the kissinger story is interesting. i was able to interview kissinger in january of 2016. in new york 92 years old, and i think 94. and i had access to many documents that were declassified. the transcripts. in here to he's in here notwithstanding criticism of his foreign-policy. there were some conditions there is the strategic triangle for we got leverage out of the soviet union and better relations with china. that was a conducive condition. if we go back and we used to call it red china, remember? i have in here quote from the show in 58 that walter cronkite hosted. it was about how society was in the soviet union is better, not as regimented. to break through that was a substantial transformation. others get credit on and comes into the story. as i said the book dig out the opera. they did most of the statecraft. the handle the politics on both sides in ways that only they could handle. what is extraordinary is kissinger and their first secret meeting in july of 71 held 17 hours of meetings. someone says mostly one-on-one with two translators. on the second trip that

kissinger agreed to turn a blind eye. witness so that israel had a greater interest in the cease fire and i couldn't get to that moment because the hard work to do so terror it was to capture. as morning broke on the twenty third of october israeli forces went into action as though no ceasefire existed. to aman divisions commanded by generals after hamadan and conmen magen. raced southwards bypassing egyptian resistance points and a dash toward so as. the mayor of a private school bus the support of the illness to get to within eighty kilometers of cairo and with three divisions i think that considering where we started from to reach where we did it was a huge achievement but we paid the price in blood in my battalion sixty seven of my soldiers were killed almost one hundred injured. by nightfall on the twenty third the israelis had managed to cut the kyra so as road and by passed so as city to reach the port of a dead. the egyptian third army dug in on the eastern side of the canal now found itself under siege surrounded

they kissinger china opening so it really interesting. i was able to interview kissinger in january 2016 in new york, 92 years old, now i think 94, and i had asked its a lot of the documents that were declassify, the transcript of these meetings. and here hereto he's in your notwithstanding other criticism of other part of his foreign-policy. there were some conducive conditions around. what they called the strategic trying were because of leverage on the soviet union with the relation with china. they got some leverage on the soviet union. but if we go back to how we all felt about china, we used to call it red china, remember? i have in here a quote from a show 1958 that walter cronkite hosted and the language in the show is all about how terrible the society is and actually 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 now come into the story and as they say in the book, they got the opera but kissinger did most of the statecr

kissinger agreed to china blind eye. were to say that israel had a greater interest in the cease fire and i couldn't get it right at that moment because the hard work to do so terror it was to occur. as morning broke on the twenty third of october israeli forces went into action as though no ceasefire existed. to ahmed divisions commanded by generals after hamadan and conmen magen. raced southwards bypassing egyptian resistance points and a dash towards us. coming over from the sort of us the support for the aim is to get to within eighty kilometers of cairo and with three divisions i think that considering where we started from to reach where we did it was a huge achievement but we paid the price in blood in my battalion sixty seven of my soldiers were killed almost a hundred injured. by nightfall on the twenty third the israelis had managed to cut the kyra so as road and bypassed so as city to reach the port of a dead. the egyptian third army dug in on the eastern side of the canal now found itself under siege surround

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. two things. first, the "new york times" front page the next morning, senate votes to cut troops in nato. this is the end of the western world as we know it. at 11:00, griffin moved to recommit the vote and asked magnuson, what changed your mind? >> i remember during a fight i was with henry abingdon, one of the geniuses with why he has been so effective. he is still sharp as ever. he liked these people, even the idiots. he knew how to work them. as an example, i remember i was with him i would give him a talk, he did need to -- he did not need talking papers. magnuson whocall at the time was flipping a bit but he was very much a man of the left. not ideologically. >> chairman of something. >> appropriations. he was v

nixon and kissinger were extremely frustrated with senator jackson, believing that his statements werey causing more problems and compelling the soviets to make an even tougher stand about the jews living in the soviet union than they otherwise would. although watergate ended nixon's presidency, it didn't stop the policy of detente. when gerald ford took over power from nixon in august of 1974, he abandoned many things but continued with the policy of detente, saying it would be very unwise for president or anyone else to abandon detente. senator jackson blasted the ford administration for making this decision. in september of 1974, right around the time of the pardon of nixon that we discussed, jackson insted that the soviets need to be allowed -- should be forced to allow a certain number of jews to leave the soviet union if they wanted to obtain most favored trade status in trade legislation that was moving through congress. he attached this requirement as an amendment to trade legislation. and he worked with new york's , and abraham ribakoff to put pressure on the administration. f

he was talking about henry kissinger.e wrote in his 2001 book a cook's tour -- "once you've been to cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat henry kissinger to death with your bare hands. you will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with charlie rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. witness what henry did in cambodia -- the fruits of his genius for statesmanship -- and you will never understand why he's not sitting in the dock at the hague next to milosevic." that was anthony bourdain who just killed himself. >> i did not know that quouote. i wrote this long book about kissinger, and i remember the next year at the white house correspondents dinner -- to which no rational journalist should go to. it is not our job. by the way, my complaint with "the new york times is we should not recognize america first. we are an international newspaper. but that is a more subtle issue. every

kissinger agreed to china blind eye. witness so that israel had a greater interest in the ceasefire couldn't get to that moment has the hard work to do though terror it was to occur. as morning broke on the twenty third of october israeli forces went into action as though no ceasefire existed. to aman divisions commanded by generals after hamadan and conmen magen. braced southwards by pulsing egyptian resistance points and a dash toward suez. the may have a problem with us the support of the illness to get to within eighty kilometers of cairo and with three divisions i think that considering where we started from to reach where we did it was a huge achievement but we paid the price in blood in my battalion sixty seven of my soldiers were killed almost one hundred injured well if. by nightfall on the twenty third the israelis had managed to cut the kyra so as road and by passed so as city to reach the port of a deadly. the egyptian third army dug in on the eastern side of the canal now found itself under siege surrounded

individual who most eloquently articulated the detente was his national security advisor, henry kissingerthe first component of detente under richard nixon involved a of high-level arms agreements with the soviet union that produced the salt 1 may 26,t, signed on 1972. this was a deal with the soviet that had been negotiated with the leader, leonid a protegewho had been and had taken over the soviet union in 1964. you see here on the cover of time magazine, shaking nixon's hand, was a hard-line communist who had shown no indication in the that he was open to any kind of new relationship with the united states. increased military spending. he had entered into a series of in the middle east and other parts of the world with butunited states, s wereely, the soviet feeling the strain of higher defense spending on their economy. entered into negotiations with nixon, starting in 1969 in helsinki, and culminating in may of 1972. numbereement limited the of anti-ballistic missile sites each country could have, and it limited the number of intercontinental missiles and bymarine launched missiles f

the first step in kissinger's grand plan. the agreement guaranteed the egyptians daily convoys of nonmilitary supplies to the city of suez and the besieged third army. for israel the key point of the agreement was an exchange of prisoners. israeli prison as arriving back and tell of the when met by huge crowds. prime minister golda my ear was moved to tears by the occasion. and sniff the heart of then and he worked. it's hard to describe my feelings when i saw the coastline of my country from the plane. we landed at a military air base and once the doors were opened we saw the israeli soldiers coming in not egyptians. and when you come down the steps and you saw the applause in the church is an amazing feeling the soul now the oil the core lot. thus the. as the new year arrived henry kissinger returned to the region. to hammer out the next step and his grand plan for egyptian israeli disengagement. on the eleventh of january he met with sadat in the southern egyptian city of aswan. the. next day in the afternoon kissinger lef

rather than someone like henry kissinger. the peace between conservatives and carter came to an end. coervatives quickly started to that carter's concerned with human rights and carter's concerned with new policies in key hotspots of the cold war was going to strengthen the soviet union. neoconservatives and conservative republicans argued that the president only focused on human rights when it came to non-allies of the soviet union. the ability of carter to balance this trade-off between whom and -- between human rights and detente was starting to break down at the heat of discussions as i will discuss in a bit. the biggest and first major political battle with the right and president carter comes with the panama canal. carter decided in 1977 that anger about u.s. control of the panama canal, which for those of you who have been studying the u.s. history no it has become a symbol for imperialism. that this tension had to be quelled the carter believed. this he said would help rebuild the u.s. standing in this part of the wor

kissinger was not convinced.the past human rights abuses could produce instability in south korea that might threaten u.s. interests. his position on human rights kissinger responded first in general i've tried to abolish the political science department and the state department which tried to restructure the domestic situation of other countries. i don't think it's worth our investment to democratize south korea. habib who spent six years in south korea between 1961 in 1974 was deeply connected to south koreans to professional and personal ties. these connections as well as long-standing concerns about political and religious repression based on his personal history led habib to press for the rights of individual south koreans as well as to urge american pressure on the south korean government to alleviate human rights positions more broadly. habib stretch the parameter of his role to address human rights concerns and they think this case eliminates the complicated role of diplomats in implementing u.s. policy.

as the new year arrived henry kissinger returned to the region. to hammer out the next step and his grand plan for egyptian israeli disengagement. on the eleventh of january he met with sadat in the southern egyptian city of aswan. the. next day in the afternoon kissinger left for television to meet up with the israelis. after week flying between aswan a city famous for its winter sun. and television experiencing its first ever snow storm. both sides accepted a disengagement agreement. a new term had entered the lexicon of international politics shuttle diplomacy. over this could be airport when you can. get really really. the face of it. on the eighteenth of january general mohammad an egyptian chief of staff. and general d.v.l.a. as it is israeli counterpart signed the agreement in the tent at kilometer one o one. it was the first in a chain of agreements that would lead to total israeli withdrawal from sinai and april nine hundred eighty two. thousand how possible or what the significance of that war the october war was the impact it had not on

in the early hours and merican secretary of state henry kissinger. is woken in his suite with the news of military activity in the middle east. two hours later at two pm middle eastern time. egypt and syria launched a war against israel on two fronts. after three years in power egyptian president anwar sadat had grown tired of peace initiatives that seemed to be going nowhere. you don't fear them with your toes has not been successful and sort of and the united states was the main supporter of the surge so it was clear that if you want to solve the problem you would have to do two things either go to war. or try to convince the americans to move into. two weeks into the war and with the opposing forces locked in a stalemate and richeson just arrived in moscow. is goal was to agree a u.n. cease fire acceptable to egypt soviet allies. the russians had to. for the russian jews it was unacceptable so we had to rewrite it in history and. showed up from the. right again. we push it to the next morning. within two days the draft of the un security council r

henry kissinger's class. that was one interesting contact. up and asked him what he thought i should take. he said my course, of course. that makes sense so i did. >> you are working in the economic division? ay-cam: i was assigned to lady whose husband was with the usaid. she was working on economic and infrastructure in the country, vietnam. we became very good friends. me and iery happy with was happy with her. the u.s. consulate officially .pened section, the personnel asking them to send me back to the consulate general. it was aeed a week later i was right there, and everyone welcomed me with open arms. i started working there. >> would you go back to vietnam? james: i never really left. work at the embassy in saigon. >> i thought you went to harvard after saigon? james: that came at the end of my tour in vietnam. that was after the tour was lost, 1967. we had been courting since i got there. after the end of my second tour. quickly, i decided i didn't want to stay there. it was cold and i want to get back to vietnam. i had enough conte

start off with henry kissinger quote he says that demonization of lattimer putin is not a policy it's an alibi for the absence of one degree with him. yet is there a coherent policy line on russia in washington there are seven or eight coherent lines but all together they produce incoherence by that i mean the congress thinks it knows what it's doing. there are some individuals let's say the department of defense who have one orientation in the state department which is a revolving door who have another and so on no a coherent administration line has not emerged because they're fighting internally because trump started off as a pragmatic rush a complainer a he wanted to make good with russia but then they stopped which meant tat his hands does this mean that the american line towards russia is pretty termite no matter who the president will be no no this is and this is unique with trump no tied his hands in particular because the pass this legislation requiring sanctions right and that is certainly tied to trump personally because of the suspicion that he colluded with russia or the m

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start off with henry kissinger quote he says that demonization of lattimer putin is not a policy it's an alibi for the absence of one degree with him yes yes yes is there a coherent policy line on russia in washington. there are seven or eight coherent lawns but all together they produce incoherence by that i mean the congress thinks it knows what it's doing there are some individuals let's say the department of defense who have one orientation in the state department which is a revolving door who have another and so on no a coherent administration lie has not emerged because they're fighting internally because trump started off as a pragmatic rush a complainer right he wanted to make good with russia but then they stopped wish one tatt his hands does this mean that the american line towards russia is pretty termite no matter who the president will be no no this is and this is unique with trump no tied his hands in particular because the pass this legislation requiring sanctions right and. that is certainly tied to trump personally because of the suspicion that he colluded with russia

start off with henry kissinger quote he says that demonization of lattimer putin is not a policy it's an alibi for the absence of one degree with him. yet is there a coherent policy line on russia in washington. there are seven or eight coherent lines but all together they produce in coherence by that i mean the congress thinks it knows what it's doing. there are some individuals let's say the department of defense who have one orientation in the state department which is a revolving door who have another and so on no a coherent administration line has not emerged because they're fighting internally because trump started off as a prick matic complainer a he wanted to make good with russia but then they stopped wishbone tat his hands does this mean that the american line towards russia is pretty termite no matter who the president will be no no this is a this is unique with trump no tied his hands in particular because the pass this legislation requiring sanctions right and that is certainly tied to trump personally because of the suspicion that he colluded with russia or that members

it was something henry kissinger recognized early in the cold war. was there a choice between suicide and surrender that we get the choice of backing down or fighting a full scale nuclear war and we didn't need to have these options in between. i think it provides those supplements in preventing us in choosing to surrender so we can refresh the use of nuclear weapons try to defend its position that we can keep escalating the crisis without going into a full-scale nuclear exchange which would be catastrophic. >> right here and then right here. >> peter rogers retired executive interested in military affairs. [inaudible] >> it's a good question. part of the reason the united states has been interested in this robust nuclear posture for decades is because of its deterrence. if united states decided tomorrow we are going to pull back. we are going to have foreign policy on nuclear weapons then i think we could get away with a minimum nuclear deterrence. we could have a -- more like china. we ask our nuclear weapons to descend on the entire world so we ar

brian: this is about the harrisburg conspiracy, trying to kidnap henry kissinger.the end, there was something called the love letters back and forth between these two, phil berrigan and liz mcallister. [video clip] >> not saying that it wasn't talked about her approach, but it was no. that was it. tocourse, howard got back jager hoover in december. that's obvious. the letters. wrotet stupid letters i to phil about some of the things people were talking about, not they were always monitoring his mail. subtlely you try to say something, they will try to make something of it. >> when the revelation came out of what they were really about, that was a shocker. and that was across the board, especially when you are sitting back and knowing what the government knows more about their relationship than you do. brian: how surprised were you to find out the fbi was reading the mail of the prisoner? skizz: not very. the interview with liz was the first time we heard about the letters. joe: i knew nothing about the story and just asked her questions on this came out. it probabl

the same was true with kissinger.here were times i criticized in the narrative his lack of appreciation for the values of american democracy and how they had to be included in the foreign-policy and i had to push myself, not to sugarcoat everything. so, yes, some journalists are very good at being tough about their subjects. for me, it's a little more difficult and i have to push myself. host: why do you find it difficult? guest: i tend to like the people i write about whether they are contemporary or not, i mean, i like steve jobs a lot. i respected him. i admired him. i like better franklin a lot, also i respected and admired him, so doing the downside or a story in the biography that is rough, you kind of flinch a bit because you almost feel like these are your friends, so you don't want to say anything unnecessarily harsh about them. i think that makes me less of a good father for anyway that i tend to try to find the good lights. i can use on a particular anecdote or subject, but i know people read my books inclu

joining us now, illinois republican adam kissinger. this bill have any chance of passing, seriously? >> i think so. it's going to be tough. if you look at it this way, we've got about probably 20 more, 25 more we need to get than we got from the bill last week. i think we can get it done, but the president needs to lean into this, i think, so from a lot of members from my party they want to hear from the president. they want to hear this is something he supports. he was in front of our conference last week and said i support you guys 1,000%. the bill's good. we're going to go ahead. it's got verifiable border security. it also takes care of the 1.8 million in the daca population and gives them a path to citizenship pretty far down the road and a few other things. i'm actually confused why there's no democrats on board. there won't be. i think we can get it done as republicans. >> you just gave the most optimistic assessment of the chances for this bill. >> i'm an optimist. >> the question is, are you a hopeful optimist or just an optim

brian: this is about the harrisburg conspiracy, trying to kidnap henry kissinger.the end, there was something called the love letters back and forth between these two, phil berrigan and liz mcallister. let's watch this. [video clip] >> not saying that it wasn't talked about or approached, but it was no. that was it. of course, howard got back to j edgar hoover in december. that's obvious. the letters. >> just stupid letters i wrote to phil about some of the things people were talking about, not realizing they were always monitoring his mail. but also, no matter how subtlely you try to say something, they will try to make something of it. >> when the revelation came out of what they were really about, that was a shocker. and that was across the board, especially when you are sitting back and knowing what the government knows more about their relationship than you do. brian: how surprised were you to find out the fbi was reading the mail of the prisoner? skizz: not very. the interview with liz was the first time we heard about the letters. joe: i knew nothing about t

in the early hours and merican secretary of state henry kissinger. is woken in his suite with the news of military activity in the middle east. two hours later at two pm middle eastern time. egypt and syria launched a war against israel on two fronts. after three years in power egyptian president anwar sadat had grown tired of peace initiatives that seemed to be going nowhere. we don't fear mediators has not been successful and sort of and the united states was the main supporter of the surge so it was clear that if you want to solve the problem you would have to do two things either go to war. or try to convince the americans to move into. two weeks into the war and with the opposing forces locked in a stalemate and richeson just arrived in moscow. is goal was to agree a u.n. ceasefire acceptable to egypt soviet allies. the russians had to. for the russian jews it was acceptable so we had to rewrite it in history and. showed up from the. right again. we push it to the next morning. within two days the draft of un security council resolution three th

one of the people i got to know during that period was henry kissinger. in fact, he came to hue and stayed at my house for a couple of days. he was just a harvard professionor then. but we d get to know him a little bit and later after i left vietnam, my first assignment after vietnam was to a real combat zone, cambridge, massachusetts, at the kennedy school of government there. harvard. i took henry's class while i was there. so that was one interesting contact. >> did he recommend he take that class? james: oh, yeah. i called him up and asked him what he thought i should take. he said, my course, of course. that made sense. i did. >> you are working in the economic division? what was that experience like? tuy-cam: i was assigned to a lady whose hba was with the usaid. he was working on economic and infrastructure of the country, vietnam. for three months. eris is mary hodgkins. we became very good friends. she was very happy with me and i was happy with her. until the u.s. consulate officially opened. tomahawkins was the counsel general, right? and i we

mentioned cosmic kissinger. he is working on legislation that it seems like it will come to fruition and will pass that would reform cfius. that bill does not say china, but it is widely believed that that it is best -- that that is what it is targeting. a large work that it does is focus on china. , itt were to embolden cfius would only allow them to focus more on china. the white house as well is trying to move with specific investment restrictions, targeting china very especially using an emergency powers provision to address national security. that is very explicit. it is about china. host: if you could help unpack this. a politico review of startups by chinese investors found that only 5% had received government contrast, loans, or grants from a few thousand dollars to several million dollars. often, the contract only entailed research, space technology for nasa. others ordered lab equipment for the commerce department or machine tools for the military. startupsse tech needing u.s. government support. ry: t

the same was true with kissinger.here are times that criticized in the narrative his lack of appreciation for the values of american democracy and how they had to be included in the foreign policy. and not to sugarcoat everything. and robert caro, very good at being cold eyed and taff for me. i like the people i write about. contemporary or not. i like steve jobs a lot admired him. the downside or a story that is to come a kind of flinched a bit. these are your friends so you don't want to say anything unnecessarily harsh about them. i think that makes me less of a good biographer and away. we find that good night i can lose on a particular and other subject, but i know people read my books including the subjects of the book and i was too harsh. he tried to do it honestly. not just rigorously honestly. you also do it with a good heart, which is let me see if i can understand why somebody did it this way even though i don't think it turned out to be the right wao i d >> you get any pushback from anyone you've written a

kissinger needed full support of gerald ford.ong as a president is behind his secretary of state, america's diplomatic carries the full faith and credit of the united states. when the confidence of the president is not with the secretary of state, it is the worst-kept secret literally in the world. for now mike pompeo enjoys the trust of president trump. we should all hope it stays that way. lots of famous names from carried this role. madeline albright, hillary clinton, thomas jefferson. it is far too early to suggest any assessment of mike pompeo's tenure but it is easy to assess his first few months on the job, proceeding at breakneck speed and astonishing results. the world hopes it is as happy in a year from now. not just success on the korean peninsula occurs but in asia generally, the middle east, and the new worlds of the internet all ahead of him right now. i'll see you on the radio monday 6:00 a.m. eastern on salem radio network. keep the conversation going on msnbc.com and see you next saturday morning here on msnbc. .

culture in the us as having you know gone to a huge step back from the old days of the wise men of kissinger's and so forth this is what i mean this was inconceivable before this and it happens on both sides the demonization it's not just the americans demonizing although. i'm an american so i was very critical of our so i did that but it's understood certainly exacerbated personalizing our differences makes it so much harder later to come to the table and we build something it's got so personal we now city. and let's hope there's still some hope there because people like you come here and then they go back and say what they really see and whatever really is happening is russia i still think that it helps a little by little but that's how the world changes could be that we need a common enemy again i don't mean another nazi germany it could be some climactic disaster it could be something the pacific think we should just start to respect each other's world views and realize that course we should things are done differently in different parts of the world and there's not just one america there

these things are pretty well choreographed i mean i went for example with richard nixon and henry kissinger to his summit with loney brezhnev back in one nine hundred seventy two and we'd pretty much choreographed that down to a tee and that's what i've seen happen in other situations but. as you know mr trump believes in is a real believer in spontaneity and intuition and i think it's that smart knew it needed in an intuition that has brought him to this particular place so how scripted it's going to be i don't know but that that's going to be one of the things where are we going to what are we going to get out of this in terms of the direction that these contacts any go because one thing is for certain. nothing it can't be resolved all in one session and the best we can hope for is some positive thrust positive sense a direction of where further contacts may go and follow up teams might negotiate now we know that mr trump can be off the wall anything can happen in a one on one with him we know that kim jong un we don't what do we know about kim jong il and what do you expect personality w

that's how she came to meet the likes of henry kissinger and sam nun and bill frisk, bill perry, eteraey soon joined the board, too. >> and was timing a a factor in all of this? because around 2010 we see facebook rising,tter being very popular. >> right. >> investors were basically looking for the next unicorn starretup and thet was. >> right, and money was gushing into the valley because in large part we had had the great recession in 2008, 2009 and if federal reserve lowered interest rates and traditional investments like bonds no longer turned good money s investors were looking for higher turns elsewhere. >> so the valley becde the gol rush. >> the valley became the gold rush, and one of the companies theemed so promising was theronos. in late 2013, early 2014 the company achieved a valuation of more than $9 million and elizabeth holmes managed to keep half of the equy so she was worth almost $5 billion and thih fulfille yearning there was for the first female tech founder who became a illionaire. there were other women in the valley who had achieved, you beow, fame and wealth. sh

speaker is george daughan come heal to peachtree from harvard university were studied under henry kissinger. his current book, "lexington and concord: the battle heard round the world" was just recently reviewed in the "wall street journal"o if you happen to get that you can read it tonight. he has written a number ofooks including if by sea which won the samuel eliot morrison award for naval literature than on it with the morrison were to use as constitution museum for his work as a naval scholar. without further ado i will t over to our speaker this evening. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's a great honor to be here. one of america's great research institutions, and as some who came from, comes from boston originally, i'm particularly delighted to be here. my book is about a subject that everybody seems to know about, but as i got into researching it, it seems that the were a lot of things left out or things that i didn't see quite as my fellow scholars did. so with that in mind, i'm going to divide this up into two segments, which are go for about 25 minutes, and after that i'll an

henry kissinger would be bored to death. he would just be bored to death and think we are crazy. so you will have people that live longer andon have greater range of options and it requires thinking through two things. one of his we have to build online convenience systems allow you to learn conveniently so if you want to go to valley for six weeks and take courses online i don't care if you need to be available with two hours a week a professor is available, think about how i'm efficient instructors are and then you have to rethink the finances. a rative o mine thinking he might retire from 25 years it'sa pretty large amount of money if we have to be thinking in terms of each of o you on average will have five to seven or more jobs in your lifetime. i don't just mean internship so you have to think about how you are going to change and evolve and i've reinvented myself four or five times and people would just learn to do that, that's my guess. i have an ia for your next book and i think that you are probably the most qualified to hand this. it could be the guide to handling of t

the courthouse or talking about what happened in versaleuring the paris peace accords of 1919 or kissinger going to paris to end the vietnam war, they talked about beachfront condos. that's the great -- that's the great equalizer here between nations. it is -- that -- it is donald trump still, donald trump the real estate developer, and he doesn't realize that this dictator doesn't want beach condos. he wants nuclear weapons. and i don't think he has any plans to go the way of gadhafi. >> yeah. remember, george cannon's great telegram how to lay out the hospitality industry throughout the soviet union. >> yeah. >> it's a -- richard actually keeps a copy of that on his desk, i thin >> yeah. >> two thoughts. just because something hasn't happened before, doesn't mean it's historic. that's one thing. i think when you call something historic it means it has a good chance of having lasting implications and i think it's very unclear, at least to my layman's eye, that this does that. i think richard is exactly right, if i were china right now, i would be thinking hey, i just had a pretty good wee

kissinger, anybody related to kissinger, you lose all of your points. >> all of them gone. >> that woulden my dad. >> david ignatius, thank you so much. betsy, thank you as well, we appreciate it. what's next? >>> coming up, from, quote, low life stephen colbert to lost soul jimmy fallon to no talent jimmy kimmel. the president trashed late night comedians after his call for civility. plus, if the president is scared of the russia investigation now, imagine if democrats win control of congress. eugene robinson says you can smell the president's fear. gene joins us with his new column. "morning joe" is back in a moment. ♪ it's time for the 'lowest prices of the season' on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort your sleep number setting. and snoring? does your bed do that? don't miss final closeout savings on the queen c2 mattress. now only $599, save $300. it's the lowest price ever, only for a limited time. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. your plaques are always there at the worst times. constantly interrupting you with itching, burning and stinging. be

bret: in the 70s he opposed the nixon-ford-kissinger policy of detente. >> my view of detente ine of making concessions to the soviets. we give them something they want very badly. we don't ask anything in return. bret: neither the summits more arms control treaties stopped the spread of communism as america looked to be slowly losing the cold war. after his loss to gerald ford in 1976, reagan spoke moving about the stakes. not simply the future of civilization, the survival of civilization. >> someone asked me to write a letter for a time capsule that is going to be opened in los angeles 100 years from now. i said to myself we live in a world which the great powers have aimed at each other horrible missiles of destruction that can in a matter of minutes arrive in each other's country and destroy. those who would read this letter 100 years from now, will know whether those missiles were fired. they will know whether we met our challenge? bret: ford himself lost to jimmy carter while the soviets added satellite states in asia, africa and south america. [cheers] when reagan ran again i

ainsley: if you have a kissinger team doesn't it save your life?ius. >> coffee saves my life every morning. sit on a couch when washington news is front and center. brian: guess what else is front and center? that and that. ainsley: the ig report. bine brian i know a lot of people are having trouble digesting, 15-page overview which is also intriguing. jason chaffetz, former chairman of oversight was up to his eyeballs with this before he decided to join us. congressman, is this unbelievable it? >> is unbelievable. hats off to michael horowitz doing a thorough report that wasn't leaked in advance. this is one of the most damning rebukes of the fbi that i think we have ever seen and an attack on their integrity and their objectivity: it is sickening and disgusting at the approach that they took and hopefully this is the beginning of fixing it because it is a mess. ainsley: for people waking up, obviously people are not going to read 500 plus pages. >> geeks like me read it, yes. ainsley: tell the folks at home what some of the take aways are from th

bret: in the 70s he opposed the nixon-ford-kissinger policy of detente. >> my view of detente is one of making concessions to the soviets. we give them something they want very badly. we don't ask anything in return. bret: neither the summits more arms control treaties stopped the spread of communism as america looked to be slowly losing the cold war. after his loss to gerald ford in 1976, reagan spoke moving about the stakes. not simply the future of civilization, the survival of civilization. >> someone asked me to write a letter for a time capsule that is going to be opened in los angeles 100 years from now. i said to myself we live in a world which the great powers have aimed at each other horrible missiles of destruction that can in a matter of minutes arrive in each other's country and destroy. those who would read this letter 100 years from now, will know whether those missiles were fired. they will know whether we met our challenge? bret: ford himself lost to jimmy carter while the soviets added satellite states in asia, africa and south america. [cheers] when reagan ran agai

henry kissinger said this project is a triumph of hope over experience and that he had the right to in the eyes and through borders lot of content and that getting a little comment and i found it proved to be true. he and his friend. steve in st. though whether sponsored. hello and welcome to look at weather conditions across the americas is fine across much of south america at the moment of see some showers there's a northern portion there was and basin but as we come south where it's looking largely drawn farm we have a slightly disturbed area the area of convergence across parts here are quiet and into argentina thus not doing much to in the course of sutlej but you may find a bit more in the way of rain around in the course of sunday with the risk of showers up through parts of bolivia and into proof for the towards the south largely fine for chilly there fourteen the high in santiago as we head up into the caribbean we've got to variable amounts of cloud around the bumped it across more eastern parts you see the building up there but in the us it should be bryce at times few showe

and that meeting, first kissinger went and then nixon went with him. and they were very productive meetings. in this case, anderson, the fact that they went in with vague preparations, they didn't really focus in on what they were going to try to get out of it on the american side, and they left early. so they didn't complete something very specific. and i think that's -- you know, the president in part was doing this for his political fortunes back home as well as gaining peace. and i think he really hoped this was going to give him a lift in the midterm elections. and it is so vague and republicans skeptical even though they celebrate the president. and they are skeptical about the outcome, that i don't see how in the next four or five months before the election they can turn this into a big winner on the trail the way they hoped. i think it falls short of what the president wanted. >> coming up next, we're going to tackle the question of human rights in north korea, whether president trump is glossing over the brutal nature of kim jong-un's regime o