henry kissinger, as close as henry was, never knew about the tapes. john ehrlichman never knew about the tapes. >> two people told me about it before it became public. i called bradley at home at 9:00 on saturday night i believe and said nixon taped himself. what should we do? ben, said, i wouldn't bust one on it. it's kind of a b-plus story. okay. the boss says b-plus. i won't work on it. i took sunday off and monday they called butterfield. i remember, ben came by and knocked on my desk and said, okay, it's better than a b-plus. >> from then on, it's a fight for the tapes. because they answer the questions. am i telling the truth? is the president telling the truth. what else happened? the prosecutors immediately subpoenaed the tapes. the senate subpoenas them. so nixon is early advised to destroy the tapes. whoop, whoop!

i interviewed henry kissinger about it. i interviewed james solicitor who was then the secretary of defense about at great length. of that play. the fact of the matter is, dayan had suggested using unconventional weapons. gold and the rest of the cabinet absolutely said no. they would not do that. they were absolutely opposed to that. i think that was a very important example when a country, a small country is nuclear ability but it's responsible. they were responsible. however, dayan was able, not that this was better. by the way i interviewed henry kissinger about that and he kept saying yeah, but golda's balcony says. you don't always leave everything that people are in position tell you but i did believe it this time. and he said this is absolutely untrue. had they threatened us, they threatened us that they would use nuclear capacity if we did not help them. i could not make the decision. israel at the time and even now has an attitude of opacity we don't know if it would have been everybody knows the do but though it

henry kissinger and a couple of others three people sent to broker the deal. it was such a disaster, i fear for my own safety, i am leaving the country now, i expect civil war in 24 hours. didn't happen. two reasons. first, group of south africans started a prayer rally. they filled the stadium in prayer. as they were praying, it created more of a spirit of unity. spirit of peace. jesus and me, god in me is not going to fight god in you. what they didn't know is basement of that stadium, 90,000 people praying for peace and peaceful transfer of power, those leaders were there. they decided in that meeting, we are not going to fight. we are going to lay down our arms. >> armstrong: purpose driven life, copies sold worldwide. you still can buy it online. don't go away. >> armstrong: welcome back to "the armstrong williams show," half the churches have a synagogue, have an institution, you go into the churches, find pedophile, out of wedlock, same issues. sometimes people cannot separate the laws from the individual from god. >> sure. >> armstrong: where is it tha

i interviewed henry kissinger about it and james, secretary of defense about it at great length. the fact is they suggested using unconventional weapons. the rest of the cabinet said no, they would not do that. the simpler an example for one a small country has nuclear capability. but diane was able to set its -- i do believe it. he said, that's untrue, had they threatened us they'd use their nuclear capacity if we cannot help them. i couldn't make that decision. he has this attitude does it really happen said i would have to take this to the president himself that would've been very bad for israel. however he somehow should hold nuclear warheads and he positioned them in a way not to threaten the united states but egypt understood they had the weapons. the soviet union was be good be to send some nuclear weapons to egypt. so james said to me as far as i know they did the right thing. and when they say as far as i know, then he knows. this is not a threat to the united states. >> will take one more question. >> this comes a quote from the book of ezekiel that says your mother was

president says national security advisor henry kissinger won the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred seventy three and he says calling him out for being a war criminal because of the tens of millions killed wounded or displaced by his actions in vietnam now in cambodia reflects me on his accusers no doubt the other nobel peace laureate the dalai lama would say the same even though it was kissinger who allegedly stopped his cia payments but of course there was also nobel peace laureate barack obama who neo liberal media applauded for the peaceful firing of tomahawk missiles some of the first u.s. tomahawk missiles had been launched on libya and now we can give you an idea of exactly how this is going to play out there not no one on corporate media adequately explained how obama's drone strikes on civilians let alone wars on libya and syria would.

region as a whole and he returned again and again to his the which is the threat of iran quoting henry kissinger saying iran not as a nation but as a cause that is determined to take over not just the sheer part of the middle east but all of the islamic middle east and indeed beyond and in relation to your story from syria this morning it was interesting he spoke about his determination to prevent to stop iran stepping into whatever vacuum in syria that may be vacated by the collapse or the retreat of i still ok but let's go back to the balfour declaration britain has been walking a diplomatic tightrope in marking the centennial you have and there has been weighed up do you think. you know it's all about symbolism and the british have tried to be careful even down to the details that big dinner that was held in lancaster house last night the british were stressing not hosted by the british government although very it was in one of the great mansions of central london that is associated with british diplomacy but technically hosted by the rothschilds and the balfour families those are the descend

president says national security advisor henry kissinger won the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred seventy three and he says calling him out for being a war criminal because of the tens of millions killed wounded or displaced by his actions in vietnam now in cambodia reflects merely on his accusers no doubt the other nobel peace laureate the dalai lama would say the same even though it was kissinger who allegedly stabbed his cia payments but of course there was also nobel peace laureate barack obama who neo liberal media applauded for the peaceful firing of tomahawk missiles some of the first u.s. tomahawk missiles had been launched on libya and now we can give you an idea of exactly how this is going to play out there not no one on corporate media adequately explained how obama's drone strikes on civilians let alone wars on libya and syria would play out and as for nobel peace laureate aung san suu kyi leader of burma even mainstream media is casting doubt on her nobel peace prize in the wake of the range of graces especially rupert murdoch's platforms as he puts pressure on china

you really thought that he and his senior colleague, henry kissinger, his national security advisor and later his secretary of state, could reach into the minds and maybe the hearts of these large powers, rulers. mao,remier who worked with and the russian leader, mr. brezhnev, was a little tougher. they thought they could make peaceful coexistence, which was a soviet propaganda line that they practiced throughout europe with considerable effect. we can exist peacefully, coexist. we don't have to go to war. meanwhile, they were subverting and cheating on every agreement they signed -- as i believe they still are, they, the russians. so the notion that they could calm them down, the scope of diplomacy, which mr. nixon wanted and dr. kissinger thought he could do very well, they put real hope in detoxifying the rate. the were detente is from a french word. if there is an arrow in their bank, it shoots forward. but if your lacks the poll, and -- the pull and just let it go so that it is no longer taught, that is detente. you detach the powerful moving forward aggressively from the situation

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charlie: that's what henry kissinger says, too. have to go to china, have to have an agreement on what north korea and south korea are going to look like. robert: you have to sort of show them what this will look like at the end and how you get there. the ultimate has to be denuclearization of the peninsula. that's going to require some diplomatic concessions on the part of the united states in exchange for north korea's commitment. recognition, signing a peace treaty, perhaps an assurance that, like president kennedy gave premier khrushchev, that we will not seek to overthrow the regime. in 1962, it was about castro. that we will be not seek to overthrow the regime by force of arms. the other side of that coin is letting the chinese know what happens if we don't reach that kind of an agreement, which is a lot more u.s. missile defense asia, more inn south korea, japan, a float, and is of that is inevitable -- enimical to china's interests. in other words, we can't get to thatceptable and state china is it going -- end state that c

that's what henry kissinger had when he was negotiating the middle east. that's what james baker had when he was negotiating with gorbachav on behalf of president bush. that's what madeline albright had on the subject of could have could have vo. and from the beginning tillerson and president have been separate. >> i mean the phrase rex it was coined i think back in july. so there was potentially writing ton the wall even then, which to your point sends a single to the world community that the president and sent of state are not necessarily at one. did you want to jump in? >> can we have a reality check here? >> bring it. >> we have a situation where the rest of the world is now talking about whether or not the u.s. secretary of state is going to be fired in the next month. the top number one diplomate of the united states. a man who seemingly seems to have no capacity or end for humiliation to be heaped upon him by his boss. how is this man, maybe you can tell me, how is this man expected to do anything? >> in the next couple of months. >> at all. any tim

worked with a wide rane of authors including presidents carter, reagan, nixon, charles de gaulle, henry kissinger, david mccullough, tennessee williams and last but not least, among the many, laurence olivier. which he could do a full program on laurence olivier. he is the author of several books including his latest turtle, dunkirk, defeat into victory which is why we're all here tonight. before i begin i would like to ask if you have a cell phone or electronic paper, device, please turn it off and now, please join me in welcoming the wonderful, michael. [applause] >> good evening. i want to make sure that i am not the one whose cell phone rings. [laughter] i am so used to speaking here when it proceeded to fill that i find myself constantly looking up at the screen expecting that something will happen there but nothing is. why dunkirk now i'm sure you are wondering, as i do. i saw christopher nolan's stunning film, dunkirk, at three in the afternoon on a weekday in new york, a small town between [inaudible] expecting the theater to be empty. instead it was packed and in fact, i was lucky to hav

what can we -- henry kissinger said, they are so menial, seems like so many political fights are so nasty because they are so meaningless, neither side changes much of anything these days but we have the power within ourselves to change our communities by getting to know the people by helping the person next door when they can't help themselves, hoping maybe but not expecting they can help us one day when we need help, showing grace to people who don't show us grace, and friends with people who don't want to be our friends. that is what i want for my kids. if nothing else i want them to be a better person that i was and that is the aspiration of everyone for their children to be better than they are. those are the reasons i wrote this. the last chapter as i was writing the first eight chapters i make lists of all the recipes i need to include but all the things i want them to know that i wasn't sure i could work in somewhere else and the last chapter became my version of proverbs come all the pieces of advice my dad gave me growing up like don't worry about the laundry tax, no one can rea

. >> that's exactly what henry kissinger says too. you came to this on your own. you've got to have an agreement of what north korea and south korea are going to look like. >> you have to sort of show them what this is going to look like at the end and then how you get there. and the ultimate has to be denuclearization of the peninsula, which means the north, and that's going to require some diplomatic concessions on the part of the united states in exchange for the north koreans' commitments to -- >> like what? >> recognition, signing a peace treaty, perhaps an assurance that -- like president kennedyd gave premier khrushchev in 1962 that we would not seek to overthrow the regime. in 62, it was about castro. now it would be we would not seek to overthrow kim jong-un by force of arms. but the other side of that coin is letting the chinese knows what happens if we don't reach that kind of an agreement, which is a lot more u.s. missile defense capabilities in asia, more -- in south korea, japan, afloat. all of that is important to chinese strategic interest. probabl

henry kissinger said this project is a triumph of hope over experience and that hit me right between the eyes and borders lot of content and that petty little comment i found it proved to be true. it's looking very disappointing if you're in melbourne or in canberra anywhere really in victoria or a.c.t than temperatures have been a pittance disappointing side but there is also just to add to your misery rain once more in the full cost not immediately or monday melbourne looks fine in the sunshine and certainly can bring that rains heading up towards sydney was considerably warmer than fifteen degrees is the thing to watch and in contrast to the breeze out of the interior to twenty eight or twenty nine in person the next two days but if anything it gets colder and more disappointing in melbourne and probably onshore showers to boot with a bit of a chill running up to sydney knocking five degrees off your maximum as well so active weather still in this part of the study which goes across the tasman sea we have clouds streaking syria north and south island in the last twenty four hours

henry kissinger said this project is a triumph of hope and other a look at the weather across the americas now in south america lots of showers across western parts of brazil extending into peru and then through bolivia also is where the front across parts of pargo just clearing the through paraguay but still affecting rio de janeiro further south it's looking largely dry and fine but across more central and southern parts of argentina we will see rain developing as head on through tuesday so some rain likely here remote rio should see some brighter weather conditions developing by that time now as we head up into the caribbean for you on this is nothing much to say really i think through central areas will mean may see more in the way of cloud in the risk of some showers but otherwise plenty of brunt surrounded by i think possibly for hispania over there will be a fair amount of cloud at times up through the isthmus a few showers coming in off the caribbean sea there was when she got through could temperatures not looking too bad plenty of sunshine here fine conditions for mexico city too

henry kissinger said this project is a triumph of hope over experience that had me ripe for any eyes and wars lot of content and that petty little comment i found had proved to be true. hello there we're seeing a fair amount of clouds and some rain over the middle east at the moment you can see it on the satellite picture is this weather system here gradually drifting its way eastwards and it has been giving us some fairly impressive rainfall totals more of them as we head through the next day or so behind it is not looking too bad forcing beirut maximum temperature around twenty four degrees and just dropping a fraction as we head through into thursday that weather system there doesn't really head very far even on thursday just working its way steadily towards the east working its way across the caspian sea there so back you can expect to see one or two more showers now here in doha no major changes for us over the next day or so we're looking at a top temperature of around thirty two degrees so it really is quite pleasant at the moment for salada we're also at thirty two but we do

henry kissinger said this project is a triumph of hope over experience and that hit me right betweenthe eyes and the borders a lot of content in that petty little comment i found it proved to be true. welcome to look at the weather in the americas now across north america had an active cold front moving through still affecting the eastern seaboard there so washington seeing some cooler conditions moving in highs of just eleven and the risk of some showers to the southwest of looking pretty warm for atlanta georgia miami florida also a cooler conditions for dallas texas and the temperatures there for denver just one degree above freezing as we head on through into choose a denver see some sort of recovery taking place so pretty chilly across more northern parts of northern plains and into canada for calgary and winnipeg there's a maximum temperature of course low pressure center moving in towards the pacific northwest down into central parts of america few showers coming in off the caribbean so move northward so we're going to see some brighter weather for much of mexico yucatan penin

and we had henry kissinger in moscow. we had war going on taillight. l -- nixon calls me over to the oval office at 3:00 in the morning. henry over there with brez november. what is brez neff going to say if the let the attorney general of the united states buffalo me and bull me and back down and we talked about it 34 minutes. because elliott is coming this way with hague. there was my friend elliott richardson. i said hi, elliott, how roux? he had this sort of smile on his face and had his head down like a sheriff leading someone to execution. as he packed in and got hammered by nixon. i went over to this restaurant over here where they had the roller skates and everything and told two friends of mine in town there will be impeachment resolutions in the house on tuesday. sure enough, there are about 20 of them next tuesday. >> laura: did you have a doubt that would happen? against mullen? >> i had urged nixon to bump the tape three months before and be had been built up. by then he had this huge operation the pretty was covering. >> don't do it. i wou

yet he gets in there thanks to henry kissinger, prolongs it an entire term, half the americans killed in that war are killed after nixon comes to office. that was not what the voters voted for, they did not vote for nixon to keep that war going, they voted for him to say, i've got a secret plan to get out of this thing. >> exactly. he had that trump -- trump was saying last year, i'll beat isis, i can do this, the generals can't do it but i can, i know how to do it. he kept, of course that plan a secret because he didn't have one. nixon implied he had a secret plan to end that war, but he got obsessed with the same thing lbj was obsessed with, and eventually destroyed lbj, and that was, i don't want to be the first president to lose a war. nixon spent all that time trying to come up with an image that looked like he wasn't losing a war, which we did definitely lose. >> yeah, well said. well written, of course. law reference o'donnell, "plaing with fire: the 1968 election and the transformation of american politics." >>> let me finish with this lure that lawrence reflect on this the la

he had a birthday party for henry kissinger who turns 94, and the two of them did 20 minutes walk around the world, no notes, completely coherent. i don't know but i'm sure hoping it was something in the water at the state department. so, it's amazing people. >> is a remember, heard from the party, george schultz something i something to be 94 again. >> the said -- from his pound of view, henry was stale promising -- still a promising young man. >> looking back on your career, what are you most proud of having done. >> with the caveat that history takes a long time to judge, think i'm most grateful that we stood up for the rights of people to live in freedom. i know that there were a lot of cynics and a lot of criticism, and some of it totally justified about the freedom agenda, and declaring that america's -- one of america res most important purposes was to work hard so that no one would live in tyranny. but i think america is at its best, its highest calling, when it lead both in power and principle. when we stand for proposition that the rights we enjoy are universal, and if they're

i don't think henry kissinger gets paid. it's all about influence and getting in close to somebody who may be president of the united states. that's a tremendous asset for people in their business. anyway, we have learned now, as we have learned now, the attempts to downplay papadopoulos's role in trump's orbit fits the same pattern we've seen from trump's defenders in the case of michael flynn. paul manafort. let's take a look back sat@some hoff those moments. >> it was such a minor part. i think the one person i don't think i've ever spoken to him. >> even general flynn was a volunteer of the campaign. and then obviously there has been discussion of paul manafort who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. >> in the case of mr. page, mr. gordon, some others, that they really have very attenuated contacts to the campaign that i managed for the last three months. >> i know mr. manafort. i haven't spoken to him in a long time. but i know him. he was with the campaign for a very short period of time. >> i

speak of everything tt was the cia operation and its moment in 1970 the knowledge of nixon and henry kissingero keep allende from assuming the presidency of the republic. this is a drama. it touched the whole world. you cannot understand how a country like the united states participated so openly in a military coup like the one that happened in chile. amy: we're joined by isabel allende in our studio. it is great to have you back with us. looks always great to be here, amy. amy: we're a lot to talk about. you have a new book out that actually is based in new york, in brooklyn, to be exact. the we also wanted to talk since we have not spoken on the show since president trump came to power, actually wanted to start not in the u.s., but in chile. you are in chile in 1973. describe what happened and how you saw your country change. -- in the continent. president a socialist represented a coalition of parties of the left and the center, salvador allende. immediately, the cia and the forces of the right in my country, tried to stop him from becoming the president. eventually, that was impossible and

ago, the obama administration, without saying much about it, had accepted the fact that what henry kissingerassad would have to be in at the beginning but out at the end, would be a more realistic view that the notion that before any talks could begin, certainly with us participation, assad had to be gone, which i think was perhaps a wonderful aspiration of political non—feasibility. wonderful aspiration of political non-feasibility. but has the united states effectively ceded control of this peace process to russia? it was not long ago that the americans under president obama were at least calling these meetings are now they are not even invited to the table. it appears at least at this stage for the good bit of seeding has taken place, for the good bit of seeding has ta ken place, not just for the good bit of seeding has taken place, notjust to russia, but to the russia, iran, turkey triumvirate which will meet in saatchi on wednesday, tomorrow, and will hold a conference of syrian peoples, seemingly a representative group of the people who support assad or at least are not supporting the

the president was accompanied by henry kissinger, not secretary of state rogers, who was having separatersations with the chinese foreign minister. the real news of the day happened separately. a strong indication in print following indication in voice that the chinese have decided this visit is a success. >> it is the chinese people on the street who silently jog from their homes on bicycleles. what they've been told about the nixon meetings. today's edition of the communist-controlled newspaper "people's daily" came out with full front page coverage including headlines on the nixon visit. this one reads chairman mao greets president nixon. oddly enough, the chinese are telling their people about as much as the nixon white house is telling american news men about the substance of his private talks. no more substance about details of the talks is given here than the american press is being told. >> it is an instrument of brainwashing. they performed "the red detraction of women." ♪ >> this afternoon, the first lady went to the summer palace where emperors used to go to escape downtown he

lobbyists, before i go out to cover a party, i got together and go to the farm reporters and say henry kissinger what is going to be there and strom thurmond and whoever else it might be, senator or white house person, what do you need to know? we are working on a story about such and such. i would go and get a drink in my hand and had my little notebook and standing there with three or four people and all drinking and joking and laughing and talking, asking some questions, are we going to bomb vietnam? i don't know. but just the kind of thing you could never get people to talk the way they did if you made an appointment and go to the office and sat down and interviewed so i broke a lot of stories and ultimately ended up being a political reporter and profiles of powerful people. >> and develop that, an art form that was never in the post until you came along. why did that work? i remember reading profiles of people in the nixon administration going sally now understands who these people are. it was lively but there was a lot of political and emotional insight in those profiles. >> find out what

he's a fluent world leader and has interpreted for world ledders such as henry kissinger. i've asked both speakers to speak for 20 minutes, then we'll leave it open for discussion. if you guys want to -- we'll let you sit first before we start, so it's not so like -- >> robert wants me to clarify it's college language materials english language analysis? >> mapping china's cultural genome web platform is bilingual. we give you chinese and english language translation. if you don't speak chinese, you're still welcome to take a look at what we've done. >> stape, you're on. >> good afternoon, the 19th party congress has come and gone. let's consider three propositions, xi jinping emerged as most powerful leader in china? yes. did he enhance his position at party congress? yes. is he all powerful? no. let's look at some of the assumptions before the party congress. those who argue xi acquired unlimited power to the extent negating concept of collective leadership thought it possible or even likely xi jinping would wave the age limits, replace the premier, politboro standing co

right-hand man, the party organizational chief who would rise to fame as the main negotiator against henry kissinger. >> in the early 1970's. prof. nguyen: yes. >> let's go to calls and hear from danbury, connecticut. was the south vietnamese government in 1967 anti-buddhist? and was this a missed opportunity to build broad support among the south vietnamese in the fight against communism? many buddhist: activists understood the south vietnamese government to be anti-buddhist. a resurgence of buddhist opposition and demonstrations against the saigon government. there is no doubt a spectrum of opinion when it comes to buddhist organizations, buddhist leaders in south vietnam. is the southation vietnamese government had a persistent problem with that element of the population. it is a striking example of the south vietnamese government's and ability to extend its popularity beyond that part of the south vietnamese population that was most strongly behind it. >> what was the u.s. government's relationship with the leadership? lyndon johnson's national security teams relationship with the selfie enemies

. >> when we ended the show, we got telegrams of congratulations from henry kissinger and ronald reagansize of the response and the emotional nature of the response that we were getting was difficult for us to understand. >> who shot j.r. and the last episode of "m.a.s.h." are the last call for the pre-cable world of television. it's like they are the last time that that huge audience will all turn up for one event. >> all right. that's it. let's roll. hey. let's be careful out there. >> dispatch, we have a 911. armed robbery in progress. >> when quality does emerge on television, the phrase "too good for tv" is often heard. one recent network offering that's seems to deserve that phrase is "hill street blues." >> "hill street" is one of the changing points of the entire industry in the history of tv. >> we had all watched a documentary about cops and had this real hand-held in the moment quality that we were very enamored of. >> the minute you looked at it, it looked different. it had a mood to it. you could almost smell the stale coffee. >> we didn't want to do a standard cop show whe

. ♪ people.reat hall of the echoes back to richard nixon and henry kissinger. 1970.eve it was -- alwayse president's at erskine and criticism of previous administrations, really taking the headlines as well. many from his cabinet including the secretary of state and secretary of commerce. here's taylor riggs. taylor: sticking with beijing, president trump is accusing china of predatory trade practices. he tried to shift the blame away from president xi jinping. u.s. trade deficit with china is the fault of prior u.s. and ministrations. china is willing to increase imports of energy and agricultural products. many trade deals are still tentative. in the u.s. on capitol hill, senate republicans will release their tax plan today that it will only be a concept. not beual bill will written until the senate finance committee finishes debating proposals. the senate plan would keep a number of individual tax brackets at seven. .he house plan only has four the european union has reached a deal to overhaul the largest cap and trade and omissions market. the markets more ambitious climate goals in

wives for election, so king king henry kissinger comes off more by and still celebrated. i don't get it. the division we have in this country in the classes between the hard hats and the long hairs, town versus gown, all that stuff really got aggravated in '60s and never left us during watergate. so it just kept getting worse, this rural versus urban, the whole thing everybody in this room knows what i'm talking's. the fight that is the definition of everything election. the reagan democrats and at the trump peoples and you can't get the facts to them. facts mean nothing. it's all about which side you're on. we'll see this in alabama in four weeks. see what happens down there i think -- it's tough down. the only alternative to moore is a liberal democrat, basically. pro choice, liberal democrat. just think the abortion issue -- we don't recognize down here -- or up here -- down here is like up here. so, i think that's a tricky one. but it think doug jones will win, think. >> hi, chris. >> three years in there for three years and then bring somebody in who is a conservativ