 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

dr. bzrzinsky was the chair of the institute of the council of the carter administration. >> host: john zenelis, when you pick the books to go in these, who carries this? >> several of my colleagues in the special collections and archives area. they made the collection of the works to be highlighted and the annotations accompanying each of the items and they chose a question on the "booknotes" televised program and produced the answer, the response to that question. >> host: you can see a lot of the notes taken while reading the book. when you put these books in the cases did you look for varying points of view like c-span does in general? >> exactly. as i mentioned, one of the criteria was reflect the broad perspective involved in "booknotes" and to that is exactly the point. areas subjects covered in the 800 one books and certainly many points of view from a political perspective and social perspective. bill all kinds of perspectives. >> host: is this archive available for scholars or the public to see as well? >> beginning to become available. library staff are in the process of cataloguing

carter, roy craft, terry walker and their support staffs for putting together another outstanding testament to the college's commitment to advancing interfaith dialogues. once again, welcome all and enjoy your afternoon. >>> thank you, dr. sheftall," and let me add my words to you. we're looking forward to a robust and enlightening conversation that should inform all of us here to for in ways unimagined. as a part of our rich tradition here at morehouse college that actually grew out of the baptist church, we're featuring the works of three exem particulars that really transcended the parochial nature of their own faith boundaries and they really set the stage for how morehouse college and people who have come through morehouse college could then have an effect, an influential role in the broader society, particularly as has been celebrated and is being celebrated over these few days in the life and legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. now, i would like to call your attention for those of you who have not seen just to make sure you're aware of the additional events that we have planned during the course of this month of king that are not only sponsored by the chapel but also by the king collection and other institution

dr. woodson and all that he wanted almost 100 years ago now. >> carter g.y american story, and he's a role model for so many people today, or should be a role model for so many people today. carter g. woodson was born of parents who were slaves, and he did not have a formal education while a child. he was largely self-taught. so, once he got the rudiments of language, he started reading on his own and did not go to high school until he was almost 20 years old. and so, woodson at 20 goes to high school, finishes high school quickly, and decides to go on to college at berea, then to go on to the university of chicago, and ultimately to harvard to get a ph.d in history and he was motivated by meeting all the black men who fought in the civil war. it was from that that he went and wrote about the contributions of black people in the making of history, and this is also why he created negro history week, because he wanted to take the celebrations of douglas and lincoln and turn them into the celebration of the contributions of a people, not just stellar individua

the final night, jimmy carter couldn't even get ted kennedy to raise hands together in that victory salute. it was a disaster. >> took years to heal that rift. interesting stuff. drso much, steve. >> all right, straight ahead, jersey boy and comedian jay mohr getting political saying his state's governor is what the republican party needs. he won't vote for a christie ticket. we'll ask him why coming up next. >> the answer to the question -- ellen nordegren. he is in indiana where the whole world will be focused on on sunday. >> no kidding. he is a familiar face on the big screen and small screen. you remember jay mohr from movies like "jerry maguire." now actor and comedian is in indy for the big super bowl this weekend. >> he's in indianapolis like the winner of our trif kwa question. he's here. good morning to you. how are you? >> elan nordegren. >> you're the big winner. that's why you're in indiana. >> yes! >> that would be a big win. >> right. >> hi! >> you know what? let's talk a little politics. i can hardly wait -- >> it's like we're not here, jay. you said hi, gretchen. >> doocy is a jersey guy. are you still in jersey? >> i am. i went to your book sign