it was left to henry kissinger to handle the crisis. kissinger decided to respond to the soviet threat with a show of force. at eleven forty one pm washington time the american armed forces state of alert was raised to defense condition three the highest in peacetime. well the question of the us versus soviet union always boils down to mutual annihilation we could have killed everybody in the soviet union they could've killed everybody and i state and the rest of the world would have gone it was an absolutely insane situation the thing that saved it was that each side knew that if a war occurred the leaders themselves would get killed and so when you know that you're going to get killed in a war and not to some poor peasant soldiers going to get killed you make different decisions about starting a war faced with the possibility of a spiral towards nuclear war the next day twenty fifth of october the soviet stepped back the alert was defused. of. by the soviet union we do not believe it is necessary at this moment to. in fact we have been

there, i met two fellows of the institute, henry kissinger and dick allen. dick at the time was the national security adviser to candidate nixon, and henry kissinger was of course working for nelson rockefeller. i worked in the summer for dick allen as an intern. he was one of the founders of the george downs center for strategic studies, now csis, much bigger. dick was one of the key founders of that, and so then when the campaign got going, dick asked me to come part-time as a speechwriter. i eventually ended up in new york, at the headquarters. then, during the transition after the election, peter flanagan ran the transition at the pierre hotel. he and dick allen and henry kissinger asked me to join the nsc staff. i went to washington. as soon as we arrived, all the bitter wars started, particularly over the vietnam war. kissinger always had a lean staff. today there are between 1500 and 1700 members of the nsc staff. under henry kissinger, there were 30. >> a few good men and women. >> of course, no one ever accused henry and his staff of not being effec

it was left to henry kissinger to handle the crisis. kissinger decided to respond to the soviet threat with a show of force. this eleven forty one pm washington time the american armed forces state of alert was raised to defense condition three the highest in peacetime. well the question of the us versus soviet union. always boils down to mutual annihilation we could have killed everybody in the soviet union they could've killed everybody and i state and the rest of the world would have gone it was an absolutely insane situation the thing that saved it was that each side knew that if a war occurred the leaders themselves would get killed and so when you know that you're going to get killed in a war not to some poor peasant soldiers going to get killed you make different decisions about starting a war. faced with the possibility of a spiral towards nuclear will the next day twenty fifth of october the soviet stepped back the alert was defused. we do not consider it. but the soviet union we do not believe it is not at this moment. in fact

it was left to henry kissinger to handle the crisis. kissinger decided to respond to the soviet threat with a show of force. this eleven forty one pm washington time the american armed forces state of alert was raised to defense condition three the highest in peacetime. well the question of the us versus soviet union. always boils down to mutual annihilation we could have killed everybody in the soviet union they could have killed everybody and i the state and the rest of the world would have gone it was an absolutely insane situation the thing that saved it was that each side knew that if a war occurred the leaders themselves would get killed and so when you know that you're going to get killed in a war and not to some poor peasant soldiers going to get killed you make different decisions about starting a war faced with the possibility of a spiral towards nuclear will the next day twenty fifth of october the soviet stepped back. the alert was defused. we do not consider it. but the soviet union we do not believe it is not at this moment

who most eloquently articulated the concepts behind detente was his national security advisor, henry kissingerthe first component of detente under richard nixon involved a series of high-level arms agreements with the soviet union that produced the salt 1 agreement, signed on may 26, 1972. this was a deal with the soviet union that had been negotiated with the leader, leonid brezhnev, who had been a protege of nikita khrushchev and had taken over the soviet union in 1964. brezhnev, who you see here on the cover of time magazine, shaking nixon's hand, was a hard-line communist who had shown no indication in the 1960's that he was open to any kind of new relationship with the united states. he had increased military spending. he had entered into a series of showdowns in the middle east and other parts of the world with the united states, but privately, the soviets were feeling the strain of higher defense spending on their economy. so he entered into negotiations with nixon, starting in 1969 in helsinki, and culminating in may of 1972. the agreement limited the number of anti-ballistic missile s

rather than someone like henry kissinger. the peace between conservatives and carter came to an end. coervatives quickly started to that carter's concerned with human rights and carter's concerned with new policies in key hotspots of the cold war was going to strengthen the soviet union. neoconservatives and conservative republicans argued that the president only focused on human rights when it came to non-allies of the soviet union. the ability of carter to balance this trade-off between whom and -- between human rights and detente was starting to break down at the heat of discussions as i will discuss in a bit. the biggest and first major political battle with the right and president carter comes with the panama canal. carter decided in 1977 that anger about u.s. control of the panama canal, which for those of you who have been studying the u.s. history no it has become a symbol for imperialism. that this tension had to be quelled the carter believed. this he said would help rebuild the u.s. standing in this part of the wor

henry kissinger's class. that was one interesting contact. up and asked him what he thought i should take. he said my course, of course. that makes sense so i did. >> you are working in the economic division? ay-cam: i was assigned to lady whose husband was with the usaid. she was working on economic and infrastructure in the country, vietnam. we became very good friends. me and iery happy with was happy with her. the u.s. consulate officially .pened section, the personnel asking them to send me back to the consulate general. it was aeed a week later i was right there, and everyone welcomed me with open arms. i started working there. >> would you go back to vietnam? james: i never really left. work at the embassy in saigon. >> i thought you went to harvard after saigon? james: that came at the end of my tour in vietnam. that was after the tour was lost, 1967. we had been courting since i got there. after the end of my second tour. quickly, i decided i didn't want to stay there. it was cold and i want to get back to vietnam. i had enough conte

he was talking about henry kissinger.e wrote in his 2001 book a cook's tour -- "once you've been to cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat henry kissinger to death with your bare hands. you will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with charlie rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. witness what henry did in cambodia -- the fruits of his genius for statesmanship -- and you will never understand why he's not sitting in the dock at the hague next to milosevic." that was anthony bourdain who just killed himself. >> i did not know that quouote. i wrote this long book about kissinger, and i remember the next year at the white house correspondents dinner -- to which no rational journalist should go to. it is not our job. by the way, my complaint with "the new york times is we should not recognize america first. we are an international newspaper. but that is a more subtle issue. every

south korea by for example speaking about the issue at length in meeting with secretary of state henry kissingerand other high-level state department officials. habib sabha reevaluation of american justice in south korea when faced with the reality of oppression i think the united states has to make clear it's not on the side of oppression but it doesn't condone it. kissinger was not convinced. the past human rights abuses could produce instability in south korea that might threaten u.s. interests. his position on human rights kissinger responded first in general i've tried to abolish the political science department and the state department which tried to restructure the domestic situation of other countries. i don't think it's worth our investment to democratize south korea. habib who spent six years in south korea between 1961 in 1974 was deeply connected to south koreans to professional and personal ties. these connections as well as long-standing concerns about political and religious repression based on his personal history led habib to press for the rights of individual south koreans as w

as the new year arrived henry kissinger returned to the region. to hammer out the next step and his grand plan for egyptian israeli disengagement. on the eleventh of january he met with sadat in the southern egyptian city of aswan. the. next day in the afternoon kissinger left for television to meet up with the israelis. after week flying between aswan a city famous for its winter sun. and television experiencing its first ever snow storm. both sides accepted a disengagement agreement. a new term had entered the lexicon of international politics shuttle diplomacy. over it could be there when you can. get really really. the face of it. on the eighteenth of january general mohammad an egyptian chief of staff. and general d.v.l.a. as it is israeli counterpart signed the agreement in the tent at kilometer one hundred one. it was the first in a chain of agreements that would lead to total israeli withdrawal from sinai and april nine hundred eighty two. thousand how possible or what the significance of that war the october war was the impact it had not

brian: this is about the harrisburg conspiracy, trying to kidnap henry kissinger.the end, there was something called the love letters back and forth between these two, phil berrigan and liz mcallister. [video clip] >> not saying that it wasn't talked about her approach, but it was no. that was it. tocourse, howard got back jager hoover in december. that's obvious. the letters. wrotet stupid letters i to phil about some of the things people were talking about, not they were always monitoring his mail. subtlely you try to say something, they will try to make something of it. >> when the revelation came out of what they were really about, that was a shocker. and that was across the board, especially when you are sitting back and knowing what the government knows more about their relationship than you do. brian: how surprised were you to find out the fbi was reading the mail of the prisoner? skizz: not very. the interview with liz was the first time we heard about the letters. joe: i knew nothing about the story and just asked her questions on this came out. it probabl

in the early hours and merican secretary of state henry kissinger. is woken in his suite with the news of military activity in the middle east. two hours later at two pm middle eastern time. egypt and syria launched a war against israel on two fronts. after three years in power egyptian president anwar sadat had grown tired of peace initiatives that seemed to be going nowhere. you don't fear them with your toes has not been successful and sort of and the united states was the main supporter of the surge so it was clear that if you want to solve the problem you would have to do two things either go to war. or try to convince the americans to move into. two weeks into the war and with the opposing forces locked in a stalemate and richeson just arrived in moscow. is goal was to agree a u.n. cease fire acceptable to egypt soviet allies. the russians had to. for the russian jews it was unacceptable so we had to rewrite it in history and. showed up from the. right again. we push it to the next morning. within two days the draft of the un security council r

brian: this is about the harrisburg conspiracy, trying to kidnap henry kissinger.the end, there was something called the love letters back and forth between these two, phil berrigan and liz mcallister. let's watch this. [video clip] >> not saying that it wasn't talked about or approached, but it was no. that was it. of course, howard got back to j edgar hoover in december. that's obvious. the letters. >> just stupid letters i wrote to phil about some of the things people were talking about, not realizing they were always monitoring his mail. but also, no matter how subtlely you try to say something, they will try to make something of it. >> when the revelation came out of what they were really about, that was a shocker. and that was across the board, especially when you are sitting back and knowing what the government knows more about their relationship than you do. brian: how surprised were you to find out the fbi was reading the mail of the prisoner? skizz: not very. the interview with liz was the first time we heard about the letters. joe: i knew nothing about t

in the managing major power rivalries one of the chapters is on henry kissinger, the u.s.-china opening in 1971-72. others on mikhail gorbachev and ending the cold war. in the international institutions there's combined chapter woodrow wilson and franklin roosevelt. wilson's go to great the league of nations and roosevelt success at birthing the united nations. then a check on the secretary-general hoo folks may remember from the 1950s it was a most effective secretary-general in the history of the united nations. and then politics identical no surprise a chapter on nelson mandela and for the end of apartheid and reconciliation. we sometimes forget like if you'd gone to las vegas and put odds in the mid-1980s on south africa of nelson mandela being president someday and it being a peaceful transition, we all would be rich people if we had made that bad. there's a chapter on yitzhak rabin what i call soldiers peacemakers in both where he succeeded and when he did not. unfortunately his assassination in 1995. that a chapter to irish women who were less well-known than the ot

one of the people i got to know during that period was henry kissinger. in fact, he came to hue and stayed at my house for a couple of days. he was just a harvard professionor then. but we d get to know him a little bit and later after i left vietnam, my first assignment after vietnam was to a real combat zone, cambridge, massachusetts, at the kennedy school of government there. harvard. i took henry's class while i was there. so that was one interesting contact. >> did he recommend he take that class? james: oh, yeah. i called him up and asked him what he thought i should take. he said, my course, of course. that made sense. i did. >> you are working in the economic division? what was that experience like? tuy-cam: i was assigned to a lady whose hba was with the usaid. he was working on economic and infrastructure of the country, vietnam. for three months. eris is mary hodgkins. we became very good friends. she was very happy with me and i was happy with her. until the u.s. consulate officially opened. tomahawkins was the counsel general, right? and i we

as the new year arrived henry kissinger returned to the region. to hammer out the next step and his grand plan for egyptian israeli disengagement. on the eleventh of january he met with sadat in the southern egyptian city of aswan. the. next day in the afternoon kissinger left for television to meet up with the israelis. after week flying between aswan a city famous for its winter sun. and television experiencing its first ever snow storm. both sides accepted a disengagement agreement. a new term had entered the lexicon of international politics shuttle diplomacy. over this could be airport when you can. get really really. the face of it. on the eighteenth of january general mohammad an egyptian chief of staff. and general d.v.l.a. as it is israeli counterpart signed the agreement in the tent at kilometer one o one. it was the first in a chain of agreements that would lead to total israeli withdrawal from sinai and april nine hundred eighty two. thousand how possible or what the significance of that war the october war was the impact it had not on

start off with henry kissinger quote he says that demonization of lattimer putin is not a policy it's an alibi for the absence of one degree with him. yet is there a coherent policy line on russia in washington there are seven or eight coherent lines but all together they produce incoherence by that i mean the congress thinks it knows what it's doing. there are some individuals let's say the department of defense who have one orientation in the state department which is a revolving door who have another and so on no a coherent administration line has not emerged because they're fighting internally because trump started off as a pragmatic rush a complainer a he wanted to make good with russia but then they stopped which meant tat his hands does this mean that the american line towards russia is pretty termite no matter who the president will be no no this is and this is unique with trump no tied his hands in particular because the pass this legislation requiring sanctions right and that is certainly tied to trump personally because of the suspicion that he colluded with russia or the m

imma start off with henry kissinger quote he says that dimon is ation of lattimer putin is not a policy it's an alibi for the absence of one g. agree with him yes yes yes is there a coherent policy line on russia in washington there are seven or eight coherent lines but all together they produce incoherence by that i mean the congress thinks it knows what it's doing there are some individuals let's say the department of defense who have one orientation in the state department which is a revolving door who have another and so on no a coherent administration line has not emerged because they're fighting internally because trump started off as a pragmatic question complainer right he wanted to make good with russia but then they stopped wishbone tat his hands does this mean that the american line towards russia is pretty termite no matter who the president will be no no this is and this is unique with trump no tied his hands in particular because the pass this legislation requiring sanctions right and. that is certainly tied to trump personally because of the suspicion that he colluded wit

usually these things are pretty well choreographed i mean i went for example with richard nixon and henry kissinger to his summit with loney brezhnev back in one nine hundred seventy two and we'd pretty much choreographed that down to a tee and that's what i've seen happen in other situations but. as you know mr trump believes in is a real believer in spontaneity and intuition and i think it's that smart knew it needed in an intuition that has brought him to this particular place so how scripted it's going to be i don't know but that that's going to be one of the things where are we going to what are we going to get out of this in terms of the direction that these contacts any go because one thing is for certain. nothing it can't be resolved all in one session and the best we can hope for is some positive thrust positive sense a direction of where further contacts may go and follow up teams might negotiate now we know that mr trump can be off the wall anything can happen in a one on one with him we know that kim jong un we don't what do we know about kim jong il and what do you expect personality w

that's how she came to meet the likes of henry kissinger and sam nun and bill frisk, bill perry, eteraey soon joined the board, too. >> and was timing a a factor in all of this? because around 2010 we see facebook rising,tter being very popular. >> right. >> investors were basically looking for the next unicorn starretup and thet was. >> right, and money was gushing into the valley because in large part we had had the great recession in 2008, 2009 and if federal reserve lowered interest rates and traditional investments like bonds no longer turned good money s investors were looking for higher turns elsewhere. >> so the valley becde the gol rush. >> the valley became the gold rush, and one of the companies theemed so promising was theronos. in late 2013, early 2014 the company achieved a valuation of more than $9 million and elizabeth holmes managed to keep half of the equy so she was worth almost $5 billion and thih fulfille yearning there was for the first female tech founder who became a illionaire. there were other women in the valley who had achieved, you beow, fame and wealth. sh

start off with henry kissinger quote he says that demonization of lattimer putin is not a policy it's an alibi for the absence of one degree with him yes yes yes is there a coherent policy line on russia in washington. there are seven or eight coherent lawns but all together they produce incoherence by that i mean the congress thinks it knows what it's doing there are some individuals let's say the department of defense who have one orientation in the state department which is a revolving door who have another and so on no a coherent administration lie has not emerged because they're fighting internally because trump started off as a pragmatic rush a complainer right he wanted to make good with russia but then they stopped wish one tatt his hands does this mean that the american line towards russia is pretty termite no matter who the president will be no no this is and this is unique with trump no tied his hands in particular because the pass this legislation requiring sanctions right and. that is certainly tied to trump personally because of the suspicion that he colluded with russia

our speaker is george daughan come heal to peachtree from harvard university were studied under henry kissinger. his current book, "lexington and concord: the battle heard round the world" was just recently reviewed in the "wall street journal"o if you happen to get that you can read it tonight. he has written a number ofooks including if by sea which won the samuel eliot morrison award for naval literature than on it with the morrison were to use as constitution museum for his work as a naval scholar. without further ado i will t over to our speaker this evening. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's a great honor to be here. one of america's great research institutions, and as some who came from, comes from boston originally, i'm particularly delighted to be here. my book is about a subject that everybody seems to know about, but as i got into researching it, it seems that the were a lot of things left out or things that i didn't see quite as my fellow scholars did. so with that in mind, i'm going to divide this up into two segments, which are go for about 25 minutes, and after that i'll an

start off with henry kissinger quote he says that demonization of lattimer putin is not a policy it's an alibi for the absence of one degree with him. yet is there a coherent policy line on russia in washington. there are seven or eight coherent lines but all together they produce in coherence by that i mean the congress thinks it knows what it's doing. there are some individuals let's say the department of defense who have one orientation in the state department which is a revolving door who have another and so on no a coherent administration line has not emerged because they're fighting internally because trump started off as a prick matic complainer a he wanted to make good with russia but then they stopped wishbone tat his hands does this mean that the american line towards russia is pretty termite no matter who the president will be no no this is a this is unique with trump no tied his hands in particular because the pass this legislation requiring sanctions right and that is certainly tied to trump personally because of the suspicion that he colluded with russia or that members

it was something henry kissinger recognized early in the cold war. was there a choice between suicide and surrender that we get the choice of backing down or fighting a full scale nuclear war and we didn't need to have these options in between. i think it provides those supplements in preventing us in choosing to surrender so we can refresh the use of nuclear weapons try to defend its position that we can keep escalating the crisis without going into a full-scale nuclear exchange which would be catastrophic. >> right here and then right here. >> peter rogers retired executive interested in military affairs. [inaudible] >> it's a good question. part of the reason the united states has been interested in this robust nuclear posture for decades is because of its deterrence. if united states decided tomorrow we are going to pull back. we are going to have foreign policy on nuclear weapons then i think we could get away with a minimum nuclear deterrence. we could have a -- more like china. we ask our nuclear weapons to descend on the entire world so we ar

and the managing of major power rivalries one of the chapters is on henry kissinger. another son mikell gorbachev and and in the cold war. in the international institutions there's a chapter on woodrow wilson and roosevelt. his failure to create the league of nations and success in the united nations. then, a chapter on -- in the 1950s who is most effective attorney general in the history. there's also a chapter nelson mandela and for the end of the part tied and reconciliation. we sometimes forget that if you have gone to las vegas and put odds in the mid- 1980s on south africa with nelson mandela being successful one day a president, we would all be rich people. there is a chapter on -- called soldiers, peacemaker on where he succeeded and where he did not. there is an assassination a 95 then they formed a union for peace in the 1970s. a time in northern ireland where they called it the troubles. i was in graduate school during this time in london there is a time where a number of killings went from less than 100 - 500. these were everyday people and we can come bac

henry kissinger would be bored to death. he would just be bored to death and think we are crazy. so you will have people that live longer andon have greater range of options and it requires thinking through two things. one of his we have to build online convenience systems allow you to learn conveniently so if you want to go to valley for six weeks and take courses online i don't care if you need to be available with two hours a week a professor is available, think about how i'm efficient instructors are and then you have to rethink the finances. a rative o mine thinking he might retire from 25 years it'sa pretty large amount of money if we have to be thinking in terms of each of o you on average will have five to seven or more jobs in your lifetime. i don't just mean internship so you have to think about how you are going to change and evolve and i've reinvented myself four or five times and people would just learn to do that, that's my guess. i have an ia for your next book and i think that you are probably the most qualified to hand this. it could be the guide to handling of t

henry kissinger's that this project is a triumph of hope over experience that hit me right during the borders a lot of content and that getting a little comment and i found it proved to be true. hello it's been raining heavily in just a thin line of white above my head is a cold front coming out of eastern europe it produced some significant thunderstorms but apart from that and the few showers tashkent east and south of afghanistan there's not a lot going on apart from the wind certainly warmed up recently reference to the low thirty's stuff a task a couple forty's a full cross around we see that in most of iraq but knuckly near the coast in lebanon syria it's rather nice at twenty seven or twenty eight degrees lightish breeze and the sun is out now the drawing dusty heat has been blowing sags out of iraq of all persistent wind yesterday morning it is particularly dusty on the eastern side of saudi nasser qatar it's still there all monday temperatures have been knocked off again forty six marks on the high side is cooler in abu dhabi it's rather better in salalah this is the harbor i

henry kissinger's that this project is or triumph of hope over experience that hit me right between the eyes and through borders a lot of content and that getting a little common and i found it proved to be true. welcome to look at the weather across the americas now in north america is a pretty unsettled picture actually for many central and eastern areas through upright conditions in d.c. the highs of thirty new york should be drawn for much of the time and temperatures in the upper twenty's a few showers around the florida peninsula otherwise part of the west seeing some heavy rain and the risk of some storms there for denver colorado but out across more western areas it's looking fine twenty degrees around san francisco and los angeles look at my some of twenty five in the frontal system bringing some rain into the pacific northwest heading down into central america here we've got a few showers for panama costa rica nick your i.q. but generally weather conditions not looking too bad all the mexico city may see the odd shower during the day as the islands of the caribbean weather con

henry kissinger said this project is a triumph of hope over experience and that he had the right to in the eyes and through borders lot of content and that getting a little comment and i found it proved to be true. he and his friend. steve in st. though whether sponsored. hello and welcome to look at weather conditions across the americas is fine across much of south america at the moment of see some showers there's a northern portion there was and basin but as we come south where it's looking largely drawn farm we have a slightly disturbed area the area of convergence across parts here are quiet and into argentina thus not doing much to in the course of sutlej but you may find a bit more in the way of rain around in the course of sunday with the risk of showers up through parts of bolivia and into proof for the towards the south largely fine for chilly there fourteen the high in santiago as we head up into the caribbean we've got to variable amounts of cloud around the bumped it across more eastern parts you see the building up there but in the us it should be bryce at times few showe

henry kissinger is now 95 and he works full-time. he would be bored to death. said to henry we are going to make you retire. he said i would be or to death. people who live longer are going to have a greater range of options. i think it requires to profound things. one is how do we build and this is why alike this model free to look at. we have to build on line convenient mentoring systems that allow you to learn conveniently so if you want to go to valley for six weeks and take your courses on line, don't care. i don't think you have to go to a campus somewhere be available for two hours a week that the professor is available. only think about how inefficient the current structures are in second thought to rethink finances. i was talking to a relative of mine who is thinking he may retire from the company that he's worked with for 25 years and i said to have a penchant? he said no we never had a pension. we have a 401(k) that they match. we will have to be thinking in terms of each of you on average will have five to seven or more jobs in your lifetime, career

henry kissinger said this project is a triumph of hope over experience and that hit me right between the eyes and through borders a lot of content and that getting a little common and i found it proved to be true. how the quiet and rest of the cold those b. two words describe australia as well i'm sure no big surprise really is it the not a lot going on from the point of view all of this is a week old front on its way into science astride the fifteen degrees in adelaide breeze in the sas twelve koda field in melbourne twenty one in brisbane which more or less is the same in perth not very well not a spring's although not cool as pretty a wet through the middle of australia it's almost reached in the tropics so it's still thirteen darwin that's circulating out through tasmania and the tasman sea is the system that was until recently affecting fossils east of australia so we've got clashes coming to south armagh now in the immediate future it looks pretty five forty in oakland about eighteen cries change does that cloud of rain comes in i think you're going to be a third effect warning

was with hen hen henry kissinger who is 39 and works full time and would be bored to death. if you said we'll make you retire, he would just be bored to death. think we were crazy. so, you are going to have people who live longer. they're going to have greater range of options, and i think it requires really rethinking two profound things. one is how do we build -- this is why i like udacity as a model. we have to build online convenient learning systems sysd mentoring s they allow you to learn conveniently. i if you want to go to bali for six weeks, and take your courses online, i don't care. i don't think you have to go to campus somewhere, be tribal two hours a week the professor is available. think about how inefficient the current structures are. and then second i think you have to rethink the finances. i was talking to relative of mine who is thinking about he ma r the company he has been with for 25 years and i stayed do you have a pension? said no, never had a pension. they're system is a 401(k) they match. so we actually has pretty large amount of money in his 401(k

in the early hours and merican secretary of state henry kissinger. is woken in his suite with the news of military activity in the middle east. two hours later at two pm middle eastern time. egypt and syria launched a war against israel on two fronts. after three years in power egyptian president anwar sadat had grown tired of peace initiatives that seemed to be going nowhere. we don't fear mediators has not been successful and sort of and the united states was the main supporter of the surge so it was clear that if you want to solve the problem you would have to do two things either go to war. or try to convince the americans to move into. two weeks into the war and with the opposing forces locked in a stalemate and richeson just arrived in moscow. is goal was to agree a u.n. ceasefire acceptable to egypt soviet allies. the russians had to. for the russian jews it was acceptable so we had to rewrite it in history and. showed up from the. right again. we push it to the next morning. within two days the draft of un security council resolution three th

book has drawn praise from far and wide including from john region and former secretary of state henry kissinger. the new york times book review praises in this fashion -- we debt forrry tye's bringing back a young presidential candidate who, for a brief moment almost a half-century ago, instilled hope for the future in angry, fearful americans. what we will never know with certainty -- not from 1000 books -- is what might have been. no one can say. watergate, less time in vietnam? no one knows. but i do know this -- from the crushing pain that followed from his brother's death, he emerged a wiser and more compassionate man. as president, he would have admitted his mistakes. resort.d be the last we would talk to our adversaries and listen to them. containing nuclear weapons would be a major, urgent focus. around the welcomed world. he would fight the corrupt and challenge the greedy and comfortable. most of all, he would remember the forgotten, those stuck in --an ghettos -- mostly black those in rural hollows across the land -- mostly white -- and those picking our crops -- mostly hispanic. bet

was henry kissinger, is power the greatest aphrodisiac? there was a remarkable scene at the white house as senior north korean official spent about an hour and 20 minutes inside the oval office. there he is meeting with trump. kim yong-chol delivered a personal letter from the north korean leader, kim jong-un. afterwards, president trump and his secretary of state mike pompeo posed for photos. there they are outside with the north korean delegation. the result, trump announced the june 12th summit in singapore was officially back on. and he sounded an upbeat note about it. let's watch him. >> i didn't cancel the meeting. i canceled it in response to a very tough statement, and i think we're over that, totally over that. and now we're going to deal, and we're going to really start a process. we're meeting with the chairman on june 12th, and i think it's probably going to be a very successful -- ultimately a successful process. we'll see. remember what i say. we will see what we will see. i don't even want to use the term maximum pressure an

. >> henry kissinger had a mold for you. if all else fails, try something new. >> so, he was really interesting talking but richard holbrooke and one point he made in that incredible bavarian pair -- baritone, and sad there and said it's one of the great american missions you can alwaysg new, as talking but a -- a general phenomenon i think leads to the sidelining of experts and veterans of diplomacy but also spinningly but what happened to richard holbrooke doering the obama administration. -- during the obama administration. an administration bent on innovation and new voices and young, bright things coming in and that's great in a lot of ways but it wasn't great for richard holbrooke and did lead to i think perhaps too much of a disregard for expertise. obviously these are all lessons it's important to med tate on right now because there's no thought of expertise right now. >> we have walked away from the paris climate agreement, walked airplane -- walk away from the tpp -- >> trump says he is into it again. so there's th

it is said that henry kissinger once asked who he should call if you wa nted asked who he should call europe. the a nswer wanted to speak to europe. the answer was not clear. similarly, i would ask who i should call if i wa nt to would ask who i should call if i want to speak to the uk rail industry. therein lies the heart of today's problem and the whole rail debate more generally. no one will ta ke debate more generally. no one will take responsibility for great britain's rail industry. but amid all the clamour, the recriminations and buckpassing which characterises discussions about rail, there is one person who is ultimately responsible. that is the right honourable gentleman, the memberfor epsom and ewell, the secretary of state for transport. but he blames network railfor the state for transport. but he blames network rail for the timetabling failures. yes, network rail hasn't delivered, but he seems to forget that as a company limited by guarantee, network rail has one member — the secretary of state for transport, him. he is the man in charge, allegedly. mr speaker, you might

guest: henry kissinger for a while was not happy with my biography of him. think if he reread his own nobel peace prize notation i don't pick you would be happy. i think it understated his accomplishments. that said, i have certainly spent a lot of time with him and we have a good enough relationship and i think that he understands, even if he doesn't agree with the interpretation i put in the book, so he was someone early on after the book came out pushed back and felt that i had been too critical of some of his actions. host: you mentioned you like to choose people that you particularly like and have a certain amount of respect for. what else goes into your decision-making process of who you will write about? guest: i like to write about people who are creative and imaginative. some people write about great heroes or george washington or ulysses grant or write about military people or sports heroes or even literary heroes, to me people who stand at the intersection of the arts and the sciences are able to love the subjects and the humanities of the technol

henry kissinger, as close as henry was, never knew about the tapes.er 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. i thought, 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 that point on, of course, 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 subpoena the tapes. the senate subpoenas them. so nixon is early advised to destroy the tapes. brad's about to find out if his denture can cope with... a steak. luckily for him, he uses super poligrip. it helps give him 65% more chewing power. leaving brad to dig in and enjoy. super poligrip. the full value of your new car? you're bet

hormat.ert he has a long history working with china and you started your career going to china with henry kissinger ago. you are a deputy trader and i were to get to the very basic question. is a full-blown trade war now inevitable? robert: it is not inevitable a we are moving in the direction of a trade war unless the brakes can be put on this escalating process. action toy taking an impose tariffs and another country retaliating. then, the first country decides it wants to double down and do more. you can get this escalating series of action, reaction the does lead to a trade war. in addition, we have a number of canada andrtners and mexico engaged in a dispute with us over aluminum and steel. and perhaps if president trump moves in that direction of cars. we have multiproduct trade conflicts whether it will be a trade war, we will see in the next month or so. kathleen: you are there for many years, the commerce department, you dealt with official negotiations, business negotiations. can we avoid it? robert: we can certainly avoid it. the question is, after this initial round, which is likely on

and i've heard north korean officials sort of float discussions that the notion citing that henry kissinger had floated the notion of, what if the u.s. and north korea were buddies? rather them north korea and china? i have heard them say that. is that what's really driving this at this point? i have no idea. but i agree with the fact that certainly, the starting place here is presumed autocrats want to hold power. i think that's where i'm starting from. and they will do what they can to hold onto power. >> finally quickly, let me bring up, otto warmbier.the young man basically brutally tortured and beaten to get by the north koreans. the president said he will bring her thing up. maybe he is on air force one watching right now. will he, should he, bring up the issue of otto warmbier? and for kim to prosecute those in his north korean government and prison system apparently killed otto warmbier? >> i think it's only appropriate for him to bring up the cases of all of these detainees. not just the one that died but those who spent years in prison. and that should be part of a broader convers