dr. kissinger's memoir has just come out 824 pages. i must tell you, dr. kissinger, i find it full of things that. if you fall asleep and break your -- drop it on your leg it will break it. i want to talk about the book and then you can ask them questions. the impetus of this book was really, like many americans, last summer witness the debt limit debacle and i witnessed this up we were still in two wars in the other side of the world and i was aware of the middle class and the median income was the same as the was as it was in 2006 in for the last 25 years basically stagnant. i found for the last 25 years, basically do you really think anything is going to get done. i'm feeling hopeless. i decided to write it out. i don't have my hands on the leverage of power. poorer citizens just like you. so what can i do? one thing i can do is bring whatever experience i had in the moment and talk to the american people as best they could and that's what i've tried to do. i try to remind people we have different problems in the past. depression after depression. we fig

dr. kissinger. i want to say to the committee members here that dr. kissinger's book, his memoir has just come out, 824 pages. i must tell you, dr. kissinger, i find it full of incites. and i want to say to members of the committee, just be careful. don't read it in bed because you fall asleep and if it hits your bread you will -- your like you'll break it. so, now tonight i want to talk a little bit. the impetus for this book, like many americans, last summer the debacle, i witnessed the fact that we are still in two wars and the of the side of the world. i was aware of the difficulties of the middle-class of the country, not just for a few years, but for the median income in 2010 the same as it was in 1996. for the last 25 years basically it has been stagnant. i found last summer people calling up to me might be because i was in the senate and politics for a while. do you really think that anything is going to get done? i'm dealing hopeless. and so i have decided to write a book. i'm just a citizen. i don't have my hands on the levers of power. injus

dr. kissinger and le duc tho? >> guest: in 1973, kissinger, national security adviser and le duc tho then the paris agreement. this is supposed to be a truce of the vietnam war and was immediately exclusive. but the norwegian committee gets the prize to le duc tho. and the fall of 9073 kissinger was a little in various. >> host: unique solutions and into other nobel winners. just i think make relations with nixon a little bit awkward. worked so hard for peace with honor as we called it in the united states. but kissinger gets it and refuses the prize, which is an insult. in a way kissinger doesn't go to collect dead. and in 1975 icon falls the treaty has not seen, he tries to return the prize. the metal diploma and the money under the regions and also told them essentially the peace prize is not returnable. you earned it from what you did then. it is not contingent on future success. when you win the work you for the time but kissinger says in his memoir he would've rather won the nobel peace prize for the shuttle