act as de gaulle and there have been no de gaulles since then. reallyat de gau did have an understanding of the kind of world he wanted to leave behind, what he wanted to do to improve the lives of his people. her member, he had a long history with the french, going the time of the second world war. he was next ordinary individual. my previous book to this, "the withh world war," i wrote a fellow who was the longest-serving head of french intelligence, he was de gaulle's young aide at the very end of world war ii and served as that of french intelligence throughout the rest of the de gaulle, through pompidou and although it down t -- all the way down to mitterrand. he said that de gaulle was the one individual he served through who really did have the sense of should be like and how to shape it. i found his perspective quite fascinating could i would have to say de gaulle would be my choice among them are chronically elected presidents in the modern era. >> just as a side comment, de gaulle solve the world according to de gaulle. >> yes, no doubt

if you look at de gaulle, when de gaulle came to office, it was a horror show. the governments before him were changing prime ministers every three or four weeks. he came in and established a whole new concept of the president. he changed the entire nature of the power, created a new republic, and it worked. the result was he was enormously popular. he began to fail -- there were problems in algeria, indochina, his popularity began to wane. success is its own reward in many respects. that is important, to find something you can really succeed in and build on that. yes, sir? >> to change the topic slightly, do you think, given your vast experience, that liberal democracy is the answer for most of this world? is it truly a democracy that can function in cases like the middle east, or is the answer to elect somebody or that that party in person do what is best for the country without much interference? >> it is difficult. thailand is a classic case right now. thailand is a place i know well. i was the "new york times" bureau chief in the 1970's after the wars in in

i have to say charles de gaulle. charles de gaulle was the last real president in this world who had a real understanding of what he wanted to take his country, france, and his reach in the world which was europe and where he wanted it to end up. de gaulle made many mistakes, no question, but he created a system of government in france that worked relatively well to this day. it was probably formed in his image. it was really formed to the latest french republic was really formed to let de gaulle act as the gulf. and, unfortunately, there has been no real de gaulle since then. i think that is was the opposite side of the political spectrum. nevertheless, i think the call did have an understanding of the kind of world he wanted to leave behind, what he wanted to do to improve the lives of its people. and he did it. remember he had a long history with the french going back to his time during the second world war. and even before that. he was an extraordinary individual. my previous book to this, the fourth world war, i

. >> i write in the book that karzai's probably our most challenging allied since charles de gaulle.hat they both have in common is that we put both of them in place, for all practical purposes, and they were solely dependent on us. and yet each wanted to be recognized as the leader of his people and was very sensitive to pride and sovereignty and so on. and i think we haven't paid enough attention to that piece of karzai. >> there is a critical difference between de gaulle in karzai, having to do with corruption and winning a war and other things. let me just go back to the president for example. there was a meeting that you described with you, general mullen and the president. he says do they not believe in me? is it because i did not serve? what is the issue here? that is a positive thing to say to the secretary of defense. do i have a problem here? am i recording that correctly? >> this is one of the reasons, charlie. i've been criticized for including some personal conversations. the truth is, if you think of those private conversations, whatever port in the case of both preside

well, having sort of a national figure, a king or queen or de gaulle, in the case of france, who has a legitimacy to patch things up and de gaulle the very deliberately by talking about everybody being anti-german and now it's time to pull together again, as though it hadn't -- you hadn't had the vichy regime. but it probably was necessary because otherwise the country could have been torn apart. the other reason, stalin, the soviets in the western eyes very clearly divided the world, and stall until the french and italian economies he was not going to support a revolution there. >> talked a bit about japan, because very extreme process went on their with macarthur. the revamping of japan, root, branch into egg. -- branch and twig. >> which came as a great relief to the emperor. i don't think anybody really likes to be -- the emperor preferred to have an english breakfast. >> talk about the process. >> well, the difference between germany and japan is that, which is the other thing of course after world war ii, the allies often had a very hazy idea of what produce all this horror. as

>> writes even the action hero stevenson gaulle had been signed up as the deputy so there were tv cameraslowing and drove a tank into this for guys living room. john: rethink we have video >> witthr rlout roout. his.w.a. te? the t ithrou -- fr theentan degned in usn bale shting0 caber itioevenhe mitaryas resictisin the u i thecockghti vestatio hn:et'ear frthe poli we ve t cnty shiff om ohio, russ martin you say it is the good thing? >> i do. good airplanes land safely it is not news but when tragedy happens it becomes news and although radley balko does make good points a lot of it is anecdotal and i will tell you day in and day out law-enforcement service was provided by the judge and vetted with probable cause safer because of these tactical units. john: a drug raid or a cockfighting bring, why all the early morning off your door down stuff? >> i have been associated with 150 or 200 raids but said great thing. john: yes but for drug raids >> yes we have a matrix involving the risk if they have a criminal history, the guns involved in the value of the intelligence. frankly i think it is

. >> how are you going to get more people, twice as many people ainto charles de gaulle, twice as many into london heathrow, jfk, singapore, hong kong, just magically having twice as many airplanes flying around 15 years from now? no we're not. we have to go to bigger aircraft. >> the number of sms messaging has fallen for the first time since the technique was are begun 20 years ago. 160 instant messages, technology expert adrian mars what's driving the change in messaging habits? >> these competition from instant messaging services, there are so many of them, microsoft live, aol what's that, list goes on and on. but one of the big contributors is imessage, automatically routes a message via sms, it is completely transparent to the user so you don't have a conscious choice to use it. so as iphone spreads they automatically eat into this market. >> for many years, successful companies around the world have been spending their exr money on art. which corporation own which works and look what they do with them. to coincide with the launch some of the works have been gone on display. simo

this has happened to some extent with duh gaul, who's a general, but don't tell me that du gaulle was are national symbols in a very crucial moment when they move the popular feeling. and they go to them because they believe that they can bring -- but this is -- i might agree, not disagree, but this is a fact that those who are pushing general al sisi to run are not in the military camps. definitely they are in the streets. women in first place. >> you said -- >> don't forget his answer. >> prime minister, thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >>> up next, what happens when world leaders find their true voice? eah, yeah, yeah, yeah! ♪ ♪ we are one, under the sun ♪ under the sun... [ female announcer ] fiber and protein. together as one. introducing new fiber one protein cereal. [ chicken caws ] [ male announcer ] when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums. heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact and goes to work in seconds. ♪ tum, tum tum tum tums! mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of g

staff.int chiefs of andhe went to see de gaulle france. he did that trip in may or june of 1961.e gaulle said to him, you should surround yourself with the smartest possible people, listen to them, hear what they have to say. but at the end of the day, you have to make up your own mind. and kennedy remembered what harry truman had said, the buck stops here. and i think after that they of pigs, he was absolutely determined to make up his own mind, here with these experts had to say, way what they were telling him, but at the end of the day, he was going to make the judgment and he was the response will party. and you see that, that was abundantly clear when you listen to and read the transcripts of those tapes during the cuban missile crisis. he was his own man. he was the one making his own mind. he held the joint chiefs at arms length. they wanted to bomb, invade, and he did not want to do it. >> an inside look at the kennedy administration, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> c-span launched its first c-span schoolbus in 1993, visiting hundreds of schools and committees na

he went to see charles de gaulle in france.d to him you should surround yourself with the smartest possible people. hear what they have to say. at the end of the day, you have to make up your own mind. he remembered what harry truman had said, the buck stops here. he was determined to make up his own mind and hear what the experts had the say, way would they were telling him. he was the responsible party and you see that it was abundantly clear when you read the transcripts of although these tapes. he was his own man. the joint chiefs, they wanted to bomb and invade. >> an inside look at the kennedy administration on c-span q&a. >> they announce 92 members of the nuclear weapons corps had been implicated on cheating. that's a higher number than previously stated. the air force secretary spoke about the investigation. this is a 45 minute briefing. >> thank you, and good morning. >> thank you, and good morning. i don't know if your mother could have done a better job with that intro. i told you general welsh and i were going to g

see charleswent to de gaulle in france, and de gau lle said to him you should surround yourself withpossible people, listen to them. hear what they have to say. but at the end of the day, you have to make up your own mind. and he, kennedy, remembered what harry truman had said, the buck stops here. after the bay of pigs, he was determined to make up his own mind and hear what the experts had to say, weigh what they were telling him, but he was going to make the judgment and he was the responsible party. and you see that, you see that, that was abundantly clear when you listen to all of those and read the transcripts of those tapes during the cuban missile crisis. he was his own man. he was the one making up his mind. he held the joint chiefs at arms length. they wanted to bomb, invade. he did not want to do it. >> a look at the kennedy administration, sunday night on c-span's q&a. week, senator john thune took part in the internet education foundation that conference which focused on internet policy trends in 2014 and the future of the industry. this is 20 minutes. >> if i can have y

he went to see de gaulle in france. he made that trip in 1961.houldle said, you surround yourself with the smartest possible people. listen to them. hear what they have to say. you have to make up your own mind. what harryemembered, truman said, the buck stops here. he was determined to make up his own mind weigh what they were telling him. he was going to make the judgment that he was the responsible party. you see that. that was abundantly clear when you listen to all those and read the transcripts of oall those tapees. he was his own mind. he held the joint chiefs at arms lane. they wanted to bomb and invade. >> an inside look at the kennedy administration, sunday night. >> we are very focused on the sochi olympics. we have seen an uptick on the threats. there are a number of extremist in that area, in particular a group, the most prominent terrorist group in russia. the leader of that group announced that the group would intend to carry out attacks in sochi in connection with the olympics. we have seen a number of attacks since last fall, sui

de gaulle said to him, you should surround yourself with the smartest possible people, listen to themar what they have to say. the that the -- but at the end of the day, you have to make up your own mind. kennedy remembered what harry truman said, the buck stops here. i think after the bay of pigs, he was absolutely determined to and hearis own mind what these experts had to say, way what they were telling him. at the end of the day, he was going to make the judgment, and he was the responsible party. and you see that. that was abundantly clear when you listen to all those and read the transcripts of all those tapes during the cuban missile crisis. he was his own man. he was the one making his own mind. he had the joint chiefs at arms length. they wanted to bomb, invade, and he did not want to do it. >> an inside look at the kennedy administration, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are going to open up the phone lines and get your response to the government response of that southern snowstorm that hit nine different states. we want to he