. >> or former defense secretary paul wolfowitz. >> to mock the idea of taking threatening rhetoric is a liberal stance. >> you know what? this is a big country with a lot of political conflict in it in case you have not noticed. and politics is about having those arguments. not just talking to herself or hearing what you want to hear but actually learning by listening to what the other side is saying. not that they're necessarily right, not being instantly persuaded or letting them go unchallenged. but it is important to see how they're thinking about the issue. or how they see the world. it is not a wrestling debate. the point is not to bring somebody on to thoroughly humiliate them on national television. no, these are people we share this country with. i want to hear from them. and i think i have a better understanding of american politics because of it. so we're going to keep doing that. and you, please, keep sending us your feedback. >>> last week, we brought you the story of republicans and some democrats in oklahoma voting to tax solar power by way of a bill allowing utility co

including with paul wolfowitz, donald rumsfeld's second in command.on with just two months until the invasion, attention turns to who will run iraq in the immediate days and weeks after the fall of saddam. retired army lieutenant general jay garner, a man with deep experience in the region, gets the call from donald rumsfeld. >> he said, we need right now is somebody to come in, put a staff together, operationalize the plans we put together. you know, you think if you're going to put that together you'd have office space and desk and computers and telephones and all that. i didn't even have a chair. >> that lack of planning when it comes to basic post-saddam governance stands in stark contrast to the level of planning that's already well under way for iraq's oil sector. >> there's a very strong sense of urgency. it was 12, 15-hour days from what i remember. they knew where every pipeline, where every refinery, gas plant, oil field, gas oil separation plant was. people said we didn't plan very well for iraq. i would take exception to that when it came

including with paul wolfowitz, donald rumsfeld's second in command.h just two months until the invasion, attention turns to who will run iraq in the immediate days and weeks after the fall of saddam. retired army lieutenant general jay garner, a man with deep experience in the region, gets the call from donald rumsfeld. >> he said, we need right now is somebody to come in, put a staff together, operationalize the plans we put together. you know, you think if you're going to put that together you'd have office space and desk and computers and telephones and all that. i didn't even have a chair. >> that lack of planning when it comes to basic post-saddam governance stands in stark contrast to the level of planning that's already well under way for iraq's oil sector. >> there's a very strong sense of urgency. it was 12, 15-hour days from what i remember. they knew where every pipeline, where every refinery, gas plant, oil field, gas oil separation plant was. people said we didn't plan very well for iraq. i would take exception to that when it came to the

so they gave a speech at the washington institute three years ago and they were asked by paul wolfowitz is whether they perceive themselves as and they will turn their guns on israel. so basically if we assumed that he was correct, otherwise he sent me an e-mail that the region is of this, what is happening is that we allowed the state to deploy this. so they are cultivating this again and so we know that we will eventually have to fight this, but who will initiate that? as opposed to others. >> could you just make one last comment? >> are a lot more people that want to deal with this as well. >> thank you. you know, i always understood to state solution to automatically include gaza. but it's practically an independent state all by else. what do you propose? and what you see with the future of israel and gaza. >> we left him in 2005 and i was done with lee opposed to it. but i think that the makes lemonade out of lemons. because we left under no legal argument and kennedy argued in a serious way. but that is just because the world of which we live. so it cannot be argued by israel. so

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paul wolfowitz is currently explaining that as we approach the 100th anniversary of world war i, this classic book is timely once again. and sally sentelle is reading a short story in order to see war through the eyes of the soldier. be sure to check our website for air dates and times in the coming weeks. and best-selling author charles murray is reading the sun also rises. that is a quick look at what some of the scholars the american enterprise institute are reading. >> booktv attended the san antonio book festival in texas. in partnership with booktv. booktv covered several events from the san antonio public library on the federal debt, cesar chavez, local san antonio history, cracking, the nsa, a memoir from richard rodriguez and the poetry of kevin powers. we now pick up our coverage with bill wyatt on the history of federal debt limit. >> delights new book, america's fiscal constitution has just been published. a former three term mayor, he is chairman of the houston banking. ..

which is definitely aimed at russia strategic nuclear deterrent the war for which doctrine after paul wolfowitzclearly stated that russia is the only country in the world capable of challenging american political dominance and therefore steps need to be taken to reduce that quote for it and that has to be done by bringing in those countries from the former eastern bloc from the former soviet union bring them into nato bring them into the e.u. and therefore you would contain russian power in europe and therefore and thereby contain russian power internationally that's what it's all about in ukraine one that no gentlemen we've run out of time in my opinion we're seeing a lot of gross miscalculation many thanks to my guests in london and in cleveland and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember this. is a. better education young people for us teddy roosevelt once said a man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad yes in a gilded corrupting teddy near and as we know today o