as a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w.ush and barack obama. he is the author of a new book, "exercise of power america's failures, successes and a new path forward in the post cold war world. doctor gates is an officer in the u.s. air force and spent 27 years in the cia. he served as the cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entry-level employee to head the agency. secretary gates served as a member of the national security council staff in four different administrations and for eight presidents of both political parties. for his numerous professional competitions, secretary gates was awarded the presidential medal of freedom, the nation's highest civilian award by president obama. he's also a three-time recipient of the distinguished intelligence medal, one of the cia's most prestigious honors. in conversation with insidious general james mattis. general mattis served as our 26th secretary of defense from 2017 to 2019 and is now the distinguished fellow at stanford university's hoove

eastern, robert gates and james mattis look at the use of u.s. power around the world since the end of world war ii. in christian rose, former staff director of the senate of services committee high-tech warfare. his secretary and director of policy. talk about the nuclear arms race for two. c-span2. >> do thousand four, and was discussing his normal, i am charlotte senate. book tv, accompanied him as he appeared at the aspen institute and was just a radio show. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] journalists are much more apt to be talking to professors then to students. i discovered right away that students today are eager to talk about an older person about what they are doing. in this case, it was a novel, no danger of being identified by name or by looks. they couldn't tell me enough, a group of boys and girls ending up in the same place. he goes over and i said something really smooth and they were like, i bet you get tired of being mistaken for britney spears. it's an example in the book and to reviewers said anybody though

eastern, former defense secretary robert gates and james mattis take a look at power around the world since the end of world war ii. christian, former staff director to have senate armed services committee, he talks about the future of high-tech warfare and letter former defense secretary william perry and tom colina talk about the nuclear arm's race since world war ii and threat of nuclear war today. enjoy book tv on c-span2. >> a look at programs with late tom wolfe, final novel, back to blood. >> well, good evening, everyone. welcome. [cheers and applause] >> on behalf of all of us with the miami book fair we want to welcome you to the 29th book fair, believe it or not. [cheers and applause] >> remarkable undertaking and takes the work of literally hundreds and hundreds of volunteers. we have a remarkable board of directors who work extremely hard at doing this year round, none of this at all could happen without the good, good support of everyone here at miami-dade college and let's give them a huge round of applause. [applause] >> and we are particularly appreciative of the spons

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he will take care of america on foreign policy and we know president obama's defense secretary robert gates said joe biden was wrong at every foreign policy issue. he is also lacking that authenticity and transparency with the american people. the problem for joe biden is 40 years of political career of which people can call up and say that is not what you did when you were in the senate. that is not what you did when you were vice president of the country. the issue is he might have one night where he delivered a strong speech from a teleprompter but 40 years of blunders which the american people will not forget. jillian: coronavirus is on the front of everybody's mind. most voters across the country say democrats had a lot to say about it. what do you think of the attacks on the president's handling, the administration's handling of the coronavirus. >> interesting they chose the better part of 4 nights at the convention when they should be making their arguments and spend time talking about a pandemic playing to the entire world and in terms of a response, donald trump who early cut off t

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i have had the example of -- the advantage of observing really fantastic leaders, for example, robert gatesy of defense when i was his general counsel. at the end of the day, a lot of military leaders will tell you that leadership is being the best version of yourself. bring your own style to office the vest version -- the best version of yourself. at the end of the day, you are left with only your own instincts about how to govern and how to make decisions. and so, to a very large extent, it is innate. you have to have the confidence of your decision-making and that is not something you necessarily are taught. i think it is accommodation of both. david: that was part of my conversation with jeh johnson, former secretary of the department of homeland security. coming up, talk with marc morial about a brand-new lawsuit against the trump administration and its management of the postal service. that is coming up on "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. i am david westin. the postal service has become groun

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finally, secretary of defense robert gates, under president obama, said that vice president biden was wrong on every major policy decision. thank you. host: thanks for the call. larry sabato? guest: well, look, number one, as a c-span fan, i am going to defend it. if you watch a lot of c-span, sir, i guarantee you, that before november, c-span will carry everything and cover everything twice, three times, four times. everything can be done by august, so i would not be overly concerned about that. as far as those issues are concerned, you name three issues that do not favor with the large portion of the electorate, do not favor joe biden and would favor donald trump. be sure reason, you can that whether it is on tv ads or indirect mail some other medium, the republicans will stress those issues. activists will lead with materials that they get from republican leaders over public in emails or that they see on republican tv ads. is august. it and, democrats will be responding accordingly, because there will be things you cannot keep a tag on, and they will make their positions clear, too

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my boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. we're going to send you to nato. i was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate' decision. so from the nato perspective i was at the dental admiral who became the supreme allied expired but the navy was an accident as well, one it, as a career? >> guest: somewhat. so, let's go way back. i grew up in a marine corps family. my father, george stavridis, proud colonel of marines, fought in korea and vietnam. i grew up in that environment, and so went to quantico high school south of washington, dc, went to navy think iing i would be a marine corps and here's the accident. at any first year the navy send everybody out on a cruise and you go out on a ship. i went out on a beautiful cruelser out of san diego, and i walked up on the bridge of that ship in the evening, gotten away from the pier late in the day and i got up there and the sun was setting and i looked out on all that ocean and

eastern, former defense secretary's robert gates and james take a look at the use of u.s. power around the world since the end of world war ii. then christian, former staff director of the armed service committee talks about future of high-tech warfare. i later former defense secretary william very, and director of policy, tom talks about the nuclear arms race since the end of world war ii. in the fight of nuclear war today. joy put to be on "c-span2". i look at some programs of the late author tom w

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robert gates wasn't in there tonight, because he thinks joe biden has been wrong about every foreignthink it's interesting he gave a searing indictment of the current health-care system, which is obamacare. he's a supporter of medicare for all. that was a head scratcher for me, because biden doesn't believe in the solutions that mr. barkin -- >> i don't think you have to scratch your head too hard, brother, because you have two parts of our party trying to improve the health-care system and make it better. meanwhile, trump is trying to take obamacare away. you have a big enough idea for how to move it forward. i'm going to tell you, what you were able to see with joe biden is someone who was tough on the foreign policy stuff. people made a lot of fun of him, but he has a track record of being tough and yet he cares to help people who need help. i think he had a reset in terms of how he's being received -- the toughness and concern for others. i don't think the republican party has any room to pick us apart on how we improve it when they're trying to tear it apart. >> scott, what do y

that's robert gates. obama's own secretary of defense who literally said that he has been on the wrong side of every decision in his political career. that is literally saying something. that's impressive. a monkey guessing at random could have performed better than joe biden in terms of major decisions for america. i haven't even started talking about how he built up china. >> sean: sometimes he confuses the day of the week, the office he's running for. seems to forget that we are actually endowed by not the thing. where was he with coronavirus ten days after the first known case in america? he was calling a travel ban, the first quarantine in 60 years. and then the largest in history. hysterical, xenophobic, and fearmongering. where has he been? it's hard to watch. we have more coming up. this guy beat nearly to death. where is joe? where is joe? >> the solution for that is to defund the police, reallocate social workers. blm is destroying democrat-run cities. these are cities who have been controlled b

it's what robert gates said joe biden couldn't be trusted with any of our foreign policy decision. he's made the decision time and time again. to bring out secretary john kerry to even defend him, they obviously didn't tell the whole story to the american people. >> laura: raymond, stylistically at the very end, the big reveal was for joe biden to walk into the classroom. your take on that moment? >> laura, this felt like one of those saturday morning infomercial blocks. you are waiting for sally struthers to come out and say, won't you help these democrats? you had carter, you had kerry, you had mccain. inauspicious group to be with. this is an empathy play. they want you to think that joe biden is a nice guy. and now with jill's ex-husband questioning when they might have met with the conditions of their meeting and possible affair, all of this is thrown up in the air. i think that's going to have to be t scrutinized in the days ahd as donald trump's relationships in regards, i think you have to be fair here. but on the hole? this is an empathy play. that's not policy and i'm not

eastern, robert gates and james mattis look at the use of u.s.ower around the world since the end of world war ii. in christian rose, former staff director of the senate of services committee high-tech warfare. his secretary and director of policy. talk about the nuclear arms race for two. c-span2. >> do thousand four, and was discussing his normal, i am charlotte senate. book tv, accompanied him as he appeared at the aspen institute and was just a radio show.

privilege to work for and be around come and i mentioned him earlier and secretary of defense robert gates secretary gates instead of immediately giving me the planse for stavridis, secretary gates said well, you know, at al admi, what kept you in the navy for 37 years. that may give youat some clue as to what you might want to do next. i thought about it and it is a great question. i haven't thought of it in that context. would have kept me in the navy. there is a lot that i like about the navy. i likevy wearing sharp looking uniforms and being a mariner going to see. i like traveling around the world. i liked allik these things. the thing i loved was mentoring young people and taking care of young sailors in helping guide the gorgeous trajectory of their so i said that to secretary gates and he said to me you should go into education. those were the most powerful words for me. we forget this about secretary gates. everyone can remember he was the director of the cia and everyone can remember he was the secretary e of defense in both e bush and obama administration. he's the president of

eastern, former defense secretaries robert gates and james mattis take a look at the u.s. of u.s. power around the world since the end of world war ii. then christian rose, former staff director of the senate armed services committee. he talks about the future of high-tech warfare. and later, former defense secretary william perry and plow shares fund director of policy,ton killeena talk about the nuclear arms race since world war ii and the nuclear threat today. enjoy book tv on c-span2. >> postmaster general louis dejoy testifies to congress on changes in service operations and their impact on the upcoming elections. live friday, in front of the homeland security and governmental affairs. and postmaster general dejoy and the board of governors will testify before the house oversight and reform committee. watch live coverage of the hearings friday on c-span and monday on c-span2, on demand at c-span.org or listen live wherever you are with the free c-span radio app. in 2004, author tom wolfe spent a day in washington d.c. discussing his book "i am charlotte simmons," and he was t

privilege to work for and be around and that's, i mentioned him earlier, secretary of defense robert gates and secretary gates, instead of immediately giving me the plan for stavridis, secretary gates said, well, you know, admiral, what kept you in the navy for 37 years? that would give you some clue as to what you might want to do next. and i thought about it, it was a great question. i hadn't really thought of it in that context. what had kept me in the navy? and you know, there's a lot i liked about the navy. i liked, you know, wearing sharp looking uniforms and i liked going to sea, operating a ship on the ocean and i liked travelling around the world. i mean, i liked all of those things. the thing i loved was mentoring young people, was taking care of young sailors, and helping guide the gorgeous trajectory of their lives. so i said that to secretary gates and he said, you should go into education. and you know, those were the most powerful words for me and you know, we forget this about secretary gates. everyone can remember that he was director of the cia and everyone can remember h

finally, secretary of defense robert gates, under president obama, said that vice president biden wasn every major policy decision. thank you. host: thanks for the call. larry sabato? guest: well, look, number one, as a c-span fan, i am going to defend it. if you watch a lot of c-span, sir, i guarantee you, that before november, c-span will carry everything and cover everything twice, three times, four times. everything can be done by august, so i would not be overly concerned about that. as far as those issues are concerned, you name three issues that do not favor with the large portion of the electorate, do not favor joe biden and would favor donald trump. be sure reason, you can that whether it is on tv ads or indirect mail some other medium, the republicans will stress those issues. activists will lead with materials that they get from republican leaders over public in emails or that they see on republican tv ads. is august. it and, democrats will be responding accordingly, because there will be things you cannot keep a tag on, and they will make their positions clear, too. someth

for that stop gate i have that was signed. if robert criminals. will be traveling to well weeding for the weather to come down to come today we can go depend on the weather here or whether they're going to come here or whether it's always the thing for me so if it's going to be delayed it's going to be done they'd. nothing really works on schedule. time times dire need it's really hard to live it. they always. remind us when the ice starts to reseat and me. you know you could fall through. i lost my daughter my youngest she went to the ice me 212000 i. was 6 years old. just 5 minutes before she was with me and she was down there and gone just in 5 minutes i have lost her. took me a while to heal from that. and when i was going to that process lot of have to do with subsistence be it with food or your sewing skins sure you're making a park or something. you're doing something to keep yourself busy. subsistence is so time consuming that it he'll shoot to. hide or pick up his coffee decaf. if you think. yeah for tomorrow i'm going to put in a french.

it's roger stone, rick gates, paul manafort, robert cohen.hat does that say -- a culture of lawlessness -- >> there was great lawlessness in the obama administration. they spied on our campaign illegally. if you look at all of the things and all of the scandals they had. they had tremendous lawlessness. but i know nothing about -- i was not involved in the project. >> that was our pool reporter there, our colleague geoff bennett in that back and forth with the president there with the president -- he didn't answer his question and went straight to some what aboutism that he thinks matches that. shannon, steve bannon had been working his way back into the good graces of the president and of the west wing that had improved. jason miller, he's very close to him. is this a big shoe that fell on trump world? >> so, i mean, my reporting over the years indicated that steve bannon wasn't someone the president was talking to regularly at all. i don't know when the last time they talked was, but, yeah, he had sort of become persona nongrata in trump's

robert hariri is the founter of [inaudible]. i never thought that i would hear bill gatesk about a vac seen and the fact that there are therapeutics. we just talked about it last week. what is going on with bill gates? is he changing horses here? >> it's encouraging that bill gates has taken it upon himself to recognize that today even though in a perfect world having a vaccine to help control this outbreak and prevent the spread of covid-19 would make everyone's life easier, the reality is people are sick today. we need effective ways to manage these patients. in the last six months we learned quite a bit about how to manage the severe complications of covid-19. and many of those methods of treatment are extensions of how we treat patients with cancer and other serious diseases. what we are beginning to focus on today is as optimistic as we can be about the great work going on, and dr. navarro described the ets to put large numbers of vaccines in the hands of public health officials. a vaccine is not a clinical tool it's a public health tool. when a patient gets admitted

why robert mueller robert mueller there he is again the same guy that was going after trump during the russia gate hoax there he is again and there he is his f.b.i. crissy the victims to try and get information or trying to connect trump to mc i mean they were trying so hard to connect trying to se what is going on here you know what is going on here you know jennifer if you know if the 2 perjury charges really kind of interest me because those are slam dunks you said this one time now you're saying that that's an easy when they don't and easily provable ok because you don't need any witness this is your own words being used against you here again and the last time we talked about it i'm still troubled by the charges themselves because it seems to why go away or just turn away from a mountain of other things as you said in your 1st answer we kind of know a lot of these things here ok and the justice department is focusing on very very specific things is i get the impression is it they they want you they will they want to penalize they they want to. see a conviction here because a conviction is ver

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. >> special counsel robert mueller has obtained another guilty plea this one from rick gates. >> whatport described as trump hell hour. his 2016 campaign chief paul manafort convicted by a jury on eight counts at almost the exact same time that trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, entered a guilty plea to eight counts. >> what does it say about donald trump that we have to take a break from talking about his investigation and rudy's criminal investigation out of sdny to tell you about another friend convicted in court. donald trump's longest serving political counselor, roger stone found guilty today on all seven counts against him. >> judge the people he's surrounding himself with, i agree, bill americans should. and this from yesterday, donald trump attacking joe biden's faith in god. >> he's following the radical left agenda. take away your guns, destroy your second amendment. no religion, no anything. hurt the bible. hurt god. he's against god, he's against guns. he's against energy. our kind of energy. >> hurt the bible, hurt god. as stuart stevens said his money is on god. here

gates schoolwas an all boys school . iq. >> hello. i haven't read your most recent book yet so you may have already answered this question but there's a theorist named robert a lot about self self perception and i think he cited the same story about the guys with the deicing on theirwings . and his idea is that we can deceive ourselves into believing everything's okay when it's not really i was wondering if you think that concept works with your cultural ideas about how people can deceive themselves into taking off and then crashing. >> to apply that to what i'm talking about, maybe part of what's happening in high-powered culture is part of the deception is that the hierarchy will take care of you. the person higher up the chain knows more than you so you don't have to assert yourself in that way whereas the assumption that low-power culture is that being hard in the latter is a more random fact that a fact that speaks to ameaningful difference in ability or judgment . so there's that element, and additional elements of self-deception that goes on in high-powered institutions in the world but that being said it's important to point out that high-powered i