lou: ambassador john negroponte. >> thank you. >> thank you. lou: time for a look now at results of our line poll, we asked whether you believe that president should return our troops to iraq to destroy theic lamber--islamic state, 77%% repn the affirmative. >> and tonight, do you believe that president obama and jen attorney general holder are incapable of conducting a fair hearing in the case of brown in missouri? >> there are other interests at work as well in ferguson, missouri, that is next. lou: coming up tonight, he was hired by michael brown's family to conduct one of 3 autopsys, and immediately debunk some witness claims that brown was shot in the back. the doctor will join us. >> and hamas admits to committing atrocities that contributeed to the war with butst o of quick action and executive-led resolution. but the obama administration does often jump -- no, leap, to conclusions. impatient with facts if not indifferent to them, prejudgment have not been rare in this administration, listen to what president said monday regarding justic

ambassador john negroponte. welcome george, thank you. [applause] >> thank you. the book is called "the last american diplomat" not because john negroponte was in any literal sense the last american diplomat but because in some respects he is the last diplomat of a type and of a generation. he entered the foreign service immediately on graduation from yale. his education was essentially in the humanities on international relations theory. he thought the most valuable course he took in college was a course in economic geography which is not taught anymore either in colleges or high schools. he was required as a yale -- to take a course in dealing with the english civil service. no one pays any attention anymore to english constitutional history. and when he entered the foreign service, his first assignment was in hong kong in 1960. hong kong in 1960, it's hard to remember this, was a place that existed in almost total isolation from china. there were millions of refugees in hong kong but no american and there was no trade. it was a listening post but not a very in

i was not close to john negroponte during that. math. we grew up in the same apartment building and we were very close childhood friends until about the age of 10. we went off in completely different directions. i did not see him for 50 years. i then saw him when my brother saw his mother's obituary in the newspaper. she was in her 80s and she said well he was always a nice boy and i have found at my age i wouldn't have any friends if i hadn't tried to renew old acquaintances. they have a tendency to die off when you get into your 70's and 80s. i looked him up. he was outside of mcgraw-hill and one thing led to another and there came a time when we were having lunch when he said something that suggested to me that he might not be averse to have them someone write about his career although he hadn't kept a diary and hadn't undertaken to write anything himself. i thought having written an earlier book about diplomats of the 20s and 30s that his life would be a good way of telling a story of american foreign policy during the last 50 years

you'll also see todd aiken defend his controversial rape comment and books on dietrich bonhoeffer, john negropontend the last days of the confederacy. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors on c-span2. booktv, television for serious readers. >>> up next, author, doctor and former texas congressman ron paul. the three-time presidential candidate talked about u.s. foreign and monetary policy and the rising popularity of libertarian ideals. the host of internet's ron paul channel is the author of several books including "the revolution: a manifesto, "and "the fed" and "the school revolution."book >> host: dr. ron paul, in your book from 2011, "liberty defined: 50 essential issueslled that affect our freedom," you write that so-called moderatet politiciansis who compromise and seek bipartisanship are the most dangerous among the entire crew in washington. compromise is too often synonymous with selling out, bue it sounds a lot better. >> guest: it sure does can. moderation always sounds good,od and people want it.

joining us now, ambassador john negropon negroponte.also the nation's first director of national intelligence. thank you for being here, sir. you were a top u.s. intelligence official as we mentioned under president bush most recently. do you think john brennan was being dishonest or just ill informed? >> well, you know, i obviously, can't be certain. i haven't seen all the documents. i haven't read the inspector general's report. but let me just say this personally based on my own experience that i have the absolutely highest regard for john brennan. he's a distinguished career intelligence professional. he served many different administrations, and i know he also has the confidence of the president of the united states. of course, they are going to have to get to the bottom of all of this, and people are going to be looking into it. and i don't know exactly what's going to happen. one thing i would suggest is that we try to if we can, i know it's hard when talking to the press to get this out of the public eye. you know, it's the old