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for kissinger, i don't think he is done with him because they reissued his book, the trial of henry kissinger and it's more relevant now than it ever has been a think because the official biography of kissinger is about to come out by noel ferguson. i noticed the other day kissinger with stern to harvard where i guess the students have been all that thrilled to have them for some time. and ferguson wrote a piece in which he said it was so wonderful that students welcomed kissinger back. they applauded him. they didn't have them off the campus. this in the 60's didn't happen. it's so wonderful. keep an eye on of friedel book and trying get ahold of it if you haven't read the trial of henry kissinger by christopher hitchens which is a rebuttal to the authorized biography. >> hi. i was wondering for each of you if you could, if you could pick out a common threat throughout his body of work, he very much -- my impression is that he very much tried to be genuine and to be accurate about the human condition and what do you think would be the common threat? >> we were asked this by charlie rhodes an

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henry kissinger says power is an aphrodisiac and president clinton left the presidency and explained monica to say, because i could. that's too easy. what will we do with franklin roosevelt. he was a good president and had an affair with lucy mercer and others. john kennedy, i happen to think he was a good president and history may agree, who knows. we can't count them. wayne hayes, ruger mills, gary hart and bill clinton. do we say well, if they do that, we have to dispense with them. they can't be in the public eye. chris: you be the judge. you're the president of the united states for 10 minutes and i bring to you the petraeus case. it hasn't gotten out yet but will get out and you know it will because there are people out there, an f.b.i. agent, c.i.a. agent and they can drop anything anywhere. will you keep him on? >> he's the c.i.a. director and blackmail and all the possibilities are there. could they blackmail bill clinton? chris: put out the word he had an affair but i'm keeping him. >> everybody makes their own judgment as to whether this is more important than that. chris:

she should be the way henry kissinger used to and other of our secretaries of state, but the question is, what influence does she have because of the waning influence because of the perception of weakness throughout the arab world, whether it be in iraq where there's just recently fighting in the al-qaeda setting up terrorist camps or where now 40,000 people have been massacred in syria, and we have said assad must go and do nothing to facilitate that process to obviously the iranians who are sending those missiles in, as you mentioned, through the sudan into egypt and then to gaza, and those are longer range missiles. thank god for iron dome, by the way, and so we have to make sure that we reassert american influence and that means american power and that doesn't mean leading from behind. >> senator, thank you very much. i'll tell you that i wish america paid more attention to what's going on in the sudan. they are the route for those powerful missiles and so much other bad things. thank you, sir. >> thank you, and you're right about sudan. >>> and tonight both israel and hamas are r

during the years that we traveled together covering henry kissinger in the middle east, we always had someone from voice of america on the plane and i remember a woman by the name of kunig, wasn't it? >> marie. >> marie kunig, who was the voice of america reporter, and she didn't talk much. she wasn't the much belaboring henry kissinger with questions, she wrote very clean copy and she was a very good reporter. and i think -- i haven't been a diplomatic correspondent in many years so i don't travel with the secretary of state anymore but i rather suspect you don't have from v.o.a. traveling with the secretary anymore and that's a loss. >> i want to share something with you all. being a competitor with koppel, when we travel around the middle east, in those years, i had a very bad back condition, and when we'draphy -- we'd arrive somewhere, we'd all have our portable typewriter and overnight bag and the big stuff went in the plane. abc news picked up very often my typewriter, my overnight bag he could see i couldn't pick it up. that's being a good competitor, being a sweetheart. yes, p

henry kissinger says you get a cease-fire 11 or both sides is done fighting. they are not done.n wants them to keep fighting. they want the israelis to get so involved with each other and fighting each other that no one pays attention to iran. as far as israel, they have a different objective. they have 10,000 missiles in the gaza strip. either by the air or ground troops. gerri: what does this mean for oil markets? anytime anything happens in the middle east, oil sponsored by going higher. >> impasse. it was showing off like crazy. we will market was changing. we can think about geopolitical risks. we were worried about the economy. i think what happened, it sports trainers to start focusing on the middle east. putting in that geopolitical risk back to the marketplace makes it less likely that it will go down and take out the old lows. gerri: ovoid. what is really at risk from the u.s. point of view? >> i think when no one is paying attention to is the suez canal. 120 miles long. it is one lane with a few passing lanes. it would be very easy for some group of bad guys to use a

government, a special assistant to the national security advisor he accompanied henry kissinger on his secret visit to china and president nixon on his historic opening in early 1970s, as well as subsequent trips by president ford and dr. kissinger. from 1985-1989, he served as the u.s. ambassador to beijing under presidents reagan and bush. ambassador lord's other key government assignments were as state department took a policy planning, from 1973-77, and in defense state department in the 1960s. in between these posts he has helped him and headed in variety of private organizations related to international affairs. as well as chairman of the national endowment for democracy, and chairman of the carnegie endowment national commission on america in the world. ambassador lord and a ba from him like an m.a. from fletcher. he received several honorary degrees, the state department distinguished honor award and the defense department's outstanding performance award. to my far left is christopher hill. christopher hill served as assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affair

my wife and i were sitting behind doctor henry kissinger, who was in the audience. they handed out his little sheets where you did self scoring. self scoring on your lifestyle. how often do you eat red meat, how many bowel movements you have a weak. [laughter] general health questions. then you have points or you lost points and you added it up, and it told you how many years you had to live. now, how many people here want to know how many years you have to live? the skeptical as him as that might rightly be about the scoring sheet, it's very interesting. kissinger was filling this out with all the intensity hunched over and so elsa and i availed ourselves of the reporter's freedom of information act. [laughter] and we looked over his shoulder. we wanted to see how many years he had to live. he added it all up, and it turned out that he died four years ago. [laughter] not happy. i have seen kissinger really unhappy because of things we have written. but this was the depth of unhappiness. and so he looked around, and this was done in pencil. he erased all the answers

a lot of time looking at what was going on in the united states, and you can even see it in henry kissinger's meme roars and -- memoirs and historical records and archives here how the negotiator for the north vietnamese brought this up to kissinger, he would bring up what was going on in congress, what was going on in the streets to try to rattle kissinger who would always answer this is beneath me. i'm not talking about what's going on in the united states, but in the end, i believe that north vietnamese leaders never really relied on negotiations to win the war: they knew that they had to win on their own, and it had to be militarily on the ground. thank you. >> several years ago, i had the opportunity to travel around vietnam for six weeks, about half the time in the north, what used to be the north, and half the time in the south, and in talking with people, my impression was people in the north, very proud of having defeated the united states, the great power. people in the south, very sad that the united states had not, in some way, managed to stay to keep away the communists. is that

john bolton, pat buchanan, state department official, liz cheney and former secretary of state henry kissinger are all here. this is a special edition of on the record. >> four years later almost after the noble peace prize has been awarded where do we stand. in case you haven't heard, bin laden is dead but that is not a foreign policy. there is no coherent foreign policy when we need one. >> we hope something is going to change. >> one of the ramifications of obama presidency the defense is not going to grow. >> the coordinated preplanned against the consulate on september 11th is an outrage. >> it appears to many americans that this administration failed to adequately protect u.s. personnel. >> the president has been skipping his daily intelligence briefings. >> with respect to iran i want to see a diplomatic resolution to the problem. >> the president's iran policy lacks credibility. the question is whether or not is whether the defense budget is big enough to deal with the major crisis and potential challenges around the world. >> as far as the middle east is concerned, his national policy

we've got henry kissinger and his read on this and tonight, he has a fascinating take on where the middle east is. >> . >> this is a fox news alert. hours ago in closed hearings, general david petraeus made some startling statements while testifying to both house and senate intelligence committee. for the breaking news we turn to catherine herridge live on capitol hill. >> well, eric, thank you, general petraeus is someone who is known for his move the media, but today, shunned reporters, apparently taking a loading dock entrance to get in in the capitol center where he briefed two committees, house and senate intelligence committees and done in a closed or classified session behind closed doors and one of the major flash points were the cia talking points a congressional source tells fox news the cia talking points had the language changed and drafts including al-qaeda in a later draft extremists, republicans say it was an effort to downplay or minimize the role of al-qaeda in the benghazi attacks, and no one in the u.s. intelligence community could say for sure who is responsible for th

john bolton, pat buchanan, state department official, liz cheney and former secretary of state henry kissinger are all here. this is a special edition of on the record. >> four years later almost after the noble peace prize has been awarded where do we stand. in case you haven't heard, bin laden is dead but that is not a foreign policy. there is no coherent foreign policy when we need one. >> we hope something is going to change. >> one of the ramifications of obama presidency the defense is not going to grow. >> the coordinated preplanned against the consulate on september 11th is an outrage. >> it appears to many americans that this administration failed to adequately protect u.s. personnel. >> the president has been skipping his daily intelligence briefings. >> with respect to iran i want to see a diplomatic resolution to the problem. >> the president's iran policy lacks credibility. the question is whether or not is whether the defense budget is big enough to deal with the major crisis and potential challenges around the world. >> as far as the middle east is concerned, his national policy

on what i'm hearing if there is no deal yet, she might come back to jerusalem, engage in some henry kissinger shuttle diplomacy. if israel moves into gaza with massive amounts of grounds forces, tanks, heavy artillery, armored personnel carriers, it will be a disaster. you know this area, you're there. you know how densely populated it is. it's going to be a serious problem and what the u.s. and egyptians, most of the international community, they want to make sure israel doesn't do it. but prime minister benjamin netanyahu say to keep the rockets and missiles come there coming in, they might have to do it. >> the death toll now in gaza, palestinian officials say is 137 people killed so far in the seven, now eight days going into the conflict. official death toll for israel is five. one soldier was killed today, first soldier killed by a rocket fired from gaza. joined by arwa damon and ben wedeman. the blasts bring home the difficulties so many civilians face. people don't know where a hamas rocket battery may be or hamas officials may be or who is living inside which building. and even news

professor at princeton university and walter isaacson, the author of biographies of everything from henry kissingerenjamin franklin. after katrina, you were a native of new orleans, you were appointed the vice chairman of the louisiana recovery authority and the job was to handle funds that were being disbursed by the federal government. in watching the rebuilding of new orleans and this whole process, what do you think that you learned that applies to what's going on now in new york and new jersey? >> three things. first of all, leadership matters. if you look at what's happening in new york and new jersey now organization view great leaders, michael bloomberg, deputy mayor bob steele, governor cuomo, governor chris christie. the president, obama, has been very involved. when we went through katrina, we were all back down in new orleans, it wasn't that strong of leadership. ray nagin was the mayor, sometimes not to be found. so i saw the importance of people who take charge and say i'm going to run into this crisis and i'm going to help solve it. secondly, it reminded us that we're all in the same

has ever been publicly said by a national security adviser, save for every word ever spoken by henry kissinger. when they voted for condoleezza rice for secretary of state, they knew that everything condoleezza rice said about iraq on television before the iraq war was wrong. they did not exact an apology from her in exchange for their votes for secretary of state. today liar lindsay graham said this about the comparison between susan rice and condoleezza rice. >> when it comes to condoleezza rice, we're not the only country that thought he was trying to get weapons of mass destruction. >> so the graham rule is it's okay for highly placed foreign policy players in an administration to be wrong about something they say on tv involving intelligence as long as other people are wrong, too, especially people in other countries. in his nakedly political and entirely dishonorable prosecution of susan rice today, john mccain actually said this -- >> we're all responsible for what we say and what we do. >> he obviously meant to add except condoleezza rice and anyone in any republican administration. we

bolton, pat buchanan, former state department official liz cheney and former secretary of state henry kissinger, they are all here. we are looking ahead to foreign policy in president obama's second term. this is a special edition of "on the record." >> four years later after the nobel peace prize where do we stand as a nation? in case you haven't her, bin laden is dead, that's good. that's not a foreign policy. there is no coherent foreign policy when we need one. >> we keep hoping something is going to change but it isn't. >> one of the ramifications of an obama presidency is defense is not going to grow. >> the coordinated preplanned and brazen taxes again the u.s. consulate in benghazi, september 11th, was an outrage. >> security was laxed. >> it appears to many persons ma this administration failed to adequately protect u.s. personnel. >> president has been skipping his daily intelligence briefings. >> the president: with respect to iran i very much want to see a diplomatic resolution to the problem. >> the president's iran policy lacks credibility. >> we are not going to let iran get a nu

before in crises, henry kissinger was there or jim baker was there or somebody was there brokering the process and bringing a halt to it. now the president makes phone calls from burma. we have dramatically changed. i can tell you again al-qaeda is on the rise and they're moving throughout the middle east and americans are -- we're going to have to pay a very heavy price for it because of the lack of american leadership. >> you know, michael he mentions kissinger from the '70s. he mentions baker from the '90s burma isn't even what the country is called anymore. is he totally out of touch? >> the last large scale -- the last figure in america who had an impact in israel was bill clinton. he almost got a peace deal. bush didn't do much. condoleezza rice failed to do something. and this is where the obama administration has leaved himself exposed. he never went to israel. i think now is probably not the time to get involved there but i think he's going to have to, in the second term, especially if these incidents show, they're going to try to do some middle east peace deal again. >> yeah,

once he became president, he and his national security adviser henry kissinger explored avenues of communicationin china. by mid-1971, efforts have paid off and had an invitation to the president to visit the king. not only would nixon be the first u.s. president to visit the people's republic of china, but because of china's self-imposed isolation, one of the limited group of westerners would ever been there. as a result, there is tremendous worldwide interest in the trip. when china decided to allow the american press to tag along with the president nixon, people around the world followed december 1972 jeremy. trim is a cluster with the chinese that are much of the time, type the representative who introduced americans to china represented the american people for the chinese. if she had not already realized the great responsibility she had on her shoulders, briefing papers on the state department made it explicitly clear, emphasizing her role as unique opportunity to trip represented to reestablish communication between the women of china and america. the state department reminded or should be

before in crises henry kissinger or jim baker was there, somebody was there brokering the process and bringing about a halt to it. now the president makes phone calls from burma? >> really, senator? phone calls from burma? because here's what the israeli prime minister's office tweeted after one of those phone calls. prime minister netanyahu spoke with president obama and accepted his recommendation to give the egyptian proposal for a cease-fire a chance. that's right. the phone call, mocked by the senator, likely helped to end the blood shed in the middle east. the only other thing republicans could do was issue a statement. now, did they thank hillary clinton for what may be her swan song as secretary of state? no. did they acknowledge president obama's leadership? no. no mention whatsoever. however, they did manage to thank just about everyone else. that's right. senator mccain took the opportunity on this historic day to once again attack the obama administration. so much for the spirit of thanksgiving. joining us now from washington, democratic congresswoman donna edwards of mary

before in crises henry kissinger was there or jim baker was there brokering the process and bringing a halt to it. now the president makes phone calls from burma? >> nbc's deputy political he edr and my friend is here with this morning's first read. dom, so mccain criticizing sending hillary clinton who is the secretary of state, top diplomat. whatever. leave it there. we have 97 house republicans on a different but related matter writing a letter to president obama opposing the idea of nominating the current u.n. ambassador to the united nations, susan rice, to secretary of state. it feels like on the domestic front we have a fiscal cliff and we're going to work things out, but there's still a lot of kind of opposition and you can hear in mccain's voice a dislike for where the president is heading. what does the republican party do now? cut deals? where do they go? we know where they went after 2008. they unified against obama. it worked for them in 2010. why did it not work in 2012? >> i think both sides will have to consolidate their bases. find out how much leeway each side has.

once he became president, he and his national security adviser henry kissinger explore different avenues of communication in china. in 1971 efforts paid off and china and extended an invitation to the president to visit peking. not only would nixon be the first u.s. president to visit the people's republic of china, but china's self-imposed isolation, a limited group of westerners who have never been there. as a result there was tremendous worldwide interest in the trip. when china decided to allow the american press to tag along with the president and mrs. nixon, people around the world followed february 1972 journey with tremendous interest. dick had remain sequestered with chinese leaders much of the time. had was the representative who introduced americans to china, represented the american people to the chinese. if she had not already realized what a great responsibility she had on her shoulders, the briefing papers she got from the state department made it explicitly clear. emphasizing her role as a unique opportunity detroit represented to reestablish communication between the wom

henry kissinger after the october wars in 1973, negotiated a series of disengagement agreements between egyptian and israeli armies at that time. will israel agree to ease up on the economic restrictions -- a very badly suffering civilian population among the palestinians, and can the israelis be given, in turn, some confidence that hamas is not going to strike again? i think that's where you'll see the american effort over the next couple of days and weeks and i do think this crisis points to the rep vault of the united states. are not playing the same role in the middle east as we did before the arab revolution. saw that the cease-fire was not able to be put together until secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in jerusalem, and then shuttled between meetings with netten vahue and president mohamed mursi. i think i'll say finally there, this was a very important test of the egyptian leadership and they passed it. they put pressure on hamas. they put the original deal together. and they are now a very important force in the middle east, the new brotherhood-dominated government. >>

bush, bill and hillary clinton, walter cronkite, sean hannity, charlton heston, larry king, henry kissinger, brian stokes, barack obama, kevin rudd, mike wallace, barbara walters and oprah winfrey. and he can be awarded the prize of the damnedest name dropper in utah. [laughter] our other panelist is jeff johnson who is retired from the lds church historical department where he worked for more than 20 years. he is also, was also a member of the staff of the utah state archives and served as director for 14 of those years. he was an archivist at the cherokee national history society. he has published historical articles in -- [inaudible] as well as the encyclopedia of mormon itch. mormonism. we will begin today with our illustrious author john turner. >> all right. thank you, floyd, and thank you all of you for coming. i thought i would take just a little bit of time and tell you a couple of stories from my biography of brigham young. and i think i'll just say a few things about how i got interested in the project. i didn't know all that much about mormonism or mormon history five years ago,

that's like listening to henry kissinger say, i can see light at the end of the tunnel when he was talking about the vietnam negotiations. this was a statement or statements that was probably drafted in advance, that means nothing. nothing has changed on the politics. if you listened over the weekend, the democrats and republicans both retreated to their respective corners without any indication that they're willing to move towards the other side on spending or revenues. >> do you think that we're -- do you think we're then going back to to that period in august of 2011 that zach was referencing earlier when there was all that rangeli wrangling over the debt ceiling, huge volatility in the market, and when all was said and done, nothing got done. do you think we're headed that way again? >> it could be worse. the debt deal set up the fiscal cliff with the promise debt reductions would occur. now we say we raise the debt ceiling and deficit reductions may not occur, should not occur, in my opinion. why would you think if they set up a two-step process now that we're going to get any more ou