the danger for general mcchrystal, which i did not realize, is that general mcchrystal had been warned by the white house not to do any media after he was in trouble for a "60 minutes" interview, and criticizing the vice president publicly a number of months ago. there was a risk of doing any media at the time. they were pushing the envelope. tavis: i wonder whether you think general mcchrystal -- i do not want to us whether he regrets what happened. i suspect he probably does. to your mind, is there anything he said to you that he now regrets? >> i am not sure. it is interesting. since he left that job, or was asked to leave, or was fired, he has done well. he is at yale. he is on a speaking circuit where he get $60,000 a pop. he is on a number of boards of powerful companies. and he has been asked this question, and he has given joking answers. once he joked that "i would have fired myself several times if i s he is giving off the record interviews still where he criticizes the white house and says there is no trust between the white house and the pentagon. a few months ago, he said

will my great 10 would give me a also chief bratton and the great retired general and i love stan mcchrystalm a military cad. we had him out here to root and doing? i am and afghanistan you are is in our children are dying is the mission. stay on at. said on the back cornell west and tavis smiley that is a great line up. i have to tell you i don't i know that i sound that would call we were not allowed to watch a tiny 1 foot square locked but she thought it was poison to brought to our brains. we were all the allowed to watch news. walter cronkite, the "60 minutes", but we were allowed to read and read. nomad an end those they don't belong to geographically to any tribe. was one of the theory -- first african-american and a first liaison to the british embassy we grew up in europe, japan, 17 different it and we do need to help privileged writing on the before not the first talented painfully aware on the shoulders of the giants of which i stand. not just my parents. but if you think the efforts that it took for me to stand here it is truly amazing. i could not have been anybody but here. the

a stan mcchrystal. i love stan mcchrystal. i'm a military kid. is just like my dad. came under to assist our gang problem and he said do you know something we're germinating and insurgency insurgency. we have allowed what he called a sustained insurgency to take root here. it's going to come back at this pic you mean he said what are you doing? he said i'm over in afghanistan but your refund the same thing. i did notice was that a factor. to great military leaders came out to l.a. and said that what you're doing in trying to change the villages in which these children are dying that's the mission. state audit. don't ever let it go. but on the back and also of cornell west. that is a great letter. you've got to admit. so i have to tell you, i don't mean to be so intense. i don't mean to sound like i've lost my head. and i know i sound that way. i am not normal. i really not. there's nobody mfm who is normal, as you've seen. but i'm very proud of my family. i'm very proud of my family and i come from good people. and with a family culture that today kids was called chi

mcchrystal the partnership out on alcatraz island -- we created a partnership on alcatraz island and are looking at creating an adaptation of "the odyssey" this spring. we are currently finalizing our agreement for creating a new work utilizing hyde street pier, the historic vessels, and all of a pocket park, including the amphitheater and maritime museum, for performances occurring in parallel with the america's cup races. we're doing our own research and creative work. we are doing our own fund- raising. we will do our own our presentation during america's cup. my other artistic colleagues have spoken to their ideas forward as well. san francisco has an opportunity to create a world-class arts festival capitalizing on the work we are doing. i am here to encourage you, in your final negotiations with the event authority, to include an arts festival and the funding for an arts festival. we could use help with promotions and logistical support and managing larger audiences. thank you. >> good evening, committee members, chair chu. speaking to a specific issue, the issue of local hire

army in 2005 and was an advisor to stem the mcchrystal in 2009 and is what the center for -- security and he is in our edinburgh studio in scotland. what kind of a threat to stability are these protests? >> i think there are a number of different factors that can use this unfortunate incident to their and manage. on the one hand, you will see hamid karzai to use the incident to increase his own negotiating power, telling the americans it is time for the bathroom of facilities to be turned over to afghan control. -- bagram facilities turned over to afghan control. others causing more violence and afghanistan. and i think the most general reaction that many of us have -- both many of us who serve in the military as well as many afghans who do not have any negative feelings towards the coalition in afghanistan, it is just the will demint, how this happened. had this happen in february of 2002 when the united states was relatively new to afghanistan, fine, may be understandable, but this is 10 years on. >> are you surprised that soldiers are not sufficiently attuned to culture and religio

generalontdi, mcchrystal, all saying that this is a good book. it is a warning. if you keep the poorest children in gains on, you incubate a real danger that will come back at you. tavis: sometimes people do the right things for the wrong reasons. i would be happy if those persons who are well-to-do, the rich, the lucky, the elite would understand the argument that you are making in the book. if they understand and act -- and accepted the argument for what it is as opposed to doing the right thing for the wrong things, which is my personal safety, that is all i care about. how do we get them to do the right thing for the right reasons? does that make sense? >> it does make sense, but i do not want to waste my time can i do not thave to change hearts ad minds. i do not need to have everybody to be all kumbaya out. .- kumbaya o if you work at changing hearts and minds, you could be at it your whole life and not accomplish anything. you do not have to like me, you can test and not racially every day, but i am the only thing standing between you and the electric chai

would give me a blurb, but i also have chief general -- i'm sorry he mcchrystal. stan mccristal.ely dad. and said, you know something? insurgency. sustained, incipient, and tavis smiley. that is a great lineup, you've so intense. mean to sound like i've and i know i sound that way. television. one-foot-square read. we learned to the read at age 3 nomads are particularly tribe. of much as we did, and we moved families. officers, and lot in texas, even graduated from high school in i do think we [laughter] [laughter] you know, i think, i think i go help them achieve their, their aspiration. [laughter] i have been incredibly pioneers before painfully aware that we were not the first talented amazing thing. the mix, the cocktail mix of my blood could only have been done a jambalaya of in struggles. straight from five windshields bashed 108th street. and i just maaed in because mercedes marquez had said, connie, latino families are moving into this african-american housing project. you're talking about african-americans who never recovered from slavery. five generations in public hous

measured by one january two thousand and ten as you know in the summer of two thousand general mcchrystal says you know man this this mission is in danger of failing because all this stuff of the casualties and violence and now we've got a surge one when you measure the u.s. casualties killed or wounded it was about three thousand four hundred and some odd beth about four hundred killed in the rest wounded if you measure the twenty four months after that it's eleven thousand in something in nine hundred some odd killed so how can you say it's really just that these numbers are out there so why is it that you felt the need to write a report and to submit it to congress do you think we're being duped by the generals you know let's face it our generals these days are pretty media savvy. there's an entire spin machine working over at the pentagon there is kind of a cup here. and here's why you see the reports all the time you see that this is a cup of water or at least that's what you think it is but i'm telling you this is actually a chalice a fine crystal shallots is a wine is a matter of f

consequences of the effort that's been pending for a decade you know remember generals betray us a mcchrystal told us this is a counterinsurgency effort this phase of the effort is the objective is to convince the afghans that we're there friends were there to protect them we're not the enemy but i think what we can see in all these recent developments is that we have a real problem with that message right now and i think the the flare up surrounding the burning of the korans shows that very well it wasn't the worst possible sort of melt down most leaders and afghanistan cold for call nevertheless it was persistent and went over on for a period of several days and involved incidents in many parts of the country it was extremely violent resulting in deaths and as you know we have that incident the courage in the interior ministry but that has stores to be seen in context. in fact the pentagon the has been troubled now for the last year about the proliferation of shootings by afghan soldiers of americans and nato soldiers we have more than sixty nato soldiers most of them americans have been sh

>> well, a couple of years ago, general stanley mcchrystal said if we're not willing to stay at leastone, it's not going to get done. and so under the circumstances not having the political will to stay there more time and spend all the resources, sure it's a good thing. focus on the things we really do well. >> and this has been in the works for a while, right? >> oh, yeah, about two years ago, the secretary of defense robert gates said that he wanted to increase the size of the complement of the military that special forces and special operations forces with the impression he wanted to replace conventional troops in southwest asia with these people who would do the really efficient kinds of military operations. >> so you have the ground forces, you have special ops, and you've got special forces. describe the differences here. >> well, special forces, green berets are trained to operate in indigenous areas and train indigenous forces to become -- that become soldiers so they can take care of their districts, make sure that they're protected so that there could be economic activity t

close team of his closest advisors but then the rest of the staff there obviously has been with mcchrystal. >> allowed them to see it from a different viewpoint, right. >> i think so. they quickly learned. i don't think it hirnldz his analysis -- hinders his analysis of the operation at all. he knew the coandthere, they had worked together in iraq. there were several commands. general rodriguez. when he heard p petraeus' name e said now we're going to win to the staff. the big question is what is winning. in petraeus' mind it was progress and setting conditions. >> charlie: he was not going to be chairman of the joints chiefs a job he might have wished for as sort of the culmination of his military career. how did he take that. >> he was told by secretary gates in november of 2010 that he was not even being considered. gates had come to check on progress in the war and had been out in the battlefield circulation and he kim back and met with petraeus in his office and said you've exceeded our expectations, you being the force, the progress in the surge but i have bad news. you're not being

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david gregory welcomes congressman paul ryan and covers mcchrystal and hall of maryland.t 1:00 p.m., here at abc's "this week." the guest is john mccain, senate armed services ranking member. then, robert gates now an obama campaign strategist. fox news sunday rears at 2:00 p.m. host chris wallace looked as gop presidential candidate and former house speaker newt gingrich, and house majority leader, representative erick kanter. cnn does a state of the union back 3:00 p.m.. -- eric cantor. at 4:00 p.m., at his face the nation from cbs. the house moderates a roundtable discussion with republican presidential candidate rick santorum. again, rears of the sunday talk shows begin at noon eastern -- reairs of the sunday talk shows begin at noon eastern. listen to them all on c-span radio are 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c. area here and listen on your iphone or blackberry, nationwide on xm satellite radio channel 119, or go online anywhere at cspanradio.org. >> done american history tv on monday for 24 hours of america's first ladies including eleanor roosevelt. >> i think, like

young reporter was 29 when he wrote the article for rolling stone that brought down general stanley mcchrystal. the book is amazing. if you want to know why this country is in all these military adventures overseas, you have to read this book. it is about some much more than money. michael hastings is having a hard time getting media attention, because he writes about national w correspondents who are paid by liberal hawkish think tanks. it is a must-read a book. there is also a great website. we did not spend much time talking about military spending. military industrial complex dot com -- unbelievable. we are talking about huneds of millions of dollars every day that even the alternative media hardly talks about. every day these contracts are given out. there is a list of these companies and what they do. that is another good resource. thank you so much, roger d. anderson margaret flowers, and the rest. thank you for coming. [applae] >> and thank you to rose, who was a fantastic moderator. this forum was recorded. please check on our web site next week. e mindful of the shelter at the end of