henry kissinger was a knave. kissinger's participation in american policymaking was one of the most dangerous things that occurred during the nixon years. i believe nixon and kissinger actually helped extend the war more than they did stop it, and this goes to the point of whether we should abandon the war at all. unfortunately, american history is problematic. you know, i had a kind of a controversy going for 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 wasn't just another battle of the cold war. it was a revolution. and the united states, as i try to indicate with my mentioning of knute trying to hold the sea back, the u.s. 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. it was that saigon governments didn't appreciate

i was reporter for the kissinger. but since the war ended, the dish full of bodies, emotions for sure. anyway, the one official that he really wanted to meet, the vietnamese official was motivated. a woman who was leader of the national liberation of the political arm of the south. i interviewed my first during the times, i was sent to come apiece talk at 792. i it's been a long day talking to her. the everlasting credit, they led the people with after the third paragraph he didn't say and kissinger said this. they just let her talk about the line we will doing in the dishonesty. i really got to admire her. not only for her brilliance and her willingness to be direct. she was beautiful. she had shiny black hair. she was this amazing reader for women and in paris, she could walk a block or two in paris that went out being surrounded by people. practically woman. she was just seen as magical. i knew a lot about her. i wanted to see her in check perseus back there. with an amazing pocketbook. with your iphone pretty do y

kissinger, what do we need to do? the next thing? missing? we need to implement the things we've raised. read through the report. if we can make half of those come to fruition, we'll defeat china. we will be the first out of the block. but three things foundationally. this is what i've seen over the last two years at the state department traveling, meeting with partners and allies, talking about ai and cyber and other emerging technologies. it comes back to people and processes and partners. we've talked about software. the people, the panel earlier today about talent management, we've talked a bit about processes. this afternoon the last panel will talk about partners. we work together. we're facing common concerns. whether i'm in a nato partner or in an indo pack, whether i'm in africa, our partners and allies are raising these concerns. this is not unique to us. so let's implement what we're seeing. it's new. ai is new. but the challenges of ai are not new. the principles are not new. we saw it with cyber. we saw it with standing out cyber

mike pompeo has emerged as the most powerful secretary of state in decades rivaling henry kissinger,. >>> john to you first, "new york times" analyzed pompeo as well saying, the strike against the iranian general has affirmed his position as the second most powerful official in the trump administration behind only the president himself. john, you're actually quoted in this article. talk us through it. >> i think what we see in the reporting of the past few weeks is that president trump's decision-making sort of process has gotten much more informal, smaller and driven by the whims of the president and it appears that mike pompeo, secretary of state, has used that to drive his agenda which is a hawkish policy against iran and he's been able to leverage a smaller process, a president who's sort of able to be manipulated when he gets fired up, but also a sort of -- sort of what we could say would be sort of less experienced people across the situation room table, mark esper the secretary of defense has far less experience with donald trump and far less experience working in washington t

and kissinger had released a joint statement since watergate. they thought it was that important that they come out together and criticize president reagan for his naive foreign policy. they insisted that any western leader who indulges the soviets'disingenuous fantasies of a nuclear free world courts unimaginable perils." they concluded that while the president wanted to remember to be remembered as a peacemaker reagan needed to remember that however he may be held in today's headlines the judgment of history would severely condemn a false peace. national review was not the only organization that was criticizing the treaty. the new right took out, under the leadership of howard phillips, they took a full page ad in conservative newspapers. this has got to be my favorite source. this is my favorite source in the entire book, because it is got a picture of double chamberlain, got a picture of ronald reagan, got of picture of adolf hilter and gorbachev. it says, appeasement is as unwise in 1988 as it was in 1938. help defeat the reagan-gorbachev i

kissinger -- by the way, to my knowledge this is the first time that nixon and kissinger had released a joint statement since watergate. they thought it was that important to criticize president reagan his foreign policy. nixon and kissinger insisted that any western beater who --ulges the soviets reagan needed to remember that however he may be hailed in today's headlines, the judgment of history would severely condemn a false peace. national review was not the only organization that was criticizing the treaty. the new right took out under howard phillips, the president of the conservative caucus, they took out a full-page ad in conservative newspapers across the country. this is got to be my favorite source. it has got a picture of neville chamberlain, a picture of ronald reagan, a picture of adolf hitler, and a picture of mikael gorbachev. it says, appeasement is as unwise in 1988 as it was a 1938. help us defeat the treaty. if a conservative because you neville chamberlain, that is as low as it gets. that is the biggest insult you could be given. is that you are neville chamberlai

financer kissinger obliterated sort of situation but finally i want to quickly look at this chart here global trade growth is inversely related to the overall strength of the dollar which is a remarkable again there are no cycles there's only the fed don't fight the fed because this is what the fed does you trade goes up when the dollar is down trade goes down when the dollar is up it's that simple and the fed and our policies control a lot right the dollar is a proxy for global stupidity how why china. russia europe germany france argentina why they own dollars and buy dollars as a proxy for stability one. by bit coy. end goal. we're going to take a break when we come back much more coming your way. and we're going to fulfill the repeated purposes of politics to the people and come on you know we've all pots. it was pretty. pretty. pretty there burka now you want to work. no. balls. to link up my. good food descriptions sound appetising even for the owners so how to choose the pet food industry is telling us what to feed our pets more based on what they want to sell and then was neces

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he pulled kissinger from harvard and kissinger had never met him. what is the advantage, does a navy need to do more deep selecting or less? >> i would say more. we just deep selected the current chief of naval operations, admiral michael gill day. mike gill day a couple of months ago was a 3-star current thinking about well, , maybe if the stars align i might get a fourth star someday and the sect of the navy richard spencer facedd a crisis in the original candidate, admiral bill moran had an issue, had to step aside so instead of going to that 4-star bench, sector of the t navy richard spencer reached way down to a 3-star officer and elevate him over the entire 4-star community. it's happened before. zumwalt, and before that admiral burke was elevated as a 3-star. the advantage of doing it is you really get a rash set of eyes, and y no one who is elevate had any package to pay a off. you get a clean break. that can be very advantageous and i would argue as the navy goes into this very turbulent 21st century, we would be well served to do a little

a kind of henry kissinger wandering around the world stage.weekend, we're not talking about impeachment brexit, are we? no. let's talk about hs2. rail budget out of control, lord berkeley has had a look. he has never had —— been afan. do had a look. he has never had —— been a fan. do your figures, had a look. he has never had —— been a fan. do yourfigures, you are impressive. i'm not going to do them now, you have pre—empted them. basically, the cost of the project has risen exponentially since it was announced by gordon brown's government back in 2010. a review has been completed but wasn't released before the general election, were expected to be released in the next few weeks. lord berkeley, the deputy chairman, said it would cost a all those northern constituencies, several of those mps are very unhappy about h52, we could easily see a situation when they decide to build on the north, rather than building in london. the thing is, it is one of those government projects that keeps on spiralling in terms of its costs. the north end and is exp

from harvard and kissinger had never met him. does the navy need to do more deep selecting or less? >> guest: i would say more. as you know but the audience doesn't, we just deep selected the current chief of naval operations, admiral michael gillday, he was thinking about we all navy of the stars align and the secretary of the navy richard spencer faced a crisis in that the original candidate had an issue, had to step aside. instead of going to that 4-star bench the secretary of the navy richard spencer went down to a 3 star officer and elevated him over the entire 4-star community, it happened before and admiral burke was elevated as a three star. the advantage is you have 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 goes into this trivial 21st century we would be well served to do a little more deep selecting. >> give me a transition for clean break. it is my pleasure to turn the stage over to give you a quick prese

republican congressman adam kissinger goodto see you, congressman. good to see you. of that this morning as i was reading through all of this. i thought, when did we do this before and i thought of yamamoto in world war ii being shot down. are these parallel situations? both of them have a lot of blood of american military servicemen on their hands. >> i agree. a lot of people who say that this is going to open the vault, basically, to all these assassinations, these are legitimate military targets. he's gone after many americans come organize a lot of insurrections in the middle east, half a million of dead syrians directly as a result of him and what i think is amazing is that one president trump for instance says something harsh about iran, his rhetoric is going to start everything up. when the iranians come back and say we'll attack the united states because of what happened, they are looked at sympathetically, of course they are going to come to the top general was killed to the reality of it is we have to be a focus on protecting the american people doing the r

my friend henry kissinger returned from a week and china. -- in china. he reported back. the chinese hierarchy had a very positive attitude toward phase one. i am bound to say he has said if 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. there is. i don't want to sound pessimistic. i am just saying, the reality is those tariffs are still on the table. if president has indicated the short strokes remaining negotiations do not pan out to his liking, those tariffs could go back into place. so they could not, but they also could. there is no definitive decision on that yet. >> how long will it take for us to get to a phase one deal? many people have said we are close. the president said last week we could wait till after the election. which is it? mr. kudlow: he is giving you a wide range of options. i reckon it is the mark of a good negotiator. i would not want to comment any further. there is no arbitrary deadlines on this. it is what it is. t

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advisor to henry kissinger along with many people in and out of government over the years.ey bring that up. interesting to hear the president talk that way to business leaders. it could have been an off-the-cuff remark. certainly different from all the talks in recent weeks about decoupling of the two economies. he is saying there will be more opportunity for business in china going forward. what do you say? >> i think it could be both. in some sectors if the chinese do further open up as they have to a degree on financial services and number of other things, then there will be more business. i still think there are a lot of issues related to very advanced high technology, 5g equipment, ai equipment, supercomputers, quantum computers, where there is an overlap between technology used for economic purposes and technology used, that relates to national security. connell: right. huawei wasn't even part of this, for example so. >> huawei was, clearly indicated something separate from the trade negotiations by american officials. so, on some areas of high technology, that have d

, it's a holistic approach, kissinger was noted for pursuing a course called triangulation. that's a fancy way of saying when you take an action anywhere in the world it will have repercussions elsewhere. you want to understand and take deliberate actions to get the desired strategic response. what we've seen over the last three years is an administration where in many cases the president will direct a specific action and now the rest of the organization, the defense department, the state department have to catch up to try to now determine that specific action. how do we actually align our strategy to get back on course? >> i have to say mike pompeo the secretary of state when he talks to the press at 10:00 there are some serious questions he has to answer, bianna, number one where is the evidence that there was an imminent threat that general soleimani, the killing of soleimani somehow obviated that immediate threat. where is the evidence of that? we have yet to see t he has promised that it exists, we haven't seen it. and number two, what exactly is happening with u.s. tro

my friend henry kissinger returned from a week in china. he reported back.e was in the office last friday. that the chinese hierarchy had a very positive attitude toward phase one. you have the two leaders. on the other hand, i am also bound to say that president trump -- first of all, there is no final and second of all, he has said if 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. i don't want to spin that. i'm just saying 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, those tariffs could go back into place. they could not but they also could and there is no definitive decision on that yet. >> how long will it take for us to get to a phase one deal? people in the administration have said we are close but then the president said last week we could wait till a

every time she walks through the door i know there is new research and you go to where henry kissingerch is the fabric of the nation. the demographic trends that are out there. what did you learn in your study? abby: clearly tom ours has always been a nation of immigration. there has been so much noise in the discussion over the last few years that we really need to look at the data, which is what we have done. one of the key observations we have made is this -- over the last 10 years because the native population is getting older, there is a later -- lower birth rate, a higher death rate and in fact about 50% of the growth in our labor force in our population is now coming from immigration. that is something that is really the lifeblood for any nation's economic growth. the nation's right now in the world that are struggling are often those with extremely low birth rates and in some cases stagnant population growth. tom: there has to be a policy. in my life at bloomberg i have seen many policies succeed, though down in flames upon a vote in washington. how do we get something voted on

and you go to where henry kissinger is, that is the fabric of the nation, immigration, migration, dataaphic trends. what did you learn when you studied it? abby: clearly ours has always been a nation of immigration. and there has been so much noise in the discussion over the last few years we need to really look at the data, which is what we have done. one of the key observations we have made is this. over the last 10 years, because the native population is getting older, there is a lower birth and a higher death rate. and 50% of the growth in our labor force and population is now coming from immigration. and that is something that really is the lifeblood for any nation's economic growth. the nations now in the world that are struggling are often those with extremely low birth rates and, in some cases stagnant population growth. tom: there has to be a policy. my life at bloomberg i've seen many policies succeed and others go down in flames upon vote in washington. how to get some thing voted on the benefits all? abby: looking at the economic dimension we have identified some things imp

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 mccurry at the amount of $700000.00 the president wished to see the paper kept going and the amount stipulated could be exceeded if that would be usefully served that purpose i can't think of another. time when i have seen micromanagement 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 archives here in washington d.c. show 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 afro if you

and german chancellor angela merkel is in berlin this evening to be awarded the henry—kissinger—prizey tube protest against gunfire laws. security was tied to violence. all chant: usa, usa, usa! they came from all over the country, bearing arms, after this state, virginia, decided it is going to try to push through what are very limited gun—control measures. well, we're just on a regular street in downtown richmond, virginia, and yet almost everyone around us is carrying a handgun or a rifle, and that is all perfectly legal. but they're out here to say they won't allow that right to ever be taken away from them. no—one is even talking about that happening, though. politicians here just want to introduce rules that would, for example, only allow people to buy one weapon a month, and allow guns to be banned at some public events. that is too much for everyone here. if it saves one life, is it worth it? i mean, not if it's going to impede on my right to defend me and my family. that person who lost their life should have had a gun in their hand and should have tooken their responsibility

individuals who we felt were key in helping phase one of the deal to be signed among them or henry kissinger sheldon adelson the governor of iowa and robert life hisor so the ceremony has proceeded trump says it's a big step forward people are looking on with a little bit of skepticism to me yeah we put a big question mark. bring us right up to date thank you very much. deep divisions have emerged in the german chancellor alliance party in bavaria with elections approaching poll has revealed that almost the hum of all people in the region would be against a muslim or a majority of those opposed being christian social union voters nobby's americans party well the scandal has seen a muslim come to that resign from the race too to resistance from his own colleagues with more in the story are teet bitter over. mehr all elections in the german state of bavaria raising questions about islamophobia in the regional wing of angela merkel's ruling coalition then asahi and had been a candidate for the christian social union but the prospect of a muslim heir sore protest from some party members so he is

just as kissinger never met him. >> as you know we just deep selected the current chief of naval operations admiral michael couple of months ago was a three-star thinking maybe if the stars align i can get four stars someday the secretary of the navy richard spencer faced a crisis with the original candidate had to step aside so instead of going to the four-star bench the secretary of the navy went down to a three-star officer over the four-star community it has happened before so the advantage is you have a fresh set of eyes and one who is elevated has any baggage to pay off you get a clean break that could be very advantageous and i would argue as the navy goes into the turbulent 21st century we would be well served to be a little more selective. >> it's now my pleasure to turn the stage over to give your presentation. >> thank you very much. first and foremost thank you to the wilson library and also spend a moment while the furniture is moved his wife navy mama navy daughter a lot of navy going on in the house tonight that was a wonderful introduction and when people hear that supreme a

what about president nixon and henry kissinger? those issues really fascinated me. along with sports. school, i gothigh into debates with my social studies teachers. my parents were conservative. always a passion. i went to the university of washington. my undergrad was political science. a big deal to me that was critical to my career was internships. i interned at the center for strategic studies. that was one of the big chances i got. i assumed i would go to law school. i did have an interest in getting involved in politics. i would listen to john f. kennedy speeches. to the point where i memorize them. i fell in love with language. the power of words. i thought kennedy's words were very powerful. i ended up making my way. that internship, i got some jobs in the think tank world. including when i was just a young buck. eventually i was hired as a speechwriter for william bennett. i was intimidated. i felt like i was dropped in the deep end. that i really did not know how to swim. but it worked out. i worked in the george h w bush administration. as a speechwriter

one of the things we did was to keep nixon and kissinger from doing what they had planned.ger who said, ellsberg is the most dangerous man in america. for what he knew. the most dangerous man in america today is in the white house. roger stone was convicted of all seven counts this morning. [applause] apist, i call him agent orange. everything he touches, he kills. anyhow, it is ellsberg. i will read what he wrote to you. for many years, when i spoke about the vietnam war, i would ask an audience, how many have participated in demonstrations, orches on october 15 november 15, 1969? thoseaudiences, most of over college age would raise their hands. a number who were clearly under that age would also have raised those hands. i would pick out one of the youngest and asked, how old were you then? i would hear seven or two. i asked how they got to the rally and they would say, in stroller or backpack. they did not remember it but their parents told them. i said, you are doing exactly the same things your parents were, being counted in big cities. you were preventing imminent nucl

david: except when henry kissinger was both secretary of state and national security adviser at the samee, generally, there has been tension between secretaries of state and national security advisors. how is your relationship with john bolton? sec. pompeo: yeah, i mean, look, there's always tension among leaders of different organizations. we come at these things from a different viewpoint. ambassador bolton has his responsibility to make sure all the ideas are vetted and get to the president. secretary of treasury, secretary of energy, the intelligence community each have their mission sets. we have robust, lively debates. i agree with each of them often and disagree with most of them sometimes. david: in your career, you were first in your class at west point. so how do you become first in your class at west point? that is pretty tough. i mean, what happened to all the other people who were second, third, and fourth? [laughter] david: do they become anything? sec. pompeo: one of them is the secretary of defense. [laughter] sec. pompeo: he's a classmate of mine as well. i give him a ha

prosecutors of policemen and politicians and henry kissinger that they are in this hothouse environmenturning out these papers it's all rubbish but what is interesting that counterargument is when susan rosenberg and when doctor berkman and betty and duke another member who was still at large, she jumped bail 1985 and the fbi still once or she is on the website. they were wearing disguises with 9-milliliter pistols and they had storehouses uncovered after the arrest. and there were storage lockers and things like that. so hundreds and hundreds of pounds of tnt that was in pretty bad shape learning more about hercules more than i ever expected but thousands of rounds of ammunition. blasting caps and dozens of small arms. fully automatic oozy and 9-millimeter pistols. rounds of ammunition, and thousands of blank social security cards and driver's license, dea cards, fbi card so you have to ask why do they have all this stuff? it is in just a couple of sticks of dynamite but to the point the dynamite that was found in new jersey the bomb squad came in and they started to load all this up i

adams as a sad friend who lost two brothers and two sons to alcoholism and sympathize with henry kissinger who had the unenviable job of babysitting a drunk. this book has spanned four centuries and starts with the pilgrims and we will get into that it goes through the revolution, the civil war, senator joe mccarthy, the jfk assassination. i just took a bunch of events in which alcohol seemed to have or did have a huge effect on what happened and went through them. starting in 1620, so it begins with the pilgrims. when henry david thoreau moved to walden pond in 1845 the last thing that he had in mind was writing a book about it. he didn't have anywhere else to live, he had moved in with the emerson's because emerson went to europe. so throw did but he did not hink he was going to write bout it, he thought he would write a book about a river trip e took with his brother. but hawthorne asked him to come give a talk at the concord athenaeum. he came and david talk about the river trip. in the q&a, all anybody wanted to know was what it was like to live in a shack at walden pond. so i believe

i blame our country and some of our leaders, the policy of president nixon and carter and henry kissinger that allowed the one country two system cloud that-- confusing cloud of confusion to be maintained for too long and it's time to clarify this confusion before china's action escalates more tension in the region and gets to a flash point that we don't want to see, as they did in hong kong, with the now infamous and misguided extradition law before it's too late. this is something that nobody wants. we've seen enough conflict in this world. i'm 65-- well, i'm not quite. i'll be 65 in april and i've seen enough conflict. this is something at that we should work together through diplomacy so that nations can prosper. if nations pro per, the people prosper. if the people prosper, we're all safer. china has accused president tsai and her party of stealing the victory with populous policies, smears against political rivals and fear mongering against china and they've also contributed the result of foreign interference, particularly the united states. this is so false. it's their action. and

but, part of the reason there are a lot of policy differences, detente, henry kissinger, tax cuts social issues are just starting to energy independence. and the soviets and all of those other things. but also, there was a personal element in that reagans and the fords did not get along with each other. >> i think that is fair. i don't think reagan was ever overly personal. i think he grounded his opposition more on policy and on real differences even though he i think he sort of viewed ford as an accidental president. i think ford resented the fact that reagan didn't give him more efforts. he was the president. i think ford felt that he was the president now and he deserved support if reagan wanted to run next time, so be it. >> but it did get back to reagan that they were jokes being made at his extent at his expense in the ford white house. and ford went to the gridiron speech and said, it is not true that ronald reagan dyes his hair, it is just turning prematurely orange. misses reagan was upset about that. >> a lot of that was generated by the people around ford. the one exception t

what about president nixon and henry kissinger? those issues really fascinated me, along with sports. when i got to high school, i got into debates with my social studies teachers. they were liberal. i was conservative. not because i thought through political theory but mostly because my parents were conservative. it was always a passion. i went to the university of washington. my undergrad was political science. undergrad was political science. a big deal to me that was critical to my career was internships. a big deal to me that was critical to my career was internships. i interned in the washington state senate. i went to d.c. when i was a senior and interned at the center for strategic studies. that was one of the big breaks i got. seattleould return to and not knowing what i was going to do. i assumed i would go to law school, but i do not want to be a lawyer. interest in getting involved in politics. at the university of washington are used to go to the library and listen to john kennedy speeches on my own time, to the point

henry kissinger was asked is iran a cause or a nation?have a desire to be more than a nation that sticks to its own borders. to the list of countries, yemen, we can add in the list. they are looking to exploit their ideology. we saw the response they did on the air force base. it was well calibrated in the sense that they warned the iraqis who worn e-- who warned united states and was intended to be a signal. >> you called the strike by the administration a burn of bu-- ah of bull. do you believe trump is acting rationally when it comes to foreign policy? >> let me say first, i have been dealing with iran first as a military professional for 17 years. four years as a diplomat and teaching it for 15 years at the college of william and mary. they are very rational. they are one of the most rational on the face of the earth, given their circumstances and what they have been able to do. as to your question about soleimani and what that represents, i have to say irrational. let's start with the condition of immanence, it does not meet the para

>> in politics and international relations for a long time, new hampshire ri kissinger talked about then theory. he knows they are crazy, they may back off. donald trump is practicing that, to some extent. even we don't know whether it's an act he's putting on or whether he's actually behaving in a crazy manner. so they were talking about attacking iran's cultural ass s assets. today he's talking about even as the secretary of state is calling for restraint, he's talking about responding in a disproportionate manner. he's going out there saying i am fully prepared to escalate, contradicting even his own secretary of state. so he's clearly if there's any strategy behind it, he's conveying that he's willing to behave erratically and he is erratic. there is no strategy behind it. it's just whatever is pop iping into his brain. >> let me look at the tweet again. you get a sense by with these tweets and with military action, that would be in lieu of noti notifying congress, as you're supposed to. is that what he's saying? he's changing the rules and say ing we're in different times and congr

already been said that pompeo is probably the most secretary -- powerful secretary of state since kissinger. wrapped inthree job one. mike esper is sold into pompeo and the same goes for the cia director. that is what we are told. the idea of any kind of check on moved at impulses is this point -- is moot at this point. o'brien is a yes-man. he is not challenging him. that is where people are kind of worried, especially if he gets reelected in 2020. the only check on the president is congress. as we have seen, that has not worked out so well. he was impeached, but how is that going to turn out in the senate? you will be acquitted quickly. the amount of constraints on him k, and the wea people surrounding him are more beholden to him and are more prone trump than they ever -- ro-trump than they ever have been. nancy: it took a while to get to this point. it is odd to say this, but what you set aside, there is certainly some stability. he is not fighting with tillerson. he is not fighting with kelly. the revolving door of his inner circle seems to have slowed if not stopped. there is a flip s

and what about president nixon and henry kissinger and so those issues really fascinated me along with sports. and then when i got to high school, i was -- i got into debates with my social studies teachers. they were liberal, i was conservative. not because i thought through political theory but mostly because my parents were conservative. and so that was always a passion. i went to university of washington. and my undergrad was political science. and a big deal to me, it was critical to my own career was actually internships. i was an intern at the washington state senate when i was a junior. i worked for a state senator in olympia and then came to d.c. whether i was a senior at university of washington. and interned at the center for strategic and international studies. that is one of the big breaks that i got. i assumed i would return to seattle. i really didn't know what i was going to do. i guess i assumed i would go to law school even though i didn't want to be a lawyer. i thought, well, i need that as a credential. but i did have an interest in at some point getting involved in

he is robert hormats, vice-chairman of kissinger associates.s of the aisle, his affiliation with tufts university, and we are thrilled he could join us. you wrote at the beginning of my book expect the unexpected. what is the unexpected we should be aware of or fear? robert: the unexpected would be that this could have escalated very substantially, and was almost on the cusp of doing that last night. little bit oft a time has passed. we see perhaps cooler heads have prevailed and maybe we are at the point where it will not escalate, and possibly the escalate. -- de-escalate. tom: what is the tone? the president has to come out, as rupert harrison said, and create a tone. what is the best practice tone for the president? robert: project credibility and thoughtfulness. , why the united states decided at this point in time to take out general soleimani. general soleimani has been traveling around iraq and syria for some time. what is the argument they use to take him out now? what is the threat that this would prevent? realizing that he was the he