kissinger is the master of this. read his book, listen to him. he rescored history like no one else. [laughter] but it is the basic problem in journalism and trying to understand politics, trying to understand what's going on in the world and i was telling the story the other night about al gore having dinner with him and sitting next to him. having dinner sitting next to al gore is taxing. and it's really unpleasant. ask him how much do we know about really goes on in the white house and he said, 1%. i believe it's higher but if you really step back we often don't know what's going on. that's the dilemma and i want to talk briefly and then answer questions about the new book i have done which is just out called the price of politics. it's about three and a half years of negotiations between the obama white house and the republicans in congress and the democrats. how they essentially tried to bring the federal government's financial house into some kind of order. now the answer is they failed. we have the federal government whose financial house

kissinger suggested and browbeat the parties into doing that.d the plan a bit, and he sent me off to sell it to the parties. which gave me an interesting experience to talk to presidents about and prime ministers, meir and various intelligence and army people. the next thing that i got involved in was to propose to the director that we do a director's postmortem on the surprise. you heard all about the surprise. you'll find in the declassified documents the proposal, how we tend to do this report. postmortem on our intelligence failure. failure of warning. you will also find in there a declassified version of the potion -- postmortem report of which i was a co-author. so i got involved in this, in an intelligence agency, but it start from a policy perspective. having set that stage for my own involvement, i now want to move on and ask bill quant, who is sitting here, on the national security council staff throughout this period, and who has a very distinguished academic career, as you can see in the bulletin. so, bill, i'd like to hear from you

you know, people say henry kissinger -- henry kissinger was an old european guy, or dr. kissinger. nixon was from the west coast. he looked east. he traveled through asia when he first took office. this was nixon. this was all nixon. >> thank you. next question on your right. >> hi, my name is lawrence reid, i'm going to, i'm going to read my question as we're on television, i want to get it correct. this is directed toward both of you. you mentioned nixon's relationship with e. frederick morrow. perhaps more relevant was his relationship with the other two african-americans who served in the congress during his term which were william dawson and adam clayton powell who, adam clayton powell actually championed nixon in the black commitment during his tenure as vice president, and according to an autobiography, powell was snubbed in favor of morrow when an opportunity rose for a back tell gate to travel with nixon's administration. how do you feel -- that was a consistent pattern when, and it was very selective. although all three of those congressmen were democrats, and, obviously,

, henry kissinger was an old european guy.nixon was from the west coast. he traveled to asia when he was, first took office. this was nixon, this was all nixon. >> my name is lawrence reid. i'm going to read my question i want to get it correct. you mentioned nixon's relationship with moral. perhaps more relevant to nixon's -- his relationship with the other two african-americans who served in congress during his term. which william dawson and adam fell. he championed nixon and the black union as tenure as vice president command according to an autobiography, powell was snubbed when opportunities arose for a black delegate to travel with nixon's administration. how do you feel -- that was a consistent pattern and it was very selective. although all three of those congressmen were democrats and, obviously, would've not been the first choice just for that reason on its own. it was a very selective policy figure something of a period of time of the racial politics, for it to have been limited in a circumstance like that to be abl

and nixon or baker and bush 41, with that kind of relationship-- also nixon kissinger. it was known that kissinger had-- connectioner had nixon backingment when he spoke in the name of america or the president it was seen as such. and that, of course, empowers the secretary of state and enables the secretary of state to do it. but middle eastern people, israelis and arabs in a way are spoiled. they need, they're used to having the matt time and attention in order to make progress. in other parts of the world, it's not always the case. but middle eastern breakthroughs which have the huge impact of a drama, you know, if you make peace in-- it has certain resonance testimony you make an arab israeli peace agreement it has a different resonancement but it takes a president directly or vicariously through a secretary of state to do that. >> rose: when prime minister netanyahu continues at the level he is of building settlements, does he understand that it does great danger to the idea and to the reality on the ground as well as the idea of some kind of agreement with the pal

kissinger. in retrospect the delicate decision making is orchestrated as the declassified minutes show was absolutely exquisite. with the passage of years, it is interesting how little the world seems to recall there was a risk a confrontation between the united states and soviet union in october, 1973. neither i nor any of the military on a note -- analysts have confidence that the 22 october cease-fire would hold. we broke up. what we did note is the soviet air bridge had been very heavy in concerns have risen accordingly. i do recall discussing repeatedly the potential insurgents into damascus. we are obtaining ambiguous information that soviet paratroopers were about to blow them on to transport aircraft. i remember we had flights going to cairo and damascus on the 25. as usual we did not know with great certainty. mentor ber dr. parr mento pressing me on this subject. of course we did not have the real-time imagery that would show paratroopers uploading on to transgendered -- transport airc

i like kissingers inscription in the back that he talks about you being a major figure in the 20th century that is principled, strongly committed and does not waver in a time of crisis. i think that substantiates that. it is not delay a chronicle of his personal story from the departure of an army officer in the korean war and injury into the insurance industry industry, but the head and ceo of aig into what became literally the largest insurance company in the world was $1 trillion worth of assets. the other side of the story is instructive. the substantive side of the book has a profound question about government regulation in the financial industry. what are the unintended consequences? and what it does actually the rise and fall of the aig. on the personal level, organization and a business that is a national asset for the united states. it is a must read but i must turn to han't greenberg. [applause] >> thank you very much. i also want to recognize dmitri. nine live-in new york and he lives in washington and nitride to talk frequently. so there's no misunderstandings i also want to re

henry kissinger is resting at home after a brief hospital stay.9-year-old was admitted yesterday after he fell in his home. details of his injuries were not released. kissinger served as secretary of state under president nixon and ford and was awarded the noble peace prize in 1973. we learned this morning that the obama administration plans to release as many as 5,000 detained illegal immigrants because of the sequestration. the house judiciary committee obtained internal documents detailing the plans. homeland security chief janet napolitano confirms the policy will repeat. >>> now to stories you can baipg on this morning investors are celebrating after the dow closed at an all-time high yesterday. how was the death of the leader of one of the world's largest oil suppliers impact the market today. let's ask adam shapiro. >> as far as the markets are concerned when we talk about stocks it's not going to have a big impact and even oil. oil closed yesterday below $90 a barrel. that could change today but venezuelian oil output according to china it

. >>> henry kissinger is in the hospital after falling at his home.new york presbyterian have not said if he was hurt, the news comes as "the wall street journal" publishes an op-ed cowritten by kissinger offering a stern warn being the global nuclear threat. >>> opening bell happening soon, stocks expected to open higher on wall street and includes a record opening for the dow, whether the momentum holds is anybody's guess. we want to check in with alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. we are waiting. what are we expecting? >> up, up, up, the dow expected to pop up another 50 points in 45 seconds, following the dow's day for the record books where it's basically blew through its old record and has a new one. what's giving investors the incentive to buy, an upbeat report on private sector jobs in february, rose by 198,000 last week and that's a good sign. this report is the appetizer to the main course and the main course comes out on friday, the main course is the official government jobs report but as you said, the question is whether we can

kissinger who spent more time talking to senior chinese leaders than any other living american said that my instinct is that the chinese are ready to have this conversation. for more on this, you can read my column in "the washington post" go to cnn.com/fareed for a link. let's get started. >>> joining me now, two terrific guests to explore more, the mystery that is north korea. victor cha, previously he was director for asian affairs at the national security council under president bush. donald gregg is a former ambassador to south korea. in fact, he just returned from a visit there. he was also national security adviser in 1980s to then vice president george h.w. bush. first question, what do you think they were trying to do, ambassador? this seems so bizarre. you wrote a piece about engaging with them. i feel as though it would be nice to get them less isolated, but then they go and test a nuclear bomb and threaten a preemptive nuclear strike and promise rain bullets on south korea. why are they doing this? >> i met with north koreans very recently and talked to them about it. and the

a measure of ownership, the united states can come in and do some very important things -- henry kissinger, james carter, james baker, but you have to have a sense of ownership. right now, you have two leader who is frankly are prisoners of their politics, not masters of them. look -- you could force the israelis and the palestinians back to the table. but i am telling you, what will happen under those circumstances is nothing. and this process can't afford another huge failure because you get mahmoud abbas and benjamin netanyahu and the gaps on jerusalem, borders, security and refugees are as wide as the grand canyon. let's be smart about this. run silent, run deep for six months. try to figure out what netanyahu can realistically do. figure out what abbas can do. don't go back to high-profile, fancy negotiations and peace conferences. and then figure out whether or not there are some realistic gaps to be bridged. much smarter policy, much better for the united states. >> jamie: don't have the meetings until you can get a positive result. this is what i am hearing. always good to have yuf

to a secretary of state, somewhat like in the clinton years and even back to secretary of state kissinger, who's going to do it himself, and the critical thing here is that the president make it clear during this trip that he's delegating this to his secretary of state but he's going to back him 100% in that effort because the leaders in the region will want to know that the and the behind his secretary of state. if he just lets him go off and try, then keri -- kerry is not going to be able to move the process forward so what i'm going to be watching for is whether it's in the speech or the photon with the prime minister and the palestinian president, is the president going to empower his secretary of state to try to move this forward. tavis: so what's your read on the impact that this government, this israeli government freshly formed the other day after a lot of back-and-forth just in time for president obama's arrival they at least have called together some form of government now, what's your sense of how that body and its formulation will impact the peace process? as i read here and t

fox rockefeller kissinger carter nixon bush sr and jr and a bunch of bush era neo cons you actually have a year book i mean i'm sure there are hundreds more that we don't know about talk about this year but you would tame the pain and what is in it and also what policies do we know have really come out of the grove marc because i think when a lot of people hear this they just think oh it's crazy it's the party in the woods but i mean there have been actual policies and this isn't making that have happen here. yeah i was able to obtain a rare eboni and grove year book they call it the annals of the bohemian grove because members will die a lot of these men are old men and their libraries their estates will be sold and find their way into bookstores and so occasionally a bohemian grove year book will surface and they have surfaced over the years people scanned photographs and this is where the famous one thousand nine hundred five one thousand nine hundred six photograph of george vi h.w. bush and george w. bush appearing at a lakeside talk comes from is from these actual your books and wh

inconsistency and glaring omissions but let's talk about who was originally appointed to be on it all henry kissingernot just on it but he was appointed to be the head of the entire commission the nine eleven widows the victims' families were outraged by that so they quickly replaced him with a guy named philip zelikow who was basically a white house lackey who wrote a book with connelly sorites on foreign policy. and then you know several people resign or one person resigned. max cleland from the commission at a protest. i mean the entire commission from the outset was set up to fail and that was actually a statement made by the two people who ended up offering the book that was put out lee hamilton and kean yeah they actually did say it was set up to fail from the beginning i mean it took a month longer than any other initiation of a commission after a major disaster and event and actually pushed by the widows the families who said why isn't this going to. as stated it really was you know blocked in the very beginning and they when they finally were forced to investigate it they put on his injure a

lecturer was former secretary of state henry kissinger. subsequently, we have heard from chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator jesse helms and heard from ben gilman and henry hyde and don rumsfeld, colin powell, condi rice and others. our last lecturer was senator leiberman. we have over the years made a significant and substantial contribution to american policy makers, understanding of the challenges we face in terms of our policies towards asia. 30this, in fact, the anniversary of the founding of the heritage foundation's asian study center. when dick and i started the center back in 1983, it was our first dedicated foreign policy center at the heritage foundation. back then asian security was all about what's happening here in the cold war. from that perspective, study of the soviet union might have made a lot more sense. dick and i, as we talked it through, talked about the potential that someday it might even be conceivable that u.s. trade with asia would actually even equal our trade with what was going on acro

in fact, i liked very much henry kissinger's inscription in the back in which she talks about your being truly a major figure in american business in the 20th-century, someone who is principal cost of a committed, and does not waver on one's principles in that time of crisis. and now think that the story really under currents and substantiates that. the book is not only a chronicle of his personal story, starting with his departure from being an army officer in the korean war and his entry into the insurance industry with continental casualty company. then going on to become the head of -- and ceo of aig. to what became literally in the largest insurance company in the world with almost over a trillion dollars worth of assets so there is the personal side to what there is also the other side of the story, which is a very instructive one and one which we are going to grow with you, especially today. that is, the sensitive side of this book which specifically sets forth some very profound questions, profound and serious questions about government regulation in the financial industry. and w

we have everyone on board from schultz and kissinger gorbechev gorbechev.r, musharif, and this is not a partisan issue. we cannot continue on the path that we're on. >> john: we only have a minute left but when it comes to countries like iran, isn't the best way to convince them not to enrich uranium to make weapons is really us showing that we're getting rid of our own. we're fighting over who is allowed to have these weapons. >> you get nowhere with that very quickly. i don't think job zero is global zero is oh naive to believe that iran will sign on, what a great idea. but you set a context international pressure that will continue to build with political will. >> john: we only have a second left. i have to ask about bradley manning. what are your thoughts? >> i think what he did was wrong. at the same time, a couple of questions you have to ask what is a 22-year-old private doing with access to all that information. it seems to me the onous should be on the government to properly classify, of course we overclassify everything. and his treatments has bee

henry kissinger, 1973, when he got something from egypt we gave them -- military and economic assistance we get 30 years of peace, a peace agreement, a cease-fire and peace agreement. now what do you get? neil: hearing this administration tell the fed. >> thirty years of peace. neil: bizarre stuff. but you know, you know, just all of these guys. very little bang for the buck. why do we keep throwing all these? >> we get something for it. it is much cheaper and better. but if you're not getting anything for it, something that you are allowing to have happen is a country that is working against your interest. we are making a big mistake. the example i used pakistan. we give them to billion the year . over $20 billion to help kill and destroy. what did they do? took our money, use it for other things, and at the end of the day the only reason we were able to get him was because they did not tell the pakistanis who were coming to get them. neil: one guy who worked with them went to jail. >> you're right. neil: can you explain how this whole thing works? i have the sneaking suspicion that lik

in fact, i like very much henry kissinger's inscription in the back, in which he talks about, truly a major figure in american business in the 20th century, someone who is sensible, strongly committed and does not waver on one's principles in a time of crisis. and i think that it really undergirds and substantiates that. the book is not only a chronicle of his personal story, starting with his departure from being an army officer in the korean war, and his entry into the insurance industry with continental casualty company, but then going on to become the head, and ceo, of aig, bringing it to what became literally the largest insurance company in the world with almost over a trillion dollars worth of assets. so there's a personal site but there's also the other side of the store, which is a very instructive one and one that he will probe with you especially today. and that is the site of this book which specifically set forth some very profound questions, profound and serious questions about government regulation in the financial industry. and what are the unintended consequences of t

henry kissinger.ed at council on foreign relations. melissa: he could cash in i would imagine. >> working for 200 grand a year, 300 grand a year. he could make millions. larry's firm, blackrock is an interesting firm. it is not just a money management firm. they're getting into more wall street stuff, trading. he could be very valuable there. i know larry wants to hire him. i know that for a fact. i can't tell you what will haapen. i want to be clear, no specific job was offered, i want to be clear about this, larry made his intentions known. he is clearly wooing geithner. whether he goes or not, i can't tell you. adam: people like geithner can make money speaking and writing books. melissa: not blackrock money, not blackrock money. >> no knows. a guy like him could carve out a nice life. if he worked for blackrock, larry, geithner would be one of the higher paid people on wall street. one good thing about blackrock it is not a bank. they're starting to diversify it is not a bailed out institution. th

former secretary of state henry kissinger is out of the hospital this morning after taking a fall atcity home. the 89-year-old kissinger, who served under presidents nixon and ford was admitted yesterday to new york presbyterian hospital. no details about his injuries have been released. >>> so starting this weekend, all white house tours are cancelled. casualties of the government's forced spending cuts. the tours will not be rescheduled and the white house visitors center says the freeze will be in place until further notice. the republicans on capitol hill do note that tours of the capitol will continue to go on. >> so what's that about? is that just a pr stunt? >> to get tickets for these white house tours you have to go through your tours you have to through members of congress to get them. some people speculate the white house is putting members on the spot because they have to say no to their constituents to the white house tours. >> it's difficult to travel if it's that much snow looking out for people's safety? >> good try. two points for the try. >> i'm saying, we're going

and that it really helped to have politicians in your pocket also that's a lesson henry kissinger suggestsook at the less than sus el or more sus elways, even when there was a new fbi superviser who came into fwons and said we're going to straight then whole thing out and he was pushing to drop whitey from the informant program saying you kno.Ñ,m trouble, he had a very interesting meeting in in the massachusetts senate we are said you know, you should enjoy yourself in boston. and you should think about your future, you know, you're to the going to be an fbi guy forever. after that we can get you a nice job with the state so he never said, and by the way, don't drop my brother as an informant. but it was just a very unusual meeting to be talking about somebody a f brand-new guy in charge of tj.t your brother who was running, you know, organized crime on the south end of boston. >> rose: he used to romant advertise-- it's easy to romant size him. >> we try not to. when shelley and i sat down to write this book, at one level we said there have probably been too many books about whitey bulger

henry kissinger was the old european guy. nixon was from the west coast.he traveled to asia when he first took office. this was all nixon. >> next question. >> this is directed to the both of you. you mentioned nixon's relationship. [inaudible] he served with william dawson and adam howell. he championed nixon during his tenure as vice president and according to an autobiography, he was snubbed in favor of more opportunity as it rose to travel with nixon's administration. that was a consistent pattern. it was very selective. although all three of the congressmen were democrats. obviously, it would've not been the first choice just for that reason. there was a selective policy during the time. it was limited in a circumstance like that. them saying that we will select one of the three congressmen and then the other ones will be decisively turned away. how do you feel about something like that, how it affects the legacy of a man, one that has a divided relationship and some of the other things that he did? >> eisenhower had no sympathy for the brown v. board

former secretary of state henry kissinger was admitted to the hospital today to new york presbyterianervation after a fall. the 89-year-old is expected to be discharged, we are told, from the hospital later today. he will be 90 in may. >> and up next here maryland congressman elijah cummings joining me for a house plan for a government shutdown at the end of this month. this is a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live from doha in the persian gulf. only on msnbc. [ female announcer ] feel like you're growing older... waiting to look younger? get younger looking skin fast. with new olay regenerist micro-sculpting cream. with 2 new anti-aging ingredients. visible wrinkle reduction starts day 1. see younger looking skin before you finish one jar. new from olay. a hairline fracture to the mandible and contusions to the metacarpus. what do you see? um, i see a duck. be more specific. i see the aflac duck. i see the aflac duck out of work and not making any money. i see him moving in with his parents and selling bootleg dvds out of the back of a van. dude, that's your life. remem

the ink wasn't even dry when henry kissinger came out and said this is a must-read if any section or in a level the finance industry. no sooner did he do that, paul volker came out and wanted to make a statement how this is a must read and wanted to put it forward in the book, so we added a forward in the book. and then we saw a can when steve forbes, and other good friend was working on the european crisis at the time in trying to make sense for certain aspects and said this is a must-read for angela merkel, nicholas sarkozy and dave cameron. in my way of thinking, he left out countries and might've gotten something out of it. it's easy to see why after you get a read is that why so many people need to know what they'll knows in what he did with it. everybody knows that he'll spend 53 years. i've heard over 50 bills. were going to go with over 50. that's a considerable amount of time. when you think about the timeframe and he was a devout disciple of our late and great chairman of the city, walter wriston. again when you talk about bill, you talk about icons. every single secretary

to my right is ambassador ryan crocker, who is the kissinger senior fellow at the el universal. he has served recently as our ambassador to afghanistan, his long career included ambassadors for iraq as well as our ambassador to pakistan, syria, kuwait, and lebanon. from may to august of 2003, he served as the government's director for the coalition provisional authority in baghdad, and his career in the foreign service included a tour in lebanon at the same time in the early 1980's, at the moment of the it israeli invasion as well as the bombing of the marine barracks. to his right is ambassador samir sumaida'ie. in 2006 he moved here to washington to serve as iraq's ambassador. prior to his appointment to the united nations, the ambassador to serve as the minister of interior in baghdad. ofore that he was a member iraq's governing council. he is currently working as a consultant and a writer. to the far right, is a senior fellow at the yale jackson institute. she has worked at senior levels on behalf of the united states and united kingdom government and in israel. into this an

and a few days before the initiation of the conflict several former officials, for example, henry kissinger and myself -- i don't remember exactly who else, but there were several there -- were invited to a meeting with rumsfeld, powell and rice. and i remember asking them, and i was conscious of that that evening when i saw the beginning of the war, i asked them how certain are you that the iraqis have these weapons of mass destruction? and the answer from all three of them was it's not a question of how certain we are, we know they have them. that impressed me because these are people who i have known for a hong time, and when you say -- for a long time, and when you say to someone you know they have them, it means to me it's a question of certaintude. nonetheless, a few minutes later i asked them one more question. if you know that they have weapons of mass destruction, what is the order of battle for their use and particularly for nuclear weapons? because, obviously, if they have them and they're ready to use them, there has to be an order of battle authorizing either divisional command

i like very much henry kissinger 's inscription in the back, in which he talks about being a major figure in the 20th century, someone who is principle, does not waver on one's principles in a time of crisis. i think this story substantiate that. the book is not only a chronicle of a personal story, starting with his departure from being in army officer in the korean war and his entry into the insurance industry. but then going on to become the head of aig. bringing it to what became literally the largest insurance company in the world with almost over $8 trillion. there is the personal side. but there is also the other side of the story, which is a very instructive one. that is the site of this book specifically set forth very profound and serious questions about governments and regulation in the financial industry. what are the unintended consequences of these regulations? and what does it include? well, what it does on the personal level, it is truly a national asset for the united states. with that, i want to turn it to hank greenberg. please join me in welcoming here today. [applause

it was supported by henry kissinger, especially until such time as jimmy carter came along and took anp the dirty war and the argentina invited him to thank him for helping them to end this horror. >> to your mind as a scholar of the church and a catholic, is there enough -- is there a clear conscience about the pope himself in this period of time? derise -- is there some moral threshold that he crossed? >> i think this is definitely on his part a sin of mission rather than comission. his whole history when and he was provincial, he treated the jesuits. other jesuits were saying this guy is strict and have two jesuits turn up with these things -- >> explain that story. >> this is a story that's been the one where we have two jesuits who have been work with the poor, in the slums he told them not to do it. they continued to do it anyway. he lifts his hands this is how it's been described and they turn up beaten up and taken in by the regime. >> there's allegations that the most serious allegations which have been denied he essentially turned them over. he says himself basically he warne

lee lecturer was former secretary of state henry kissinger. subsequently, we have heard from chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator jesse helms, we've heard from your predecessors, ben gilman and henry hyde on the house foreign affairs committee and don rumsfeld, colin powell, condoleezza rice and others. our last b.c. lee lecturer was senator joe lieberman. so we have over the years, we think, made a significant and substantial contribution to american policymakers' understanding of the challenges we face in terms of our policies towards asia. this is, in fact, also the 30th anniversary of the founding of the heritage foundation's asia studies center. when dick allen and i started the asian studies center back in 1983, it was our first dedicated foreign policy center at the heritage foundation. back then asian security was all about what's happening here in the cold war. from that perspective study of the soviet union might have made a lot more sense. dick and i as we talked it through talked about the potential that some