poindexter, the crazy poindexter says don't you think we should have one more meeting to confirm this and reagan goes no, only if it doesn't delay the strike and of course this blackout tax on all sides. the lesson is you got to be supercareful because if you don't get it right, then isis is showing the stakes are as high as all these folks fear. >> this last hour-and-a-half has given you just a sample. it is a great book. i urge you to get it. we have copies on sale here and i thank you for coming today. [applause] >> this is booktv on c-span2, television serious readers. here is our prime time lineup. tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern, experiences as an alzheimer's caregiver. at:00, the story of a tragic car wreck due to a texting while driving. prime time programming continues at 11:00 p.m. with vaccinations. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> up next on booktv, david cross recounts his road trip to all the presidential libraries. he speaks from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library in hyde park, new york which is home to the annual roosevelt reading festival. thi

poindexter did not go that way. but poindexter was in that position.id that give some credibility. >> we tavis reached the witching hour. >> maybe i can deflected a little better. but my sense over the years in slowly slowly learning a lesson and is not 100 percent clear by people like their retiree from thehh@h cia and others that firmly believe some iranians wanted more than weapons. and the scandal from this. and they had outcomes of this. in the h decided -- they each decided but let's do this directly. they cannot be trusted so what was made possible to theql iranians directly it blows up in the face because of who they address it to. as a supreme leader why obama has not figured that out? there are these pieces of evidence that are gradually picking up. so with hostages by pity the people who tries to work this stuff out because digging through these weird operations there is a lot of material of those going to the length to create these organizations. so there is the huge amount of effort how to get these guys out. it all came down to these peo

martha scott poindexter with the senate select committee on intelligence. and tim butler with mike kelly. welcome. [applause] i would like to call your attention to a number of events we have coming up. next wednesday, we will be hosting a breakfast with egoists. we will be discussing the november elections and the landscape that we will be seeing soon. on september 23, we asked senator bob portman, who will not be here, but will be over at the monaco. do not forget that. at the monacle. on september 25, back here at the capitol hill club, we are hosting a senior leadership staff from team majority leader kevin mccarthy. we will have all of his senior staff here. this will be a launch event. do not miss that. as for this morning, we are so honored to be blessed with these two guys. i already miss them and they have not even left yet. they continue to try to keep america secure and i feel that the greatest thing about both of them -- i have traveled with mike rogers. senator chambliss, i knew when he was in the house. the greatest thing about both of these g

it was led by people in the national security counsel, including john poindexter, the national securityadviser to the president. key officials of both the national security counsel and the cia, all of whom were pardoned later by george h.w. bush in the last month or two of his in office but clearly this was reagan ignoring the laws of the land. in the first case, selling arms first out of israeli inventories and then our inventories to iran. a state that was involved with acts of terrorism. which was violation of law. and then using the profits from those sales to provide money to the contras which was a violation of the bolin amendment. so when you think about impeachment, particularly based on not following the law of the land, there were clear grounds for impeachment and i think if the country hadn't gone through the nightmare of the nixon process, there may have been some people who would have considered impeachment but reagan was much too popular for that and the country didn't want to live through that kind of experience so soon again. reagan was also responsible for appointing th

martha scott poindexter with the senate select committee on intelligence. and tim butler with mike kelly. welcome. [applause] i would like to call your attention to a number of events we have coming up. next wednesday, we will be hosting a breakfast with egoists . we will be discussing the november elections and the landscape that we will be seeing soon. on september 23, we asked senator bob portman, who will not be here, but will be over at the monaco. do not forget that. at the monacle. on september 25, back here at the capitol hill club, we are hosting a senior leadership from team majority leader kevin mccarthy. we will have all of his senior staff here. this will be a launch event. do not miss that. as for this morning, we are so honored to be blessed with these two guys. i already miss them and they have not even left yet. they continue to try to keep america secure and i feel that the greatest thing about both of them -- i have traveled with mike rogers. senator chambliss, i knew when he was in the house. the greatest thing about both of these guys i

it was led by people in the national security counsel, including john poindexter, the national securityr to the president. key officials of both the national security counsel and the cia, all of whom were pardoned later by george h.w. bush in the last month or two of his in office but clearly this was reagan ignoring the laws of the land. in the first case, selling arms first out of israeli inventories and then our inventories to iran. a state that was involved with acts of terrorism. which was violation of law. and then using the profits from those sales to provide money to the contras which was a violation of the bolin amendment. so when you think about impeachment, particularly based on not following the law of the land, there were clear grounds for impeachment and i think if the country hadn't gone through the nightmare of the nixon process, there may have been some people who would have considered impeachment but reagan was much too popular for that and the country didn't want to live through that kind of experience so soon again. reagan was also responsible for appointing the most