we talk about this period of time and not mention henry kissinger.e surfaces. personally asks president ford to have -- well, i guess, it is get me carlucci to portugal. tell us about what was going on in portugal at the time and why henry kissinger thought your father was a person who could address what he needed in portugal. guest: during this period of time, portugal was transitioning . the 50 years prior, portugal was under an autocracy and kissinger was extremely worried that -- and convince that portugal was going to fall under communist rule so he wanted to send carlucci to portugal to change the situation. my dad, nominated as ambassador there, goes to portugal, and within -- and is the kind of same things he had done in the foreign service. he lands in portugal. he's able to speak portuguese because he had served in brazil. he was the first ambassador there to speak portuguese. and he assesses the situation on the ground in portugal and figures out, actually, no, i don't think this country is going to stay communist. i think there's going to

henry kissinger at the height of his power. right. you know going and saying actually where you see communism as the outcome? i differ. and he did not appreciate. no, no, henry kissinger did not appreciate it that my my my dad said i'm i think you're wrong. and he pretty staunch in that opinion. and he came to washington and i said he said, i you're wrong. and he was proven correct. and i believe henry kissinger said something to the effect of, well, then you do it. yeah, then you do it. and he did. and he did. yeah. pretty remarkable. my sense was, is that post ambassador to portugal was was perhaps one of his favorite. i think kind of moments in his career. yeah obviously, they went on to other more senior and perhaps rivals. but that one it didn't seem to reflect to me kind of his quality and were able to play out and i think and and you know, think about it this way, like for 50 years now, portugal has been a democratic country. so the so the his influence there, he was able to give the portuguese the spirit out and the, you know,

>> i was working for henry kissinger during those vietnam peace negotiations i'm familiar with the issuesnd talked about this topic but the situation is completely different pair win we left vietnam we left. there were no americans left behind. win the left afghanistan we left with no americans left behind. what are we going to do now? president trump is already talking to volodomyr zelenskyy about economic develop it of ukraine. for example once the fighting stops united states we'll be in ukraine probably helping develop their rare-earth minerals and natural resources. we are going to be there. if there is anybody who won't want to invade it's the russians going to invade where americans are sitting on the ground of the economic activities. >> martha: very interesting. and what about peacekeepers from europe? russia says no way. nato peacekeepers on the ground won't happen. a quick thought if you can. >> yeah, i mean nato peacekeepers probably doesn't make a lot of sense p but there are many other ways you can have peaks keeping in forces on the ground they don't have to be nato forces

peter: the forward for your book was written by henry kissinger.he preaches by james baker, two republicans. stuart: yes, because i wanted to show that what's critical about diplomacy is that it be bipartisan. if we're going to be successful, we have to show a united front and one of the concerns i have really in today's world is there's so much domestic polarization where your opponent is not just the honorable opposition. they're your enemy and when the foreign countries with whole american diplomats are negotiating see that kind of division at home, they are strengthened against us and we have less leverage so, for example, putin now in ukraine. he looks at the fact it took six months to get in panel of funding and he feels like he can just wait us out so this polarization is tremendously i think, a weight on the shoulders of di policemen city and to have a very good diplomatic posture, the u.s. needs to be strong militarily, economically but also politically. i wrote the book really for three reasons. the first is, we're living in an era of see

peter: the forward for your book was written by henry kissinger.he preaches by james baker, two republicans. stuart: yes, because i wanted to show that what's critical about diplomacy is that it be bipartisan. if we're going to be successful, we have to show a united front and one of the concerns i have really in today's world is there's so much domestic polarization where your opponent is not just the honorable opposition. they're your enemy and when the foreign countries with whole american diplomats are negotiating see that kind of division at home, they are strengthened against us and we have less leverage so, for example, putin now in ukraine. he looks at the fact it took six months to get in panel of funding and he feels like he can just wait us out so this polarization is tremendously i think, a weight on the shoulders of di policemen city and to have a very good diplomatic posture, the u.s. needs to be strong militarily, economically but also politically. i wrote the book really for three reasons. the first is, we're living in an era of see

a decade later, henry kissinger signed the framework for one. >> as henry kissinger told gerald ford,s is not an issue we want to confront the world on. it looks like pure colonialism. >> in 1977, jimmy carter conceded the canal to panama. when panama took over they established an independent governmental authority asked to run the canal for profit and to modernize it. and it became a capitalist gem in central america, not known for such achievements. >> panamanians after the u.s. returned sovereignty to panama of the canal, they made a major project, cost them $6 billion to carry ships. >> since then it has become vital to u.s. trade. >> if you bought an iphone or a tv or a wash or dry or on the -- or a washer/dryer on the east coast of the united states in the last decade, you can thank the panama canal. the really important and strategic and overlooked aspect of the canal are liquid natural gas and liquid propane gas exports from the united states that come down the mississippi river, go out the gulf of mexico or i guess the gulf of america, and go through the canal. there is an en

henry kissinger first book his doctoral dissertation the world restored is about the peace conference at vienna following, the great napoleonic wars, which aimed not at transformation but at stability and. kissinger is very approving of the statesmanship of those who made the peace. vienna. i have always read that book as an indirect of woodrow wilson for trying to go further and yet realize i'm settling for what you get. try not trying to beyond what seems feasible, the time also has its after all for david ben-gurion and for the jewish in israel and mandatory palestine by the british. a jewish was simply a dream. a dream up by a viennese journalist, theodor herzl, although with deep roots in the jewish tradition, the bible and gurion left poland at the beginning of the 19th century and came to this swampy, malaria ridden, unproved piece of territory to build a state. there very few people thought was at all realistic and in fact, at least half of those who came to israel in those years and thereafter left gave up as hopeless. but ben-gurion persisted. and the result today what one m

allies, because actually they do not want to advertise the west is just interested in vessels, as henry kissinger one stated, we don't have any of these. we don't have a friends, we just have interest 7 babbling. i'll stop you. the bull from germany, sorry about getting connected headlines, foreign policy spokesperson and officer of nato are reckoning with the atlantic alliance. after this break, the lease of russian states to never as tired as i told him, the most sense key and the best in most all sense set up the same assistance must be the one else calls question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin media mission, the state on the rush of funding and split the r t. suppose next, even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube, the fitness center for the question, did you say a request for check? the covers, more or less than the most american politicians use, the one who was exposed to lies, deceit and the corruption. the american system also is the one who's willing to have a dialogue on issues. gonna only be solid. you had to see slide them and them

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with the soviets was criticized today by former president nixon and former secretary of state henry kissinger men said it would be "a profound mistake" to eliminate all medium-range missiles in europe. many conservatives thought that reagan had been charmed by gorbachev, and reagan actually had more problem dealing with his hard right than he did the left. so reagan had to constantly let the right know, "i know what i'm doing." reagan was being accused already of getting soft on communism, but he hadn't forgotten the problems we still had. europe is still divided, there was still a berlin wall. [ crowd cheering ] there is one sign the soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [ crowd cheering ] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. [ crowd cheering ] baker: it was perfect. it was beautiful. and he had to insist on keeping it in the speech. and he did it. don't let anybody tell you it was a staffer or anybody else that did that. [ crowd cheering ] zelizer: meanwhile, in the soviet union, gorbachev d

president nixon with the help henry kissinger, they kind of help reestablish relations between communist china and our country. pat, by the way, has to fight to go on this trip, she says, i'm putting my name on the list because haldeman, the chief of staff, who i'm sure we'll talk about, did not really want pat to go or anywhere in to go on this trip. and pat as she does forcefully with haldeman now and then says, i will be going on this trip. and she goes and she is a huge hit with her panda diplomacy. so we talked about this earlier. so in one of the many dinners, the 12 course dinners they have with sal and ly, the chinese premier, she sees a tin of a cylindrical painted tin cigarets that has pandas on it. and she says, oh, i love meaning the pandas. and he says the premier says, well give you some. and she thought he meant just cigarets, but he means a pair of pandas. real pair of pandas smoke it. yes, she did like her cigarets. but she said i would love to the pandas. and then we give chinese musk oxen. that's not a very interesting choice. i would have said no to that. but anyway,

and albert einstein, or more contemporary innovative figures of our age, like steve jorks or henry kissinger, you can bet the result will be a fascinating, revealing, comprehensive and vividly told book. walter's take on elon musk is certainly all that. and story turned out to be even more than walter bargained for when he set out a couple of years ago to do the biography. back then walter thought he'd be writing mainly about musk as a technological trailblazer, a leader in the fields of electric vehicles and private space exploration. then came musk's empus pulsative -- impulsive purchase of twitter and providing ukraine with satellite communication links during the war with russia and the questions and controversies about musk only grew. all of which has enhanced the timeliness and importance of walter's in depth portrait of musk and of the demons that drive him. now predictably walter himself has come in for some criticism about what he decided to put in the book or leave out or the extent to which he refrains from judging musk. legitimate questions have been raised about both the risks a

. >> how does what we're seeing now compare to, say, what henry kissinger did in the nixon administrationr would go and talk to another side in the middle east, and in the hope that that would that that could come together into something it never did come together into something lasting in the middle east. but there was a that did look that that was a version of talking to one side at a time. yeah, yeah. >> i mean. >> there's a. >> there's no coherence to what the united states is doing. formally. we've got a special envoy to ukraine, we've got a special envoy to russia. the special envoy in ukraine wasn't at the talks in saudi arabia, just as the ukrainians weren't at the talks in saudi arabia. the americans speak publicly about what they're doing in ways that are totally contradictory, with some american officials saying that we will, yes, will strengthen ukraine all the way to donald trump, saying ukraine might not even exist at the end of this. so there's no coherence to this except the underlying formal problem that we've left the ukrainians out of it entirely. and the other thing wh

richard nixon and henry kissinger conducted in the 1960s in the middle east but you have to have negotiationsyou won't have a fixture on the battlefield and that does not seem to be coming anytime soon. >> will: on this note senator you guys have a doctor 340 billion-dollar budget blueprint for donald trump's agenda. i want to clarify one thing in this package people have wondered whether or not it would be continued frantic of ukraine in the senate's budget proposal. >> there is not. any of these budget proposals you don't even get that many details. i think that perception may have happened because i believe the house had about $100 billion for defense are bell had $150,000,000,000.40 frankly, there is not reflecting money for ukraine but rather what we think is necessary to rebuild our military after joe biden's neglect. how many submarines we will buy or how many bombers we will buy that will be the next step after we ride the underlying bills. our party priority in the congress rebuild military, security border, and unleash american energy production. >> will: i wanted to ask about somet

david: we've had henry kissinger here multiple times. had writing about kissinger's experience. in terms of kissinger's very realist view, don't go for grant transformations, go for the best stability you can achieve for the longest period of time. if you read for the grand prize you will more often than not not only fail, but you will make things worse. how do you place kissinger in this balance? michael: squarely in the theodore roosevelt tradition. he and richard nixon were the most realist presidents we have had in the postwar period but to show you the influence of woodrow wilson, he kept his desk in the oval office. his first book is doctoral dissertation. following the great napoleonic wars, which aim not a transformation but at stability. kissinger is very approving of the statesmanship of those who made the peace of vienna. i've always read that book as an indirect criticism of woodrow wilson for trying to go further. and yet reveal his and yet realism settling for what you can get, not trying to go beyond what seems feasible at the time also has its price. after all, f

remember, it was that term was coined when henry kissinger tried to explain richard nixon, that if he was seen as erratic and impulsive, he could cow some of america's allies. this is with trump. this is a little bit trying to put, you know, you know, lipstick on a pig. there's impulse control problems that then you're trying to wrap a veneer of strategy around. so don't overthink it. and when it comes to this, i mean, you know, it. not only is it a contradiction of everything he allegedly campaigned on, and i like to hear conservatives who are republic, not an empire, people saying, hey, wait, that's a little bit much. but also the arab americans for trump, who now have the world's most predictable buyer's remorse coming down the pike. but i wouldn't attribute a lot of his impulse, his sort of outbursts to strategy. i think that's a mistake. >> well, he. >> thinks it's a strategy. this is actually really interesting. in october, back last october, he was talking to the wall street journal editorial board, and they asked him, would you use military force against a blockade on taiwan?

. >> this is a very this is a call that is basically something that a henry kissinger. >> all right. so we've already we've transitioned to palantir. have you taken us. >> there already? no, i didn't mean to because. >> we have a very. >> detailed i did not mean to do that. okay? i didn't mean to do it. i was trying to talk about china, and i was using a reference, as in palantir, that i thought was part of their ontology. that makes a lot of sense. got it. that's all. because i did not mean to i did not mean to take it there. it's just it's a very powerful call that people have to read. >> well, we're going. >> to we're going to. >> spend. >> plenty of time on palantir, as. >> you know. >> but, you know, i think china, the i just continue to believe that there are two camps. there's the navarro camp is excellent book which talks about what china is about, which is we are at war. palantir agrees with that. and then there's the china we want to deal, and we don't know where the president is. we just don't know. we don't know where he is. he's got conflicting voices in the white house

henry kissinger won a nobel peace prize, but saigon fell.e writes that if the trump administration is not cautioned by what happened in 1938 when an evil monster was allowed to have his way with one state before launching the holocaust, perhaps it needs another reminder about what happened in 1973. accommodating evil never ends well. columnist cal thomas. good morning. caller: first of all, get afghanistan out of the way. you can thank mr. trump for that. he is the one with the agreement, so tell him to get off that thing and stop repeating, repeating, repeating. that is all the man never does. number two it, they better up his drugs because you can see him winding down every day. number three, as far as the who's who, he is the useful idiot of putin. he is scared to death of him. he is nothing but a blow bag idiot. host: mcgill, republican, good morning. caller: thanks for having me. i voted for trump. because i wanted to end the war. i think that the bloodshed there is insane. you had a caller who said that he worked for intelligence earli

and henry kissinger used it well with others to say, you know, i can't control this guy, and you neveroing to do. i think at some point it does undermine both the credibility of the presidency and the credibility of the united states. if we put stuff out there and then it ends up falling by the wayside. >> it's like the red. >> line, right? >> yeah. exactly. right. i mean, you might be critical when a previous president said a red line in syria and then didn't follow through on it, now we're creating red lines right every week. you know, whether it's on tariffs, you know, or ceasefires or something else. and, you know, i think one has to be careful about that. >> michael, juan, thank you for coming on this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> to see you. appreciate it. it is just 7 a.m, exactly 7 a.m. right here on the east coast. you're watching squawk box on cnbc. i'm andrew ross sorkin, along with joe kernen and becky quick. got a whole bunch of big stories to tell you about this morning. it's a fire hose of news, as it has been virtually every day in the last 20 plus days. presiden