. >> doesn't henry kissinger more than compensate for president nixon's sexual insecurity? >> that's like, are you still beating your wife? anything i say is impossible. >> we were photographed together. since kissinger was, i think, pretty much the only unmarried person in the nixon administration, somebody from "the new york times" called me up and asked me about it. >> this week, gloria steinem, almost unbelievably to me, is voted as having said she's not now and never has been a girlfriend of henry kissinger. but, i would like to tell you, i'm not discouraged. >> people think being pretty or beautiful solves everything, which, of course, it doesn't. the hard part, for me, i must say the painful part, is i work really hard, and then the result is attributed to looks. that's -- it's really painful, and you would think at 76 that would go away, but it's still there sometimes. >> you know, there's a saying now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. >> wonderful. >> yeah, and it's very true. and i would go out with very nice people, writers, because i wanted to be a wr

that you consider the most important pressing foreign policy issue as henry kissinger said. >> there are a number of pressing security issues that we have. but i would have to say in all seriousness that dr. kissinger is correct. it's a very important security issue that we have to face. and one as i said we work on every day in concert. >> what is the chance that egypt will fall apart and the streets are full of people who are have not gone home. the temperature of the pressure of the protest seems to be rising. what's going to happen and what are the possibilities and what are our options. >> the president morsi's government has a number of challenges. the egyptian revolution occurred because the egyptian people wanted to have a response oif government that would deal with the problems that they faced every day in terms of their economic future, and would allow them the space to participate politically to try to decide that future. so the morsi government, president morsi's government has a number of challenges. it has an economic challenge. and it is absolutely critical this is a c

they wanted henry kissinger to run that commission. not even full time.his foreign funding sources and clients. so i got to believe that hagel won't. >> that's right, of course kissinger got into a lot of trouble there and had to pull out. hare reid said at the time what are they hiding? the kissinger folks and the bush administration. that's the same question that hagel is facing now. i think the real question is the long game. if you've got a defense secretary who comes in with this much controversy and people are not just questioning his donors but his competence after that disastrous hearing, you've got to think about what happen notice future? there are things that come up. things like benghazi, terror attacks. do you want your president to be in a position where people are questioning his judgment because he came in with a defense secretary who came in with so much trouble. that's the main reason with each passing day that hagel's chances start to diminish and the obama administration has got to start thinking about alternatives like michelle florno

. >> doesn't henry kissinger more than compensate for president nixon's sexual insecurity? >> that's like, are you still beating your wife? anything i say is impossible. >> we were photographed together. since kissinger was, i think, pretty much the only unmarried person in the nixon administration, somebody from "the new york times" called me up and asked me about it. >> this week, gloria steinem, almost unbelievably to me, is voted as having said she's not now and never has been a girlfriend of henry kissinger. but, i would like to tell you, i'm not discouraged. >> people think being pretty or beautiful solves everything, which, of course, it doesn't. the hard part, for me, i must say the painful part, is i work really hard, and then the result is attributed to looks. that's -- it's really painful, and you would think at 76 that would go away, but it's still there sometimes. >> you know, there's a saying now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. >> wonderful. >> yeah, and it's very true. and i would go out with very nice people, writers, because i wanted to be a wr

we certainly know henry kissinger who i don't necessarily agree with kissinger doctrine. still unclear what the doctrine. the thing with hillary clinton is people either lionize her or despise her. as opposed to look at her like a person who is very talented at the same time also flawed. we have to look very realistically. i think she has had some accomplishments. and some set backs. set back with russia was one that didn't quite work. benghazi obviously is benghazi. so, again, i will say this as a democrat despite all of that we need to look at her realistically. certainly not the saint people think she is and spinner other people think she is. >> laura: when you think about the attempt to repair our global image. more countries probably say they like us now. with russia a place i know something about. this idea we would give a reset button to russia. poorly translated. russia was going to help us in sir yand a other places around the world. guess what the russians saw that as a sign of weakness and on issue after issue the russians are blocking our way or actually actin

this, colin powell, completely with this agenda, george schultz completely with this agenda, henry kissinger has joined schultz and former secretary bill perry and sam nunn, two democrats, in leading the charge for a world free of nuclear weapons. part of the inspiration for president obama's strategy. you see former chairmen of the joint chiefs siding with this. former leaders of the strategic command. they recognize we don't need 5,000 nuclear weapons anymore. we can go to much lower numbers. the president of the united states is clearly on a path to doing that, and part of what you saw today was shots across the bow. trying to stop president obama from continuing to modernize u.s. nuclear strategy, to reduce the cost and the expense and the saliency of this obsolete arsenal. >> politically it will be amazing if the republican party decides they want to go all curtis le may on this issue. but i almost welcome it. joe cirincione, president of the ploughshares fund. always great to have you here. >> thanks very much, rachel. >>> republicans have got anne round recently to saying that they ha

. >> do you agree with henry kissinger, george shultz, when they said "the four of us have come together in a non-partisan effort deeply committed to building support for a global effort to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons, to prevent their spread into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately to end them as a threat to the world. we remain committed to working toward this vision and advancing the steps essential to achieve this goal." do you agree with those for bipartisan national leaders in the area of national security and foreign policy? >> yes. >> i wanted to take a few minutes to talk about some of the things we talked about in my office and some people are saying here she goes. the audit ability of the defense department. i know you want to hold people accountable. i don't think most americans realize as we face shrinking budgets and want to secure the pre-eminence of our military and not hollow out the spending at the defense department, that auditability is crucial. can you reassure me that auditability needs to happen no later than 2017? can you make a commitment that will

person sitting next to me, he realized that bobby jindal and i combined are still younger and henry kissinger >> one thing i was struck by during the campaign, governor romney was a transitional figure between an older generation, baby boomers generation and the 40 somethings. they increasingly dominate gop politics. one of those figures as paul ryan. you talk to him a lot. is his future in the house or do you think he wants to make another run? >> paul is not driven by ambition. he is courageous and sincere. up until he was a nominee for vice president, even democrats in the city would acknowledge that overwhelmingly. he will go to where he thinks he can be most useful. if that means there is a void and he thinks he needs to run for president, he will do that. he will go to the spot he thinks it makes most sense for him to help her it >> where is the most useful right now? >> right now, clearly the house. he is exceptionally optimistic and relevant and certainly courageous. whether you agree with him or not, he is exceptionally courageous. there is a powerful thing. we were at a speech a wee

bush nominated henry kissinger to the 9/11 commission, this body asked what foreign compensation had his firm received. and, indeed, a number of prominent members of this body, including the majority leader, said they would oppose this confirmation unless and until he disclose any foreign conflicts of interest. now, mr. kissinger made the decision rather than disclose them to withdraw. which was a reasonable decision for him to me. that's one precedent. a second president was the nomination of hillary clinton for secretary of state. in that instance, russians were likewise raised about potential foreign funds. and secretary clinton did something quite admiral. she voluntarily disclosed every foreign donation in the clinton foundation even though the committee rules didn't require, because there was a reasonable question that would be raised if foreign funds have gone to that foundation. i would suggest those two paths are both reasonable passed today. not one, if reasonable questions are raised about financial topics of interest in a sense of measures he could position, of the receip

i mean, in the old days politicians learn from henry kissinger who said does anybody have any questions answers i'm already going to give? twitter is an opportunity to just put out messages, but you got to be very, very careful about how you do that. >> let's talk about another tweet. this was from senator ben car n cardin. it reads could a carbon text be part of future budget negotiations? but then the website politwoods tracks it. so is there really no advice that people could have except you better think about that before hitting send. >> well, yes. you need to filter. some filter. not just in the emotional spur of the moment that you're going to send something out that you want to take back. look what gets the attention. what gets the attention is the website that tracks deleted tweets. >> yeah. >> that's the place that gets the attention. so you better be darn sure if you're going to tweet it, that you want it to stick out there permanently. >> and then there's these back and forths sometimes. senator john mccain got some flack for a tweet a few days ago. so amehmadinejad wants to

now, the ink wasn't even dry on this book when henry kissinger came out and said this is a must read for anybody in any section and at any level of the finance industry. on that one. well, no sooner did he do that, okay? paul volcker came out and wanted to make a comment about how this is a must read, and it was a must read, and and he wanted to put a forward into the book, so we added the forward into the book. finish and then, and then we saw it again when steve forbes, another good friend, you know, was working on the european crisis at the time and was trying to make sense of certain aspects, and he came out and said this is a must read for angela merkel, nicolas sarkozy and dave cameron. now, in my way of thinking he left out some southern european countries that might also have gotten something out of it. but it's easy to see why, you know, after you get a read of it, you know, why so many people need to know what bill knows and how he knew it and what he did with it. in terms of doing it. now, everybody knows that bill spent 53 years at citigroup. now, i've heard over 50, bill

>> i think do obviously henry kissinger is. he's unique. >> rose: why is he unique? >> because i think -- by the way he was very funny. he called me when i first became secretary of state and he said madeleine, you have taken away my one unique aspect which is being a refugee in the secretary of state. and i said "no, henry, i don't have an accent." >> rose: (laughs) but i think he has a great kind of world view and he expresses it well and i think he has -- >> rose: that's a different world view from brzezinski. >> very different but i have enjoyed reading and talking to both of them. and i think that there are people out there there that have good interesting ideas. >> rose: but the world is changing very rapidly. take the arab spring, what's happening in asia in terms of shifting paradigms of economic power in the last ten years. so do their ideas that were formed at an earlier time to the world we live in today? >> i think some of them do. not all of them. i think some of the aspects doing kind of balancing interests and trying to figure out how to have win-win s

john and henry kissinger? susan anton and dudley moore? sonny and cher? mimi rogers and tom cruise?d tom cruise. most men apparently have no problem dating taller women. >> i'd really like to have sex with a tall woman. i mean really tall like a giant. >> reporter: megan is my height, 6'tall. >> i am really only attracted to guys that are taller than me. i don't know if it's a physical thing or a mental thing. but it's definitely there. >> reporter: it's a feeling that may be rooted in biology where taller suggests stronger. >> one of the things that women seem to want in a male partner in particular is someone who displays social dominance because if you partner yourself up with someone who has social dominance, that person is going to be beneficial for you your future and your progeny. >> reporter: professor glen gere has studied the psychology of attraction. the big problem for tall women is they're not attracted to shorter guys not that shorter guys aren't attracted to hem. >> it's not that they can't find guys. it's with this ol gorism of trying to find someone who is relativel

he was working in a white house where intellectual band with was appreciated, dominated by henry kissinger, daniel patrick moynihan, arthur burns. his reputation had risen so high by the spring of 1974 that he was asked to chair a secret effort to plan an hour by hour government should president nixon resign his office, and after that they did not even know about. he he suddenly walked away from it all. he's all more clearly than others that his policies had opened a new avenues for radical innovation. the system pioneered the now standard model of cable television providers owning and managing their own space-based distribution channels. finny chairethen newly chaired e luxembourg. it is one of the world's two largest commercial satellite companies. he used the scheme of national allocation of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum to obliterate the european state television monopolies. the business career recapitulated his government career. it confused the status quo establishment and then transformed its. he died at the age of 69, much too young. it was 2008. the new world a pluralisti

six years ago, george shultz, bill perry, henry kissinger and i made the argument that we should reducereliance on nuclear weapons as a vital contribution to preventing proliferation, keeping them out of dangerous hands, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world. 2/3 of living former secretaries of state, defense, and national security advisers have agreed with the vision and the steps that we outlined, including substantial work on verification and enforcement. mr. chairman, i hope that all members of the committee and the senate will read the recent statements by four credible and very experienced americans -- master tom pickering, ambassador richard burt, general james cartwright, and general john sheehan, about their work with chuck hagel on nuclear weapons. they made it abundantly clear that the bank opposed unilateral moves -- they oppose unilateral moves and support verifiable u.s. arms reductions, to be followed by multilateral negotiations bringing other nuclear weapons countries into a series and verifiable process of reductions. in closing, mr. chairman, there are m

they are so good that henry kissinger made them in 1994. we have been talking for 20 years about how it is in china's interests to moderate north korea's behavior but china sees china's interests differently from the way we see china's interest. hopefully that situation will change but i am not encouraged by the performance of the last two decades. >> thank you. okay. >> would you please go through the microphone please? thank you. >> i think china is a key player but as larry pointed out, the moderate chinese is emerging or growing. how do you see this moderate chinese political force making the inference to the new xi jinping government? even with so-called traditional communist party leadership, challenged by the moderate people as you see or in the near-term or the long-term, i assume, the cuts for revolution, generation coming up, china will, democratization process in the long run. do you see the trend in china toward a more moderate majority in the near-term? a little pessimistic longer-term? the other one is -- north corey at's nucl

the ink was that even dry when henry kissinger came out and said, this is a must-read for anybody in any section at any level of the finance industry. no sooner did he do that than paul volcker came out and what to make a comment about how this is a must read. it is a must read, and he wanted to put a forward into the book so we added a forward into the book. then again from steve forbes, another good friend, was working on the european crisis at the time and was trying to make sense of certain aspects. cs -- he came out and said this is a must-read. now, my way of thinking he left out some southern european countries that might also get something out of it, but it's easy to let's see why f. why so many people need to know what bill doesn't have renewed their much to do with it in terms of doing it. now everyone knows that bill spends 53 years at. now, i have heard over 50, 55 today. so we're going to go with over 50. that is a considerable amount of time. when you think about that time frame and going back, he was a devout disciple of a late and great chairman and of citi. again, wh

if you look at condoleeza rice, henry kissinger, they have advanced degrees in political science andnternational relations. those make effective and diplomats. it does not matter on popularity. it is a skill in which they can do their job. i give hillary clinton a c. host: the mayor of a bloomberg riding on the passage of at koch -- ed koch -- he was our most tireless and guileless civil crusader. his tough and determined leadership and responsible fiscal store check, he lifted the city out of its darkest days and set it on course for an incredible comeback. we will miss him dearly. his wisdom will forever be part of the city he loved so much. his spirit will live on not only at city hall and the bridge that bears his name, but all across the five boroughs. the former mayor passed away this morning, at 88 years old, due to congestive heart failure. justin, in maryland, on the independent line. caller:, for taking my call. -- thank you for taking my call. would give hillary clinton a -- i would give hillary clinton a d. i do not understand how somebody in a position of power with so m