the gold standard he said he is the gold standard of international diplomats and and this guy henry kissinger says you hillary clinton are the best ever secretary of state so this is just a reminder of what we've done this is from the guardian in 2003 or 4 kissinger proves argentinian dirty war henry kissinger gave his approval to the dirty war in argentina in the seventy's and wish 30000 people were killed according to newly declassified u.s. state department documents mr kissinger who is america's secretary of state is shown to have urged the argentine military regime to act before the u.s. congress resumes session and told that washington would not cause unnecessary difficulties there's actual transcripts that show that he was like hurry up and kill as many people kill kill your and kill the opposition as fast as possible before the american people notice and and complain to their congress so make sure you do it fast right what made henry kissinger's. in argentina possible was nixon of course quote closed the gold window in 71 he was nixon's boy yes and they got off the gold standard 71 an

most frequently made by people who know very little about the cold war well you can't accuse henry kissinger of that no you can't which is why foothills of the cold war was an interesting phrase but i think you can see that henry kissinger was around at a period of to taunt which is interesting in the reading of the origins of the cold war would probably have been a little different what you do not see over here that you would have seen in the cold war was ideologies on both sides that did not think they could coexist with the other so i don't think china is committed to the overthrow of the united states system it's benefited from that system in a sustainable relationship with the united states is in chinese interests and there is the perception of that the other thing you're not seeing that's kind of crucial is proxy conflicts to my mind that was part of what made the cold war a war and the absence of that the absence of an ideological conflicts so deep that it would insist on the complete destruction of the other is what differentiates now from the cold war era now you mentioned the absen

the gold standard he said he is the gold standard of international diplomats and and this guy henry kissinger says you hillary clinton are the best ever secretary of state so this is just a reminder of what we've done this is from the guardian in 2003 or 4 kissinger approves argentinian dirty war henry kissinger gave his approval to the dirty war in argentina in the seventy's and wished 30000 people were killed according to newly declassified u.s. state department documents mr kissinger who is america's secretary of state is shown to have urged the argentine military regime to act before the u.s. congress resumes session and told that washington would. interrupt the kaiser report for breaking news that's just coming in reports are coming in that 2 people have been killed in the shooting in central moscow hawkins is in the studio with us now of course this is very early on and not much is clear but what more can you tell us at this point. jack information coming in over the last 3 or 4 minutes here about that incident the f.s.b. headquarters in central moscow. metro station it's very much a ce

great men of enduring legacy such as george marshall, dean atchison, henry kissinger. here at the mcconnell center, we already had the privilege as i think may have been mentioned to host six previous secretaries of state. george schultz was here for the opening of the program in 1991. madelieine albright, jim bakker, colin powell, condoleezza rice and hillary clinton. this morning it's our great honor to make it lucky number seven with the 70th united states secretary of state, mike pompeo. mike graduated top of his class from west point and served an accomplishment in any year, but wait until you hear about a few of mike's classmates. one is an elected member of congress and two serve as high ranking members of the state department. and one we had here, secretary of state mike esper all in the class of 1986 at west point. so this is not exactly a group of slackers. but mike rose to the very top. as a young cavalry officer mike was stationed in the divided german capital in the tenuous months before the fall of the berlin wall. he served with the forces of freedom. af

my friend henry kissinger returned from a week and china. he reported back. the chinese hierarchy had a very positive attitude toward phase one. ifm bound to say he has said it is not satisfactory, if it is not the kind of deal he wants, then the december 15 schedule tariffs will go back into place. >> so there is still a possibility? mr. kudlow: yes. i don't want to sound pessimistic. if the short strokes remaining negotiations do not pan out to his liking, those tariffs could go back into place. >> how long will it take for us to get to a phase one deal? the president said last week we could wait till after the election. he is giving you a wide range of options. i would not want to comment any further. it is what it is. the president said it could go on so it could go on. the president is happy with the outcomes that are being negotiated by secretary mnuchin. it may work. reported that agricultural purchases, getting china to commit to big purchases of u.s. agricultural goods, is a sticky point. how is that going? mr. kudlow: it is certainly a hot topic for

where here nixon is the magician and henry kissinger is the invisible figure behind the nixon sign. how that changed over the course of a year, really, very quickly, where kissinger became the magician, kissinger became the guy who did all these marvelous things that no one could imagine. or kissinger became the central figure of stability at a time when the nixon presidency was crumbling. so while kissinger was just the magician's assistant here, he became the main act very quickly. >> one thing i want to point things toward is the value of patrick oliphant's ar krooifb for us understanding this entire era. because we have right now today 15 cartoons that give us a really nice snapshot of this period in history. and what's striking me even as we're talking here, as i would think about teaching students, about the value of perspective, maybe we're in a post-truth phase of american life, i don't know. but history is one of these things where everybody has their own opinion about it and we use our evidence. to be able to look through this lens of art and commont tarry that's represent

in the fall of 1969 richard nixon with henry kissinger strongly desired to try and escalatory program in vietnam connected to the so-called madman theory. eisenhowerved dwight ended the korean war in 1953 into clear threat to the communists -- by conveying a nuclear threat to the communists. shown,s, historians have probably a misconception. death not anys threat that really led to the end of fighting in korea. but nixon believed that madman theory and hints of s collation could signal to the soviets that they would copper my's and and -- compromise and end the war. by william barr of the national security archive called nickens nuclear sector showed the moratorium movement in the fall of 19 629 was crucial-- 1969 was crucial in causing codenamedbandon massive escalations that might have entered nuclear escalations to interject the ho chi minh trail. the marches did have us get impact on policy. third, i want to raise a question that john and i discussed at a has struck a meeting years back, and this is -- john and i discussed at a historical meeting years back. could the war have bee

my friend henry kissinger just returned from a week in china and reported back. he was in the office last friday that chinese hierarchy including president xi had a very positive attitude towards phase one so you have the two leaders. on the other hand president trump first of all there is no final. second of all he has said if it is not satisfactory, that's not the kind of deal he wants than the december 15 scheduled tariffs will go back into place. >> is so there's still a possibility on the table. >> as there is but i don't want to sound pessimistic. i don't want to spend that. the reality is those tariffs are still on the table, the december 15 tariffs and the president has indicated if the short strokes remaining negotiations do not pan out to his liking that those tariffs could go back into place. so they could not but they also could pay there is no definitive decision on that yet. >> it how long is it going to take for us to get to a phase one deal? many people in administration have said we are close with the president said we could wait until after the

henry kissinger would not have liked it. >> i thought about the nixon kissinger relationship where herenixon is the magician and kissinger is the invisible figure behind the nixon front. how that changed over the course of a year. quickly where kissinger became the magician, kissinger became the guy who did all the marvelous things no one could imagine or kissinger became the essential figure of stability at a time when the nixon presidency was crumbling. kissinger is just the magician's assistant here but became the main act very quickly. >> one thing i want to point toward value of the archives for us understanding the entire era. because we have today 15 cartoons that give us a really nice snapshot of this period in history and what strikes me even as we're talking here, as i'm thinking about teaching students the value of perspective, maybe we are in a post-truth phase of american life. i do not know if we are. but history is one of the things which everybody has their own opinion about it and we need evidence to look through the lens of art and commentary that's represented in this

at that meeting were gigi and paying also talked about the trade deal in front of people like henry kissinger, gary cohen, and others. what your take on china and united states? these are completely different cultures. one culture is a communist country and it is tracking its citizens using facial recognition, another country wants freedoms, and how do you do a dealer partnership with such different approaches to life? >> it throughout the last five years or so whenever you have two gigantic economies in the world they have not been partners, they are usually rivals. this not unusual that the two biggest economies in the world are revived rivals in some respect. but i don't think organist solve this by military means, for chilly working to solve it by peaceful means some type of trade group. i think a trade agreement is in the near future can happen. i do think president trump wants it, i think she's a pain once it, i think opie a phase one it won't solve all our problems, it'll make some progress in a bigot for 2020. >> how much of the pressure was hong kong with all this? i mean you had six

c-span, your unfiltered view of next, henry kissinger speaks at the national security commission on national intelligence conference. he shared his thoughts on the emergence of ai and the role it would play in the world. >> first, we will have to use our imagination because there is no fireplace, but we are thinking of a fireside chat. grateful to have this opportunity today. dr. kissinger has been a key person you can go to it for advice about career things as well as geopolitical. dr. kissinger needs no introduction. he is one of the world's most renowned geopolitical practitioners as well as thinkers. he did that well before ai came into being. he has that rare combination of true intellect, and i really admire him for taking on something relatively new like ai after the height of his career. ai is pretty daunting. dr. kissinger decided he wanted to -- the technology and implications for our political system and geopolitics written large. as you know, he has written two articles, both published in the atlantic. 2018 and 2019. i would encourage you to read both of them. he also wrote a boo

from grace has followed but it is not the same time that the committee have audited ever since henry kissingerer country. she is basically a politician. i was lucky enough to be in myanmar seven years ago andi enough to be in myanmar seven years ago and i was at the mandalay festival and i was almost as close to her as i am to you and she was com pletely to her as i am to you and she was completely awe—inspiring and her serenity and calmness and dedication to her country shine through them and that was before she came to power. she is a politician. her father was president, he set up the burmese armed forces she is now defending or will be defending tomorrow. she clearly believes she is doing the right thing from a country but looking from the outside it is hard to understand. it will be a striking and dramatic day at the un highest court in the hague. a sombre note to an but thank you so much stock that is it for the papers. don't forget you can set the front pages on line on our website. seven days a week. if you miss the programme an evening, you can watch it later on the bbc iplayer. thank

organisation like brac could achieve and it really was kind of extraordinary how bangladesh, which henry kissingere back in the beginning of the 1970s, has enjoyed economic growth and fertility growth and it was not hard because abed focused on education and empowering rural, impoverished women and today, there are more girls in high school in bangladesh than boys because that isa in bangladesh than boys because that is a remarkable achievement and in many ways that is abed's fingerprints on it. so i saw him at conferences and in bangladesh and i grew to enormously admire what he had done, not only in his own country but later expanding that into afghanistan, south sudan, and he was really a giant over the last century in global development. he was so passionate, wasn't he, and so patient —— driven and so passionate about global development. what do you think his legacy is going to be? soi you think his legacy is going to be? so i think it is a few things. one is going to be that when he began in the development space, it was really about westerners sitting around conference rooms in places like l

sponsored coup aided by henry kissinger to talk about that in the next episode indeed yeah and you know basically that this is the root of the problem is the destruction brought on by external forces the foreigners meddling in the argentinean politics then you had of course paul singer and the hedge funds on wall street funded by money printed by central banks kristie look art is i.m.f. central bank she's in bed with paul saying our job is to work together she's now at the e.c.b. but indeed she was at the i.m.f. when they were negotiating the other central bank and she is in bed with paul singer and the same mentality it's a coup let's talk about foreign intervention because of course the. unsee has fallen by over 50 percent here inflation is raging have seen numbers between 38 and 55 percent inflation rate here's a tweet as we are flying down here so trump restores tariffs on steel and aluminum shipped from argentina and brazil citing concern about both countries devaluing their currency now usually this sort of intervention the tariffs in order to fight devaluation of currency is done

and began to listen to the tapes of president nixon talking to his staff members, talking to henry kissinger, talking to his filipino valet. i particularly remember what we call the tape of tapes, which was richard nixon taping himself listening to tapes. i was one of several people whose job it was to try to, in so far as possible, to perfect the transcription. we would sit with the headphones on, listening, trying to make out words, some of the transcription had already occurred but some of it was garbled and was not at all clear. but the tape of tapes was a big revelation to me. i had no idea he would be taping himself, listening to tapes and coming up with rationalizations so he would call somebody into the room and say, i want to play this for you. now when i said that, here is what i meant. it was a shocking experience. >> what do you think you concluded that the then president was involved in a cover-up? >> for me it was listening to the tapes and the so-called tape of tapes. it was a textbook example of trying to get stories straight and getting other people to get their stories stra

c-span, your unfiltered view of next, henry kissinger speaks at the national security commission on national intelligence conference. he shared his thoughts on the emergence of ai and the role it would play in the world.

effort was started by the shah, and with henry kissinger, with david rockefeller, and with john j. mccoy, and they put relentless pressure on the president, and they say how can you turn your back on an ally of 25 years who has done so much for us? you are weak. you are not standing behind our guy in the middle east when he needs it, and carter continued to say no, and then only in october, october 18th precise in 1979. only in october was it disclosed by david rockefeller that the shah had cancer and treated for five years. we didn't know it, and the cia didn't know it, and the family didn't know it, and that changed the whole equation. and vice president mondale and vance had been against it, and look, we can't let anybody who is dying of cancer stay out of the u.s. when he is going to need treatment here, and the president even then went the extra length and he wanted the state department doctors the give an opinion if he could be treated elsewhere. and two doctors said, probably not, and it turns out that he could have easily been treated in mexico by u.s.-trained doctors, but

quincy adams as a sad friend who lost two brothers and two sons to alcoholism and sympathize with henry kissinger who had the unenviable job of babysitting a drunk. this book has spanned four centuries and starts with the pilgrims and we will get into that it goes through the revolution, the civil war, senator joe mccarthy, the jfk assassination. i just took a bunch of events in which alcohol seemed to have or did have a huge effect on what happened and went through them. starting in 1620, so it begins with the pilgrims. when henry david thoreau moved to walden pond in 1845 the last thing that he had in mind was writing a book about it. he didn't have anywhere else to live, he had moved in with the emerson's because emerson went to europe. so throw did but he did not think he was going to write about it, he thought he would write a book about a river trip he took with his brother. but hawthorne asked him to come give a talk at the concord athenaeum. theame and david talk about river trip. in the q&a, all anybody wanted to know was what it was like to live in a shack at walden pond. so i believe t

you go to where henry kissinger is, which is the fabric of a nation and about immigration, migration,mographic trends. what did you learn in your study? abby: clearly, ours has been a nation of immigration. there has been so much noise in the discussion over the last few years that we need to look at the data, which is what we have done. one of the key observations we have made is this -- over the last 10 years, because the native population is getting older, there's a lower birth rate, a higher death rate. in fact, about 50% of the growth in our labor force and our population is now coming from immigration. that's something that really is the lifeblood for any nation's economic growth. the nations right now in the world that are struggling are often those with extremely low birth rates and in some cases stagnant population growth. tom: there has to be a policy. have life and bloomberg, i seen many policies succeed and go down on flames on vote in washington. how do we get something voted on that benefits all? abby: looking at the economic dimension, we have identified some things tha

a damning portrait of henry kissinger that won the national book critics circle award. without further do let me turn the podium over to seymour hurst. [applause] >> i'm on a clock here you're taking time up. i will say about the book i'm really glad they told you were to buy it, because it is the backbone of the exhibit and it's an amazing book. i will tell you this. and this some of you have read it you can daydream for second or two, but if you haven't, just start off with the report , dennis stout, bill's short, those three essays will get you all of the book nothing well. i'm here because i'm a vietnam war junkie like most of you here. i happen to believe, i happen to know, you can't hear me? you know i've given speeches before with huge auditoriums where at the end of the speech everybody came up to me and said they couldn't hear anything. [laughter] so what's wrong with you people if you can hear? [laughter] i mean come on, we would not have ended the war if everybody had that attitude out say that. anyway, i'm a junkie on the war. i do believe it's the most misr

a pr effort started by the shah with henry kissinger, david rockefeller, and they put relentless pressure on the president, saying how can you turn your back on an ally of 25 years who has done so much for us? you are weak. you are not standing height our guy in the middle east when he needs it. carter continued to say no. and then in october, only in october was it disclosed by david rockefeller that the shah had cancer and had been treated for five years. his own family did not know it. that changed the equation. vice president mondale, who had been against it, said, we can't let someone dying of cancer stay out of the u.s. the president, even then, one of the state department doctors to give an opinion. can he be treated elsewhere? two doctors said, probably not. it turns out he could easily have been treated in mexico by u.s. trained doctors. that was the precipitating factor. as carter said at the beginning, when all the others said, we have to admit him, carter said, what are you going to ask me to do if they storm the embassy again as they did in february, but this time they don't

was brought into the united states and as he was pressed by the advisers and by outsiders like henry kissinger and the rockefellers to let the shah come in, he kept asking, when they take the embassy what options do i have and the answer they came back at him, you don't have any good options. the iranians were right. that's the significant point of this, the slogan on the wall there isn't anything you can do about it is very much correct. it was a inference of the impotence of the united states of america, because the bar for success that carter saged and that every american expected would be staged was that the hostages be brought home all of them alive and well. that we weren't going to lose any hostages in the process. if that's the bar you set, then you needed to persuade the iranians to hand them over. and as suzanne has pointed out, we went into a carrots and sticks phase. the problem was the carrots we had weren't very good. and the sticks we had took a long time to become operational. diplomatic isolation, economic sanctions, things like that will work. but might take 444 day, might ha