oh, wonderful scholar at the university of connecticut, about george kennan's diaries and george kennan, russia writ large. and there were several moments where frank talked, you know, kennan said this. kennan thought that kennan wrote this or the other thing about vietnam, about the imf missile deployment in the early 1980s. and, you know, i then working as i am now on the foreign relations of the united states series, and i'm supposed to state my views in my own and not those of the government, but i thinking to myself, if each of these moments i that paul nitze is intimately involved in these negotiations and kennan is writing in a way that reinforces what i think a lot of critics, american foreign policy were already inclined to believe. and he wrote beautifully i mean really a great and historian but did it actually change the policy and that kind of got b interested in it and his longevity and the kind of point i'm making the book is, you from roosevelt to the title from roosevelt to reagan paul nitze ackerman's white house pension to the most important matters of u.s. security an

this is now on hold per judge kennan's order as he did with previous special counsel reports garlandpected to release as much of the election interferes report as possible to the public in the name of transparency. the classified documents volume may not come from garland as former trump codefendants and former employee are still being prosecuted in federal court. trump could pardon both immediately, though the trump doj what unlikely release the report. this is something we continue to watch. jack smith has until tomorrow to reply. clearly going down to the wire though before the inauguration. >> martha: 's all right. and so it goes on peer david thank you very much david spent at the department of justice. at the meantime watching this storied tiktok accused of peddling pro-china propaganda to american teenagers. a new study has just been released and the former wisconsin congressman mike gallagher now a former distinguish men at the -- lays it out coming up next i'd like to take a moment to address my fellow veterans, because i know so many of you have served our country honorably

coming up tuesday morning christopher direction of the kennan institute at wilson center set canadian prime minister justin trudeau resignation and present electron prepares to take office. and the kristine mcdaniel president biden's decision to block the 14 billion-dollar acquisition of u.s. steel by japan and trump trade policies. also author journalist jonathan wrote a biography of jimmy carter talks about the former president life and influence in american politics. c-span's "washington journal" during the conversation live it at 7:00 a.m. eastern tuesday morning on c-span, c-span our free mobile app or online at c-span.org. ♪ witness democracy unfiltered with c-span experience history as it unfolds c-span's live coverage of this month republicans take control of both chambers of commerce and a new chapter begins with the swearing in of the 47 the president of the united states on monday january 20, to an end for live all day coverage of the presidential inauguration is donald trump takes the oath of office become president of the united states. say was c-span this month for compr

when nato expansion happened, george kennan, the man who designed containment theory, wrote an op ed in the new york times saying, you can't let nato expand too close to russia's borders. um, obviously putin was unhappy as more and more former soviet states did exactly that. the president didn't quite have his history with. right, with the vice, with then vice president biden and then later president biden. um, in those positions, biden took the position, took the position that at some point ukraine might qualify to join nato, but that it wasn't ready because of internal corruption. it hadn't yet met the standards that were there. and so biden has never pushed for ukraine to join nato. in fact, he's slowed down the effort. um, but that's all, you know, sort of water under the bridge for, uh, president-elect trump, who was basically setting himself up to say, okay, part of this will be a commitment that ukraine doesn't join nato for 20 years or 30 years or so forth, where i really was trying to push him was was he willing to provide some other kind of security guarantee to ukraine? so

when nato expansion happened, george kennan, the man who designed containment theory, wrote an op ed in the new york times saying, you can't let nato expand too close to russia's borders. um, obviously putin was unhappy as more and more former soviet states did exactly that. the president didn't quite have his history with right, with the vice, with then vice president biden and then later president biden. um, in those positions, biden took the position, took the position that at some point ukraine might qualify to join nato, but that it wasn't ready because of internal corruption. it hadn't yet met the standards that were there. and so biden has never pushed for ukraine to join nato. in fact, he slowed down the effort. um, but that's all, you know, sort of water under the bridge for, uh, president elect trump, who was basically setting himself up to say, okay, part of this will be a commitment that ukraine doesn't join nato for 20 years or 30 years or so forth, where i really was trying to push him was was he willing to provide some other kind of security guarantee to ukraine? so th