senator fulbright, one of the first things he tommy is, if you do not understand the domestic issues of the country you are dealing with and their leader, you can't have a real foreign policy, because all foreign policy is domestically-driven, starting with our own. that has stuck with me. as he said, maybe law school made it even more important to understand the thinking of the other people you are dealing with. i think it has been a flaw in this country for all the time i have covered foreign policy. brian: when you look back at how we got into the iraq war, do you remember any opposition of any significance from anybody? walter: if you go back and read the debate on the authorization that the bush administration soft on the eve of congressional election, by the way. they made voting for authorization and election issue -- are you with the u.s. or not? the black caucus in the house was the most vocal group opposing going into iraq. the democrats in the senate particularly were cowed a bit because they opposed going after saddam hussein after he invaded kuwait. that turned out to be

i just came back from cuba on a fulbright insight into word tuesday with the citizens are like and i understood what they went through with the revolution with castro and the cuban missile crisis and bay of pigs in they have survived i think that comes from surviving a situation like that that you have no control over that guides you through life. here is the cover of the book. "vietname rough riders" a convoy commander's memoir" by frank mcadams. >> host: introducing you to professor spokesman. >> i teach journalism communication the best in the country. >> host: what have you done? the man primarily a journalist i worked at cbs television with my documentary's but they had no broadcasting secrets. >> host: how has the broadcast world changed in how you teach it? >> we have to teach multimedia text and audio and video we don't even call the broadcasting anymore but it is still alive and well but it is storytelling using those why haven't changed the way that i teach but i am a big believer in preproduction that you to do good preproduction. >> host: we invited you to talk about your

walter: the second time i worked for senator fulbright during an investigation into military foreign policy, which turned into an investigation of the war. and we wrote the first limiting amendments, an amendment to prevent introduction of ground troops into laos or thailand. the amendment put in law the president's guarantee that the troops who went into cambodia would come out by june 1 1970. brian: how is it that a country as rich as this country, with as many people as we have in the state department and the defense department in the cia, that we say, after the vietnam war, we did not understand this people? after the iraq war, we said the same thing. if you total it all up, over 60,000 people -- people have been killed in these wars. walter: we are so sure of ourselves. in the sense that our form of democracy is what other people ought to accept it we ought to impose people who are harsh on their own people, which is probably the right attitude, but we don't know the limitations of our power. there are, in fact, other people's and other cultures have to decide for themselves. yo

i just came back from cuba on a fulbright insight to learn i got to see what the cuban citizens are like. i understood what they went through with the revolution fidel castro bay of pigs the cuban missile crisis and may have survived it. i think the will commons from surviving a situation like.com a terrible situation over which sometimes you have no control over and it really does something to you and guides you through life and do something when you wake up in the morning you are just glad you are alive. >> host: here is the cover of the book. frank mcadams is the author. "vietnam rough riders: a convoy commander's memoir." this is booktv on c-span2. >> host: nally want to introduce you to usc professor joe saltzman. what you do for a living? >> guest: i teach journalism and communication at the best in the country. >> host: would it be done throughout your life and career? >> guest: i starred in television when i was very young in 1964 by cbs television until 1974 did my six documentaries and then came here to start broadcasting. we started in 1974 that then you're ever send freelanci

. >> hi, i'm gil fulbright. the people who run my campaign have made commercial, and i'm in it.mpaign, it's not about me it's about crafting a version of me that'll appeal to you. a version that visits random worksites with paid actors pointing at things. as a conventionally attractive and yet curiously still family. my name's gil tug dwight but, hell, i'll change my name to bill fulbright or -- i approve this message. john: i'd vote for that guy. unfortunately, he's just an actor doing that commercial for a group that pushes anti-corruption laws. i also doubt that more laws will make politics better. to win votes, politicians will say all kinds of things, and it's dangerous if a law allows some judge or another group of politicians to rule. yes, you may say that. no you can't say that. we don't want politicians making those judgments. so politicians will continue to use jargon slang and bluster to manipulate us. that's part of the subtitle of a book called "dog whistles, walkbacks and washington handshakes" written by david mark. dade you say you've -- david, you say you've fig

matt dalio is the youngest ever recipient of the fulbright award, started his first charity at 16. fluent in mandarin. even oprah winfrey said he's a big deal. thank goodness you are not belgian. >> i can stay. >> exactly. thanks for being with us. i remember one laptop per child. nicholas negroponte is an adviser for you. this not for the working poor. you don't imagine this in the poorest of sections but rather this sudden growth of this middle class all over the world. >> yeah. 40 years ago, a term was coined called the economic pyramid and then the world looked like a pyramid. today, a couple billion people have been brought to the middle of the pyramid. most people are not in poverty. most are in the global middle class. they have shelter food, they have perfectly fine live it's just the computers are expensive. and there's other issues like internet connectivity. so we're looking at the next billion and not the bottom billion. >> so what will this do? this is -- this will do what normal computers do e-mail web browsing. i mean the stuff you come to expect from computers. >> s

. >> reporter: jim fulbright is in a similar situation. like rodriguez, and so many other teachers here in austin, he's having trouble making ends meet. >> what i do find is that with the amount of money that i make working for the school district i am dipping into my savings continuously. >> reporter: median home prices have increased 34% in the last four years in the austin area, while teacher pay has gone up only five percent in recent years. this has forced many austin teachers far into the suburbs to afford homes to buy. >> the rate of increase has clearly been most rapid in austin and then most rapid would be the san antonio metropolitan area because these are the kinds of places that have grown from relatively sleepy, kind of small, cities to extremely large, vibrant, crowded cities, where the cost of living is substantially higher. >> reporter: dr. lori taylor runs the mosbacher institute at the george bush school of government at texas a&m university. she studies regional differences in education costs, and warns >> the more desir

i got into global affairs thanks to fulbright.as famous when i was a young guy for being against the vietnam war. but he established the fulbright scholarships. the educational and cultural exchange that came from that when the u.s. used to fund that sort of thing, was hugely impactful on americans and the foreigners who came here. the education, i think, was in some ways the straw. yes, there is knowledge being transferred. the saudis who are coming here are studying. maybe someone doing poetry and humanities, but many are getting mba's, engineering, medicine. all that is important, the tech transfer and knowledge. what is really important, the wheel bear -- wheelbarrow, is living in your 20's among americans, and seeing how americans think. for example, they are not going to school necessarily to get a job in government. in egypt, they crank out half a million graduates every year that are expected to take government jobs. most americans go to school and they do not go out for government jobs. they are starting businesses. there

fulbright is not a real person, by the way.n toes to el, who is very real is here now. the use of the word "liar," i think, is a bit strong. >> yeah. they don't generally lie although there are exceptions but mostly they twist words. enhanced interrogation -- stuart: torture. >> spending cuts. [laughter] we want to spend $12 billion this year, we're only going to spend $11 billion, so that's a billion dollar cut! [laughter] draconian cuts. stuart: how about welfare? it's not welfare, it's a safety net. >> right. and people don't like welfare, but they like a safety net. they talk about a safety net. and president obama, the democrats, oh free, free college tuition, free obama phones, food stamps, housing vouchers. we're forcibly taking your money and giving it to somebody else. stuart: your whole point is this spin means we should have less government, less politicians in our lives. that's always your theme. >> that's always my theme, it's really just how they do it. i'm not very good at it. frank luntz points out to me, nobody

in all fairness -- you know, fulbright is a son of a bitch. i didn't know what that was.that is a son of a bitch no matter how you look at him. [laughter] >> we have time for a couple of questions. anyone to find the 3rd gentleman right there. >> i'm curious. august 11966 there was a shooting here on campus. i know president johnson responded to the shooting the next day in a press conference at six weeks later wrote a letter to congressional leaders. i'm curious, do you remember that day and what his reaction was as the news came in? 's. >> i honestly don't. i do remember he was very much for gun control and a very big way. i remember a proposed licensing of every gun owner and the registration began along with ending the sales of saturday night specials no sales to minors, no interstate sales the sales across state lines. he cannot do anything with it. he did try and robert kennedy was killed he said maybe we can get our gun-control bill. it was locked up in the senate. he said we had a week to ten days. we have to move right away with the nra will roll over us. and the

>> especially jordan, a country of lived in and studied as a fulbright scholar. it is feeling the force of not only -- >> we would be losing one of the trip most trustworthy allies in the region. i was told that there are more syrian children in elementary school in lebanon than lebanese children. does that surprise anyone? >> and does not surprise me but it should shock people. >> there are more kids in elementary school and lebanon from syria than lebanese kids. if this were continues in its current fashion, it will create unending chaos that will change the map for generations to come. do you agree? >> yes. >> yes. >> there's no way to get iraq right until you deal with syria in a manner? they would not last 15 minutes without their help? >> does been critical in sustaining his regime. >> if we gave them $50 billion as a signing bonus that it's highly likely some of that money would go to assad? >> and the rest of his proxies seeking domination in the middle east. >> have you seen anything that says they're changing for the better when it comes to the region?

i do not hear any of these long deliberations, such as we had -- i remember in 1966, senator fulbright. he tried to have, with these legislative seminars, and -- an introduction course to the american people on these countries. we did not know that much. what do we know today truly about iraq? about syria? about afghanistan? about iran? we know what we read in the paper, hear on the radio, and see on the television. do we read books or listen to people who really do know? host: do you think the members of congress have to come in with opinions already formed? that there is no time for them given to learn about these topics or change their opinion on a topic, if they do learn something? guest: now, to me, that is the home run question. the answer to me is that they do not come in with deep knowledge of a subject. they come in with politically accepted slogans. right now, for example, i read a story yesterday that many republicans running for the presidency right now are being pushed in the primary season toward a more extremist view that many of them do not even have they feel they have

stephen horvath, selected as a fulbright scholar, will research new technologies for renewable energiescoast guard is building more fuel-efficient cutters. so you're already leading. and, cadets, as you go forward i challenge you to keep imagining and building the new future we need -- and make your class motto your life's work -- "to go where few dare." this is a place where we need you. across our military, our bases and ports are using more solar and wind, which helps save money that we can use to improve readiness. the army is pursuing new lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles. the air force f-22 broke the sound barrier using biofuels. and the navy runs an entire carrier strike group -- the green fleet -- with biofuels. our marines have deployed to afghanistan with portable solar panels, lightening their load and reducing dangerous resupply missions. so fighting climate change and using energy wisely also makes our forces more nimble and more ready. and that's something that should unite us as americans. this cannot be subject to the usual politics and the usual rhetoric. when storm

i do not hear any of these long deliberations, such as we had -- i remember 1966, senator fulbright had hearings about china, about vietnam. he tried to have, with legislative seminars, and introduction course to the american people on these countries. we did not know that much. what do we know today truly about iraq? about syria? about afghanistan? about you ran? -- about iran? we know what we hear on the radio and see on the television. do we read books or listen to people who really do know? host: do you think the members of congress have to come in with opinions already formed. that there is no time for them given to learn about these topics, or change their opinion on a topic, if they do learn something. guest: not to me. i is the home run question. the answer to me is that they do not come in with deep knowledge of a subject. they come in with politically acceptable slogans. right now, for example, i read a story yesterday that many republicans running for the presidency right now are being pushed in the primary season toward a more extremist view that many of them do not have. th

>> especially jordan, a country of lived in and studied as a fulbright scholar. it is feeling the force of not only -- >> we would be losing one of the trip most trustworthy allies in the region. i was told that there are more syrian children in elementary school in lebanon than lebanese children. does that surprise anyone? >> and does not surprise me but it should shock people. >> there are more kids in elementary school and lebanon from syria than lebanese kids. if this were continues in its current fashion, it will create unending chaos that will change the map for generations to come. do you agree? >> yes. >> yes. >> there's no way to get iraq right until you deal with syria in a manner? they would not last 15 minutes without their help? >> does been critical in sustaining his regime. >> if we gave them $50 billion as a signing bonus that it's highly likely some of that money would go to assad? >> and the rest of his proxies seeking domination in the middle east. >> have you seen anything that says they're changing for the better when it comes to the region?

he first came to study out at fulbright. he earned seed funding to develop his innovation which is a heart monitoring technology that clips to your waistband. it will help places all around the world. thank you for helping save lives. we want to honor leaders of social change. like li na of jordan. there she is. [applause] [laughter] after seeing her friend abused, she started an organization. thank you, lena. we want to be your partner. you are helping women to live with dignity and safe the. to all the young entrepreneurs out here, you are the face of change. you have the power to drive solutions. you know how to drive people together to work toward a common goal. i believe in all of you. as i was traveling around the country, i was telling some of the entrepreneurs earlier, you go to some of the toughest arts of the world where violence and deprivation are sadly, daily facts of life. what people are most eager to hear about is opportunities to start a business. what they are most interested in hearing about is the power o

. >> i do especially jordan a country i lived in and studied as a fulbright scholar. we're doing important things to help strengthen that government, but it is feeling the force of not only -- >> if we lost the king of jordan, we would be losing one of the most trustworthy allies in the region is that correct? >> correct. >> i was told yesterday there are more syrian children in elementary school in lebanon than lebanese children. does that surprise anybody? >> doesn't surprise me, but it should shock all of us. >> it should shock everybody. i just made a statement there are more kids in elementary school in lebanon from syria than lebanese kids. so if this war continues in its current fashion, it will create unending chaos in the middle east that will change the map for generations to come. do you all agree with that? >> yes. >> yes. >> and there is no way to get iraq right until you deal with syria in a response manner. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> correct. >> and iran is all in when it comes to syria. assad wouldn't last 15 minutes without iran's help. do

i do not hear any of these long deliberations, such as we had -- i remember 1966, senator fulbright hadearings about china, about vietnam. he tried to have, with legislative seminars, and introduction course to the american people on these countries. we did not know that much. what do we know today truly about iraq? about syria? about afghanistan? about you ran? -- about iran? we know what we hear on the radio and see on the television. do we read books or listen to people who really do know? host: do you think the members of congress have to come in with opinions already formed. that there is no time for them given to learn about these topics, or change their opinion on a topic, if they do learn something. guest: not to me. i is the home run question. the answer to me is that they do not come in with deep knowledge of a subject. they come in with politically acceptable slogans. right now, for example, i read a story yesterday that many republicans running for the presidency right now are being pushed in the primary season toward a more extremist view that many of them do not have. they

repeated basic assumption that the north koreans would act in the best interest economically for which fulbright and sherman met richie and diplomatic agreement to achieve economic relief. unfortunately they were dead wrong. the result is the united states faces and escalating strategic threat. we are now in grave danger of history repeating itself. the very same person who negotiated the failed north korea deal the obama administration brought her back to be our lead negotiator with iran. think about that. the person who led the failed north korea talks the talks that led to north korea getting nuclear weapons is president obama's lead negotiator with iran and her negotiation will certainly lead to the same outcome. probably file the exact same playbook for negotiation the shia followed albert einstein famously so the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. and iran has already enjoyed significant economic relief than legitimization on the international stage while america's demands of dwindled from dismantling iran's nuclear program t