holbrook for the last time before he's released from holman. >> hey. mr.ippin, how are you doing today? good to see you. >> i wrote my aunt. she wrote back and said i had a place so i'm going to stay with her. >> that's a for sure thing? >> yeah, that's a for sure thing. you can call her. i told you last time i would probably go to the halfway house but i ain't going to no halfway house. it's one thing to be able to go somewhere and be comfortable where you're at and another thing to be forced to be somewhere you don't want to go. when i get out of prison, i want to be free. i don't want to have to abide by some more rules that are institutionalized, you know. >> well, keep in mind that your aunt will have expectations, also. >> right. i know, she -- >> she has chores to be done around the house. >> that's one of the main reasons why i'm going. she's -- she's not a midget but she's a small person. and she has problems getting around the house and doing stuff and running errands. she lives by herself. >> halfway house would be better for him, but like he sa

holbrooke in particular had repeatedly at each juncture where there was an antiwar candidate he tended to be with the centrists to finance the the to denounce the candidate. that was true of mcgovern and of obama and so on. the more than any other generation, these members of this first generation have seen firsthand how the use of force can go disastrously wrong and it's something that they keep in mind regularly. this is a dominant issue for the democrats right through until the persian gulf war mack of 1991. when the democrats predict inaccurately as it turns out that there are going to be tens of thousands of casualties, that wasn't some flippant thing by a minor politician. the senate majority leader george mitchell presented george h. dole you wish with a petition by the leading members of commerce saying don't go to joe war because there could be tens of thousands of casualties. soon bill clinn takes office and to get what amounts to a second generation of technocrats on the clinton generation live called them the trout fisher's because after clinton left office, some of the off

there was some fairly vicious personal bickering going on between richard holbrooke, the diplomat, essentially the front man for afghanistan, and members of the president's national security inner circle and the white house, who just did not like him as a person, and instead of working together, they spent a lot of time fighting with each other. >> you mentioned the infighting within the obama administration, the fact that there were very strong generals pushing for more troops in the area, the fact that the marines were not accountable to some of the senior generals. it is astonishing reading it that there has not been more comeback against the administration for this policy failures. >> i think a lot of people are tired about this. so it does not get the outrage you expect. >> were you outraged could >> i made one dozen trips over the past 2.5 years. i was not expecting to tell this story. i thought i would be writing a story on how the new administration managed to come up with a winning policy in afghanistan. maybe not a victory in our time but managing to stop the drift that was occurring

facts about the white house because the only actor who ever portrayed deep throat better than hal holbrook i think, was mark felt. he fooled everybody. he fooled pat gray. he fooled woodward. but at some point i think bob woodward is not obtuse. he's covered most of the agencies in washington. he's written scores of best-selling books. he had to realize, especially after the fbi documents became available in about 1992, that felt had sold him a bill of goods, that the fbi's investigation hadn't been stymied or thwarted by the nixon white house. that in fact it was the fullest investigation since the assassination of president kennedy. and that felt's refusal to come forward and come out of the shadows and acknowledge the acclaim that was supposedly being heaped on deep throat, the reason for that was that felt knew that if he did come forward and his actions were scrutinized and enough people from then were still around, he couldn't withstand the scrutiny because his reasons for leaking would be exposed. what actually happened is that woodward and bernstein replicated the fbi's investigati

police are here and have closed off holbrook street because there are concerns that the former school is on stable and could collapse. the fire broke out at around 11:00 last night and the big mystery this morning is how it started since the building has been closed down for about four years now. this was once webb elementary in the trinidad section of northeast surrounded by homes. the city closed down back in 2008. city officials have been trying to figure out what to do with the property. it appears the fire started on the first floor and spread quickly. firefighters were actually forced to evacuate the building and tackle it from outside. fortunately, no one was injured but you can see the extent of the damage. they are trying to figure out how it started in if there was anything suspicious. >> thank you. the campaign scandal surrounding vincent gray takes another term today. one of his former campaign workers is expected to plead guilty today to charges of funneling funds to get around campaign finance laws. brianne carter is live from u.s. district court in d.c. with more. >> eu

that's on mount olivet road and holbrooke street in northeast washington. the school has been closed since 2008. the city called a meeting earlier this year to consider proposals designating the building as surplus property. >>> we're learning more about the police-involved shooting in fairfax county, virginia. we brought you this as breaking news yesterday morning. police exchanged gunfire with a suspect killing. he's been identified at 21-year- old nicklaus caliber of woodbridge. no word on what led to the shooting. the to officers involved have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. >>> virginia will not hit ez pass customers with a fee as long as you have one right now. vdot announced monday it's going to back down from its plans to charge ez pass users a dollar per month but it will charge the fee to new customers. if existing customers order a new transponder, you'll be hit with a fee as well. vdot needs the extra cash to pass for the expanding ez pass program. >>> jessica doyle is watching your money and your private needs. >>

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you go on to this a bunch of others, including chris dodd, barbara boxer, richard holbrooke -- these are particularly all democrats. were there any republicans? >> their there were some republicans. i know that bob brett that -- bob bennett, his son ran one of the partnerships. there was across the aisle perches a patient. >> this vip program -- >> it is hard to know. you did not understand, but you could be sure they got special treatment about the process, with a lower interest rate, those types of things. the lower interest rate has the real benefit over time in a mortgage. >> you say, at the beginning of your book, josh and i -- >> joshes my fabulous co-author, who is a genius in the analysis of financial institutions and housing finance in particular. he is an analyst at gramm fisher in new york. he and i were -- we had never collaborated before on a book. he had been a source of mine for many years. he was one of the first to call out the home ownership goals as potentially faulty, and among the first to really point out that the kinds of mortgages that they were making were re

detail some of the vicious bickering that occurred between the state department's point man, richard holbrookmembers of president obama's white house team, members -- senior members of the national security council staff. both of whom were essentially on the same page and trying to come up with a peace deal in afghanistan but essentially wound up spending most of their efforts fighting one another as opposed to presenting a common front to try to end the war. >> so washington political bickering kept us from moving forward in afghanistan and cost american lives. is that right? >> i think there was ultimately a consequence on the ground. i mean, we had -- we have 90,000 men and women there right now serving, you know, the sooner this war can be ended in an honorable way, the sooner troops can come home and they're out of danger. so i think any time that infighting in washington continues a conflict or at least prevents us from finding ways to end this or to reduce fighting -- i'm not trying to say this extended the war, but it could have provided a path toward reducing conflict. if that doesn'

yesterday, the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies but any form an adviser to richard holbrooke. he will be speaking with others. please check out asia society's website for additional information on this and other programs. there are also flies in back are just a couple more housekeeping announcements. if you are not members of asia society already, i hope you'll consider joining. we present a great many wonderful programs here and performances and work in all the disciplines and media in which asia society works. and its tremendous value for very small amount of money. we hope you'll consider joining i want to remind you that we have live webcasting tonight's program, and am also very happy to say that it is being recorded for c. span, for later we broadcast. so when we come to the question and answer please be sure to wait for the microphone to an we may have questions from our online viewers. and if we do, any of you watching, feel free to write into the moderator at asiasociety.org. and, of course, turn off your cell phones if you have them. and welcome, please, peter popha

only richard holbrook on the phone for 48 hours to save the president, and if they denounced him, theywould be sorry. and also to be resilient. you need this constant every day you know exactly what you're going to do. but you are obviously going to fall flat on your keister someday. you are obviously going to make huge mistakes in the team has to be ready. it is the world according to mike tyson, the boxer. when reporters would ask mike tyson about the opponent's strategy, they say that they're going to beat you by doing this or that, he says everyone has a strategy until they get hit in the face. [laughter] >> it is the campaign's job to be ready so that when you are hit in the face they know that they have a bucket of water where they have a contingency plan, and also, to prevent ambushes that you don't want to help you to decide what bites that you do want. you cannot go out there and just act like on going to do is knock not everybody down because that is a disaster, too. the team has to understand the difference between the three campaigns. then, what are the two most astonishing

prompted emergency cabinet meetings in ireland and london a week before the election and only richard holbrooke on the phone for 48 hours saved the presence bacon by convincing them that it was a mistake and that he was going to win anyway. if they announced and there would be sorry. you need the whole book. and to be resilient you need this confidence when you go out every day that you're doing it perfectly. you know exactly what you're going to do. you're obviously going to fall flat on your keister some days. you're obviously going to make huge mistakes. the team has to be ready. it's the world according to mike tyson, the boxer. when reporters when asked tyson about the opponent's strategy. the opponents is there going to begin by doing this or by doing that. he'd say, well, everybody has a strategy until they get hit in the face. [laughter] it's the campaigns job to be ready so that when you're hit in the face they know they have a bucket of water or a contingency plan. and also, to prevent ambushes that you don't want and to help you decide what fights to what. you can't go out there just

. >> several years ago, we embarked on the holbrook doctrine. as we talked with people in both countries, especially in pakistan, they've used that approach to be very offensive. looking at pakistan to the eyes of afghanistan was pretty offensive. we don't really have a relationship in pakistan. almost a play to -- almost pay to play kind of relationship. as we deal with a country and the elected leaders are not particularly effective, how do americans really the taxpayer that is quite frustrated. how do we leverage our relationships cents it's not really one built on good will? how we leverage the resources to act pakistan to work and away we would like to see the mac? >> thank you. that's an excellent question. our relationship with pakistan goes back quite a way, write to the beginning of the pakistani state. it has had some ups and downs but there have been times of perry close and intense partnership. most notably in the 1980's and that was a relationship that centered around afghanistan. i would agree with you that pakistanis have seven co

envoy, richard holbrooke.as it sounds. i think both sides are following the same strategy, to use pressure to get leverage at the talks. we threaten military action in order to get the iranian's attention. iranians are threatening closure of the straits of hormuz and military exercises in order to get our attention. what we're seeing is what we usually see in diplomacy, when diplomacy begins to slow down, both sides flex their muscles to alert the other side. do you think these painful sanctions imposed on iran in the end will stop them from going forward with a nuclear weapons program? >> no. i think what the sanctions will do is bring them to the table. unless there is a deal on the table, they will not surrender unilaterally. we have to use the sanctions as an opening but have to have something on the table in order to engage them in a deal. >> iran's war games started yesterday and scheduled to continue through tomorrow. lot of concern over there what's going on between iran, the u.s. and the strait of hor

holbrooke last time we had a hearing like this didier understand there is a service that can be provided that what ss and calculate the tax just like it's done who now on shipping roi vv to and does the business and then collect a tax and the service to figure out -- >> did you testify last time we had a hearing like this? specter was the senator from indiana. >> did i describe right where you put it on and it does all the calculations for a few? >> there are certified service providers that do have a new software that can go through, and you can use them as a third party if you choose. they will go through and remit. you can run it all through them or some of the larger companies will do it on their own but there are existing software companies that will handle it for you. >> what is the cost of that service? >> the cost of the service depends on the company from the streamlined sales tax so the compensation will be provided so that the company will not have to pay for that. the intent for the streamlined sales tax is that there will be that under her compensation so that the retailer w

holbrooke last time we had a hearing like this didier understand there is a service that can be provided that what ss and calculate the tax just like it's done who now on shipping roi vv to and does the business and then collect a tax and the service to figure out -- >> did you testify last time we had a hearing like this? specter was the senator from indiana. >> did i describe right where you put it on and it does all the calculations for a few? >> there are certified service providers that do have a new software that can go through, and you can use them as a third party if you choose. they will go through and remit. you can run it all through them or some of the larger companies will do it on their own but there are existing software companies that will handle it for you. >> what is the cost of that service? >> the cost of the service depends on the company from the streamlined sales tax so the compensation will be provided so that the company will not have to pay for that. the intent for the streamlined sales tax is that there will be that under her compensation so that the retailer w