kissinger. >> thank you very much. i have had the pleasure of working with nadia on several projects. we were on the advisory board, the defense advisory board. it is a great pleasure to be here. so that you can calibrate what i am saying, let me give you a few words about how i got into this field. i became a great friend of alex, who was one of my best friends. he invited me to give a speech. before that, he showed me several extraordinary achievements. i had barely met him before that. i began my speech by saying, i am tremendously impressed by what i have seen. but i want you all to understand that i consider google a threat to civilization as i understand it. [laughter] dr. kissinger: this was the beginning of our friendship. the next step in my being here was i was at the national conference, which in europe, which on its schedule had a provision for artificial intelligence. i thought this was a great opportunity for me to catch up on my jet lag. i was heading out of the door when eric was

quickly where kissinger became the magician, kissinger became the guy who did all the marvelous thingsno one could imagine or kissinger became the essential figure of stability at a time when the nixon presidency was crumbling. kissinger is just the magician's assistant here but became the main act very quickly. >> one thing i want to point toward value of the archives for us understanding the entire era. because we have today 15 cartoons that give us a really nice snapshot of this period in history and what strikes me even as we're talking here, as i'm thinking about teaching students the value of perspective, maybe we are in a post-truth phase of american life. i do not know if we are. but history is one of the things which everybody has their own opinion about it and we need evidence to look through the lens of art and commentary that's represented in this archive i think is really wonderful. just in the 20 minutes we have been up here, we have got to see something coming through that i had not seen before i came into the room i do not have a hat on, but if i did, is it a tam o'shan

proves argentinian dirty war henry kissinger gave his approval to the dirty war in argentina in the seventy's and wish 30000 people were killed according to newly declassified u.s. state department documents mr kissinger who is america's secretary of state is shown to have urged the argentine military regime to act before the u.s. congress resumes session and told that washington would not cause unnecessary difficulties there's actual transcripts that show that he was like hurry up and kill as many people kill kill your and kill the opposition as fast as possible before the american people notice and and complain to their congress so make sure you do it fast right what made henry kissinger's. in argentina possible was nixon of course quote closed the gold window in 71 he was nixon's boy yes and they got off the gold standard 71 and by 76 kissinger had all the money money and debt at his disposal to go into argentina and create massive havoc using fear that money is the ultimate tool of the terrorist money he had a lot of practice up until then in cambodia the slaughter there of cour

, kissinger became the guy who did all these marvelous things that no one could imagine. or kissinger became the central figure of stability at a time when the nixon presidency was crumbling. so while kissinger was just the magician's assistant here, he became the main act very quickly. >> one thing i want to point things toward is the value of patrick oliphant's ar krooifb for us understanding this entire era. because we have right now today 15 cartoons that give us a really nice snapshot of this period in history. and what's striking me even as we're talking here, as i would think about teaching students, about the value of perspective, maybe we're in a post-truth phase of american life, i don't know. but history is one of these things where everybody has their own opinion about it and we use our evidence. to be able to look through this lens of art and commont tarry that's represented, i think is wonderful. i'm just in the 20 minutes we've been here i've begun to see something coming through patrick oliphant's pen here. if i had a hat, i don't know, if it's a tammish h

playing a major role in 100 kissinger's import. still to this day as you saw howard stern and hillary clinton saying he's the gold standard he said he is the gold standard of international diplomats and and this guy henry kissinger says you hillary clinton are the best ever secretary of state so this is just a reminder of what we've done this is from the guardian in 2003 or 4 kissinger approves argentinian dirty war henry kissinger gave his approval to the dirty war in argentina in the seventy's and wished 30000 people were killed according to newly declassified u.s. state department documents mr kissinger who is america's secretary of state is shown to have urged the argentine military regime to act before the u.s. congress resumes session and told that washington would. interrupt the kaiser report for breaking news that's just coming in reports are coming in that 2 people have been killed in the shooting in central moscow hawkins is in the studio with us now of course this is very early on and not much is clear but what more can

that henry kissinger was around at a period of to taunt which is interesting in the reading of the origins of the cold war would probably have been a little different what you do not see over here that you would have seen in the cold war was ideologies on both sides that did not think they could co-exist with the other so i don't think china is committed to the overthrow of the united states system it's benefited from that system in a sustainable relationship with the united states is in chinese interests and there is the perception of that the other thing you're not seeing that's kind of crucial is proxy conflicts to my mind that was part of what made the cold war a war and the absence of that the absence of an ideological conflicts so deep that it would insist on the complete destruction of the other is what differentiates now from the cold war era now you mentioned the absence of proxy a conflict and certainly some chinese officials may disagree with you because they see what's happening in hong kong and the products there as some sort of an american or western meddling and the american

actually taught china would liberalize american academics might have but if you look at nixon and kissinger if you look at brant scowcroft if you look at the debate about china within governments over the years it's not been china's going to become a democracy in the american image it's been china has to be part of the system responsible stakeholder to use the phrase that robert zoellick i think popularized so that's the idea the debate now within the united states about china is that doable really and here i think there's a misunderstanding of how what has the united states worried right now and that's what underlies a lot of this revisiting of the past and saying was this really something we should have done now even mentioned henry kissinger. former u.s. secretary of state who just a few weeks ago warned that the united states and china may be in diff with heels of a cold war and he actually said that the major conflict on the scale of world war one could not be excluded. do your share such an alarmist prognosis. i think major conflict cannot be excluded i also think major conflict can b

a damning portrait of henry kissinger that won the national book critics circle award. without further do let me turn the podium over to seymour hurst. [applause] >> i'm on a clock here you're taking time up. i will say about the book i'm really glad they told you were to buy it, because it is the backbone of the exhibit and it's an amazing book. i will tell you this. and this some of you have read it you can daydream for second or two, but if you haven't, just start off with the report , dennis stout, bill's short, those three essays will get you all of the book nothing well. i'm here because i'm a vietnam war junkie like most of you here. i happen to believe, i happen to know, you can't hear me? you know i've given speeches before with huge auditoriums where at the end of the speech everybody came up to me and said they couldn't hear anything. [laughter] so what's wrong with you people if you can hear? [laughter] i mean come on, we would not have ended the war if everybody had that attitude out say that. anyway, i'm a junkie on the war. i do believe it's the most misr

i believe nixon and kissinger helped extend the war more than it. did stop this goes to the point of whether we should abandon the war at all. historyately, american is problematic. going forntroversy several years among american historians, was vietnam part of a revolution? there's a tendency among american historians to view vietnam as another battle of the cold war. and it was not just another battle of the cold war. it was a revolution. and the united states, as i tried to indicate with my mention of knute, the united states was completely misplaced trying to get in the way of the vietnamese revolution. to the point about south vietnamese not understanding the united states, i mentioned the promises made. but there's more than that. saigon governments , theot appreciate america sense ability of america, american politics. of americanility politics. just to take an example of kissinger and nixon finally negotiate something that will seal the american withdrawal and get the americans out. they take the draft agreement to saigon. en van chu, presid

we will ask that to bob hormats of the kissinger institute.is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ ce of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. i'm david westin. bob hormats has spent a career between washington and wall street, serving at various times as by streaming of goldman sachs, assistant secretary of state, and now the vice president of kissinger associates. a numbery, i left on of distinguished positions. great to have you here. british elections. go toek from today, they the polls. the polls tend to indicate boris johnson will prevail. is that your expectation? my expectation because he has made a deal with the brexit party, and they will not run candidates in constituencies where there is already a conservative mp. it probably means the brexit party will not get any members in the new parliament, probably means they will not dilute conservative support. the problem is, they have to get aconstituencies where there is already a conservative m

tr nixon and kissinger, a big hing for them is the military. the military, in, they do different things. nixon and kissinger are conformists. they learned to hate the joint chiefs of staff. they are not just coming out of their own heads. there is a whole structure they are dealing with. that is very important. it is important to see the congress and media are contested areas back then. they still are today. they can be a force for good. they can be a force for past 70. they can be a force for not good. there was a lot of fake news about vietnam. most relevant -- to what we are doing here today a there was a peace movement, peace movement within the civilian sector of society, and dissent among the military. everybody knows a little bit, there were some hippie protesters and whatever, but students often have no idea about it. think this book is important, is to understand this protest ultimately affected policy. that is really an important thing. i am conscious about that for the next period -- nixon period. i agreed with the speaker that said

and the cia -- defendant nixon and kissinger and the cia. the cia wanted to overthrow in day. they didn't do it. they try to couple times and then gave up. in day was overthrown by his own generals. when the coup came, nixon turned to kissinger and said, did we do this. he wanted to take credit for it. he was so impressed with the way eisenhower had overthrown these governments. kissinger said, we didn't. he said, maybe we created the conditions for it. allende was overthrown by his own generals. they would have liked to have overthrown him, they tried, but it never worked out. in terms of the culture that we are living in now. >> the point about helms remains. there was cia involvement. it may have been ineffectual involvement. >> people were killed with cia weaponry and so forth. >> i don't think we need to quibble about who ultimately -- >> that's why i'm mad at you. you are making me quibble. >> i think the important point is that the cia got permission at that point to lie to congress. >> you mean from the new york times editorial page?

great men of enduring legacy such as george marshall, dean atchison, henry kissinger. here at the mcconnell center, we already had the privilege as i think may have been mentioned to host six previous secretaries of state. george schultz was here for the opening of the program in 1991. madelieine albright, jim bakker, colin powell, condoleezza rice and hillary clinton. this morning it's our great honor to make it lucky number seven with the 70th united states secretary of state, mike pompeo. mike graduated top of his class from west point and served an accomplishment in any year, but wait until you hear about a few of mike's classmates. one is an elected member of congress and two serve as high ranking members of the state department. and one we had here, secretary of state mike esper all in the class of 1986 at west point. so this is not exactly a group of slackers. but mike rose to the very top. as a young cavalry officer mike was stationed in the divided german capital in the tenuous months before the fall of the berlin wall. he served with the forces of freedom. af

sponsored coup aided by henry kissinger to talk about that in the next episode indeed yeah and you know basically that this is the root of the problem is the destruction brought on by external forces the foreigners meddling in the argentinean politics then you had of course paul singer and the hedge funds on wall street funded by money printed by central banks kristie look art is i.m.f. central bank she's in bed with paul saying our job is to work together she's now at the e.c.b. but indeed she was at the i.m.f. when they were negotiating the other central bank and she is in bed with paul singer and the same mentality it's a coup let's talk about foreign intervention because of course the currency has fallen by over 50 percent here inflation is raging have seen numbers between 38 and 55 percent inflation rate here's a tweet as we were flying down here so trump restores tariffs on steel and aluminum shipped from argentina and brazil citing concern about both countries devaluing their currency now usually this sort of intervention of tariffs in order to fight devaluation of currency is th

we have these actual discussions where kissinger and he say these things. george w. bush, of course, did also, is responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of people and the creation of millions of refugees on the basis of lies. so when you get to trump, interestingly, trump is not in the lead in terms of the number of people killed and the chaos caused in the world, and yet, he has told approximately 14,000 falsehoods, not all of them are lies but most of them are. and trump is a different, we're in a era with trump, because these other presidents, as horrible as what nixon did was, and george w. bush, and ronald reagan, we haven't mentioned but he was a terrible liar, although he gave the impression of believing his lies, as horrible as they were, you, they were lying for a purpose that we understood that they were lying for. we kind of knew that they were lying. and they ran basically competent governments that had individual obsessions of the president himself that went too far, and they were reined in over time. johnson, too. where as trump has destroye

my friend henry kissinger returned from a week and china. he reported back. the chinese hierarchy had a very positive attitude toward phase one. ifm bound to say he has said it is not satisfactory, if it is not the kind of deal he wants, then the december 15 schedule tariffs will go back into place. >> so there is still a possibility? mr. kudlow: yes. i don't want to sound pessimistic. if the short strokes remaining negotiations do not pan out to his liking, those tariffs could go back into place. >> how long will it take for us to get to a phase one deal? the president said last week we could wait till after the election. he is giving you a wide range of options. i would not want to comment any further. it is what it is. the president said it could go on so it could go on. the president is happy with the outcomes that are being negotiated by secretary mnuchin. it may work. reported that agricultural purchases, getting china to commit to big purchases of u.s. agricultural goods, is a sticky point. how is that going? mr. kudlow: it is certainly a hot topic for

when the coup came, nixon turned to kissinger and said, did we do this? because he wanted to take credit for it. and kissinger said no. and then he says, maybe we created conditions for it. but he was overthrown by his own generals. they tried, but it never worked out. the culture that we are living in now -- >> the point about helms remains -- >> absolutely right. there was cia involvement that may have been ineffectual. people were killed with cia weaponry and so forth, but i don't think we need to quibble about -- [laughter] >> i think the important point is that the cia got permission to lie at that point. >> you mean from the new york times editorial page. >> in a sense, that is an example of the media that i'm talking about, the kind of state media role played by the times, just as in the run-up to the iraq war. you'm going to differ with in a big way here. i wrote a book called what liberal media -- i still get a little check for it. on the first page of that book, partially because i'm obsessed with english even though my degree is in history, i a

nixonhe queue came, turned to kissinger and said did we do this? he wanted to take credit for it because he was so impressed with the way eisenhower had overthrown these governments. kissinger said no, we did not. maybe we created conditions for it. he was overthrown by his own generals. it never worked out. but in terms of the culture we are living in now -- >> the point about helms -- >> absolutely right. >> there was cia involvement. it may have been ineffectual. >> people were killed with weaponry and so forth. >> i don't think we need to quibble about it. >> you are making me quibble. [laughter] >> i think the important point is the cia got position to lie at that point to congress in 1978. >> you mean from the new york times editorial page. >> in a sense -- >> that is an example of the media, the state media role played by the times. just as it played in the run-up to the iraq war. >> i am going to differ with you in a big way here. "whate a book called liberal media?" and i still get checks for it. on the first page of that book, partially b

he reached for people who -- he pulled kissinger from harvard and kissinger had never met him. what's the advantage and does the navy need to do more deep selecting or less now? >> i'd say more, and as you know, but maybe the audience does not, we just deep selected the current chief of naval operations, admiral michael gilday. a couple of months ago he was a three star kind of thinking about well maybe if the stars align, i might get a fourth star some day. the secretary of the navy, richard spencer, faced a crisis in that the original candidate, admiral bill moran had an issue, had to step aside. so instead of going to that four star bench, secretary of the navy, richard spencer, reached way down, relatively speaking, to a three star officer and elevated him over the entire four star community. it's happened before. zumwalt and before that admiral burk was elevated as a three star. the advantage of doing it is you get a fresh set of eyes and no one who is elevated has any baggage to pay off. you get a clean break. that can be very advantageous. and i would argue as the navy g

asked george hw bush this question because i did a number of interviews with him before he died, kissinger cheney and a number of others and they all have the comment on vice presidency in the context of fdr and kissinger's remark was amusing. if fdr knew he was in dying and in denial about it why would you want to the person the most likely to benefit from your death lingering around? fdr didn't want to set eyes on truman. if you know you are dying and in denial about it you don't want to look at the guy who is about to take over for you. >> you were telling us about nixon and ford. >> if i'm a revisionist and want to be funny i would say i got tired and didn't want to do next are chapter. it was a deliberate decision at the beginning because what i was captivated by my entire life was this idea somebody who is not the voters choice who nobody wants his vice president, how do they leave something when everybody misses their predecessor. the idea of death in office comes with a sense of you are depriving the voters of the person they choose what they chose. whoever a sense to the presidenc

my friend henry kissinger just returned from a week in china and reported back. he was in the office last friday that chinese hierarchy including president xi had a very positive attitude towards phase one so you have the two leaders. on the other hand president trump first of all there is no final. second of all he has said if it is not satisfactory, that's not the kind of deal he wants than the december 15 scheduled tariffs will go back into place. >> is so there's still a possibility on the table. >> as there is but i don't want to sound pessimistic. i don't want to spend that. the reality is those tariffs are still on the table, the december 15 tariffs and the president has indicated if the short strokes remaining negotiations do not pan out to his liking that those tariffs could go back into place. so they could not but they also could pay there is no definitive decision on that yet. >> it how long is it going to take for us to get to a phase one deal? many people in administration have said we are close with the president said we could wait until after the

so you have a document in which kissinger actually calls over to the cia and says the president has just approved the proposal for supporting korea at the amount of $700000.00 the president wished to see the paper kept going and the amounts to believe it could be exceeded if that would be usefully served that purpose i can't think of another time when i have seen michael. all management by the president of united states of covert propaganda operations in another country and here is the living proof of nixon's personal involvement in making sure that the cia kept elma korea go. classified documents all carved here in washington d.c. showed that president nixon himself directly authorized funding for and made to the tune of $2000000.00 a serious amount of money in the 1970 s. enough to keep a paper that was in financial difficulties alive and more importantly shape public opinion the cia essentially passed money physically to members of the edwards group. bags full of money and the cia bag man if you will in the cia station santiago was named jack divine. and he was. a young man with a big

that meeting were gigi and paying also talked about the trade deal in front of people like henry kissinger, gary cohen, and others. what your take on china and united states? these are completely different cultures. one culture is a communist country and it is tracking its citizens using facial recognition, another country wants freedoms, and how do you do a dealer partnership with such different approaches to life? >> it throughout the last five years or so whenever you have two gigantic economies in the world they have not been partners, they are usually rivals. this not unusual that the two biggest economies in the world are revived rivals in some respect. but i don't think organist solve this by military means, for chilly working to solve it by peaceful means some type of trade group. i think a trade agreement is in the near future can happen. i do think president trump wants it, i think she's a pain once it, i think opie a phase one it won't solve all our problems, it'll make some progress in a bigot for 2020. >> how much of the pressure was hong kong with all this? i mean you had six

grace has followed but it is not the same time that the committee have audited ever since henry kissingerer country. she is basically a politician. i was lucky enough to be in myanmar seven years ago andi enough to be in myanmar seven years ago and i was at the mandalay festival and i was almost as close to her as i am to you and she was com pletely to her as i am to you and she was completely awe—inspiring and her serenity and calmness and dedication to her country shine through them and that was before she came to power. she is a politician. her father was president, he set up the burmese armed forces she is now defending or will be defending tomorrow. she clearly believes she is doing the right thing from a country but looking from the outside it is hard to understand. it will be a striking and dramatic day at the un highest court in the hague. a sombre note to an but thank you so much stock that is it for the papers. don't forget you can set the front pages on line on our website. seven days a week. if you miss the programme an evening, you can watch it later on the bbc iplayer. thank

organisation like brac could achieve and it really was kind of extraordinary how bangladesh, which henry kissingere back in the beginning of the 1970s, has enjoyed economic growth and fertility growth and it was not hard because abed focused on education and empowering rural, impoverished women and today, there are more girls in high school in bangladesh than boys because that isa in bangladesh than boys because that is a remarkable achievement and in many ways that is abed's fingerprints on it. so i saw him at conferences and in bangladesh and i grew to enormously admire what he had done, not only in his own country but later expanding that into afghanistan, south sudan, and he was really a giant over the last century in global development. he was so passionate, wasn't he, and so patient —— driven and so passionate about global development. what do you think his legacy is going to be? soi you think his legacy is going to be? so i think it is a few things. one is going to be that when he began in the development space, it was really about westerners sitting around conference rooms in places like l