kissinger joined the u.s. army, served in the occupation of germany in the immediate aftermath of the second world war, then went to harvard on the g.i. bill. that experience was transformative for him. he went to harvard via working in the army for a short span of time. that gave kissinger such a profound belief in the united states as a society of opportunity, a society that he would devote his career as a diplomat and decision-maker to if you could explain the -- to serving. >> if you could explain the kissinger doctrine, what are the highlights? >> i don't think there is a single kissinger doctrine. i think he was a realist. in the truest sense of that term. as those circumstances changed and evolved, so did kissinger's priorities shift. adaptable, >>, nixon's own orientation was that the foreign policy arena was the priority, not the domestic area. in kissinger, he found a collaborator capable of working with nixon to circumvent the state department to concentrate decision-making authority in pennsylvania

that was kissinger's doing. kissinger chaired the interagency committees that exercised jurisdictional oversight. host: how effective was he in the detente with china and historic visit by president nixon? daniel: i think he was crucial. kissinger was the agent of limitation. -- of implementation. visit inured nixon's 1972. kissinger was integral to the implementation of the policy. i would not go so far as to credit kissinger with intellectual authorship of the reorientation towards china. i think nixon's instincts were paramount. host: president nixon wins by a landslide. the watergate scandal is living. he begins his second term. -- scandal is looming. why does he keep kissinger around? daniel: i think nixon was becoming concerned about the capacity of watergate to intrude upon the making of u.s. foreign policy. scandal was, already swirling. nixon's position was starting to become embattled. the decision to appoint kissinger reflected nixon's conviction that u.s. foreign policy requires strong leadership dur

kissinger joined the u.s. army, served in the occupation of germany in the immediate aftermath of the second world war, then went to harvard on the g.i. bill. that was transformative for him. he went to harvard via working in the army for a short span of time. that gave kissinger such a profound belief in the united states as a society of opportunity, a society that he would devote his career as a diplomat and decision-maker to serving. host: if you could explain the kissinger doctrine, what are the highlights? daniel: i don't think there is a single coherent kissinger doctrine. i think he was fundamentally a realist. kissinger responded to the circumstance that he responded as a decision-maker, as does circumstances involved, so does kissinger's priorities shift. he was dynamic, adaptable. host: why did president nixon name him as his security advisor? daniel: nixon wanted a partner in power, someone capable of implementing foreign policy in the white house. nixon aspired from the outset to be a foreign-polic

kissinger had a fit. what happened, senator griffin, a minority whip, stood up and did not make the motion to reconsider the bill. he held it. henry worked on senator jackson, who got senator magnuson to change his vote. >> carried him out onto the floor. [laughter] >> between 7:00 and 11:00. something about that, two things. first, the "new york senate votes to cut troops and nato. it is the end of the western world as we know it. , griffinened at 11:00 moved to recommit. when they asked what changed their mind, there were a lot of new developments. henry was a natural lobbyist. he instantly knew how to deal with the different people. i remember during a fight, i was one ofnry having been -- the reasons why he has been so -- his 95th birthday is coming up. he is as sharp as ever. people. these even the idiots. he knew how to work them. this one.n example on i remember, i was with him. i would give him a talking paper, he did not need talking papers. call scoopneeded to and magnus. magnus was slipping a b

the kissinger china story is really interesting. i was able to interview kissinger in january of 2016 in new york. he was 92 years old and i think now 94 and i had access to a lot of the documents that declassify the transcripts of these meetings. here to notwithstanding other criticism of other parts of his foreign policy, there were seccombe conducive conditions. there was what they called the strategic triangle but we have leverage on the soviet union. they got leverage on the soviet union with the conducive condition but if you go back to how we felt about china. i have a quote from a show in 1950 the walter cronkite hosted in the language in the show is about how terrible society is and how the soviet union is better. they are not as regimented and all that so to break through that was a substantial transformation. others get credit. nixon and mao come into the story and as they say in the look they got the oprah but kissinger and -- did most of the statecraft. the head of the politics on both sides in ways that only they could

a key player, secretary of state henry kissinger. what new have you learned about his role, his influence, and his tenure under two republican administrations? daniel: a great deal. during the research that ultimately resulted in this book -- i was able to read thousands of new documents, memoranda of telephone conversations -- i think there is an enormous amount on kissinger for historians to learn. too long historians have been

kissinger always had a lean staff. today there are between 1500 and 7000 members of the nsc staff. -- 1500 and 1700 members of the nsc staff. under henry kissinger, there were 30. >> a few good men and women. >> men and women. of course, no one ever accused henry and his staff of not being effective in those days. but there was no such thing as a congressional relations office on the nsc at the time. now it is bigger than tom's staff was in the nixon administration. i was a junior staff member for national security and political military affairs, so the problems as they started to emerge were all defense and national security, at least the ones we saw. they had much broader issues. so i got stuck with, i have never been inside congress, even in the building to that point, but henry and al hague said, get up there and stop these crazy people from passing these crazy resolutions. i ended up working right away with this quite incredible congressional relations staff. so, that sort of consumed 90% of my time the whole time

a key player, secretary of state henry kissinger.hat new have you learned about his role, his influence, and his tenure under two republican administrations? daniel: a great deal. during the research that ultimately resulted in this book -- i was able to read thousands of new documents, memoranda of telephone conversations -- i think there is an enormous amouis

a key player secretary of state , henry kissinger. what new have you learned about his role, his influence, and his tenure under two republican administrations? >> a great deal, during the research that ultimately resulted in this book, i was able to read thousands of new documents, memorandums, meetings, telephone conversations, and this is still an enormous amount -- there is still anrm

kissinger argued for meeting the developing countries in the middle, for creating new initiatives to provide an economic support, food aid to developing countries. that surprised me because it wasn't an element of kissinger's career for which he was well-known in the existing scholarship. host: daniel sargent is an associate professor at uc berkeley here in sacramento at the organization of american historians. thank you for your time. daniel: thank you. >> this weekend, american the site.me you to >> we designed a town plan and sold off the lot. that's how we built our first treasury. served as capital from 1819 1826. as the county seat, it continued to grow. a county had the highest capital of wealth in the united states. we had many fine churches and businesses. these were the wealthiest of the wealthy. the town and that period was a 60% african-american. it was always a majority black town. we are in the center of cahawba. why we are in the center because the governor decided that way. this way is the remnants of an old indian village. it was a ghost town here in 1818. he made th

now, franco, i kind of wish kissinger and make it fact million chinese in prison in camps at the time that he visited but he didn't. i think trump will probably finesse this issue with the congress. >> you at something liquid at. >> i can't imagine that the north koreans would even ask for that, for a congressional mandate. because realistically that's what they they were building te deal itself and that's why having a short-term deal, very short deal is unrealistic because they're going to want to build in those assurances over time. the last administration to test the theory to begin with, it's not just about congress but the administration as well, because again as we've seen with president trump pulling out of the iran deal, it's not a congressional decision. it's an executive decision. that isn't necessarily who the north koreans would target in this kind of deal. it was going to be what other terms of the deal and what are the details. >> it seems to me the dynamic has changed but the fundamental question that we and the international community have to ask ourselves has not chan

everybody thinks chinese normalization, kissinger and nixon and they deserve all the credit forh our preaching, but they would not take, taiwan lobby. they did a not or malaise relations. carter did. he took the lobby on anyone is another very tough fight. deng xiaoping, all four-foot 11 comes into the white house, cabinet room and what he wants now being thankful for democratic -- diplomatic relations. he was the lowest possible tariffs on chinese goods that we offer two or most solute trading partners, but he knew there was a lawth precluding not. he said to the president, we don't admit immigration and he pushed a white house notepad and pencil to the president m and said, you put on this by the number of chinese you'd like us. a million, 10 million. and the president with a twinkle inhah his eye said i'll tell you what, i'll take 10 million if you take 10,000 american journalists in response. the coup de grace to the carter presidency was administered by arends krol radical ayatollah khomeini, whose top aide i interviewed. he held americans hostage for 444 days in violation of ev

frankly, i wish that they have hadhat henry kissinger mentioned the prisons. that there were 30 millions in the prisons. but he did not. i think donald trump will probably finesse this issue with congress. >> i can't imagine that the north koreans would even ask for a congressional mandate. that is why having a short-term deal is unrealistic because they will want to build in assurances over time. it is not just about congress, but the administration as well. it is not a congressional decision. that is not necessarily who the north koreans would target. >> it seems that dynamic has changed, but the fundamental question we have to ask ourselves what not change. it is too dangerous given their history of proliferation for one thing, but the dynamic has changed and we have seen this before. are we going to of talks or not have talks. we start focusing on, had we continued the dialogue rather questionstrategic which is, had we get rid of the weapons of destruction? kimou really believe jong-un broke up when date and slapped his head and now i have to get rid of th

you have the opening by kissinger and nixon and the bush family being proud of their connections withhave almost a strong effort ten years ago to set up g2, and that was backed by kissinger, brezinski, paulson and quite a few people that felt very strongly about u.s. and china together can kind of control the world. i've had admirals and generals tell me that. that they want to cooperate with the chinese military. so this goodwill feeling of cooperation with china is the way to go, and that is still very strong. i think that explains also why president trump president trump has a lot of pressure on him from the bureaucracy from some in congress, but not all. chuck schumer represents it but the momentum is still there. the third thing is what i call intelligence failure. the u.s. intelligence committee has been wrong about severalut major things from 1950 on, and it looks like understanding just how sophisticated china was going to be in ripping off our technology, jobs, influence of our political system, that seems to have been gotten wrong. community is back on track now, they are do

henry kissinger, especially with a sensitive moment like this, he would ask the permission of the whitewas a republican or democrat president. he would carry a message from the president. >> martha: exactly. how about a request, do you mind if i reach out and have a conversation or not? let me know. i don't want to be unhelpful here. ben rhodes, obviously very involved as a member of the obama administration with the whole iran deal as well, outraged because he has the understanding that there was an israeli-u.s. attempt to dig up dirt on the people who developed this deal in order to discredit them as a sort of dossier against the people who built this deal. he says this is not behavior that should be acceptable in a democracy. it's a thuggish, mean-spirited, chilling and threatening cloud of public service that risks extending far beyond me, and collin, who was also named in them. what you think you might >> do know it's unacceptable in our democracy? ben rhodes. it the least qualified person to ever sit in a position of authority in foreign policy. i doubt that the story is true. i d

it goes back to kissinger, excek accelerating under obama. first what was happening wa wast was just cheaper to make things over there. and china plays the long game. they run a giant trade imbalance with us but they steal our intellectual property. whether you look at the bipartisan commission that was put together under president obama or if you look at the council of economic advisers or the department of defense reports over the last, call it, 12 months twhrb' months there'ss that ip theft from the u.s. to china has been right around 3 to $500 billion a year. 3 to 500 billion. maria: that's a big number. >> it's a number that's unconscionable. and yet the narrative that china develops in the past that we're an open society, an open economy and we need to continue globalization and free trade. what china is saying we need to keep stealing as much as we can from you, we need to keep running the largest trade deficit that we can. and basically we're going to be put into a sur vile nation if we don't act. and i applaud the actions of lighthou

inside the democrat party where we stand on tax policy and the same thing where do we stand on henry kissingerand where we stand on the health safety records and with our position vis-À-vis the soviets -- there's been more debate on the republican side then remains today and more debate on the inside the democrat party has been more unified since 1932 in the republican party has been more divided many times since 1932. >> host: let's hear what our callers have to say. we'll begin with gail in harbor springs, michigan. gail you are on book tv. >> caller: hello, craig. i first want to say you are my kind of republican. you are attitude is one of openness. you don't appear smug and self-righteous and i am a trump supporter and i'm proud to say that and yes, they can question our president and talk about his politics but i do believe that one day he will come as a great president for the united states. i have watched him since the late '80s and i just find them to be a bright light. i appreciate you taking my call and thank you again. maybe one day you will write a book on presidential. thank you.

rmats, withb ho kissinger associates, thank you. bob: thank you.up, breakingng ground as one of the non-binary actors, asia kate dillon. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: what'd you miss? dillon as one of the first non-binary actors, and she joins us to talk about what it means to change the conversation around gender identity. nice to have you on with us. asia: it is really nice to be here. thank you. scarlet: you are the first non-binary identifying actor. tell us about that. asia: i identify as gender non-binary, which is a term used by some people, myself included, who see their gender identity outside of man or woman. scarlet: when it comes to your character on the show was taylor non-binary, or was that because of you? non- taylor was always binary, and they auditioned ofple, trans people, people all different gender identities and sexual orientations, and ultimately, they wanted to cast the west actor for the part, and that turned out to be me, and i am -- they want to cast the best actor for the parts, and that turned out to be me, and i am so

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kissinger did in 1973. they're back. they have a seat at the table in ways that probably their military strength doesn't warrant. - [narrator] china is rising as well. it is second only to the united states in military spending. (suspenseful music) it has made territorial claims in the south china sea, in violation of international law. putting itself at odds with the us. (speaking a foreign language) - it's not an ideological competitor to the united states, in the way that the soviet union was an ideological competitor to liberal capitalism, but it's a geopolitical competitor to american power. - if china's rise continues on the trajectory which they're launched right now, they will inevitably pass us as the largest economy in the world that will be significant. their military capabilities have been growing quite considerably in recent years. - there are some areas where i think we have to rightly push back against chinese influence, and trying to flex its military muscles, particularly in the south china sea. - their

i've been told that my north korean officials themselves including some who said kissinger didn't go to beijing and lecture chairman mao about the cultural revolution. he made a strategic opening and you all address the human rights issues later. frankly i can wish kissinger had mentioned the fact who are 30 million chinese imprisoned in camps at the time that he visited, but he didn't. i think trump will probably finesse this issue with the congress. >> just to quickly add to that, i can't imagine that the north koreans would even ask for that, for a congressional mandate. realistically that is built into a deal itself and that's why having a short-term deal, , a vy short deal is unrealistic because they are going to want to build in those assurances over time. the last past administration to test the theory to begin with, it's not just about congress but the administration is well because again as we've seen with president trump pulling out of the arena deal, it's not congressional decision. that's executive decision. that isn't necessarily who the north koreans would target in thi

porter: henry kissinger shared the prize in 1973 for negotiating an armistice in the vietnam r. nixon's right-hand man, history also knows him for the secret bombings of cambodia and laos. sometimes the world too violent for any peace prize winner. >> no nobel peace prize year. why not? it is that man again. reporter: the nobel committee decided not to award anyone during the height of world war ii.th 's right, no one was peaceful enough, anywhere on earth. then again, why should we be surprised? this mixture of war andaneace, bombas virtue. alfred nobel made his fortune in part from inventing dynamite. and no one has had a more explosive impact on the global stage rajini: that is it from me, but remember, you can find more on all the day'wenews on our ite. i am rajini vaidyanathan. thanks for watching "world news erica." >> with the bbc news app, our vertical videos are designed to work around your lifestyle, so stu can swipe your way to the news of the day an up-to-date with the latest headlines you can trust.ow download n from selected app stores. >> funding of this presentat

against the soviet union and that led to the nixon kissinger opening in one thousand seventy one and that in turn led to america's decision to aid china's economic rise for example when president jimmy carter was in office he issued a directive that all u.s. departments would assist in china's economic rise so today an economic rules breaking monster has emerged in the form of china which floats international rules which which rights roughshod over global global creating norms now both china and the united states for the time being at least have put muscle flexing around terrorists on hold but many american acts prates have been warning that this is just the call before the storm do you think the current between washington and beijing can be frozen at its current state or do you think we're likely to see some ass collation before what are scaled down i agree that there is the love and the slow will will not last for long because the americans have woken up to the fact that china has a very one sided trade relationship with the united states it's very heavily skewed in china's family

against the soviet union and that led to the nixon kissinger opening in one thousand seventy one and that in turn led to america's decision to aid china's economic rise for example when president jimmy carter was in office he issued a directive that all u.s. departments would assist in china's economic rise so today an economic rules breaking monster has emerged in the form of china which floats international rules which which rights roughshod over global global creating norms now both china and the united states for the time being at least have put muscle flexing around terrorists on hold but many american acts prates have been warning that this is just the call before the storm do you think the current townshend between washington and beijing can be frozen at its current state or do you think we're likely to see some ass collation before what are scaled down i agree that there is the love and the slow will not last for long because the americans have woken up to the fact that china has a very one sided trade relationship with the united states it's very heavily skewed in china's fa

washington most impervious to outside control that's why you have structure as a state like say henry kissinger who just ignore what they call the building and then other people like colin powell really got absorbed by it and really were not much more than figureheads i think what mr pompei was trying to do here is rouse the troops to fill that with a sense of the sprit to core say i mean i'm your guy but he still intends to point them in the direction that he wants to go let's look at some of the was he used that but i have talked about america's a sensual rightness in close but if it is what you think he means by that oh i don't think it is that's unique to mr pompei i think you have an attitude throughout the political class here in washington that's almost like a like a real recrudescence of the view of the silly union we're the vanguard of all progressive humanity peace progress is socialism archy's peace progress and human rights and that we are right and everybody else takes their cue from us i think that kind of arrogance unfortunately is pretty standard well let's have a look at this a

america's hero and then i find out that this guy his father also was a personal attorney for henry kissinger personal attorney for robert best go personal attorney for michael milken and the list goes on doug liman father arthur was not part of the subsequent carry subcommittee's. field cocaine smuggling in the conscious supply and that. journalist gary webb published articles in the san jose mercury to better elucidate their relationship between cia and other agencies that protected contra drug trafficking he was right out of mainstream journalism. the story was finally told in two thousand and fourteen killed the messenger gary webb you know was a really great investigative reporter who broke a story right at the beginning of the internet era was actually the first big internet news exposé and it involved. a geisha of cia connected drug sales in the one nine hundred eighty s. and l. a big as cracking freeway ricky ross who is well known to the public because the l.a. times already called him the kingpin of crack cocaine the person most responsible for the rise of the drug epidemic gary web

nixon and kissinger had nuclear arms deals, somewhat limited but to good effect. the administration, it is all over the place. when you say it isa is all over the place. when you say it is a brutal putdown, i am not impressed. you often sack people who you only adopted a day before. that is part and parcel of how they do business. i think the mistake is part and parcel of how they do business. ithink the mistake here again is talking about what will be theissue again is talking about what will be the issue of the meeting in the first place. why pronounce ahead of time, the security man or the foreign secretary or whatever, what is theirgameplan? foreign secretary or whatever, what is their gameplan? this sort allows the other side to play nicely and expose the divisions. they have themselves to blame for these divisions. in general terms, themselves to blame for these divisions. in generalterms, what trump has done, he has incentivised politics, reducing it to man baby squabbling. this is massively dangerous. he will accept nothing but on nuclear weapons. you only

escapees which started on your article that's absolutely brilliant when describing the likes of henry kissinger but. you know what i want to ask you what stood out to you is the biggest kind of myths surrounding the political legend of john mccain that were played so straight in this documentary. well first of all. i covered john mccain on the campaign trail a couple of times and. they always laid out very thick the idea that he was a maverick and a change agent that term was tossed around quite a bit but if you actually look at mccain's history he does have a history of opposing some people within his own party he certainly has a history of personal dust ups with members of his own party but in terms of actual change he was very much in line with most american policy particularly when it came to military interventionism he was never really able to come to grips with the mistakes of the war on terror. or even really the vietnam era for that matter and he was one of the one of the earliest proponents of the iraq war and i say this hating to criticize terminal brain cancer but there was always th

america's hero and then i find out that this guy his father also was a personal attorney for henry kissinger personal attorney for robert best go personal journey for michael milken and the list goes on doug liman father arthur was not part of the subsequent carry subcommittee's only revealed cocaine smuggling in the conscious supply and that. journalist gary webb published articles in the san jose mercury to better elucidate their relationship between cia and other agencies that protected contra drug trafficking he was right out of mainstream journalism his story was finally told in two thousand and fourteen. kill the messenger gary webb you know is a really a great investigative reporter who broke a story right at the beginning of the internet era was actually the first big internet news exposé and it involved some geishas of cia connected drug sales in the one nine hundred eighty s. and l. a biggest crack campaign freeway ricky ross who is well known to the public because the l.a. times already called him the kingpin of crack cocaine the person most responsible for the rise of the drug ep

outside kissinger and rockefeller organized a real pr effort.carter sat there the last holdout and he said to them, to everyone i think if i let him in they will take over our embassy. what do we do then? in the end he finally conceded and it turned out he could have been treated by doctors in houston in mexico. so he was the last holdout in think and we understood that and also one other thing, when reagan came in from the root hundred 41 troops our ambassador megan full everybody out why didn't carter do that? with the ayatollah took over? i will tell you why. because in february of 79, there wasn't an effort to take over the embassy and the secular government although appointed had the police immediately take them back. so carter thought they will do that again. so he did prophesied this would happen and he was right. >> i know there are more questions that i think the panel will want a few more minutes and hear is the final question so aside from iran, if there is one issue in the carter presidency that you think has been misunderstood what

the nixon demonstration was commenced that kissinger musician made arguments that if you do not stophis, where is it going to stop? and you have to be able to stop this kind of broad skill taking of classified and dangerous information, or there is no stopping point, and who will have no credibility in the rest of the world about our ability to keep secrets if we cannot keep this secret. this was 7000 pages of material. susan: you mentioned president met some, what should people know about his relationship with the press to get into this case? ted: floyd knows more about this than i do, but anybody who lived during that period or studied it must president next and was not a fan of the press. floyd: and you can say vice versa. ted: he didn't like the press critical ofy are him. he was very concerned about his vulnerability to the press. was a hostile, difficult, tortured relationship that he already had with the press. so something like this comes along and he said they are publishing secret information and it might be something else next, and he is going to react and do whatever he c

you hope and for a long time which is you know what's next at the henry kissinger problem you know when you call europe who do you vote you call for trump has got the personnel in mckelvie so you're the guy to go to watch the next few days is michael kroger they're on will it be increased diplomacy now in talks between micro-loan and the european union because you know what it's really all about i mean i think that the spotlight is going to be on that it come up really who seems to be quite stubborn and you know has dug their heels in very much to keep. the around you'll go in but she is now in you know sort of she's got the spotlight on her now you know whether she won't be play the role of being a real international forum for the people and putting european union into the rest of world that you have to because of working for policy rather than some that was just on paper now so it sounds but i don't get the impression that she's making the right sound the moving the bike racks and put you off as i think she feels that she's probably going to cut out the picture and put yourself in her

operating on on trump i think he believes post the way that he could pull off something like the nixon kissinger trip to china if you remember in one nine hundred seventy s. when they went secret president nixon went secretly to china and recognized the people's republic of china a dramatic u. turn a big personal and risky initiative and troubling to do some of that and he was backed up by the south koreans who helped broker that deal with north korea but against that you've got to put as mentioned in your package the opposition of key figures from the vice president an offense advisor the pentagon the intelligence agency whole sections of the republican party the neo cons base that way who don't want any dealings with north korea and do want in the chilly words this would be an option and we should remember you know julian or remember what happened to gadhafi he was shot dead after being bombed by the by the french you know no one wants this options the witchery threatening that we're going to bring you down so i think there's two pressures here and i should add backed up by japan which almost