making statements an -- jim baker was too conservative not conservative today for today's republican party he has a huge problem because rand paul is more liberal and bake her get hacked by the party and jeb bush will be attacked for associating with jim baker. >> that's where we are in the foreign policy on the republican party. >> and if you look at how republican candidates are looking at this deal with iran third all saying the united states is operating from a position of weakness and the response to that is a strong foreign policy and the next president will be judged on who will be strong. well if you look at rand paul's position on iran it has shifted, 2007 when he was campaigning for his father and asked about thisable and he said when i was campaigning for someone else. you have to distance yourself from your own father to get away from your previous position, you are not on stable ground and if it is about who is the strongest, i mean in 2007 he seemed to suggest that it was okay if iran got the bomb. that this wasn't worth going, as he said to war, he has a different posi

jim baker: i can't answer that, but he could have been aware of him. any number of african americans were aware of ira aldridge. americans don't remember ira aldridge, but europeans more or less to. he met richard wagner, the great german composer, and whatnot. he is one of these characters like george c. marshall. if you ask high school students in america who was george c. marshall, the men that winston churchill said won world war ii, if you ask american high school students, they may not know george c marshall, but if you asked german students, they know he was the man behind the great marshall plan after world war ii. there are certain americans almost better known in europe than they are in this country. i think ira aldridge is certainly one of them. ian cooke: thank you all for coming. next month jim barber with everett dirksen. [applause] >> you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook, @cspanhistory. >> american history tv recently visited longwood university in virg

many americans, such as jim baker and henry kissinger, have raised caution about the agreement.hen question, sanctions, and inspection. the u.s. has said the sanctions should be phased out on the basis of good conduct and respect for the agreement. the supreme leader and you, this team leader said this publicly, we have to have the elimination of all sanctions at the time the final agreement is signed. all sanctions, gone. mr. jarif: we are talking about economic and financial sanctions. the parameters we reached our very clear. once we start implement in the first steps, the number of centrifuges the stockpile and what will happen to the redesign and rebuilding of a heavy water reactor these are all parameters of thee agreement. charlie: you say at the beginning. the supreme leader says, now. mr. jarif: sanctions must be lifted as soon as iran implements its agreed part. we have an agreement. that agreement provides for the lifting of sanctions. economic and financial sanctions. those sections are lifted. the logic is clear. if you want an agreement, you have two options. you c

up until that that particular dinner, my guest jim baker, treasury secretary and howard baker, white i thought this is pretty cool. everybody was around hall. thin it became hollywood celebrities and off to the races. >> in my time -- i've been kofrg covering it ten years. the thing i've noticed is incorporation of corporate involvement. you now have officially sponsoring or making sure they've got a presence from goldman sachs, exxon mobil, coca-cola. it's a virtual fortune 500. it's a chance for a lot of companies to be around and seen by washington power players but show off where they fall on the totem pole. for them washington is important to their business. it's one stop shopping making sure you're in touch with people you need to be in touch with. >> where can we see nerd prom? >> nerd prom the movie.com. check it out. >> it's a great adventure for a former political reporter. your new life. >> i know. thanks a lot. >> good to see you. watch the white house correspondent correspondent's dinner here. alex will host live at 9:00 eastern tomorrow night. that does it for this week

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of them. 300 retired generals, admirals, national security officials, famous diplomats, including jim baker and brent scowcroft and marine general zinni and the head of the former national security agency, bill odom, spoke out and wrote against invading iraq before it happened in march 2003. a majority of the people in this country think that there's something inflated about our military budget. [scattered laughter] all right. well, they've read the pentagon audits and the gao reports and the "60 minute" exposes and so on. it's horrendously inflated. waste, fraud, abuse is only part of it. we're still building cost-overrun military weapons systems designed for the soviet union era of hostility. like, the f-22 should never be built. you could put it on this stage. that's how much $200 million of electronics cost, profit in overruns. why are we building more submarines, nuclear submarines? one trident submarine--nuclear warheads can destroy 200 cities. that's before it reloads. why are we building more aircraft carriers, $15 billion a carrier? we got 13. the next country to challenge us is it

when jim baker was chief of staff, every day at the end of his day he called back reporters. i can't remember the last time denis mcdonough made a round of calls to a bunch of reporters. he tries from time to time to engage him. i'm not criticizing him particularly. i'm saying culture has changed. the people who are actually involved in a lot of these decision makings are less available, more removed and more separated from us by a paid staff that is paid to get between us. >> i remember reading a great piece in the new yorker one day and he talked about, i wandered down to the nsc offices. >> with an escort. >> maybe that was -- parenthetical, but i thought wow, imagine that, just wandering around the west wing and -- >> that's something maybe a lot of the younger -- unlike congress, right you can walk around congress and find 535 sources willing to talk to you for the most part right? >> begging to talk to you. >> begging to talk to you. the white house physically you are not able to go very far. you are restricted to a very tiny space basically, which is why -- >> the vest

it can be the charm of the leader like mary baker or jim jones at the temple for people like marshall with heaven's gate or other groups. i think the other reasons can be things like the choice to interpret the bible but the thing i struggled mostly with and i figured it out is how you separate what is a strongly held religious belief from what is a dangerous delusion and the guy i spent some time with on the phone who i think was most instructive to me was a man named larry parker. he wrote a book called we let our son died which you would think from the title is a mea culpa but it's not. it's a book that rewards the faithfulness which they continue to maintain throughout their son's illness. this was a father that belonged to a mainstream church in california. also unlike many fewer sophisticated and he knew that his son had diabetes. he understood what the symptoms were. yet he decided one day that he was going to pray for his son's diabetes to go away. he was joined by his wife and by their prayer group and so his son over a three day period sunk deeper and deeper into where he de

spectrum could one hand could be the charm of the charismatic leader and the people in the case of baker eddy or jim jones at people's temple are people like marshall applewhite with heaven's gate or other groups that i think is david kerr, for example. the other reasons can be things like one's choice to literally turbot bibles or the seduction of having but the thing i struggled most with and i figured it out because i don't think i did this how you really separate what is a strongly held religious belief from what is a dangerous delusion. the guy who i spent time with on the phone with a man named larry parker. you would think from the title is not. it is actually a book bag rewards his and his wife's faithfulness, which they continue to maintain throughout their son's illness. this was a father who belonged to a mainstream church in california. he was also unlike many parents medically quite sophisticated. he knew his father son had type one diabetes. he'd been giving him insulin for years. he understood what the signs and symptoms were that too much insulin and too little insulin. they prayed f

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baker to come back to run the campaign. and you see that you -- bush could not ask his friend directly. he would then be conceding he needed jim'selp. i find that weird. obviously it just seems like a real thing to me. it also gives back. we we get into 89 suddenly and scowcroft is bush's best friend. baker is bush's best friend people in this administration and it does seem to work in 89 to 92. previous iterations there is this tension between these different principles that can cause a huge problem. how do you think -- what is the relationship? how we remembering it as may be a more rosy situation over time? i wonder if i wonder if that came out in talking with scowcroft and others. the 1st issue about why bush would ask scowcroft to ask bigger about him coming from the state department to help the campaign they are intensely competitive. always thought he could be a a better president do better. if you are so smart how come you are in president. and they have rivalries. tennis both kind of these exuberant texans. the baker was actually very ambitious, immensely capable very charismatic in a way probably more so than anyone el

i worry that, yes, secretary baker's ideas are good bottom line positions to have, but the deal is not successful even if we reach it. >> jim, what's your view from the u.s. stapp point, what do we do to get our own house in order in terms of proceeding with the negotiations? >> one of the things to share is that in december, when i was in tehran tehran, i visited with members of the key people in the government, leading clerics you know, friends of the supreme leader, and every place i went i heard one question, and that was can president obama implement the deal. they wanted to know this. this was after our elections after the fact that the senate had been taken over by republicans, and, of course the house continued to be in republican hands. so they raised the question because they wanted me to understand that if we expected them to put the option on the table, they wanted that deal accepted and not scuttled by our congress. we have to be mindful that as all the questions arise from the congress, it undermines our negotiators' capacity to get the best deal at the negotiating table, and that's a part of this that's not b

jim avila. [applause] before we hand out this last award, i really want to hear cheer from the new york times table. [laughter] i really want to hear it now. peter bakerf the new york times, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] one last round of applause for these outstanding journalists. [applause] christi: thank you, major. and now, what is by tradition our only toast of the evening. i first started covering barack obama in 1997. that is when he showed up at the illinois statehouse to take his seat in the illinois senate. my keen political intuition kicked in right away. i was one of the first to see it. if he worked hard and really applied himself, he could go all the way. he could one day be mayor of the city of chicago. [laughter] [applause] keep shooting for the stars. it's a big job. a lot has changed since then. for one thing, he is much harder to get on the phone. [laughter] it is harder to get an interview one-on-one until tonight. [laughter] mr. president, we appreciate your presence here, and we recognize that your information -- your affirmation of the importance of the free and adversarial press. [laughter] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, p

i worry secretary baker has good red lines but the deal as conceived can't be successful even if we reach it. >> jimhat your view? from the u.s. standpoint what do we do to get our own house in order to proceed with the negotiation negotiations? >> in december i had an opportunity to visit with the key people in the government, leading clerics that are friends of the supreme leader, and every place i went, i heard one question and that was can president obama implement the deal? they really wanted to know this. and this was of course after our elections, after the fact that the senate was taken over by republicans and of course the house continued to be in republican hands. so they were raising this question because they wanted me to understand that if we expected them to put their best offer on the table, they wanted to know that that best deal could be accepted and would not be scudled by our congress. i think we need to be mindful as these questions arise, it undermines our negotiators capacity to get the best deal at the table. that hasn't been focused on adequately. the iranians are fearful, th

jim avila works for abc news. he now covers the white house for abc news. scott horthly is a member of the whca board. peter bakeris a correspondent for the new york times. let's give them a hand. [applause] i really love the range of winners that we have this year because when you put these people together and look at the way they cover the beat, they really show a diverse approach to covering the white house. each has a diverse way of doing their job. i want to start with josh who did a classic report on the secret service. has anybody heard of a fence jumper? do you know what a fence jumper is? that's a person that climbs over the wall of the white house, and physically gets attacked before they make it across the lawn. one day, that was not the case, and josh letterman was standing in his post at the booth. why don't you pick up from there? josh: most of the correspondents had already left for the evening. the news was basically over. there were a handful of us from the television networks that were still in the building. we started to hear a commotion outside of the press briefing room, and a few of us ran o

that yes secretary baker's ideas are good red lines to have come to the bottom line positions to have, but ultimate the deal has conceived can't be successful even if we reach it. >> jim what is your view from the standpoint? what do we do to get our own house in order in terms of proceeding with these negotiations? >> one of the things i want to share in december when i was in tehran i had an opportunity to visit with members, key people in the rouhani government, leading clerics, friends of the supreme leader khamenei replaced i went especially there, i heard one question, and that was 10 president obama implement the deal. they really wanted to know this and this was of course after our elections, after the fact that didn't have been taken over by republicans and, of course, the house continue to be in republican hands. so they were raising this question because they wanted me to understand that if we expected them to put their best offer on the table they wanted to know that at best deal could be accepted. it would not be scuttled by our congress. and i think we need to be mindful that as all of these questions arise from the congress, it undermines our negotiator

baker with "national journal." donald, st. joseph's, majority. -- missouri. caller: this is a false argument that i keep hearing over and over again that you can compare homosexuality and jimws. there is nowhere in the bible that i can find that promotes racism or jim crow laws. it does say that homosexuality is an abomination. that is why we have this written in stone in the first amendment of the constitution. that you cannot make laws that respect and establishment of a religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof. any law that is made or written by state legislature or whatever will come down on restarting -- respecting religion or prohibiting the free exercise. the government cannot force you to do anything against your religious convictions. that is the end of the story. guest: it is an important point to note that the origin of religious freedom laws it started with the federal law, as we have heard over and over, was to protect religious minorities from things that most of us would agree seemed like an unnecessary burden on religion. a lot of state laws have served similar purposes. there is an example that people like to use of a child in texas whose family kept