and they have a whole room dedicated to henry kissinger. and that probably goes a little further than i would go. you know, there have been lots of polemics aimed at kissinger calling him a war criminal and a traitor. i do take lying to the president as a pretty serious charge. and the documentary evidence is overwhelming that he sent nixon summaries that were inaccurate statements. that's the softest language i can use. inaccurate statements of what was said. kissinger, the way -- this gets back to one of suzanne's questions and how has he maintained the reputation. because he takes partial responsibility for that. so in his memoir he'll say i committed the cardinal sin of a negotiator. i became an advocate for my own negotiation. so what kissinger would say in this situation is if i wasn't telling the president that there was hope in paris for a peace agreement, a half-cocked nixon was going to go and bomb them back to the stone able. so i was actually the -- stone age. so i was actually the brakes. that's how he explained this. it's not h

henry kissinger was u.s. president gerald ford secretary of state at the time in a nine hundred seventy four document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive fifty population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. no country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion. where women in the united states were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies american foundations and politicians were pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. in the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters the consequences are omnipresent in india today once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low socio economic standing like nineteen year olds the gina. today's with her brother's family he is her protector and saved her life three years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. flashback after vanished sold everything tr

henry kissinger was u.s. president gerald ford secretary of state at the time in the one nine hundred seventy four document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive fifty population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. no country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion. while women in the united states were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies american foundations and politicians were pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. in the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters the consequences are omnipresent in india today once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low socio economic standing like nineteen year olds the gina. two days with her brother's family he is her protector and saved her life three years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. flashback after vanished sold everyt

he had seen the rivalries between henry kissinger and george schulz and others. he knew he didn't want that. so he said it up so that he would get honest advice. of people he put in charge foreign policy would have that responsibility themselves. to craigny thanks gordon here in washington at the michael mckee up in new york. we welcome now kevin cirilli, bloomberg's chief washington correspondent. kevin, give us a sense of the atmosphere up there at the cathedral now. moments ago, president trump and first lady melania and their motorcade making their way directly on the road behind as they departed national cathedral. there are five presidents in total here at this or a money, president trump in the front room -- at this ceremony, president trump in the front and with president obama president carter and their respective wives. it was a moment of political pause, politics on pause for much of that. body language and the interaction between all of these leaders will be dissected. from here, president trump returns to the white house. he has meetings today with k

it is what i, with good intentions and my heart, blame this on henry kissinger. he has not changed his mind. kissinger, tory whom i was an advisor, he never backed off the country's enthusiasm for china that began in 1971. that is what the chinese are worried about. they know some of their oldest friends have doubts. they have not yet publicly expressed concerns. on the other hand, you can go too far. there are a number of super hawks, more hawkish than i am. they ignore the cooperation, they ignore the benefits, they ignore the possibility of negotiating with the chinese to get them to reduce their worst abuses. it is good of you to bring up these concerns. i hope you buy "the 100 year marathon." you will find more to raise your concerns about china. the optimism about changing china is still with a lot of people, including me. i think that is one of president trump's goals he. s china to stop the theft and abuse. there is a long list. the chinese are very aware of this list. they are always checking, how much pressure do you have? how much of the congress suppor

not only henry kissinger, that the fact the u.s. will be in the meeting indicates part of a trade deal. >> that's what it will have to come down to. moving up the value chain and technology is now sort of the golden apple. that is why all of a sudden america's gotten serious about protect and peered if they learn how to make a truck. it's another thing if they begin to make progress on 5g for example talking earlier about huawei. that is serious in terms of our future, our technology companies, which never has been in doubt before now maybe it is. david: speaking of her immediate future tumor we get the jobs report. what do you expect and how do you think the crazy market is going to react? >> we will see fewer jobs created in tomorrow's report than last month. probably under 150 if i'm not mistaken. which is not that bad but normal circumstances. the market has been prepared for 200 i don't think we'll get there. stock prices have to be sold into. >> don't you think the higher in the past couple months has been borrowing for now. o

obama flynn then nothing wrong he did it on the orders of trump who was following the advice of henry kissinger perfectly normal why did flynn lie that the f.b.i. that's a different question what do you think of who. now i step back i cease to be a very worried american a citizen and i become a historian of russia which has been my subject for forty or fifty years in history when we get away from all this when you and i have joined the majority as they say and historians write this era they will rank futile as one of the greatest leaders in russian history and certainly as of two thousand we're approaching two nineteen he's in power twenty years probably the preeminent statesman of the twentieth century we're not allowed to say that today because we have to demonizing the dentist oracle context he presided over the salvation of russia after it's a collapse in the one nine hundred ninety s. by so salvation i mean men were dying at fifty seven years nobody was getting their wages or their pensions factories were closing all that is mostly in the past he didn't do it alone if he built a team that

so richard nixon, henry kissinger, the order of the day was detente. jimmy carter. when gerald ford became president after nixon resigned, he refused to meet alexander solzhenitsyn because of fears of offending the soviet union. jimmy carter gave a speech at notre dame in which he talked about overcoming our, quote, inordinate fear of communism. and then, this is absolutely the dominant mode of thinking in both parties. nixon, carter, then in 1977, ronald reagan is a former governor, he has not declared for president yet, they are talking about foreign policy, and he said, would you like to hear my theory of the cold war? of course. my theory is simple. we win and they lose. the question is, what gave him whatever it was, the courage, the insight, how did he so self confidently place himself in opposition to the entire mindset? >> he was not just being facetious as some people accused him of the time. what he was saying is, i have a strategy which is not just giving in or allowing a moral equivalency between marxism and freedom. it is a matter of knowing their vulne

henry kissinger. i once asked henry kissinger what makes a great leader?ce add trial. >> he certainly did that with the loss of his daughter. >> kpleexactly. >> and i think that contributed to his compassion and depth as a human being. >> you covered a lot of the ite houses. and all that -- how is it he different just in the day to day of being in and around the white house. >> i covered carter, reagan and bush. and i never saw carter or reagan wandering around the white house, you know poking into offices. i he would say, hey how are you? and tease, towel snapping. he was a person person if you know what i mean. >> if he was upset with the press did you know it? did you hear from him. >> not personal but we knew it. we had a press secretary, the buffer. but i got many lovely notes. and they were all the kind of notes you have heard from other reporters. all is forgiven kind of notes. >> it's interesting. yes. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say one other thing, covering the white house wsh barbara bush had a meeting with a group of us. and we had lunch up

you better check with henry kissinger. the chinese sent someone else to president ford right away. chinese?d you learn pres. bush: every day for five days a week. brian: how did you do? pres. bush: i gave a going away speech in chinese. all of the people that worked around the embassy understood i was speaking in chinese. the language teacher was in the back. i loved it. brian: you have some old chicken scratch chinese downstairs in your library. pres. bush: i didn't write it. brian: you are trying to do the characters. pres. bush: all i did was speaking. brian: what did you learn from your experience as a chinese liaison? pres. bush: the importance of china. i saw the disadvantages of a totally closed society. i appreciated that there are far more human liberties and human rights in china today. it is not perfect by a long shot. the family was still a strong entity in china. 1970, out there in thinking the family is falling apart in china. the minute i got there, i saw how wrong that was. society was closed. people were scared to talk to you. you were followed. i learned a lot. yo

google, oracle, and qualcomm, plus the presidents of mit and carnegie mellon university along with henry kissingerjared kushner, ivanka trump and larry kudlow to name a few while we're also told that president trump stopped by the meeting as well. senior administration officials describing it as a listening session to talk about artificial intelligence, computing, 5 g and advanced manufacturing. one official saying quote we want their suggestions on how we can create an environment to dominate in these industries. also joining the discussion the president's top trade rep robert lighthiz lighthizer. one official saying he was brought into the meeting in anticipation that the ceos would want to discuss the theft of intellectual property. that is at the very top of the list for president trump and his trade team as they engage in ongoing discussions with china. back to you in new york. david: all right, blake thank you. how will the president press these companies about the bias he sees in social media? >> well, david, this is amazing about these companies who know the political world they live in th

it is possible donald trump has out negotiated henry kissinger's talks with the chinese. on the other hand the downside is president xi jinping may face opposition when he gets back home. member when chairman kim got home from singapore and people started getting killed because they are accused of opening with donald trump. that could be happening in china. chinese press has been fascinated with these agreements. they've not mentioned anything. today's the headline is about president xi jinping and panama. it is a little like saying this never happened. there was a nice dinner but we didn't make these concessions. they don't come out and say that. the key is donald trump promise out of respect to president bush and his funeral that he would wait for his own press conference to explain what happened after that so as soon as tomorrow afternoon and later this week, we will get donald trump's personal view of what happened. we may not get the chinese view for quite some time because they may have made concessions so great to donald trump that they don't want to tell their own

you better check with henry kissinger. the chinese sent someone else to president ford right away. brian: did you learn chinese? pres. bush: every day for five days a week. brian: how did you do? pres. bush: i gave a going away speech in chinese. all of the people that worked around the embassy understood i was speaking in chinese. the language teacher was in the back. i loved it. brian: you have some old chicken scratch chinese downstairs in your library. pres. bush: i didn't write it. brian: you are trying to do the characters. pres. bush: all i did was speaking. brian: what did you learn from your experience as a chinese liaison? pres. bush: the importance of china. i saw the disadvantages of a totally closed society. i appreciated that there are far more human liberties and human rights in china today. it is not perfect by a long shot. the family was still a strong entity in china. i went out there in 1970, thinking the family is falling apart in china. the minute i got there, i saw how wrong that was. society was closed. people were scared to talk to you. you were followed. i

archives show accent for roughly six to 12 hour period cannot deal with being the president and henry kissingeris telling people he's in charge of october 1973. so he's shown he's been pretty heavy doses of both authors and downers. you mix that with a few drinks and that's why when you listen to the tapes you notice in certain periods you can hear nixon's speech slurred when hr haldeman re-signs and john deane misfired it doesn't take much for his speech to slurred. i'm kind of dancing around the main question here is the short answer is i don't know if there's a lot of stuff that you hear on the tapes that is quite concerning that is dangerously close to what you read from woodward and bernstein in the mid-70s in terms of having a breakdown and the loyalists say that they are just basing this on nothing you listen to the tapes ended thanks to this report seem quite credible. >> listening to your excerpts from the tape, what struck me was how nixon used the word geek to describe people who were in fact strong and displaying integrity and that made me think that in our current president describ

university presidents of carnegie mellon university, henry kissinger was here involved we're told.top members of the obama administration, jared kushner, ivanka trump, larry kudlow to name a few. quantum computing artificial intelligence. we want to have their suggestions how to create a environment to dominate in these industries. also part of the meeting today was president's top trade rep bob light highs earns. the reason he was involved we're told the white house was anticipating once they get all the ceos in the room one of the issues they would want to talk about is the theft of intellectual property. charles, as you know, that is at the very, very top of the list for the u.s. trade team as it relates to their talks with china and potential new trade deal. charles. charles: sounds like it was exciting. blake, thank you very much. folks it is easy on days like today for people to worry about their 401(k)s. coming up real advice how to handle the volatility and how do rich people manage this sort of thing, right? we'll be right back. the ♪ only half the story? at t. rowe price

it's possible that president trump has out negotiated henry kissinger's talks with the chinese. on the other hand, the downside is that president a xi jinping may face opposition when he gets back home. remember when chairman kim came back from singapore all of us and people started getting killed because they were accused of being against the opening with president trump. the chinese press has been quite fascinating with the chatter about the agreements that took place. they have not mentioned anything today's big headline in the chinese brush is all about president xi in panama. they are a little bit about saying, this never happened. yes, there was a nice dinner but we didn't make all these concessions. they didn't actually come out and say that, so the key thing is going to be president trump promised out of respect of president bush and his family, he would wait to his own press conference to explain what happened. as soon as tomorrow afternoon or later on this week, we will get president trump's personal view of what happened, but we may not get the chinese you for quite s

president richard nixon and his secretary of state henry kissinger arrived in beijing in one nine hundred seventy two it was a historic meeting with moussa tongue about the balance of power and the mutual commitment to world peace. there is no reason for us to be enemies. neither of us domination over the other. neither of us seek to stretch out our air. and weigh the world. but the fear of the americans of chinese supremacy and thus the supremacy of communism was great and the fear that chinese population growth seemed unstoppable . after nixon's visit the floodgates opened for western family planners the chinese government had a sympathetic ear for them. mao's successor deng xiaoping introduced the one child policy millions were trained as les health workers the so-called barefoot doctors their mission distributing contraceptives all over the country and ensuring that couples only had one child. they have. no. family planning became a matter of state if anyone expected a second child they faced draconian punishments. the government used graffiti on building facades warning people to obe

for the six to 12 hour period henry kissinger is telling people he's been charged in october 1973.you can hear nixon's speeches were when hr haldeman and john ehrlichman resign. it didn't take much for his speech to slur i'm kind of dancing around the main question here. it's quite concerning that it's dangerously close to what you read from woodward and bernstein in the mid-70s in terms of having a breakdown and the loyalists say that they are basing it on nothing. they were in fact strong and displaying integrity and that made me think that our current president just described jeff sessions every week attorney general and i was wondering if you had observed any other linguistic parallels. as many of you know they are not carbon copies, they have different personalities there are important similarities and you have identified one of them. in addition to saying someone like elliot richardson is the evil here the terms soft. he never fully defines what it is it's vaguely conservative but largely defined by toughness and masculinity. and it is once again largely by what he opposes. h

1970 was that he didn't know anything about diplomacy, therefore he would be willing to do what henry kissinger wanted him to do. that moment that bush was willing to make that deal, do exactly what i need to do, because it was a chance to learn. >> it is amazing to hear stories about how single decisions, things change. he wasn't treasury secretary, he was ambassador to the u.n. and opened up the world to him and changed the way the world worked. thank you so much. get back to you later today. join cnn tonight as we honor the life and legacy of george h.w. bush. we begin at 8 eastern with a special report remembering 41. >> coming up from his life in the navy and beyond, george h.w. bush left an indelible mark on many lives he touched. up next, we talk with one of his former speech writers about their time and work together. ♪ introducing the new capital one savor card. earn 4% cash back on dining and 4% on entertainment. now when you go out, you cash in. what's in your wallet? i felt i couldn't be at my best for my family., in only 8 weeks with mavyret, i was cured and left those doubts behin

you better check with henry kissinger. he said he thought it would be all right. the chinese sent someone else to president ford right away. it worked and i loved it. brian: you try to learn chinese? pres. bush: every day for five days a week. brian: how did you do? pres. bush: i gave a going away speech in chinese. i think all of them understood i was speaking in chinese all of , the people that worked around the embassy. the language teacher was in the back, a quiet little lady. i loved it. brian: you have some old chicken scratches on chinese downstairs in your library. pres. bush: i did not write characters. that must be somebody else. brian: you are trying to do the characters. pres. bush: i could not read characters. all i did was speaking. brian: what did you learn from your experience as a chinese liaison? pres. bush: i learned how to buy noodles in chinese. i learned the importance of china. i saw the disadvantages of a totally closed society. having been there, i appreciate that there are far more human liberties and human rights in china today than when

and that was something henry kissinger was trying to stop him from saying because he was afraid it wouldrive nixon into a corner. in the context at the time, bush is fine on watergate and i think did everything he could in the fullness of his political career to try to restore trust in the presidency itself. >> there was never an accusation against him of the watergate sort. and under jobs you don't want to have, chairing the rnc during watergate and after the church hearings. those were two jobs no politician who wanted a future would have ever taken. and it's remarkable that he was able to become president after taking each of them. >> it does speak to his character in that regard. john, or susan as well, did george h.w. bush have any regrets? he faces criticism for not doing enough on the aids crisis, for example. >> i ask him that a lot and what he came back to was, i shouldn't have said read my lips. and he believed that that is what cost him the presidency in 1992. he didn't regret the deal he made with senator mitchell, which was a good deal, and modern american history, when he h

president richard nixon and his secretary of state henry kissinger arrived in beijing in one thousand nine hundred seventy two it was a historic meeting with mounts a tongue about the balance of power and the mutual commitment to world peace. there is no reason for us to be enemies. neither of us domination over the other. neither of us think. and will the world. but the fear of the americans of chinese supremacy and thus the supremacy of communism was great and the fear that chinese population growth seemed unstoppable. after nixon's visit the floodgates opened for western family planners the chinese government had a sympathetic ear for them. mao's successor deng xiaoping introduced the one child policy millions were trained as les health workers the so-called barefoot doctors their mission distributing contraceptives all over the country and ensuring that couples only had one child. they have. no. family planning became a matter of state if anyone expected a second child they faced draconian punishments. the government used graffiti on building facades warning people to obey you can

foreign policy in the area, especially with henry kissinger and others in the republican side, was toof the middle east, because they were threatening so many things that were going on. and kissinger got them out. they have now gotten back in. and that's dangerous to what we're trying to pursue. the iranians will draw strength from this. they'll be seen as more important in the area. you know, i don't see how we go forward with a middle east peace plan easily now in the area because we're seen as an unreliable partner. >> an important point because it's another priority for the president. >> a very important priority. >> david gergen, thanks very much. >> major concerns surrounding a memo sent by president trump's pick to replace former attorney general jeff sessions. meanwhile, the acting attorney general has gotten advice on whether he should distance himself from the mueller investigation after he repeatedly publicly criticized the probe. well, how are the massage chairs working out for everyone? i dunno. i'm still a little stressed about buying our new house. well, it's a good thi

henry kissinger as well meeting with top members of the trump administration. jared kushner, ivanka trump, larry kudlow part of that meeting we're told. we're also told president trump was there stopped by a for a brief period as well. talking about the future of inknow vision, 5g, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence. a senior administration firm telling us one of the reasons why we want these tech execs, we want to know how we can seek an environment to dominate in these industries. also present, top trade representative robert lighthizer. one of the reasons they brought him in the discussions because in advance they were gearing up possibility at least tech ceos would want to discuss theft of intellectual property. this is one of the top issues with the president's trade team as it relates to china and the on going negotiations there. melissa. melissa: you better get that phone, blake. it could be the president. connell: the panel, carol and adam back to talk about this a little bit more. carol, you know what i thought was inter

mel laird wanted america to get out of vietnam faster than richard nixon and henry kissinger wanted. he was a former he member of congress. he played nixon. and the reason we got out of vietnam as fast as we did, wasn't fast enough, but as fast as we did was this man. he did it behind the scenes, and he didn't do it publicly because he wanted to succeed. we have had presidents fire secretaries of state -- i mean secretaries of defense. harry truman did it. he fired louis johnson. barack obama pretty much fired chuck hagel. but what we haven't seen before is a secretary of state go public and say that the american president, our president, is not committed to collective security, is not committed to allies. is not committed to nato. and that his vision for american defense is not the vision of defense that every post-world war ii secretary of defense has tried to implement. and that's astounding. there have been 26 of them. this is the first time a secretary defense has ever said to the world that we have a president who doesn't understand allies. >> the former editor of "the new york

. >> i mean, again, you had an extraordinary conversation with henry kissinger, it was afterwards you discussed nixon's final days, and you asked about his mental health. he said it was a rather scary period. we were living in a nuclear world. what did you think when you heard kissinger say that? >> kissinger, who i liked though i've offended him once or twice. he said an interesting thing. it didn't hit me so much until later, how would you describe nixon or what was nixon, and he said just about anything you would say about him would be true. isn't that wonderful? >> that is wonderful, and kind of weirdly, during that time, you know, you were speaking to senator ted kennedy. and he was talking about a health care bill. i mean, it was all those years ago and how he hoped to pass it through the senate and he called it the health security act. that was in 1972, and just because of the craziness over the political battle over health care still today, i want to play that clip of ted kennedy with you. >> you become bankrupt too often or you're never really assured of quality health care.

remodeling of the west wing that bathroom was moved into the national security council's office for henry kissinger mondale said they were fighting over a bathroom but you will read in some detail that this fully engaged vice president came within an eyelash of resigning or at least deciding not to be on the ticket because of all of the resignations. >> inflation was a problem carter tried multiple plans to deal with it we inherited it. so he decided to take tough medicine in the election year over the opposition of many of us in the white house he appointed paul volcker to head the fed knowing that he was going to choke the economy squeeze inflation out raise interest rates and lead to higher unemployment the lower inflation eventually. the meeting they had in the oval office was a classic volcker as 1 foot taller 6-foot 7 inches a giant man carter describes vividly in the book how he was slouching over a couch in the oval office but he did appoint him and let him do his job and supported that tough monetary policy without any complaints even during an election year. he was not the ultimate benefi

i think when we look historically at what he did, i remember henry kissinger saying that bush had the most consequential foreign policy presidency of any president since truman. for kissinger to say that, you know it has to be true. >> it is in many ways foreign policy. the massive transformations that took place around the globe that obviously is the legacy of the bush presidency. it does seem that no matter what, no matter what we make of the domestic side of things, that foreign policy legacy, the end of the soviet union, the end of

check with henry kissinger. he thought it would be all right, and the chinese sent an agreement to president ford, so it worked, and i loved it. brian: you tried to learn chinese? pres. bush: every day for five days a week. brian: how did you do? pres. bush: i gave a going away speech in chinese and i think all of them understood i was speaking in chinese, the people that worked around the embassy. i am not sure they did. the language teacher was in the back, quiet, little lady, smiling, making sure i got annunciation, the four -- pronunciation, the four tones right. brian: you have some chicken scratch of chinese in your library. pres. bush: i didn't write characters, so it must be somebody else's. brian: you are trying to do the english with characters around it. pres. bush: all i did was the language speaking. brian: what did you learn as your experience as liaison? pres. bush: how to buy noodles in chinese. i learned about the importance of china. i was there in a tough time. i saw this advantage of -- the d

i think when we look historically at what he did, i remember henry kissinger saying that bush had the most consequential foreign policy presidency of any president since truman. for kissinger to say that, you know it has to be true. >> it is in many ways foreign policy. the massive transformations that took place around the globe that obviously is the legacy of the bush presidency. it does seem that no matter what, no matter what we make of the domestic side of things, that foreign policy legacy, the end of the soviet union, the end of soviet commune in addition. reunification of germany. >> i don't mean to bring him into the argument compare and contrast, but one of the great gifts of president bush and the phenomenal people he kept around. we've talked about secretary baker. was their ability to build coalitions. and it wasn't just on self-interest. it was also on values and on the personal trust and the respect that president bush had around the world. i was at a state dinner in the kremlin and you could see in the room just total respect for the president of the united states. >>

. >> it is a moment in diplomacy, alisyn, where henry kissinger used to call it strategic ambiguity and help, but as we saw in helsinki with putin or sing poer with kim jong-un if you walk out of a meeting and each have a different sense what have the other guy agreed to and what your obligations are you're simply setting yourself up for frustration. take north korea, the president can say we've accomplished denuclearization but the last i checked not only has north korea not moved in that direction, but it's actually moved farther away from it. that again is the problem of having meetings that have, say, no staff in the room, no clear communiquÉ and no serious follow-up. >> i want to ask you about this moment that has gotten so much attention and that was mohammed bin salman greeting vladimir putin and they were beaming. i mean, they publicly are sort of high-fiving each other. many people have never seen vladimir putin smiling this broadly. what message did you take from that moment? >> you have something of a pariahs club and there they are, what they have in common is they murder po

he was going to be his henry kissinger. now he's state's witness against him.atasha, this is drama. we're expecting it to percolate to a boil tonight some time when that report comes out. how does this fit into the story of donald trump's investigation, rather, his being investigated? >> yeah, so michael flynn is really at the center of multiple inquiries, as we've pointed out. he's at the center of whether the campaign conspired with russia so lift sanctions for some kind of help during the election and he's also pivotal to the investigation in whether the president tried to obstruct justice. in that way he is very dangerous for president trump at this moment. i do think it's -- it's not -- it shouldn't be understated the extent to which michael flynn lied to the fbi. he was also, perhaps, trying to protect himself because as harry alluded to, he was also pursuing a nuclear deal to build nuclear reactors across the middle east with russia's help that would have required lifting sanctions on russia. so, this was not completely out of -- he didn't lie to the fbi

henry kissinger, the chairman of the joint chiefs.crisis now, ien don't know who steps in since the president could et blow up any kind of ongoing negotiation or situation at will with the tweet. so i think this is really dangerous territory. >> and dangerous territory. daniel, you commented last night that one of the president's challenges has been -- and he just since the midterms especially hasn't been able to cope with it, everywhere he turns in this democracy he faces institutional constraints. and it's something that this man completely ignorant of government, completely ignorant of the constitution, ignorant of american history never understood. >> that's correct. i think it actually is one of the explanations if r why he potentially sort of forced mattis out. think this week alone. even just two days ago where president trump has been trying to jawbone the fed to not raise interest rates and discovered they are not going to listen to him on this. trump's pressure probably forced their hand in terms of requiring them to raise i

do you choose to highlight, you know, somebody -- the chief of staff, the president's lawyer, henry kissinger. how do you make those choices? how do you ask those questions? >> and i know people will understandably debate this, but when i thought about it, and i talked with people and it was -- i didn't do this alone, but when i thought about what a federal institution, a federal library should be i felt that given the history of this particular place because it had been run as a very insular, i would argue, sectarian private library that the most important thing to do was to open it all up and to make clear there was no enemy's list. when i arrived there, i was told by the private foundation that there were people that just couldn't come, and i thought that if that were the spirit of this place, we would fail. the national archives reputation would be tarnished if we participated in a continuation of a nixonian enemy's list. well, who are those people? bob woodward, carl bernstein, john dean. i made sure that before i left that institution bob woodward, carl bernstein and john dean were ther

henry kissinger, as close as henry was, never knew about the tapes.pes. >> 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. 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. which is a crying shame. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ it's just a cough. yeah right, and i was born yesterday. (indistinct announcement over pa system) i'm a baby! what? treat your cough seriously with robitussin dm max. it soothes in seconds and delivers fast, powerful cough reli

henry kissinger. thanks for joining. >> thank you. >> so as we discussed president bush 41's legacy is largely one of national security and particularly leading this nation after the cold war. dr. kissinger, could you share with us, how you remember what that leadership looked like? >> president bush was dedicated to public service from his youth. i knew him since the '60s and considered that his mission in whatever form the government might call-- th during his administration, that communism collapsed and he also had a war in the middle east that occupied a part of kuwait, international roles and put together an international coalition successfully. relates with china after the upheaval that had taken place in beijing. so he was a believer that threat of democracy was an american mission, but he also foreign policies that he did not celebrate victories in the way that humiliated people that had to be brought into the international system. for example, he did not visit berlin in the immediate aftermat

. >> when we ended the show, we got telegrams of congratulations from henry kissinger and ronald reaganze 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 "mash" 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 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 where, you

mountain in the world and i think when we look historically at what he did, he -- i remember henry kissingeraying he had head the most consequential foreign policy presidency of any president since truman and for him to say that when he hadn't been directly involved you know it has to be true. >> and general mccaffrey, it is in many ways foreign policy, the massive transformations that took place around the globe that obviously is the legacy of the bush presidency and it does seem that no matter what, no matter what we make of the domestic side of things, that foreign policy legacy, the end of the soviet union, the end of soviet communis communism. the gulf war in 1991, those really are just -- they're towering moments in history no matter what your opinion was of the politics or leadership of george h.w. bush. >> fascinating contrast to today's challenges with mr. trump and i don't mean to bring him into the argument to compare and contrast but one of the great gifts of president bush and the phenomenal people he kept around him and we've talked ability secretary baker was their ability to

henry kissinger tried to keep him out of a meeting with mau in beijing and at that time mr.s the ambassador but he managed to get in there and he didn't complain to the press about it. we heard about it from other people that they tried to exclude him from the meeting when he came out therefore he said he had never heard chairman of any party or any country talk the way that mau did and he gave us a very vivid description of what was going on. so that is what really sticks in my mind from a public point of view and then privately i had spent time with him hunting quail down in south texas and he was the same in person as he was in public. he was this modest man, he didn't expect everyone to rise and greet him when he walked into the room, he sat at the dinner table of his partners and friends like jim baker and al simpson and just one of the guys. so he was so authentic and everything he did, given his accomplishments and even his family background. >> let me ask you, john mclachlin, to the point tom was just making, this man was an institutionalist, a military aviator at a

i would suggest the same as they did with henry kissinger, they will wait us out.ution for the they'reo the problems having, the escalating tariffs. they would like to see a cooling off. they do not want a trade battle with the united states that moves in the wrong direction because it cuts off certain exports. they want to keep export growth up. , as xi jinping indicated, they are not going to give into everything we are asking for. where there are ways of opening their economy further by lowering tariffs, to buy more american goods, as they have indicated they will do, they are going to do that. they have intellectual property they are developing. we have concerns and i think there is a way of reducing tensions in that area. roach -- back to steve is this a new china or are there reaction functions what you and steve roach lived, what secretary kissinger changed? robert: it is a new china. tom: in what way? robert: they are innovative. i gave a talk and they lot of companies. they are developing their own innovation. they are competitive with american companies i

-chinese relations since henry kissinger went to beijing in 1971. neil: you know what i still have trouble understanding here i thought as soon as the chinese had released on bail, meng wanzhou even though she can't leave there, she was released with ankle bracelet, she can't leave. this former canadian official they apprehended would be let go. but no. they brought him to a different location. we don't know where the location is. they took in another canadian, that prompted a warning, issue of concern for travelers to china out of our state department, essentially if you don't have to go there don't. i'm overstating it but what is going on here? i understand working on difficult tracks but this could get nasty? >> yeah, no question. i think the chinese really want this card in their hand because they want this huawei sick tiff returned to china. they will exact a pound of flesh and demonstrate that they can go tit-for-tat with anybody that is going after the -- neil: we must have very good dirt on her, right? there is all sorts of espionage, steali

it goes back to the -- murder henry kissinger was involved with and molecular to -- manipulating of an election for it i believe it was 1968. and we areat this not calling it what it is. trump is turning a blind eye to political assassinations around the world because they buy american arms. all the while, in our country, democracy is fading. you have the gop manipulating elections in north carolina and wisconsin -- do what north carolina did a few years ago and cripple the governor. when the people decide they have had enough of this republican theage and walking tightrope, the economic tightrope where we have to have cheap gas, we have to have this .nd that corporations keep getting tax cuts and the rich get richer and we are headed for totalitarian rule. i give you the optics. donald trump in his little tv set with all the goldplated furniture like he was putin and some of these other eastern block presidents and dictators and it is just -- a big charade and the republican party and the rank-and-file that keep this fraud going and they choose to go down the road of a week democracy