"american foreign policy has been based on the interventionist worldview of henry kissinger for far tooe washington and john quincy adams by pushing for restraint and diplomacy." what do you make of the kissinger-trump summit? >> i suppose this congressman wants to recreate the walls of the atlantic and pacific ocean and protect us from the rest of the world. i think it's important that the president speak with henry kissinger, he wrote an op-ed in "the wall street journal" where he made a critically important point where he said what we want said was unacceptable about north korea's nuclear program. now risks becoming irreversible. i think it underlines the point that after 25 years of trying, we are down to the last possible chance here to stop north korea from going nuclear. it won't just be north korea. it will be them selling that capability to the rest of the world. it's a critical decision time for president trump. i think it is useful to have henry kissinger's thoughts. >> shannon: what do you make of the big military parade that north korean leaders have put together head of th

henry kissinger will adapt to any power in the white house. he is still getting active meetings at the age of 93 or whatever it is. they are not the same, and we do seem to be engaged in this incredible moment of history echoing or rhyming or maybe just laughing at us. i will admit, one of the first things i did after january 20, 2017 was i picked up a copy of elizabeth's book that was sitting on our shelf. reading that in parallel to the first -- remember the 24 day tenure of michael flynn? shortest tenure. leon: i barely remember it. longer than the 11 day tenure of anthony scaramucci, it is often referred to as the scaramucci era. [laughter] susan: this is the sort of comic opera version of it. donald trump is the sort of comic opera version. he is not like nixon, he doesn't seem to be an extreme introvert, for example, which clearly nixon was. but to me that tells us that a certain part of it is about power and abuse of power. when you say the white houses are similar, that might be because you are looking at people's responses to the inst

and, you know, henry kissinger will adapt to any power that is is the white house, right? and he's still getting access at the age of 93 or whatever it is. and, you know, they're not the same. we do seem to be engaged in this incredible moment of history echoing or rhyming or maybe just laughing at us. and, you know, i will admit one of the first things i did after january 20, 2017, was i picked up a copy of elizabeth's book that was sitting on our bookshelf. and reading that in parallel to remember the 24-day tenure of michael flynn as a national security advisor? >> i barely remember it. >> exactly. it's barely longer than the ten-day tenure of anthony scaramucci. referred to as the scaramucci era. this is sort of the comic opera version of it, and trump is sort of this comic opera version. he's not like nixon. he doesn't seem to be an extreme introvert, for example, which clearly nixon was. to me that tells me a certain part about it is power whereby and the abuse of power. and when you say certain white houses are similar, that may be because you're looking at people's

i'd like to express my appreciation to be testifying friends here,wo henry kissinger and richard armitagei take the occasion to particularly underline what of the things that henry brought out in his testimony. that is the concern we must have about nuclear proliferation. as you remember in the reagan era, we worked hard. president reagan thought nuclear weapons were immoral. and we worked hard to get them reduced and we had quite a lot of success. and in those days people seem to have an appreciation of what with the the result of a nuclear weapon were ever used. i could people have lost that sense of dread. and now we see everything going in the other direction, nuclear proliferation. the more countries have nuclear weapons, the more likely it is one is going to go off somewhere, and the more fissile materials lying around, anybody who gets fissile material can make a weapon fairly easily. so this is a major problem. it can blow up the world. so i think we had to get at it. the right way to start is what henry said, is somehow to be able to have a different kind of relationship with rus

henry kissinger dubbed him "the most dangerous man in america."title of abecame the documentary about daniel ellsberg. >> it was the evening of october 1, 1969 when i first smuggled several hundred pages of top-secret documents out of my safe at the rand corporation. it contained 47 volumes. studyn was to xerox the and reveal the secret history of the vietnam war to the american people. >> the fbi was trying to find out who gave "the new york times" a copy of the pentagon's secret study. >> like a thunderclap, you get the new york times publishing the pentagon papers and the country is panicking. >> this is an attack on the whole integrity of government. if whole file cabinets can be stolen and made available to the press, you cannot have order in the government anymore. >> it was staggering. the raw top-secret, eyes only documents. >> i think it is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in the newspaper. in my first year of marriage, we are talking about him going to prison for the rest

foreign policy and he was told it would have to be watered down because katharine graham henry kissinger as a weekend house guest and this is an example of what bob was willing to say in public that was routinely kept private you know inside the sanctum of the media and because he was willing to disclose that kind of sum on a scale of what's supposed to be objective journalism. he really became somebody in disrepute for someone like katharine graham i have to say you know i have not gone and seen the film yet opposed but i did perhaps one of the very few know if only negative reviews katharine graham's quotes are winning one of our graffiti personal history when it came out a couple of decades ago it was very self-serving it was exactly the kind of slop and india logically driven material that bob kerrey rejected fundamentally his work ok that get through how he then in later life before he died annoyed the liberals because eat eat try to debunk the idea that russia was responsible for basically all the ills of the united states that these to be going on in your country right now. well i

so in terms of when you say european stocks as henry kissinger used to say he says they all believe in one europe when there's one phone number to call so don't forget we got a foot see the docks and then there's the stock market as many other stock markets you know but in general just always the the guiding for what is europeans of that much more conservative so they don't seem to have the gyrations and the great fluctuations we do but they tend to follow us that's the way to really look at it and they follow us and i agree but they they follow us with a head of us in the trading every day so day they opened they were open earlier times only thing but don't forget they look at the futures after the dow closes then there are the futures and they look at that and they follow our sentiments and our generations and don't forget in europe too you know debt is a downer over there as well you know one of the things that i think people don't realize and part of this is actually due to t.v. is that stock exchanges which are pretty much traded electronically now but they have television studios

henry kissinger said that iran must choose between being a country or a cause well there was even iran has chosen to be a cause the commander of the revolutionary guard ali jeffrey said we're on the path to the rule of islam worldwide. that means right here to. this is in my judgment the greatest threat to our world not just to israel not just your arab neighbors not just to muslims far and wide but to you as well because once armed with nuclear weapons iran's aggression will be unchecked. and it will encompass the entire world look at what they're doing down before they have nuclear weapons imagine what they'll do later if god forbid they'll have them . just as was true eighty years ago. an agreement. that was seen as appeasement has only embolden the regime and brought war closer the nuclear agreement with iran has brought the countdown has begun the countdown to a new reagan nuclear arsenal and little little more than a decade and the sanction relief that the deal provided has not moderated iran it's not made the more moderate internally and it's not made the more moderate extremely

foreign policy and he was told it would have to be watered down because katharine graham had henry kissinger as a weekend house guest and this is an example of what bob was willing to say in public that was routinely kept private you know inside the sanctum of the media and because he was willing to disclose that kind of sum on a scale of what's supposed to be objective journalism. he really became somebody in disrepute for someone like katharine graham i have to say you know i have not gone and seen the film yet opposed but i did perhaps one of the very few know if only negative reviews katharine graham's pulitzer winning one of our graffiti personal history when it came out a couple of decades ago it was very self-serving it was exactly the kind of slop and idiot logically driven material that bob kerrey rejected fundamentally his work ok let's get to how he then in later life before he died annoyed the liberals because eat eat try to debunk the idea that russia was responsible for basically all the ills of the united states that these to be going on in your country right now. well i shoul

henry kissinger. i looked over, yeah, it is. would you like to meet him? they said, do you know him? i briefed him a couple of times. and he said, we would be so honored to meet dr. kissinger. i go over and i said, dr. kissinger, colonel ken carlson, united states army. you may remember me when you came to visit the school of advanced studies and you talked to us when we were in washington. yes, i do, ken. what are you doing now? still in the army? no, i'm a banker. he said, congratulations. i said i'm here with thompson electronics and they would like to -- they would like to meet you. can they come over and shake your hand. he said, absolutely not. i said, i'm sorry. i didn't mean to interrupt. no, no, i will come to them. henry kissinger pulls up an extra chair, chats these guys up for five to ten minutes, signs their menus and tells them how lucky they are to be able to deal with a guy with the integrity of a former military officer. >> wow. >> i'm sitting there -- and my boss is drooling. at the end of this thing, the bill came for the four of us, $1,

henry kissinger, and i looked over and said yeah, it s is, would you like to meet him? >> you know him? >> we would be so honored to meet dr. kissinger. colonel ken karlsson, united states army, you may remember me from when you came to the school of advanced military studies and you talked to us about military studies and he said what are you doing now? i'm a banker. congratulations and i'm here with thompson electronics and they would like to meet you. can they come over and shake your hand? he said absolutely not. i said i'm sorry. i didn't mean to interrupt, and henry kissinger comes up and sits down and chats these guys up for the better part of five to ten minutes, signs their menus and tells them how lucky they are to be able to deal with a guy with the integrity of a former military officer. >> wow! i'm sitting there going and my boss is just drooling. so at the end of this thing, the bill came for the four of us $1500, and you know, i said -- i didn't say anything. i didn't have a visa. i didn't have an american express card so i signed a visa card that i was s

in terms of when you say european stocks as henry kissinger used to say he says they all believe in one europe when there's one phone number to call so don't forget we got a foot see the docks and then there's the stock market as many other stock markets you know but in general just always the guiding for what is europeans of that much more conservative so they don't seem to have the gyrations and the great fluctuations we do but they tend to follow us that's the way to really look at it and they follow us and i agree but they they follow us with a head of us in the trading every day day they open they were open earlier times only thing but don't forget they look at the futures after the dow closes then there are the futures and they look at that and they follow our sentiments on all generations and don't forget in europe too you know debt is a down over there as well you know one of the things that i think people don't realize and part of this is actually due to t.v. is that stock exchanges which are pretty much traded electronically now but they have television studios and so they wan

foreign policy and he was told it would have to be watered down because katharine graham had henry kissinger as a weekend house guest and this is an example of what bob was willing to say in public that was routinely kept private you know inside the sanctum of the media and because he was willing to disclose that kind of sum on a scale of what's supposed to be objective journalism. he really became somebody in disrepute for someone like katharine graham i have to say you know i have not gone and seen the film yet the post but i did perhaps one of the very few know if only negative reviews katharine graham's quotes are winning one of our graffiti personal history when it came out a couple of decades ago it was very self-serving it was exactly the kind of slop and idiot logically driven material that bob perry rejected fundamentally his work ok that get to how he then in later life before he died annoyed the liberals because eat eat try to debunk the idea that russia was responsible for basically all the ills of the united states that these to be going on in your country right now. well i shou

says something but then again this is a place where i'm supposed to believe that people like henry kissinger i've looked up to them and look at their thing when honestly if you put them in front of an international criminal court they're good point good point and you know it's very convenient when you see that one like you know right before or right during before the iraq invasion george suddenly says no no we don't need this you don't get it for convenience you don't want to be held accountable for it but it's convenient now because everybody can go oh these are just this is really about al-qaeda it's about somebody else and it's i want a real core right it's a very convenient it is very convenient and what's interesting is that like you said though that doesn't stop them from being able to go after us so the so that if the trials are being held to hold in a country that actually signed the treaty and the grams were committed in that country would you have guessed i would be catherine gallagher a senior staff attorney with the new york based center for constitutional rights. wrote or said t

senior vice president of the henry kissinger chair and the director of the international security program. she was the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy and plans during the obama administration and house held many prestigious academic and government posts and holds a phd from mit. it gives you a real rundown of what she did. a special assistant to the court and to the newly invented states when the soviet union fell and. the trade council where he led efforts in favor of the markets from 2001 to 2016. he spent 20 years on capitol hill and most of that time working with senator john heinz and later senator rockefeller. he is the wacreated as a way ofs that sounds a little bit harsh. how do you think it was viewed or will be viewed and is being viewed by the allies around the world. >> i mainly focus on the foreign policy side. i think or analysts will be surprised. there is a very short dated on north korea. we can talk a little bit about that later but it was interesting to me on the human rights issue. with some years about the u.s. ambassador to south korea so i'm

henry kissinger? i looked over and said, it is. would you like to meet him? they said, you know him? said, i would be so honored. you mayver and said, remember me when you came to visit the school of military studies. what are you doing? i said, i am a banker. he said, congratulations. here with thomson electronics and they would like to meet you. he said, absolutely not. he said, i will come to them. he pulls over and a sure chair and sits down and chats for the better part of 5-10 minutes and signed their menus and tells them how lucky they are to be able to deal with the guy the integrity of a former military officer. my boss is drooling. at the india of this, the bill ,ame, 15 -- at the end of this the bill came, $1500. with sharing my visa card my wife and i had to call for long-distance and say, i just put $1500 on the visa card. on the way out, i said, am i going to get in trouble? he said, you are not in kansas anymore. banking world now. we spend money like this all the time. you missede thing while you were trying to figure out how to sign your name

and later during the transition and later as a president and they used an entry point through henry kissingere introduction. and they wanted to get the chinese in the front of the queue. and jared was facilitated in that. and the chinese reported to beijing. and this was intercepted by u.s. intelligence agency and found that the chinese felt they were getting everything and more than they expected in terms of access and toning down some of the more hostile rhetoric that they saw during the campaign where trump was accusing china for example of raping the united states and using rhetoric like that. >> kushner has repeatedly disregarded the advisers of doing things like meeting one-on-one. he is confident that his way is the best way of doing things despite having limited world experience. >> he feels as though the world of real estate was a good primer preparing him for the role that he has played now as a diplomat and as a policy maker. but obviously, professionals who have done this for their careers have a different view. what was happening in kushner's case because he was having these meet

it feels like you almost need a kind of henry kissinger to pull off this very complex diplomacy, do youup to it or will the taliban and -- >> pakistan is not going to change its policies just based on statements, it will depend whether all of the american resources are brought to bear and to convince pakistan's generals that just as they haven't succeeded in 16 years, and america hasn't succeeded in 16 years, can there be a solution that pakistan's genuine concerns about a military presence in afghanistan can addressed, and they're not interested in sending troops, but convinced them that their imaginary fears should not be the reason why afghanistan and pakistan should continue to suffer under war. i don't know if anyone right now is making that argument to the pakistanis effectively. >> thank you both. >>> next on gps, we'll move a little further west to another foreign policy trouble spot for the trump administration, qatar, president trump tweeted support for saudi arabia's tough actions against its neighbor qatar, it's unclear whether he knew that the united states has a key milita

it feels like you almost need a kind of henry kissinger to pull off this kind of very complex diplomacyhe pakistani military outwit and outlast them? >> simply stated, pakistan is not going to change any of its policies just under threats and because of statements. it will all depend on whether all the various instruments of american national power are brought to bear, and to win the argument that convince pakistan's generals, they haven't succeeded in 16 years, and america hasn't succeeded in 16 years. could there be a solution in which the genuine concerns can be addressed? and they are not interested in sending troops from what we have gathered so far. the imaginary fears should not be the reason why pakistan and afghanistan should continue to suffer the war. i don't know if anybody in this administration at the moment is making that argument to the pakistanis effectively. >> fascinating conversation. thank you both. >>> next on "gps," we'll move a little further west to another foreign policy trouble spot for the trump administration, qatar. president trump tweeted support for saudi

and the personal role which he and those around him, ie henry kissinger and a few hoothers, mt control in holding back. kissing kissinger gives pedantic terms. the silent majority has been silenced. the elites are taking us in the wrong direction. and i must stand up against these elites and push things in the direction that they should go. and perhaps that the leaders of the soviet union and china themselves not respected by erp ps their own elites in their own societies might follow along, as well. there's a hyper personalization of the understanding of the diplomacy and foreign policy by nixon and those around him. the centralization of power in the white house, the use of secrecy, the writing out of the state department, that is not simply domestic politics but the view of the international system and deeply interconnected. not one or the other for them. richard nixon is acutely conscious of the fact that the last president to manage stable relations with the soviet union was franklin roosevelt. and that franklin roosevelt did it in a personalistic way and i think many things writt

. >> tell us it how his team is regarded at this point by other persons, even henry kissinger has comments. >> he went back in 1965 but win to work for henry cabot lodge who master minded the coup that overthrew his friend siem and in the '65 to '68 period when lansdale was there, he was sidelined because the big green machine took over the war, westmoreland, and the offensive minded military, and westmoreland genuinely thought he could kill the viet cong faster than they could be replaces, he would reach a crossover point where he was eliminating them fastest than they could be replaced and lansdale understood this was hubris in private next letter its read, he was in despair because he in other words that the war was being lost and he thought it was a tragedy these poor vietnamese rice farmers, who were in the middle of this war, who war not fighting but were simply caught in the middle, were getting pulverized by american artillery and air power because they were mistaken by the viet cong, and the said you can't win a war this way, by killing the people on your side, but west moreland a

today met with former -- [ applause ] president trump today met with former secretary of state henry kissinger 94 years old. when trump asked him what his secret was, kissinger said, "i committed war crimes during vietnam." [ laughter ] after suffering its biggest single-day drop in history earlier this week, the dow jones fell today by an additional 1,000 points. in retrospect, it was probably a bad idea to have this guy ring the opening bell. [ laughter ] president trump, today, met with the president of guatemala. said trump, "i love guatemala. especially with chips and salsa." [ laughter and applause ] "never enough, though. that's the problem with guatemala, there's never enough." [ laughter ] experts are warning that smart tvs could be extremely susceptible to hacking. which explains why the president only watches dumb tv. [ laughter and applause ] tokyo is now home to a cafe that uses a robot to make and serve coffee drinks. but, of course, they still get your name wrong on the cup. [ laughter ] and finally, a boy in florida, yesterday, had to be rescued by firefighters after he climbed

. >> last month former secretary of state henry kissinger and george scholz appear before the senatearmed services committee to talk about the trump administrations national security strategy and global threat including north korea, russia, iran and china and nuclear liberation. former deputy secretary of state richard armitage joined. [inaudible conversations]

since 1973 when henry kissinger expelled the russians from the middle east, the united states has been the preeminent outside power. it is losing that role through a combination of weariness, disengagement and a stubborn refusal to accept the realities on the ground. a different american approach, engaging with iran, turkey and russia might return to its unique place in the region, and might help to return to a stable balance of power in what remains the world's most volatile hot spot. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed, and read my "washington post" article this week. let's get started. ♪ >>> conspiracy to defraud the united states of america. that is the first charge in the indictment of 13 russian nationals by special counsel robert mueller's office. the charges handed down friday alleged that individuals along with three russian organizations sought to sow discord in the u.s. political system. donald trump took to response, and he seems tho think that mueller's latest move vindicates him. what to make of all of this? joining me now is richard haas, the president on foreign relations. h

. >> so in that briefing, the secretary mentioned henry kissinger and he was famous for having three that he would present to any of the president's that he served. he would have one way out front or one in the middle and the one way behind. mattis's goal -- kissinger's goal was to get the president to select the middle option. the other two were throw asides. we'll see. this is our challenge for reporting here in the next couple of days. trying to figure out the menu of options, what they could present to the president for the parade he wants. will there be an aviation component or fixed wing or aircraft or a b-2 fly over. what sort of tanks? these are the important questions we should try to figure out. >> for that last parade in 1991, was that taxpayer money or public money? was it private money? what was it. >> it was split. so it was $12 million. $5 million from uso and $7 million from public funds. i've been asking around and trying to figure out who would pay for this and how. the general view is it would come under community outreach. the pentagon does do parades and medium a

security leaders of both parties including former secretaries of state madeleine albright and henry kissinger as well as former defense secretaries bob gates and leon panetta and our current defense secretary jim mattis agrees with this assessment. i have spent a lot of time in the senate working on this issue and unfortunately the problem continues to grow so i would urge all of us to recognize the need to address this challenge and to take action as soon as possible before a fiscal crisis occurs that undermines our ability to ensure our national security. with that i and the rest of the panel are happy to take your questions. we appreciate the opportunity to be with you today. thank you, mr. chairman. >> and thank you very much for that very thorough overview of the world and what's at play. i'll recognize members based on seniority for up to five minutes. the chair recognizes himself. admiral rogers, according to the statement for the record, the intelligence community assesses that most detected chinese cyber operations against the united states' private industry are focused on clear defe

i see it as a logical extension of our capabilities we should an option.sent as henry kissinger had a great point recently. he'd looked at that scenario and he said if you don't have whatield capabilities, you're doing is putting the president of the united states in a position where his only are surrender or suicide. that's not a good place to be. those aren't good choices. i don't like either one of those so we need these capabilities to appropriate, tarltd response to >> thank you for your question. the nuclear posture review suggests that something more might be required. that there might not only need to be a correction of the treaty violation, but the russians would have to reduce their detector -- there tactical nuclear weapons as well. is this system a bargaining chip, potentially for inf? flesh onut a little what the plans are for developing the system? if you don't go ahead with it, it is probably not going to be a very useful bargaining chip. i never want to speak for secretary mattis, because that can get me fired. [laughter] i did see his response yesterday to a similar q