colin: hello, general powell. this is ronald reagan. yes, sir. >> would you fix your tie, please?avid: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? we are here today at city college, a place you graduated from. why city college? colin: i was accepted at ccny. i was accepted at nyu. in why you was charging $750 a year. i couldn't handle that. it was easy to get to city college. ♪ david: you grew up in the bronx? colin: i grew up in the south bronx. david: your parents were immigrants from jamaica. did you enjoy new york as a young boy? colin: it was a diverse place. it bonded on me this is what the world is, people of different backgrounds, cultures, colors, you name it. ccny replicated that perfectly. i learned yiddish working in another corner of the south

. >> hello, general powell. this is ronald reagan.es, sir. >> i am still paying that finders fee. >> no one plays music when you walk into the room anymore. >> laura did bring the coffee. ♪ [laughter] >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? ♪ david: at what point did you realize that you had some skills that were maybe going to let you rise up? >> my grandmother taught me how to read. i grew up learning to read and read bible verses. the grace for me is that i did not spend a single day in a segregated school, so i did not have one moment of being conditioned to believe that i was less than anybody. when i walked into my first kindergarten class, first time i had s

>> i get a call, hello, general powell? this is ronald reagan. >> would you fix your tie, please?avid: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? ♪ david: we are here today at city college, a place you graduated from a number of years ago. colin: thank you, david. david: why did you pick city college? colin: i was accepted at ccny. i was accepted at nyu. the reason i went to ccny because nyu was charging $750 a month, or year. i couldn't handle that. my family could not handle that. i went to city college because it was free and it was easy to get to, and i had heard a lot about it. david: you grew up in the bronx? colin: i was born in harlem, about a mile from here, and i grew up in the south bronx. the hunter's point section. david: your parents were im

colin:reagan] hello, general powell. this is ronald reagan. yes, sir. colin:reagan] i really, really want you to come back here. he's reading the talking points that frank gave him. i want you to come back here and be the deputy for national security. yes, sir. i will be right there. david: so you went back? colin: yes. i said, good, i can go back into he army now. one day i was chairing a national security meeting and the president walks in. he sits at the head of the table. frank comes around to the side, and while the meeting is going on, frank rips off a piece of paper, scribbles something on it, and he sends it down the table to me. and i open up the little piece of paper and it says, you are now the national security adviser. no interview, no nothing. so the last year and a half of my time in the white house was with president reagan, became extremely close, and strong relationship. david: when the administration ended, you went back into a military position, but not that long afterwards, president george herbert walker bush, the president of the

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. >> hello, general powell. this is ronald reagan. yes, sir.>> actually i think it was my husband who set the interview up, to be honest with you. i am still paying that finders fee. >> no one plays a song when you walk into the r

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. >> hello, general powell. this is ronald reagan. yes, sir. >> i am still paying that finders fee.

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general powell put. nations with the head of the cia behind him was acquired from a man which they named curveball. curveball whose real name was rough feed comment was a knobby would later admit that he made it all up so he could state germany. richard powell who had superficially defended the idea of going to war has no problem admitting that many of powers allegations were unfounded the mobile laboratories that were described in that intelligence report that turned out to be completely false there were no mobile laboratories the aluminum tubes which could have been part of centrifuges. turned out to be aluminum tubes for launching small small rockets colin powell now is lying yeah he did. why he do it because the president told him as though it taking their case to the un the american seek to justify their actions in front of the international community weapons inspectors return to iraq but have yet to find w m d's but washington applies an indisputable logic. hussein indicates that he has weapons of

the more better version would be general powell's version of a reluctant warrior. what if any lessons can we derive from the world war ii and cold war era of military readiness and taking the forces we have, in some cases facing a deficit, and the cold war era of making the world safe for democracy. how that can be applied to maintaining a world safe for democracy and untenable to authoritarianism as is one by china and russia. i cannot help but question the wisdom of automation and say ai. perhaps i am a little old-fashioned, but i prefer if there is a digital system there must be a rocksteady analog system. it is playing with a new type of fire to increase our capability, but i don't want us to be burned, if you know what i mean, sir. mr. work: sure. sdgactually going to the tomorrow night to have a more full some debate with a lot of strategists on how you should utilize fleet during this time peace. for the last 25 years, and i can track it. i know exactly how it happened. but, peace. i believe the department of defense is now the more the department of shaping

country in the world and so we bring those pictures and , not just military although we have had general powell, swart's cough, franks talk to the students which is attended by most of the us military academy, so you won't have any trouble identifying these people, but when the speakers come to campus and our students have a chance to hear them and to be in a q&a with that's a very meaningful-- that hard work which is the title given to us by the "wall street journal" stuck many years ago it is accurate. it's not that we wouldn't to give men and one. it's just that that picture was made before we gave him one and we give madame secretary one if she would like to have one. i will end with a quote from ben carson his eight good friend and then to college more than once and just the coronation. he said if we don't give back to more of the values taught by college of the ozarks then they will be replaced by something a whole lot less wholesome. we know that to be true, don't we? we are trying to take a leadership role in helping those help themselves who without sufficient means to make good citize

. >> before leaving office, the corvette guy races general colin powell on cnbc's jay leno's garage.ld let him get out frnt briefly and then floor line and beat him to the finish point. jay leno did not show that last five successes so it looks like we are both turning and coming back and we are even. we weren't even. i was about to beat his butt. don't let him tell you anything else. >> may name is joe biden and i will be vice president of the united states for 48 more hours. i'm here today to issue a call to action. >> after watching the 2017 hand over to the trump administration, biden begins life as a private citizen. >> the election is over. donald trump is president and i'm disappointed to state the obvious. >> here forms a pact called american possibilities to support democratic candidates. >> you have to show up and vote! >> joe was worried about the working man and woman. he wants social justice and has been a strong civil rights advocate and is trying to get to understand the trump voter burden. we may disagree on the right out come, but he is driven by helping people. >> t

war, if you want more, i guess general powell's philosophy as the reluctant warrior. so my question is to prongs. what if any lessons can we derive from world war ii on cold war era of military readiness as in taking what forces we have which were in some cases facing a deficit to give an example, the marine raiders in the pacific? and the cold war era of making the world safer democracy come how could that be applied to say maintaining a world safe for democracy making the world untenable to authoritarianism as one of china and russia? and also i can't have a question the wisdom of going for more automation and say ai. perhaps i'm a a little old-fashioned but i always prefer that if there's additional system there must be a rock system, an analog system and its link with a new type of fire, sure, to increase the capability that i don't want us to get burned, if you know what i mean. >> sure. all right, i'm actually going to the -- to monitor the more fulsome debate with a lot of navy strategists on how you should utilize the fleet during this time of peace. and for t

generation. we have jay powell coming in. first non-phd in economics to run the fed over 30 years. he understands business a lot more than others will. i'm hoping together, with the congress and white house they're able to continue spurring economic growth. david: john layfield, my friend in that tax haven of bermuda, as you look from afar what is happening here what do you think of the tax plan that you see so far? >> i really like the tax plan. the main thing to me was repatriation of money and lowering of corporate tax rate. understand, the large profitable companies payee effect average tax rate of 18%. effective tax rate is mid 20s. what that tells you is, small and medium-sized businesses who have not had any political favors giving them lower tax rates over the years, they're the ones paying high rate. this is going to small and medium-sized businesses, going to middle class. that is exactly where it needs to go. david: i will stick with you, john, how much do you think the economy could grow as a result of all that? president said as much as $3.5 trillion could come back fr

apparatus to dwarf the significance of our chief example and of course colin powell is the prime exemplar but you have people like general petraeus i remember when general petraeus was in iraq and he told the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff that he had discovered in a radian supplied cache of weapons and that there was a us a press conference set up in this part of iraq where they had been found ten days later. the press conference was canceled the chair of the joint chiefs of staff asked patrice what happened so would they turn out to be not a reunion made weapons so the way to success in washington and intel of eve of course is to bring in the arrhenius as violators of this that and the other thing haley said today that our western allies are going to have to rethink their approach to iran well she's in a dream world ok we'll leave it to believe that we'll leave it at the dream i suppose foma of a mcguffin thanks famous for your expertise and thoughts on this something that most welcome. clashes are continuing in the west bank over the contested status of jerusalem that story is after the break. legal. leg. to. l

mattis who's just a first rate man general kelly first rate general mcmaster i've seen speak several times about strategy. not a shadow dina powell i mean these are first rate foreign policy strategists and they put together a great document and it's something the press and you got to give the president credit for that people can get a hard time about the tweets and that sort of thing but at the same time you got to give him credit for the team he put together if america first is a misnomer in a sense but he used the term. you know. that's a good question because when you look at the document you know i think maybe what the president means by american for america first is different than what. people ascribe to it i mean what president trump is talking about the strategy documents rebuilding the military getting close to our allies whether it's japan or taiwan or israel or the u.k. work in concert with them to defeat threats like iran and north korea that's a pretty traditional american foreign policy and let me that's america first that doesn't mean we don't work with our allies or we don't stand up to our adversaries . but i thi