there was a time and place where olympia snowe and george mitchell got along. get back to that? senator mitchell: our country is divided and that is reflected in our congress. our hope is that there can be a modest return to bipartisanship and the lowering of the temperature and the rhetoric in the next year. tom: where did the grace go? i think of the movie "lincoln." daniel day-lewis. they are in congress, and it is ugly, and mean and nasty. is that the norm or is your age the norm? senator mitchell: there is no norm. i just read the summary of -- john adams and thomas jefferson went at it in a way -- brendan: we hear a lot of people wax nostalgic about the days of tip and the gipper. you and bob dole. was it much rougher than we remember it? senator mitchell: it was very tough. we had a lot of disagreement but it is tougher now. we did work together quite a lot on many issues. that does not seem to be the case now. there may be a few issues on which there will be some cooperation. olivia: one of the important decisions -- and we were talking about the possib

george mitchell's life is certainly one example of someone in america that could rise from small-town origins and modest means and become a person of considerable accomplishment and influence. a lawyer for maine, senator mitchell arrived in the u.s. senate in 1980 and nine years later took over as majority leader a post he held for six years. in that time he was among the most respected members in the senate. actually there was a bipartisan group of senior congressional aides who repeatedly voted him the most respected member. the story of george mitchell's career as an elected politician only gets you a little more than halfway through this new book, the negotiator. that is because he has shown that a guy with integrity and problem solving skills can continue to achieve much even after stepping down from one of the government's most important positions. since retiring from congress two decades ago senator mitchell has taken a leading role in negotiations for peace in northern ireland and in the middle east. he has also served as chairman of the walt disney company as well as several

there are few people who have had more experience at the highest levels than george mitchell.nate majority leader to a key player in talks in northern ireland and the middle east, he has written a memoir about his experiences and the lessons he has learned. a short time ago, he joined us from philadelphia. senator mitchell, you write in your book that every negotiation is different. when you look at get northern ireland in the middle east, what was it that made northern ireland succeed, from a negotiating point of view, and the middle east not so much? senator mitchell: the middle east is much more complicated as you see from these reports of the region now. there are several overlapping intersecting, sometimes contradictory conflicts raging throughout the region, all of which impact the israeli-palestinian conflict. secondly in northern ireland the mediators, despite dangerous circumstances, at a critical moment in their society's history, made a decision to go forward, at great risk to the elves, personally and politically. -- to themselves, personally and politically. in th

. >>> also on the show senator george mitchell the former majority leader the man who helped negotiatece in ireland will be here to talk about the negotiations to prevent a nuclear iran. >>> republican presidential contenders are starting their holiday weekends in oklahoma city. we'll head there to find out what was going on there. there was a big surprise vote in kentucky which makes us to wonder if hillary clinton could win that state in 2016. it's not as crazy a notion as you think. the reasons why and a whole lot more are on tap. >>> we begin with something that's going to keep happening a lot. >> i'm glad the e-mails are starting to come out. this is something i've asked to be done as you know for a long time. and those releases are beginning. i want people to be able to see all of them. >> 296 e-mails that hillary clinton sent or received as secretary of state released yesterday. more than 800 pages in total. the release coinciding with her trip to a brewery on the campaign trail in new hampshire. the e-mails were the first of many batches that are going to be made public on a re

some of the authors you will hear from include former senator george mitchell, cornel west, dana perinoand walter isaacson. for a complete schedule of our entire weekend you can go to booktv.org. you will see the schedule on the right-hand side of the page. follow us on facebook facebook.com/booktv or @booktv is our twitter and dell where we send out a lot of updates and publishing news throughout the weekend. booktv on this memorial day weekend, three days of nonfiction books and authors. booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they're reading this summer. >> thanks for asking. as you know i taught economics for the past 18 years. i went to seminary before that. i usually like reading combination of economics and ethics. on the stump speech people thought that was humorous joke. i take it pretty seriously. start off with peter wallison, "hidden "in plain sight"." the latest on definitive insight of causes of the financial crisis. if you don't have the insight of the financial crisis you don't know how to solve that going forward. there are some signs we're

but the story of the career of george mitchell as an elected politician only gets you halfway through his new book "the negotiator" come and that is because he has shown that integrity and problem solving skills would continue to achieve much even after stepping down from one of the governments most important positions. since retiring from congress and as we talk about the international committee members and performance enhancing drugs in u.s. baseball the use of them, a whole section of senator mitchell's new book is titled no time for retirement. and he offered four previous books, one dealt with his experiences in northern ireland another was the iran contra investigation and he intends to devote a future book to his work in the middle east. and so this and other key parts of his life don't quite get the full treatment in the negotiator . there is a collection of anecdotes coupled with a series of lessons at the end about the art of negotiation. those lessons alone are very instructive reading. and so i wasn't quite sure. >> ladies and gentlemen thank you and please welcome george

george mitchell's life is certainly one example of someone in america that could rise from small-town origins and modest means and become a person of considerable accomplishment and influence. a lawyer for maine, senator mitchell arrived in the u.s. senate in 1980 and nine years later took over as majority leader a post he held for six years. in that time he was among the most respected members in the senate. actually there was a bipartisan group of senior congressional aides who repeatedly voted him the most respected member. the story of george mitchell's career as an elected politician only gets you a little more than halfway through this new book, the negotiator. that is because he has shown that a guy with integrity and problem solving skills can continue to achieve much even after stepping down from one of the government's most important positions. since retiring from congress two decades ago senator mitchell has taken a leading role in negotiations for peace in northern ireland and in the middle east. he has also served as chairman of the walt disney company as well as several

former senator and former senate majority leader senator george mitchell, author of the new book "the negotiator." and welcome back to "hardball." senator, thank you so much. and for my people and your people, thank you for what you did in northern ireland. nobody thought that could be done. and it looks like it's working. they don't love each other, be the property assistants and the catholics are getting along wonderfully thanks to you. let's look at the middle east which is a real conundrum. it seems like president obama is at great risk is trying to find a deal to contain the apparent ambitions of the iranian government, the mullahs to build a nuclear weapon. is it going to work? >> i think it can, although we won't know for sure until we see the final terms of the agreement, particularly with respect to verification. but the issue is very clear. iran must not get a nuclear weapon. there are two ways to accomplish that, by negotiation or by war. it's plain common sense to try to negotiate an end to it if you can before turning to the extreme and what should be the last resort of a

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this was the same time george mitchell was experimenting with gas shale in ohio, using government funds. from the eastern gas shale's project. then later, egsp funding to understand the state of stress of gas shale in the appalachian basin. that was a great experiment in the 1980's. i was a small part of shell's venture, which was one of the first attempts of producing gas from the standard shale as we know it today. at penn state, i had graduate students -- this is very important. it was not the faculty members but the students. all of the students contributed significantly to our present understanding of gas and oil shale. we came to understand which natural fractures were driven by high-pressure gas. we came to understand the rate of fracture grows, the timing of fracture growth, the distribution of fracture growth. all of these are important elements that make commercial gas production possible. and finally, and most importantly, none of these are the discoveries of one person. ms. quarterman: thank you. i stand corrected on that. i understand also this and there is a woman involved

this was the same time that george mitchell was experimenting with gas shale in ohio. again, using government funds. from the eastern gas shales project. then later egsp funding went to me to try to understand the state of stress in gas shales in the appalachian basin. that was a great experiment in the 1980s. i was a small part of shell's venture in gas shales, the first attempts at producing gas from a standard gas shale as we know it today. at penn state, i had an amazing group of graduate students -- and this is very important. not the faculty members but the students that are associated with the factulty member. they all contributed to our understanding of gas and oil and shale. we came to understand which natural fractures were driven by high-pressured gas we came to understand the rate of fractured growth, the timing of fractured growth and the distribution of fractured growth. all of these are important elements that make commercial gas production possible. and finally, and most importantly, none of these are the discoveries of one person. >> thank you. i stand

and, of course there's george mitchell whose company was the first to make fracking afghans shale coal sugar this is done in the 1990s. then range resources, the first to put a massive hydroelectric fracture on the marcellus that all these people are deserving the academic types include physicists and engineers. while it is not fair to include me on the list of potential candidates for the title you did ask me to explain myself, is that right? okay. i was blessed with funds from uncle sam and some of the early pioneering work on gas shells back to the 1970s. this is the same time george mitchell was experimenting with the gas shale in ohio then using government funds. from the eastern correctional project. then later egsp funding came to me to try to understand the state of stressing gas shells in the appalachian basin. that was in the 1980s. i was a small part of shells avenger which was on the first attempts at producing gas from a standard gas shale as we know it today. at penn state i had an amazing group of graduate students. this is very important. it was not the faculty members

joining us on set, former senate middle east envoy george mitchell.book "the negotiator" literally the conversation here will run the gamut from baseball to politics to global politics. let's start with baseball. sham we mike barnacle. you participated in this blue ribbon commission in 2000. dealing with scandals that were plaguing baseball. what's the state of baseball today? has the game cleaned up? has it moved in a positive direction? >> very much so. professional baseball has the strongest anti-drug program of any professional sport. commissioner selig was the only commissioner to authorize a completely independent and thorough study, analysis and report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and both the commissioner and the players who have undergone a dramatic transformation in their position. they previously opposed any form of testing, strongly oppose my investigation. but they have come around to recognize that the principal victims of steroid users in baseball are those players who don't use steroids. >> yeah. i'll oipt up t

." >> now on booktv, former senate majority leader george mitchell democrat from maine talks about hislife, political career and post-senate service as a diplomat, investigator and chairman of the walt disney company. he spoke at politics & prosema bookstore in washington d.c. ..ke at politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c.. [inaudible conversations] >> there are he has. hello senator. >> good evening. i'm bradley graham the co-owner of politics and prose along with my wife lissa

some of the office you will hear from include former senator george mitchell, cornell west, dana terry noe and walter isaacson. known for a complete schedule of our entire weekend you and go to booktv.org. you will see the schedule on the right-hand side of the page. .. day before but that day he came over and shook my hand. from that time on our relations were personal. >> you can watch this and other programs online at book tv.org. >> your watching book tv, 48 hours every weekend. next they talk about the u.s. to army special operation commands. it's a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct culturally sensitive missions in afghanistan that require contact with women and children. despite men being officially banned from combat. >> hello, good evening. welcome to book passage in san francisco. i want to thank you for coming out tonight to support independent book writers and independent thinking. i also want to thank i were c-span viewers so know that you are on camera as were taping tonight. as we go to the q&a please know we will pass a mic around to capture your ques

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president bill clinton appointed senators george mitchell to broker peace.a peace deal the 1998 good friday agreement led to a northern ireland assembly. there are skirmishes in northern ireland, but nothing like the "07s, and " -- in the '70s, and '80s. prince charles rarely comments on politics, but his speech stood the time. >> there's a unique magic about ireland that is totally irresistible >>> classes came to a halt in france when teachers walked off the job. >> proposed reforms aimed at giving all an equal education is a race to the bottom. >> and they are calling it shoe-gate. what happened at the cannes film festival sparking a discussion over gender inequality in the field industry. >>> protesters in seattle say they will not back down after days of demonstrations against arctic drilling. a flotilla of kayaks swarmed a shell oil rig last week. >> protesters gathered at the hague where board members met at the headquarters and faced tough questions. dominic kane reports. >>> it was the moment for shell's shareholders to meet the board and put forwar

joining me is former senator george mitchell of maine.mer chairman of the mitchell commission. he's the author of a new book "the negotiator", it's great to have you on the program. congratulations on the book. let's talk about yemen. we were expecting a cease-fire today and obviously that didn't happen. the fighting continued and they are putting it in place on tuesday. >> yemen is a microkoz. of the region. deep tribal ties, not the sense of nation wood that we expect to expect and take for granted in our country. a country that has been divided in the past between north and south yemen in which conflict has gone on for many many decades. and it is an illustration of the complexity the conflicting overlapping, sometimes contradictory conflicts in those countries. very difficult to resolve. plagued by poor governance poverty, not an easy solution. i think that our support for the saudis is the right position opposing iran's support for the rebels who are shia and the dominant government before the previous government was sunni-backed. bu

. >> let's not forget what senator george mitchell told us on this program a couple weeks ago. basically, this is not just about the u.s. and eastern. you need the go ahead and blessing from five other superpowers. are we going to get those countries saying yeah this deal is fine? again, congress is locked out. >> no one has the expertise in the middle east or elsewhere. at the end of the day, what we're dealing with is the american congress and whether this president in a weakened position today has the opportunity to make a deal. i don't think he does anymore. i think he's going to lose in this one. he's putting a lot of cross pressure on a lot of democrats. >> just one prediction though. the relationship with israel is going to get a lot better with the next american president. i absolutely believe that. for the israelis, this is sort of a 20-month and out sort of thing. they just have to hold on in there. long-standing ally. i do think it's going to get better for them. >> real quick, you have carly fiorina, huckabee three new names this week announced officially. >> huckab

some of the office you will hear from include former senator george mitchell, cornell west, dana terry noe and walter isaacson. known for a complete schedule of our entire weekend you and go to booktv.org. you will see the schedule on the right-hand side of the page. .. day before but that day he came over and shook my hand. from that time on our relations were personal. >> you can watch this and other programs online at book tv.org. >> your watching book tv, 48 hours every weekend. next they talk about the u.s. to

some of the authors you'll hear from include former senator george mitchell, cornel west, dana perino and walter isaacson. now, for a complete schedule of our entire weekend, you can go to booktv.org. you'll see the schedule over on the right-hand side of the page. you can also follow us on facebook, facebook.com/booktv, or @booktv is our twitter handle where we send out a lot of schedule updates and publishing news throughout the weekend. booktv on memorial day weekend, three days of nonfiction books and authors. >> i think this is sort of a hidden story, but a fundamental issue that had cropped up in the 1970s and early 1980s. it was fundamental in terms of how you viewed our chances to prevail at what president kennedy called, you know, the long twilight struggle. and the genesis is in the early '70s the cia was estimating that the soviets were spending about 6% of their gdp on defense. and you get the situation where schlesinger moves to the cia and, you know, marshall is his is the nsc staff at the time. and schlesinger's calling him over and he says the folks here at the cia say

let's engage that with somebody that knows how to answer those questions, george mitchell and servedsenator, for joining us. we are sorry to interrupt what looks like to be your fly-fishing there on the out cropings of the main shore lane. let's deal with iraq senator. the situation right now is coaxing people in the republican party to say it's time to reinvest u.s. lives in this and put them on the ground and let them make strategic missions and that's the way to beat isis. do you agree, sir? >> no i don't. american forces injected into syria now would become the target of the two opposing forces both of which we oppose in the complexity and contradictory fighting that is going on in the middle east and two issues stand out. first, this is part of an historic 1400-year fight, and isis has made gains only in the areas that are sunni dominated, and they she it has shia dominated, and it's unlikely isis will be able to extend beyond those areas. in syria, when they make gains, they are making them against the assad regime, and the u.s. also opposed, and so it's complex and it's very d

harry reid would tell you the same thing and so would george mitchell and bob dole. i love every minute of it and i love the institution of the senate. so did ted kennedy. which is why this is such an appropriate way to remember him. i got my first taste of the peculiarities as vicki indicated. a great friend of president's kennedy and served for 10 years with ted kennedy.

harry reid would tell you the same thing and so would george mitchell and bob dole. i love every minute of it and i love the institution of the senate. so did ted kennedy. which is why this is such an appropriate way to remember him. i got my first taste of the peculiarities as vicki indicated. a great friend of president's kennedy and served for 10 years with ted kennedy. that summer was an incredible summer. the summer of 1964. in those days, most senators didn't have a huge internship program. i was the only intern in the office. my boss was deeply involved in that, as was ted. it was an incredible time to be in washington, but i had been there the summer of the year before on the house side. got to be at the martin luther king's i have a dream speech. i did not hear a word of it. there was a mass of humanity all the way down to the lincoln memorial. then the next summer, breaking the filibuster on the civil rights bill and it passed. next summer, i didn't have a job but i went back to visit my friends. and i just happened to hit it on the perfect day. i was sitti

george mitchell took it on and perfected it demonstrated in the barnett in knotnorth texas. that has been applied to a prolific resource found in many parts of this country. both natural gas and oil and has generated an incredible abundance of domestic supply. the reason we need to be thinking about the arctic now is because it will take us a good decade of exploration and proving up this resource to get to the place where we are at a significant level of commercial production. so if you think about the work we did in 1978 to provide for the domestic supplies we have now, that's where we need to be in the arctic right now. this is about our children, securing their energy security. so that's the why now why the arctic. i encourage you all to take a look at the report that carol is going to share here in a bit. i think it's a valuable contribution to our understanding of the oil and gas resource, as well as the environment in which it will be developed. and how we ensure it's done in a prudent matter. thank you for being here today. >> thank you so much. i don't mean to be an

and hydraulic fracturing and the office spent about $130 million much of it in partnership with george mitchell and as many of you know, perfected it and demonstrated in the barnet and north texas, and that knowledge has been applied to a very prolific resource that is found in oil and has generated an incredible abundance of domestic supply. the reason that we need to be thinking about the arctic now is because it will take us a good decade of exploration in proving up this resource to get into the place where we are at a significant level of commercial production. so the work we did in 19678 to provide for the domestic supplies that we have now, that's where we need to be in the arctic and this is about the children in securing that energy security and that's the why now and the arctic. and i encourage you all to take a look at the report that carol's going to share here in a bit. i think it's a very valuable contribution to our understanding of the oil and gas resource as well as the environment in which it will be developed and how we ensure it's done in eye prudent manner. thank you for be

to me -- but back in those days, when i saw president reagan and president bush, and you had george mitchell and bob dole, jim rice, they were really the world war ii generation. many of them had served in our military. they had all lived and worked in function at a time when it was important to be republican and democratic, but there were issues that superseded that registration. they lived through a time when there were really big issues that required a national response. i really think that that generation of leaders brought a different tone to political discourse. i really do. one of the things that we need to understand in this country is because men and women -- a man and will or wom disagrees with me -- a man or woman across the isle disagrees with me, they are not my enemy, they are my political foe. it has to be done in a respectful way. i know historians will recall fights breaking out in the chamber, but do think the tone is set from the top. i think if you can see a liberal like to o'neill and a conservative like ronald reagan, both world war ii generation both strongly held beli

mitchell) oh. if i could get everyone to raise their glass as i quote from one of our nation's great fathers-- jefferson. georgerson. "i never dreamed that one of my own "would be going off to a university, "but here i stand, a proud black man, knowing that all those hours i put in at the dry cleaner--" phil. not now, weezie. where was i? quoting that president. okay, if she's the future of america, we should start using chinese money now. (scoffs) we already are. my arm is tired. to haley. to haley! (glasses clink) and before everyone puts their glasses down, uh, uh, we're also very proud of lily. tomorrow is her first day of kindergarten. to lily. (gloria) oh, lily. (phil) to lily. to lily. and you'll be impressed to know that she's gonna be one of the smartest girls there. lily, sweetie, what's the square root of 64? 8.

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george tenet asked for upon his resignation. and that is what we call the bradberry memo. in that memo, there is a significantly changed role for the second group of health professionals putting mitchellnd just an aside, the researchers. and it moves from them determining whether you crossed the line to determining the line . and to determine the line, that required research. and so we see in the bradberry memos clearly as we documented in the report, in 2010, is that they were having to look at the effect of the tactics to the whole detainee population over years and determine what the line was. because there's no clinical literature on torture. amy: last december, dr. james mitchell appeared on fox news to talk about his role in the waterboarding of abu zubaydah. he was interviewed by megyn kelly. >> abu zubaydah shut down. they asked me to come back to the campus, and it was clear to me when i was at the campus listened to what people were saying, there was so much pressure about trying to head off the second way that was coming that they were going to use some kind of physical coercion. i spent a lot of time in the air force sears school and i see what happens when people make stu

. >> combo tv former senator george mitchell democrat for main talks his life political career and to send service as a diplomat investigator and chairman of the walt disney company. he spoke at politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c.. [inaudible conversations]

the some of the authors you hear from including former senator george mitchell, cornel west, dana perino and walter isaacson. for a complete schedule of our entire weekend go to booktv.org. sieve the schedule on the right-hand side of the page. also follow us on facebook, facebook.com/booktv. or @booktv is our twitter handle where we send out a lot of updates and publishing news throughout the weekend. booktv on this memorial day weekend, three days of non-fiction books and authors. >>> booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i had some good read this is summer. the other day i happened to meet, had privilege of meeting gene cernan, the former poll low astro not -- apollo senate. he gave me a autographed copy of his book, the last man on the moon. a very good read. i'm not quite threw with through with it yet. he made a couple of trips to the moon. first was was apollo 10, first to circle the moon first astronauts to do so with his other crewmembers. he came back again and was the last man to walk on the surface of the moon. w