they are yelling and screaming at kissinger. kissinger is just sitting there -- mr. special advisor, are you done? he goes yes. >> he says let's try and end this war. he really respected kissinger. it's very interesting. despite all of the americans had done, he really respected kissinger. a really interesting character. nixon-as part of the strategy, we are going to engage the soviets were going to engage the chinese pick nixon actually goes to china in february 1972, and then he goes to moscow in may 1972. even though he is trying to get the soviets to help, there is not much that they can do, but it is still -- it still frees lee se-ho and the rest of the leadership in hanoi. eventually, they decide to cut the war short and give nixon the agreement he so desperately wanted. so, these are b-52s. they can carry up to 500, i think, 100, 500 pound bombs. if memory serves me right pick they carry a lot of bombs. and so, typically, they were used only in the south. under nixon, they start flying more regularly again in the north. b-52, we call it carpet bombing. everyth

only nixon is national security adviser henry kissinger and kissinger's most trusted advisers. get this, nixon's own secretary of state and his secretary of defense don't know about these secret talks. imagine that -- the secretary of state, the guy in charge of diplomacy, your own president doesn't tell you we are actually talking to the north vietnamese. really, really interesting stuff. jesse? >> the reason why he didn't tell the secretary of state, especially him? >> nixon doesn't trust anyone. and he feels that, that this is too sensitive an issue so that only the people he trusts most will be apprised of what's going on. nixon secrecy was the key to reresolving all of this if we're going to solve it diplomatically, as he's undertaking the secret diplomacynd vietnamization, nixon also very boldly decides to go after communist sanctuaries and supply lines in laos and cambodia. 1970, the u.s. and the south vietnamese army invade cambodia. a year later the south vietnamese army with american air support invades laos. for nixon it makes sense, i'm going to go after the supply

nixon and kissinger were extremely frustrated with senator jackson, believing that his statements werecausing more problems and compelling the soviets to take an even tougher stand about the jews living in the soviet union than they otherwise would. at 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 he continued with the policy of detente, saying it would be very unwise for a president more -- 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 insisted 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 jacob chavitz, connecticut's abraham ribakoff to put pres

the fact that he was advising the president rather than someone like henry kissinger. overtime the piece it came to an end. conservatives quickly started to complain that carter's concern with human rights and carter's concern with policies and hotspots of the cold war is going to strengthen the soviet union. neoconservatives argued that the president only focused on human rights when it came to non-allies of the soviet union. the ability to balance the trade-off between human rights was starting to break down by 1978 and the heat of the discussions the biggest and first major political batter with the right and president carter comes with the panama come out -- panama canal. carter decided that anger about u.s. control of the panama canal , which for those of you that were studying 20th-century u.s. history has become a symbol for many in latin america of american imperialism but this tension had to be quelled. this he said helped rebuild the u.s. standing in this part of the world. very few americans supported what carter wanted. for many this was the panama canal an

he criticized nixon, as well as henry kissinger for the policies of ditente. jackson focused on the plight of soviet juries in particular as the centerpiece of the problem with ditente. in 1972, and 1973, jackson argues that the soviets should be forced to allow more jews to leave the country. with the soviet imposed a tax on jews who wanted to leave, essentially making it impossible for most of them to do so, jackson condemned with the soviets were doing as a violation of human rights. and, there was a domestic movements -- movement within the jewish-american community who mobilized behind this. >> nixon and kissinger were extremely frustrated with senator jackson. believing that his state was actually causing more problems, compelling the soviets to take an even tougher stance about the jews living in the soviet union than they otherwise would. >> all the watergate ended nixon's presidency, it didn't stop the policy of ditente. when gerald ford took over power from nixon in august 1974, he abandoned many things, but he continued with the policy of ditente. s

kissinger received the prize for negotiating a cease fire in the vietnam war it was set to share the nomination with north vietnamese diplomat late dr except the vietnamese responded with a big no thank you and to no one's amazement that's because kissinger had been secretly bombing cambodia throughout the nineteen seventies as disclosed in a pentagon report he approved almost four thousand bombing raids in just the first two years of the campaign. and last but not least as barack obama many were left puzzled as to what obama had exactly done to receive his peace prize but just like the others the nobel committee said it had something to do with his past only very rarely has a person to the same extent as obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future we are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future but for what he has done in the previous year we hope this will enhance what he is trying to do what exactly obama did in that previous year is a mystery to most people. well their claim to be giving the awards only for the things done in

really respected kissinger. despite all the americans have done, he respected kissinger. really interesting character. >> nixon as part of the strategy, we are going to engage the soviets. we will engage the chinese. nixon goes to china in february 1972 and he goes to moscow in may 1972. even though he is trying to get them to help, there is not much they can do. it freaks out leduan and the rest of the leadership in hanoi. eventually they decide to cut the war short and give nixon the agreement he so desperately wanted. these are b-52s. they can carry up to 100, 500 pound bombs. they carry a lot. typically they were used only in the south. under nixon they started flying more regularly against the north. a b-52 carpet bombs. everything gets destroyed in a two mile long by half-mile wide box. even if you are hiding underground, psychologically it really messes with your mind. it's a psychological tool. and nixon deploys the b-52s against hanoi in 1972. eventually a cease-fire allowing the u.s. to get out. the war will continue in vietnam but the u.s. will manage to extric

henry kissinger the former secretary of state to nixon who brokered the u.s. opening to china is someone who takes we know what kissinger's views are and we know that trump has met with him from during the campaign in two thousand and sixteen throughout his presidency and that view is one that looks at strong states assesses whether those states are strong where the those governments are strong and whether u.s. president can actually work with the person in charge of those states so here in washington that's often derided how trying to trump implements that is that trump somehow just likes dictators but he doesn't like all dictators he's looking at leaders who are strong and who he either can or needs to work with and then he seems to try to set up these rhetorical poses to put himself in a position to be able to strike some sort of deal with those leaders and work with those states so i think if you take a sober analysis of what trump is doing and admittedly that's difficult to do i think that is the strategy is he's looking at strong states and for better or

close the question is, why would john mccain bring in henry kissinger as an expert to tell us how wehould move forward with u.s. foreign-policy? for the time in the late 90's, john mccain threw his lot in with the project for the new american century and the neocons. john mccain has been looking towards people who see militarism and u.s. intervention and u.s. right to overthrow ever governments as his ticket. i would say for his personal ambitions. and i think really calling us lowlife scum instead of looking at the record of henry kissinger or, let's just look at the record of john mccain himself, and say these are not the people that we should be lionizing. >> what is interesting about that exchange, amy, is not just the whole defense of kissinger and a militarized foreign policy, but the language used. as there were protesters in the senate using the democratic right to protest any goal some lowlife scum. yet we're being told for the last 48 hours that john mccain was the embodiment of stability in u.s. politics, a passion of decency. even bernie sanders use that phrase. yet even

he knew that kissinger was bad mouthing him at the parties. he understood everything that was going on. he was onto them but he would have been pleased with his funeral, and i have to say that i kind of miss him. now, why did i write this journal in the first place? when we had this idea of keeping the journal at the time, as i said, we didn't know where it was going and i came back to washington. this is also why we are here again. my mentor, at the time, happened to be david john gardner. , elizabeth, right this so that 40 years from now, people will know what it was like then. it cannot be recaptured. now i don't know that i wrote it any differently with that in mind. i didn't know whether i would be in 40 years. it just happens that it is 40 years from now. this is not an anniversary book. frankly, the book was out-of-print, and i wrote to overlook press, with a very distinguished book list. they wrote back and said it is idiotic for the book to be out-of-print. we are going to issue it in hardback. after wordsa little declaring -- what wa

finally, kissinger, who wrote on china that i started with on the world order, if you read the page it'se dated but if you read the first few sentences the first few paragraphs, first three pages, you'll think you're reading about it today. with the trump presidency the questions he asks are fundamental. so you can see, interested in china civilization, the big macro stuff, i used to work at the world bank. i did grant school up the road at american university, did my phd here, i worked a couple banks in the property section. civilization i read last year, i was on with c-span, by neil ferguson stops civilization gets you into the next chunk of books. i like sharing with every student that comes up here, i had the chinese students in georgetown all studying law from china. they came in the office and said what do you recommend i read? i said well, when it comes to our soul of civilization i taught this for a few years its short history of ethics by mcintyre. notre dame press, it starts off and concludes on one basic question.it started with aristotle and plato by the annette picture. wha

finished king -- kissinger on china. the way the chinese think over the long-term, gave some metaphors, chess and checkers it's in the news, it's really but china. there's lot of russian news but it's but who in, north korea, russia, iran you look behind the scenes, this guys or the $18 trillion economy in the room right next to us. so they're that -- russia is not comparable, no one is comparable. these guys are the threat on the scene but they're still communists and economic. this opened up the economic to some freedom but pollitt politics are totally repressive. they're have something growth problems right now, have something debt problems, and so that led know want to learn more about china, so i watch a lot of youtube and this next one by graham alliesson, destined for war, provocative arguments. there's one graph to pique their interest. i used to be a professor. don't want to princeton seminary studied history of ideas and philosophy ideas did a phn economic size taught for 20 years. so, i love sharing books so d

on c-span, kissinger legrand at the senate finance committee hearing on paid family leave. >> we have been exploring how new is have paid a benefit to social security. theseurn for receiving benefits, participants would defer the collection of their social security benefits upon retirement. we are still working through complexities but i'm hoping we can cross a policy that would benefit most families and those who need it the most. >> the way we have written it, it is really affordable. it is about cost of a cup of coffee a week. it is about two dollars per week on average for all employees. your mother's dying, you can be by her side. you can be there when needed. >> on friday 8:00 p.m., a new york times a -- talks about covering the white house. more likeationship is what you see when you watch pressed briefings whether you see sean spicer on television, they are combative. they have transitioned from what has always been a typically to somethingature more openly hostile. >> watch on c-span and c-span.org and listen to the c-span3 radio app. >> president trump held a cabinet meeting

lot of people were impressed with the board and few people stop to think what is george scholz or kissingeror sam nunn know about medicine and lab testing in particular? i think there were about 12 men on that board only two of them had any connection to medicine whatsoever. none of them had any expertise whatsoever in diagnostic. so if you thought about that for a second, that was a major red flag. >> it was either a a hell or a great reason to invest. >> there is a hedge a hedge fund based in cisco called partner for management that met with elizabeth and her number two executive who secretly was the boyfriend in 2013 and 2014 and tried to do due diligence and essentially boldfaced lie to including revenue and profit projection and die that died it on -- data that wasn't real but what was board of directors. they were really impressed by the credentials of the people and it did not occur to them that a startup with the board that impressive could be up to no good not to mention the lawyer keeping watch on the shop was david boyes. [laughter] from bush v gore. >> let's move back because th

and that state is declining by a proclivity to go there a cycle that kissinger described as a rental -- rhythm. that is consistent and i think it is what is happening today and it defines the way that president putin operates and his view on the abroad. and that view is flavored with a power.se of paranoia and i think it would be worthwhile to go to the root of that discussion in the mid-17th century the foreign minister for , expanding the state in every direction. one of the journalists here trying to describe the view of the russian ambassador in 1903, and in spoke was," all russians seem fixed on same idea must do irresistible crushed whatever stood in her way. " .hat theme is consistent the best analysis ice don't think today of the russian -- it iss can it always worthwhile taking a look at that too defined the way the russians what act. in his telegram he said, the kremlin's new erotic worldview is the russian sense of insecurity. the soviet power was impervious to the reason of logic it was highly sensitive to a logical force. backdrophat is a good to describe the leadership,

he and kissinger cared nothing about economics. the abandonment of the gold standard. the tapes reveal a semi- historical and acting in a quick way during me india, pakistan were where this age old hatred has a cold workup rotation and support for dictatorship and the violations of which almost all of the presidents are guilty of when it comes to civil liberties were revealed by the church committee after he lost. even with six years, i could not hope to approach a specialist on the nixon administration on all of these subjects. guys have written entire books. i relied on people at the state department to give me a background and then i tried to take that specific information that they had mind and put it into a popularization or a generalization which is what a biography is. my job is to try to connect those great historic events with the personality of this crafty, paranoid fellow in the white house. that is what biographers do. nowhere is that clear than in the story of the nixon campaign , actions in the fall of 1968. i know it is the -- the democratic convention h

we saw at the end, henry kissinger, well into his 90s, he was there as well. it was just a lot, a lot of emotion. >> wolf, i mean, the room was filled with political luminaries of both parties. it was extraordinarily moving. i found the family approaching the casket the most moving. more than anybody's words. the thing is that struck me as i was watching this was -- >> this is former senator joe lieberman and his wife who was one of the best friends that senator mccain had. >> if you were writing a novel about washington today, you might start in this chamber that all of these people -- speaker ryan and senator mcconnell, who are managing this very tumultuous time and maybe not living up in every way to john mccain's standards of the way things should run, the absence of the president, the vice-president awkwardly saying the president asked me to be here, rod rosenstein, who is running this investigation standing in front of kellyanne conway in the chamber, all of these people who are warring on normal days, coming together. it was really dramatic. >> yeah. it

joining us from washington is robert daly from the wilson , kissinger institute on china and the unitedou for joining us. as we talk about this, let's dive into the bloomberg terminal and get us up to speed on the tariffs between the u.s. and china appear $50 billion from where we're at. the yellow line indicates the new 200 billion dollars. we are team -10. will that be triggered? is looking more likely after the failure of last weeks talks. it is more likely in part because is is not just about tariffs or economics. both sides seem to believe this -- we're only talking about the economic aspect of a long-term struggle for balance of power throughout the world. economics is one facet of that. yes, it is likely to get worse. ramy: earlier in the past hour, we were talking to terry haines at ever core isi. he was saying china's big mistake is focusing on the deficit. do you think you would agree, and what else needs to be in focus? focused on theas deficit in that it is willing to buy more american products to address the deficit. america's other request are from china's point of view, r

kissinger, member of the house foreign affairs committee. what do you make of the sanctions, and you think that they will be punishment enough for russia to stop this behavior? >> i'm not sure it is going to be punishment enough, but i think it is essential because basically what we want to show, basically any time vladimir putin decides to do something, he runs a cost benefit analysis. and the benefit that he sees in all of us, whether it is with us or any of our allies, trying to undermine democracy, so he is playing this long game. he wants people to not have faith in the voting system. if they do not have faith that their vote actually counts, that is the biggest thing to undermine this country. so every time we know that the russians are involved in any type of russian meddling, it is important to impose a strict sanctions on them because we want the cost up to out >> dana: there was the conference, unprecedented, as far as i can see, especially in the last couple of years, but some of the media is a saying that yes the president will n

it was started by henry kissinger and all the other leaders from the world to help depopulate the world. it is good that you have this conversation, and we need to do what we can to do the natural things that god has put in this world to keep us alive, because we are over populating, and they feel like they have to help eliminate, and so that is what we need to be on the watch out. thank you so much. agenda 21. google it and do your due diligence. thank you so much, sir. host: let's go to anna who is calling from goliad, texas on the democratic line. good morning, anna. caller: good morning. yes, we need to get more democrats back in and get the education out social security, because it is breaking social security, and i am elderly. we don't need the assistance, but we need the benefits of what we pay for all these years. we need a president that will lead and set of cursing other members of congress and whatever . and ik it is pitiful, don't know -- in all of my 84 years -- that i have ever heard a precedent talk like this. host: let's go to jason, who is calling from montgomery, alaba

you have -- he and kissinger cared nothing about international economics. you have them totally leaving the world into chaos and abandonment of the gold standard. you have the white house tapes revealing semihysterical and acting in a frightening way during the eindy-pakistan war, and support for dictatorships in chile and greece and the violations of which all, almost all the cold war presidents of guilty of when it comes to civil liberties that were then revealed by the church committee after he left. so even with six years, i could not hope to approach a specialist's take on the nixon administration on all these subjects. guys have written entire books and so i relied on people like jeffrey kimball and chris tutta at the state department historian's office, tim neftali, who just left the nixon library, to give me -- jeremy, to give me a background, and then i tried to take that specific information that they had mined and put it into a popularization or generalization, which is what a biography is. my job is to try to connect those great historic events

you have -- he and kissinger cared nothing about international economics. you have them totally leading the world into chaos in the abandonment of the gold standard. you have the white house tapes revealing them semi-hysterical and actually acting in a quite frightening way during the india/pakistan war, where they interpret this regional age-old hatred as somehow a cold war confrontation. support for dictatorships in chile and greece and the violations of which all the -- almost all the cold war presidents are guilty of, when it comes stoicivil liberties th were revealed by the church committee after he lost. so even with six years, i could not hope to approach a specialist's take on the nixon administration, on all of these subjects. guys have written entire books. so i relied on people like at the state department's historian office, tim naftali, who had just left the nixon library, to give mow a background and then i tried to take that specific information that they had mined and put it into a popularization, a generalization, which is what a biography

they thought it was henry kissinger's grandson.humor. >> jon: he lost a lot of favor when he gave the thumbs-down vote to the repeal of obamacare. how do you explain that and would you go along with that? >> there was -- he was very against obamacare. one of those things you get frustrated when he votes a certain way. looking back at the history of that. people like rand paul when you put out some of the prior iterations of the repeal were opposed to it. they said it didn't do enough. what it came down to in the senate was called skinny repeal. the senate just hoping to kick it back to conference with the house. i wanted it to pass so we could go to conference but that's what john mccain voted against. i think he would have voted for the other iterations of repeal. i was frustrated by that vote but i respected it. he did what he believed in and you could very much dislike his politics one day but he is still your pal and respects you the next day. >> sandra: we've been asking so many from his colleagues, his friends, how they will

and that state is defined by a proclivity to go through these cycles that kissinger describes as a rhythm and that's basically expansion interrupted occasionally for a time by the need to adjust its domestic structure to the vastness of the enterprise and this is consistent and i think it's what's happening today. and it really defines the way that president putin operates and his view on the near abroad. and that view is obviously flavored with a good dose of paranoia and power. and so i think it would be worthwhile to go to the real root of that discussion. in the mid 17th century, the foreign minister for czar alexei was asked to define what the foreign policy was, it was expanding the state in every direction. and, you know, there was a -- one of the journalists here tried to describe the view of the russian ambassador in 1903. and basically his quote was, all russians seemed fixed on a single idea that russia must roll by her irresistible inertia crush whatever stood in her way. you know, and that theme is pretty consistent. and, of course, the best analysis, i still think today, of

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this parody of "cosmo," complete with henry kissinger centerfold, endures as a classic in the genre.t parody of harvard's daily student newspaper, the "crimson," but that's just the physical product. ( laughter ) pranks-- cooking them up and then carrying them out-- are as much a part of the "lampoon" tradition as actual humor writing. "lampoon" staff invited us to see how it's done. we watched as they fanned out across campus, taking that parody issue and scheming to swap it out with the real "crimson." it's the kind of thing they live for. >> perfect. >> wertheim: for decades, the "crimson" has been the butt of "lampoon" hijinks. liana spiro's crowning achievement so far: when mark zuckerberg returned to harvard to give a commencement address, she hacked into the "crimson's" website. >> spiro: and we wrote up hundreds of these fake headlines about mark zuckerberg in the silliest comedic tone possible, extremely dumb. basically, the crux of the humor was just changing his name to, like, mink singletock, like, over and over again. ( laughter ) >> wertheim: our amusement went unshared

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