robert gates. currently the secretary of defense. maybe that re-enforces the conspiracy theory that we're pulling the strings from behind the scene. but alternatively maybe it tells you something that it is an open process. anyone can get the recommendations, read them, know what they are. assess them whether they stand the test of time or not. i think that's all good. >> what did you learn about robert gates that ugsd share with us? >> what i learned about him was many years back. he was my executive assistant in the white house. and he was next to me. we traveled together. i came to know him and i respect him. i think he has very good judgment. he's very solid. he's very serious, intelligent person. and with a seps of patriotic commitment in this country. i don't think he undertook that job just to advance his personal interests to enhance his bio, which is quite impressive anyway. he did it because he thought the country was in trouble and he wants to serve as best he can. he obviously works for the president and therefore has to

normally act that way and i think it may have been a sugar attack. >>> and finally, former secretary robert gatessaid that the president made a gutsy call on how to kill osama bin laden and according to charlie rose, the predecessor should have made a fast one and easy one thanks in part to past administrations. >> you have spent millions of dollars and lives try to track down osama bin laden and you have 40% or the 80% or whatever bob said in your confidence. >> 87, yes. >> it seems to me that it is a 15-minute decision and the first 14 are for coffee. could it be wrong? you bet. >> and with enormous consequences, ask jimmy carter. failed mission. >> oh, listen, our special force s in the jimmy carter era were so early in their evolution that the investment that the obama administration benefited from, the capabilities they have were developed during their predecessors and each administration -- >> and you are referring to the bush administration? >> yes, exactly. >> wasn't that fellow rumsfeld is the sail one who said that osama bin laden had nuclear capabilities. okay. let's remember their tra

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that's why in 2010 i joined then secretary robert gates and secretary of the army, john mchugh, to launch the national action alliance for suicide prevention. our aim was to make suicide prevention a national priority, especially for service members and vets. so in our department, that has meant working to make life-saving services and support more accessible and more responsive to people in crisis. for example, we operate the national suicide prevention lifeline number, a national network of crisis call centers for those experiencing a suicidal crisis or in serious emotional distress. last fall, the lifeline received its three millionth call. knowing we had this large and effective network already in place, the va reached out to us several years ago and we formed a partnership. today, service members, veterans and their families who call the lifeline can press number 1 to be connected to a va call center that provides specialized crisis services. the veterans crisis line or military crisis line, as it's known within the services, is also available in a number of european countries and in

the opportunity in 2006 to spend a lot of time doing pentagon coverage, including her trips with robert gates, donald rumsfeld and war policy visits herself. so it's with great pleasure i introduce kristin roberts. >> thank you very much. so i've got an excellent panel here that truly deserves no introduction but i'm going to give you an introduction anyway. dr. alice rivlin, cochair of the bipartisan policy center's tax reduction tax force, widely recognized as one of the most foremost experts on the issues we're talking about today. senator bob packwood, chairman of senate finance committee, he was one of the architects of the 1986 reform. congressman bill thomas, another chairman, chairman of the ways and means committee. widely seen as one of the smartest and toughest guys to ever walk the halls of congress, one of the main proponents of the tax cut bills of the last decade. and we've got robert greenstein, founder and president of the center on budget and policy priorities, an expert on a wide range of domestic policy issues including tax and social safety net programs. let's start, dr.

robert gates are battling a massive wildfire in northern colorado that's killed a sixty two year old woman in the hot dry weather and changing winds and printed efforts scores of people are being evacuated from the area thousands of homes are still threatened and firefighters are expected to battle the blaze for seven weeks . when the times are tough in the island and for increasing numbers of people in dublin that means a descent into addiction drug abuse centers end up in seeing more people come through their doors but more smith reports the cash strapped the government is not so keen to pay up to get them clean. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make merry rubbing shoulders with this seedy underbelly tenement blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin twenty gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs often to cry and recessions making it. worst he's seeing eleven new people a week when people ha

department defense that looked into the impact of these leaks and we've heard former defense secretary robert gates we're going to heard surgery say clinton minimizing the impact of these leaks and so we suspect that because the guards in hiding these records that in fact they would show there was no serious adverse effect on national security there was certainly an adverse effect on individuals who were breaking the law and acting on ethically they were and there's a barrister into the u.s. empire but no one has been killed by this there's been no adverse effect along the undermining of us that security in that way the real problem is that people see what the united states day by day basis in their documents that means accused of leaking the wiki leaks is accused of publishing our documents that involve the iraq war the afghan war and diplomatic cables from the state department show day to day activity of in all these in all these areas and so you see the good of u.s. foreign policy which does exist there is some good news in the bad you see the ugly and the illegal and sadly there's a lot of ille

. >> rose: hillary clinton, robert gates. >> gates i would call of the vietnam generation, tom donald and certainly curt campbell, michelle, floyd -- >> rose: his wife. >> right. and the obamians have an entirely different range of experience. they're not even, they're not, they are teenagers or in one case not even born when the vietnam war ended. >> rose: that's ben rhodes. >> dennis mcdougha, president obama. >> rose: you argue he is in fact running foreign policy. >> i did. >> rose: and his voice, his drive, his ideas. >> i do. i mean he's certainly like everyone else, i find he was more actively involved in the day to day details of foreign policy in the first couple years of his administration than george bush was. and the way we see that is there's no one force beyond him. in other words just about everybody in the administration changes at the top levels. there's almost no one other than hillary clinton under obama who is in the same job than they were before. but him and his white house aides are the continuity and it really is obama laying down the strategy. >> rose: how is

you know, i find it really interesting that robert gates has been speaking out a lot. no longer in the administration. he apparently spoke to david sanger who has a new book out on this, and he claims he's, of course, the former defense secretary, that he blasted the national security team in the obama white house for blabbing, or the book claims, i should say, about the raid to kill osama bin laden. shut the blank up is apparently, according to this book, what gates told tom done lin who is now the national security adviser, and basically gates walked into his office according to this report and said in his low-key way, i have a new strategic communications approach to recommend, and then he went on to say shut up, basically. he seems very upset, and he seems to want to get his story out there. >> well, yeah. and bob gates, secretary gates is a it is a turn man. his -- taciturn man. for him to come out this strongly means that -- tells me that the gravity of the damage done is even worse than we know at present. so very much so. martha: all right. ralph peters, thank

when gates the, disclosure of seal team 6, robert gates went to the white house and said i have a communicationyou know what it is? keep your f'ing mouth stuff. tom donilon is known for. this he's political operative, as you heard in my remarks. if you think of the george held by george bundy, the whole host of people, condoleezza rice, colin powell, this person whose job it was to be a delegate counter. a political person. >> sean: this is important. what did they know? when did they know it? this was all designed, all the leaks make the president look good supposely. >> right. with all due respect it doesn't matter who leaks it. it's coming from the obama white house. who leaked seal team six to brag about killing bin laden? that came out of the president's mouth. military officials were going ballistic over that. for a reason. two weeks later, a helicopter shot out of the sky in afghanistan and what is it? it's seal team six. it's because of -- i mean leaking by the united states government generally has been bad. it's always much worse under the democrats. other leaks that have come out tha

gate bridge. it is stunning today, every time i go near it. thank you, robert reich, thank you ed rendell for joining us. coming up, john edwards hints at a comeback. now there's a man with optimism. but after a dramatic fall, could he actually rise again? maybe we need john edwards' hopefulness. >>> and why did house republicans push a bill based on gender based abortions. are they really willing to say a what they're talking about here? i wonder if the republicans are playing this as a game. >>> what happens when a top surrogate like bill clinton gets off message? >>> and make or break moment for the president. i think that's what he's in right this moment. this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ male announcer ] considering all your mouth goes through, do you really think brushing is enough to keep it clean? while brushing misses germs in 75% of your mouth, listerine® cleans virtually your entire mouth. so take your oral health to a whole new level. listerine®... power to your mouth™. holding down the fort while you're out catching a movie. [ growls ]

and robert gates said that president obama made a gutsy call.erview, he said donald rumsfeld say the decision should have been a fast and easy one thanks in part to past administrations. >> you spend billions of dollars and lives trying to track down osama bin laden and you have 40 to 80% confidence in your intelligence. it seems to me that it is a 15 minute decision and the first 14 are for coffee. could it be wrong, you bet. >> with enormous consequences, ask jimmy carter. >> listen, our special forces in that era were so early. the investment in a the obama administration benefitted from, their capabilities were developed during their predecessors. >> meaning the bush administration? >> exactly. >> wasn't rumsfeld the guy who said that saddam hussein had nuclear weapons? next, republicans in the house try to ban gender based abortions, are they really just going after the asian american community here and can they change that culture on these issues? we'll talk to two members of congress on either side of the ball. good insurance. yup, i've g

publicly and then, at the last minute, decided not to after a phone call from then defense secretary robert gatester, when no one cared, he actually did burn the koran to very little to almost no attention. as soon as the secret service began investigating this potential threat to the president's life, suddenly this happened. uncle sam suddenly traded places with president obama and terry jones explained that secret service pressure made him rewrite his symbolic message to coincide with the worlds, the worded message on his sign, "obama is killing america." jones said, "president obama is killing our nation. we have hung uncle sam to represent that." while they were at it, they apparently hung a baby, which i think we can interpret that as to have something to do with abortion. and you'll notice a gay pride flag in president obama's hand. this is all, of course, in protest of the president's announcement that he personally supports marriage equality. and after choosing to use the imagery of lynching in the south to express his feelings about the first african-american president of the united stat

he's deputy robert gates of the clinton county sheriff's department. he watches trooper harker navigate the traffic stop from the other side of the road. >> i saw that he was standing outside of his vehicle and was talking to what appeared to be the driver. i also noticed that the passenger sitting in the vehicle was staring at me intently and watched as i went by. >> deputy gates makes a u-turn and pulls up behind the trooper. right away, he senses something is off about the encounter. >> i noticed several times that the driver asked why he had been stopped. >> why am i being pulled over? >> i believe i told you, sir, according to the computer, the registration on the vehicle has expired. >> he was asking several other questions. these were questions i already knew the answer to and i had just gotten there. >> why are you trying to make this so difficult? >> i'm not trying to make it difficult, sir. >> it was obvious to me that the driver was trying to stall. i didn't know if he had a weapon on him or drugs on him or other kind of contraband, i didn't

is why both iraq and afghanistan, military commanders, top officials like secretary of defense robert gates revisor james jones continue to call still utterly unselfconscious lay for putting an iraqi or afghan face on whichever war was being discussed. that is to follow the image to its logical conclusion, putting an iraqi or afghan mask over her face they recognized however inconveniently or in various miss america. >> watch this on booktv.org. ..

take defense secretary panetta and his predecessor, robert gates. the pension for making news whenever they're in front of a microphone. go down the line, and the administration has found reasons to keep their officials out of the public eye. kathleen sebelius, they weren't crazy about her being the one to promote health care reform. secretary chu spent less time talking about energy, and more time answering questions about solyndra. vilsack answered more questions about the firing of shirley sherrod. homeland skater, janet napolitano put her foot in her mouth, so it looked like, when she made the pronouncement just two days after an al qaeda terrorist nearly brought down a detroit-bound plane when she said this. >> what we're focused on is making sure that to the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel, and one thing i'd like to point out is that the system worked. everybody played an important role here. >> attorney general holder spent well over a year caught up in the debate where to try khalid sheikh mohammed, a

of defense robert gates or national security adviser james jones continue to call so unselfconscious flee for putting an iraqi or afghan face on whichever war was being discussed that is to follow the image to its logical conclusion including an iraqi or afghan mask over a face they recognize however inconveniently or embarrassing we as america. >> we can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> alice kessler-harris recounts the life of william homan -- lillian hellman, author of several social the infuse plays including "the children's hour" and "littlefoxes". this is about an hour. >> thank you for coming. very nice of you to be here this evening. i want to start by talking about why bother with lillian hellman and then read something of the book so that you can get a sense of who she was. and there have been several biographies of lillian hellman. she was the most famous -- the 20th century female fly right for many years. and the 1970s when playwrights' began would work. and as such, it was the figure to be reckoned with. in addition to being a playwright, she was r

martha: as has been pointed out robert gates seems to be one of the people in inner circle in all of wants it very clear he was very much against it. in fact he, perhaps did his own leak recently to let everybody know recently that he told tom donlan to shut the blank up about all of this. he was very upset. he crosses both administrations, into the bush administration as well. i want to get to eric holder's response because he says the obama administration has prosecuted more leaks than any prior administration. he feels that their record is very strong on this. he also feels that these two u.s. attorneys, one, who has been a democratic supporter in the past. the other though was a republican appointee. he believes because of that diversity they will be very fair and they have already jumped on this investigation and have already interviewed holder and mueller at the fbi quite extensively. >> well, one i don't care what he believes. it is what i believe and the public believes. he could pick somebody that i would say yes, that's a good person who's a special counsel outside the poli

the opportunity in 2006 to spend a lot of time doing pentagon coverage including her trips with robert gates, donald rumsfeld, and for policy visits herself so it's with great pleasure i introduce kristin roberts. >> thank you very much. i have got an excellent panel here that truly deserves no introduction but i'm going to give you an introduction anyway. alex rivlin cochair of the by policy center, former white house budget director and widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on the issue we are talking about here today. senator bob packwood, the chairman of the senate finance committee and one of the architects in 1980 perform. congressman bill -- chairman of the winston means committee. one of the smartest and toughest guys who ever walked the halls of congress. one of the main components of the last decade. and we have robert greenstein founder and president of the center on budget and policy priorities, an expert on the wide-ranging policy issues including tax and social safety net programs. let's start dr. rivlin on mr. bob hess' speech. lacking in some detail from specifics

and you say the president has built his cabinet as a team of loyalists, with the exception of robert gatesner. those are big exceptions. >> those are very important. you could argue those evare the big cabinet posts. the oldest posts. and the biggest surprise is the effective relationship with secretary clinton. they meet privately once a week. >> that's amazing. >> four years ago, most people wouldn't have thought that was possible. >> and it says so much about senator clinton. >> it certainly does. >> when she left the white house and went to the senate, everybody said she would be terrible. within two years, trent lot said she is one of the best senators to work with. and she was so serious. trent lott. general petraeus was asked what senator knows the most about what you're doing in the war, and his answer, you mean, other than senator clinton? i mean, again, it's shocking. hey, can i ask you really quickly, because you worked for "the new york times" and you were kind enough to give us a heads up on a story that "the times" had written a couple of years back with john kerry, about joh

and she has had the opportunity in 2006 to do a lot of pentagon coverage, including trips with robert gates, donald rahm spell, and more policy -- donald rahm spelled -- donald rumsfeld, and more policy experts. >> thank you very much. i'm going to give you an introduction the you don't need one. former white house budget director and widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on the subject we're talking about today. we have senator bob packwood. he was one of the architects of the 1986 reform. congressman bill thomas, chairman of the ways and means committee. widely considered one of the smartest and toughest guys that has ever walked the halls of congress. and we have robert greenstein founder of the center for budget priorities, addressing a wide variety of issues including the social safety net program. let's start with senator baucus's speech. lacking in detail sign of some of my colleagues in the press wanted. did it move any of you? >> i was very glad to hear him say several things that he said. one, clearly we need more revenue as we address the long room -- run deficit probl

so do many others, including general colin powell, former defense secretary robert gates.hey support the dream act because it would make america a stronger country by giving these talented immigrants the chance to serve in the military and contribute to the future of america. the best way to understand the problems with the arizona immigration law and the need for the dream act and comprehensive immigration law is to hear the stories of some of the immigrant students who would be eligible for the dream act. they call themselves dreamers. almost every week in the session, i come to the floor of the senate to tell the story of one of these young people. over the years, i have told stories of several dreamers from the state of arizona. under the arizona law, these young people would be targets for prosecution and incarceration. under the dream act, they would be future citizens who could make america and arizona stronger. today i want to introduce one of them to you from arizona. her name is angelica hernandez. she was brought to phoenix, arizona, when she was 9 years old. sh

he was appointed chairman by secretary of defense robert gates in may 2007 and reappointed by secretary gates in may 2010. sgr is the department of defense agency's mission is to develop and promote the cultural employer support from public and private employers for men and women of the national guard and reserve and their families. [applause] >> thanks, kevin. we are delighted to be here and to be a partner with the chamber. the chamber is the engine that drives our economy with its 900,000 members. it is good business to hire a guardsman or reservists. we are not here just to tweak your patriotism. the chamber is the heart and soul of the business community in this country. the guardsmen and reservists are the lifeblood of the business community. for those who may not know, the guard and reserve comprises 48% of the military strength and capabilities of this country. and they do at fort 7%-24% of the budget, depending on the economy. our budget with our lack of control and perhaps bankrupt the country without the guard and reserve force. well is not protecting us, they need you, the e

in 2010, i join secretary robert gates and don mccue -- and the then secretary of the army to launchicide prevention department. in our department, that has meant working to make live sighting -- like saving services more accessible to people in crisis. we operate the national suicide prevention lifeline number. a national network of crisis call centers for those experiencing a suicide crisis or in serious emotional distress. last fall, the lifeline recede its 3 millionth call. knowing we had this large network in place, the va reached out to us and we formed a partnership. veterans and their families who called the life line can press number 1 to be connected to the veterans crisis line. it is available in a number of european countries. in just the first five months of this year, over 85,000 lifeline calls were answered by deep veterans crisis line. our department has also organized a series of academies to bring together a community leaders, and veterans officials to team up and share best practices. one example is a program known as operation emersion, an initiative that brought

are privy to confidential stph-fgs what former -- information is what former defense secretary robert gates said, and i paraphrase -- just shut the heck up. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: we're going to move shortly to confirm the judge we had last night. i ask the senator from oklahoma how long do you want to speak? mr. coburn: i will speak in conjunction with the majority whip for a short period of time. i don't have a long speech. mr. reid: if you'll be patient we'll get this done very quickly . mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: the matter now before the court is the -- before the court. it goes back a few years. the matter now before this body is the nomination of judge hurwitz. is that right? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. mr. reid: i yield back all time on this nomination. the presiding officer: hearing no further debate, all further time is yielded back. the question is on the nomination. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. the

is why in iraq and afghanistan military commanders and top officials like secretary of defense robert gates or james jones continue to call so utterly insults consciously for putting iraqi or afghan face on whatever war was being discussed. that is to follow the image to its logical conclusion putting iraq your afghan mask over a face they recognize however inconveniently as american. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> i by robert burns about an inside look at how he manages the tea party at the conference and great lines i have read in articles that show how crazy it can get with a lot of these freshmen put in by the tea party who arguably are controlling how top house is running. apparently in a meeting with this conference, john boehner told people get your ass in line and i think this congress has been so polarizing that a book like this would be great summer reading to a kickback and figure out the dramas going on behind the scenes. another book i like to read is love is mixed chief. a story writt