just when i was doing that, of basil came up behind me and put his finger on ryan crocker's photograph and said, forget about the rest in he is the only starker and he makes it to my a-team. when i came back to delhi and decided to check out ryan, i discovered very quickly that he had a long and illustrious career as a americas premier specialist in the middle east. and if you look at the places that he served, it is like a who's who of places of important american interests. kuwait, syria, pakistan and iraq. i finally met him in person before he was going to pakistan. we spend half a day briefing him. everything that happened in that half day, his wit, his security, his reception, his intelligence, but that was in the description that bob had used several you go. but drive-in finished in the last years of the bush administration -- ryan finished in the last years of the bush .dministration appeare he came back to texas and worked as the dean of the bush school. at that point, he was looking forward to a real transition and a life that could be his own. but, fortunately for the united

. >> ryan crocker one of america's heros. thank you very much ambassador. >> thank you geraldo. >> is israel trying to strong the president into attacking iran? who is the man. answers after this. >> way the perpetrators acted and moved i think we they were choosing the specific date for this so-called devastation. i think we have -- this leaves us with no doubt this was preplanned determined, predetermined. >> predetermined. my next guest scott tailor did 8 years as a seal including harry assignments in the mideast. by all accounts they went down fighting. does this sound like the attackers in benghazi was part of a plot not a mob that de test add movie. >> i think it is pretty obvious it was predetermined and preplanned all of the signs point to it. egyptian warnings in the jerusalem post things that happened it is heavy weapons you don't bring heavy weapons to a protest. i think it was absolutely predetermined. >> i had plenty of bullets my way in libya they couldn't hit the side of the barn. this seems pre-meditated. pred

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comported to that description that bob blackwell had used several years ago when he first described ryan crocker to me. ryan finished in the last years of the bush administration as our ambassador to iraq, presided over the transition that was extraordinarily complex and difficult and retired from the foreign service with the highest title of career ambassador. came back to texas and worked as the dean of the bush school. and i think at that point he was looking forward to a real transition and a life that would be his own. but fortunately for the united states, i'm not sure i'll say fortunately for him, the president called again. and in very difficult moments, president obama asked him to come back to national service which, being the patriot that he is, he did. he left the bush school and went back to afghanistan as america's ambassador in a moment when we were beginning yet another transition. and this afternoon we have been very blessed to have him come to carnegie to make this his first stop on his return from afghanistan. and he'll speak to us about what the transition in that country hol

bill: thank you ryan crocker. he's back home in eastern washington.will call on you again in see where we are in a few days, sir. thank you. >> thank you, bill. martha: new questions as to whether this ongoing violence in the middle east should change america's outlook toward that region. former presidential candidate senator john mccain how see here with ambassador stevens, visiting last april in libya, he tells us why the death of four americans, including his friend ambassador stevens, tells us quite a lot. bill: also on your money now we'll take a lock at what the federal reserve is doing now ben bernanke with a plan to stimulate the economy 54 days before the vote says it has nothing to do with politics. what does that say about the state of our economy and its strength or lack there of. >> this is a main street policy because what we are about here is trying to get jobs going, trying to create more employment. we are not promising, you know, a cure to all these ills, what we can do is provideome support. jack, you're a little boring. boring. bor

ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker will talk about afghanistan's future challenges and opportunities. the event is hosted by the carnegie endowment for international peace. watch it live on c-span and c-span.org. >>> live today on c-span2, former defense secretary robert gates and former joint chiefs of staff admirable mike mullen talk about u.s. debt and its impact on national security. the center for strategic and international studies and other debt policy organizations host a constitution. that's at 12:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span2.

and i think there are many many voices right now coming out xx embassadors certainly ambassador ryan crocker the former ambassador of the united states that no one has done who's retired who's now in washington d.c. who a couple of days ago came out and actually cautioned restraint and basically said that this is really these are mob attacks people out of control third parties would definitely try to exploit the situation politically but i think the primary responsibility rests with the people who can stop this hate speech we put this in context just briefly is this just a minority manipulating the masses in. a minority or majority compared to the number of people that we saw take part in opposition movements in the arab spring put it in context in that respect. i think most of the demonstrations we've seen right now most of them were spontaneous with the probably one exception of the attack and the murder of the u.s. and nasser in libya that was done. appeared to be the work of militant groups on the ground ironically i think most of the weapons that those militant groups used in the firefi

e one.s act 1, scen >> ryan crocker said many countries have made big strides ownstablishing their security forces. the 2014 deadline for the u.s. to leave the afghanistan is running closer. u.s. has put them in a good position to run their own country. afghan units are leading in nearly half of the military operations there. 26 people dead after a huge s line fire. nearby homes and ranches were evacuated as a precaution. minutes to put out around the mexican border. >> chicago public school back to workheaded today. the hiatus is over 350,000 students. now more on the contract settlement. gas up the buses. it's back to school in chicago. delegates voted to suspend the started more than a week ago. >> the environment was really calm. it was overwhelming to go back school. >> excitement to go back to class does not surprise me. teachers because we love what we do. >> a judge will hear the city's request to end the strike wednesday. tuesday's vote to suspend a not ratification of contracttive agreement. officials hope that will ahead and theyks warned there are still some details to be worked

let me try to parse it to your audience the karzai government has been described by ambassador ryan crocker and other shows as a nother insurgency i've talked to a number of folks some afghans who feel the karzai government itself is helping to to create the conditions for the uprising because of the corruption the corruption is now so rampant that the afghan people themselves so this is really not about helping the afghan people i wish it was so so today i mentioned this is where we signed with a corrupt government and the afghan people who really i think like you like me want to be free see that they're caught between two very bad choices to have voices and forth across most many of them are choosing the taliban because we've already announced earlier a new spirit of the karzai government all the moment. and tony the ministry of defense the afghan ministry of defense that is actually handing out booklets to try to its forces to try to explain the western mindset it covers everything from talking to women to prang to taking pictures of a country but i mean tony we're in their country shoul

future of afghanistan will been the topic of discussion in northwest washington this afternoon as ryan crocker will speak at the carnegie endowment for international peace at 12:30. it's the first time he has spoken publicly since returning from kabul. he stepped down as ambassador and was replaced by his deputy in may. >> the trial begins four men charged in a deadly and run accident in arlington. an oxon hillyear-old last september as he was walking along route 50 in the early morning. he was pronounced dead at the scene. hicks is charged with felony hit and run. >> mitt romney makes a push to win over hispanic voters will speak to the u.s. chamber of commerce in los angeles and tonight an exclusive interview on telemundo. he was spotted saturday attending his grandson's soccer game in massachusetts. he was supposed to attend a rally sunday in colorado but called that off after a small plane crashed at that airport, killing one person. he did not want to distract from the emergency response. president obama taking steps to fight off republican criticism. today he will launch a new trade enfo

ryan crocker will be the key and speaker at the carnegie endowment for international peace.ive coverage, on c-span. during question time this week, british prime minister david cameron responded to questions on the trade union strikes and the economy, including unemployment numbers that showed jobless figures down by 7,000. the prime minister talked about expanding trade with europe and encouraging chinese investments in the u.k. this is just over 30 minutes. >> chris bryan. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm sure the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to carl whittle of 1st battalion grenadier guards, who died on friday from wounds he sustained in afghanistan in august. these were courageous and

ryan crocker a former ambassador to iran and iraq.hank you for being here. >> i'm glad to be here. martha: hillary clinton said during the arab spring period that we are reminded of the fall of the berlin wall and america had a lot of experience of helping to build democracies in those situations. is that analogy holding up? >> those were pretty exciting days, as you remember at tahir square. the peaceful ab today caution of hosni mubarak and also in tunisia. the arab spring can reap some very bitter fruit as we can see. i am not ruling out democracy in these countries but it is not going to be an easy battle. martha: the next question becomes, if this is as you say, perhaps, and that would be a hopeful way to look at it that there is a road to democracy here, what role county u.s. play and should we be hearing more from the president, from the secretary of state in light of what is going on? [chanting] >> i think it's a great question. i think we have to be as heavily engaged as we can. i hope very much that the tragic murder of my f

now we have remarks from the former ambassador to of kasten, ryan crocker. this is on future challenges and opportunities for afghanistan. >> it was nice to come back to washington after another alteration in diplomatic service. i first encountered ryan almost a decade ago and i don't think he knew it. i had just finished a stint in denny's and was getting ready to return to washington. we decided we would visit afghanistan. we were going to take jobs that involve the work ethic -- connected to of dennis stanford we went to the chancery for two or three days. this was the old u.s. chancery during the wars. one day, during the two days of meetings, i walked to the ambassador's conference room and in that room are a series of photographs going back to the u.s. to -- ambassador. the photographs were put out but not necessarily the names. i tried to look at the gallery of faces and trying to make sense of who i could identify and who could not. bob came up behind me and put his finger on ryan crocker's forehead saying forget about the rest, this is the only star.

ryan crocker, ambassador in baghdad and then in kabul.our ambassador in syria until it was impossible for him to stay there. what marks these diplomats out, singles them out is their courage, their desire to be on the front lines rather than back in washington working the bureaucracy. and their idealistic commitment to represent the president and the united states of america and be the symbols of everything that we hold dear here. and chris was like that. chris when i knew him, we were engaged in an effort to normalize relations with iran and he came to see me, wanted to learn farsi to be the first diplomat on the ground there. he was the first diplomat on the ground in libya when we reopened the embassy under the bush administration. >> we are going to have to leave it there. we'll talk offline and hopefully come back tomorrow. thank you very much, martin indyk. we're out of time. craig melvin has a look with us next. >> hi, andrea. we pick things up where you're leaving them off. the breaking news in libya and the killing of four americ

>> coming up at 12:30 eastern, ryan crocker, a former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, will speak at the carnegie endowment for international peace. his remarks will focus on afghanistan's future challenges and opportunities. will have live coverage on c- span. presidential campaigns this week, the president is in ohio with several campaign events. one of them at 12:25 eastern. you'll be in cincinnati. later he will speak with reporters in columbus at 4:20. want both of those events live on c-span. tomorrow the president travels to new york city. later this week, several battleground states. florida on thursday and virginia and wisconsin on friday. mitt romney is in california today. 3:15 eastern he will address hispanic business leaders at the u.s. chamber of commerce national convention in los angeles. we are planning coverage of his remarks that we will have later today. tomorrow he travels to new york city. wednesday, florida. follow the road to the white house on the c-span networks. tonight at 7:00 we'll hear what the voters in one of th

could the violence being getting started as ryan crocker suggests? france is shutting down 20 of their embay -- embassies with a french magazine published crude cartoons of the prophet muhammad. the french defending the right of the magazine to publish the cartoons. as we've seen in the past cartoons depicting muhammad sparked angry and violent protests. there are new questions what the white house knew in the days leading up to the attacks in benghazi and what they did with that information the. the state department confirming it knew of possible protests in egypt and it passed on intelligence to u.s. personnel working and living there. listen. >> when we had the difficulty there is was actually minimal staff in the building because we were already alerted and we alerted the egyptians as well. bill: what about libya then? the violence, what many describe as a coordinated assault, all hoe though the white house will not call it that. what did they know about libya and why it is being describeds a terrorist attack. that is coming up with kt mcfarland,

he was a typical of those diplomats like ryan crocker or robert ford in damascus who are keen to be outre in the field on the front lines risking their lives for the sake of promoting american interest. it's a terrible thing that's happened here and i really grieve for him and for his family, as well. >> yeah. wife and two children he leaves behind. president obama just spoke. he said there's no justication to this senseless violence but didn't throw libya under the bus, sort to speak. was this the right thing to say? >> look. this was clearly not the intention of the libyan government. many of them work closely with chris and depended on him. it was not in their interest to have him assassinated in this terrible way. and i think that they've been quick to apologize and i would hope that they would work quickly to crack down on and arrest those responsible. by the same token, this was no just mob lynching. you don't go to a demonstration with rpgs so there was something more organized behind this attack i suspect. and it's very important that the libyan government get to the bottom of t

ambassador ryan crocker told me one time in an interview that they are the most historical were the least historical society. and in this case i think there's still certainly every time they have a negotiation including the most recent one in moscow during the whole litany of grievances, so it is always on their mind. whether the u.s. policy makers realize it or not, the are too. the first years after the revolution clearly the hostage issue was for most american policy makers mind. if the iran contra happens that causes the relationship with the next prior risk and we saw it happen to ronald reagan and over a series of instances where they have spurred u.s. efforts to the rapprochement. there's a great example like to give just on this idea of the more things change the more they stay the same. a couple of years ago i was down at the centcom headquarters in tampa talking to general ellen who is now the senior commander and was then the deputy commander of the central command, and we were going over a memo on the different u.s. goals and options for iran. when i read it on a was stunned,

i were leading a delegation to afghanistan and we recounted that story to our great diplomat, ryan crocker, u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and ambassador crocker, when we shared the story with him, reminded us that more u.s. ambassadors have been killed since the vietnam war than generals or admirals. we know that down at the harry s. truman building there is a plaque that list the name of the 231 u.s. diplomats who have been killed since 1780. madam speaker, i have to say that the news that we have of the tragic death of ambassador chris stevens in benghazi, the u.s. consulate in libya, is very sad news for all of us. now the upheaval in the arab world has brought about many great things for the first time in millennia, there have been individuals who have been able to participate in elections. and make decisions. but then we get the sad and tragic news that ambassador stevens and, according to the early reports, two marines, maybe another foreign officer was killed in this tragic attack and i'd like to say that we have spent time there. we were just in libya, mr. price and i, before amba

until recently, the american ambassador in afghanistan, ryan cro crocker, put it differently. >> i think we underestimate at our peril a resilient enemy finding a new mechanism. >> reporter: he could have said the same about the attack on camp bastian which left two marines dead and eight fighter jets destroyed, the most destructive attack of the entire war. it began at 10:00 pm friday when 15 enemy fighters dressed in u.s. army uniforms cut their way through the outer wire and blew a hole through the wall of the heavily fortified base. arm armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and suicide vests, they split into teams. one went from the carrier jet fighters, another for the fueling stations and a third for the helicopters. within 30 minutes, the damage was done. although it would take another two hours before a quick reaction force killed 14 of the attackers and captured one. na tch nato and afghan troops will still work together in headquarters and training and on those special operations, night raids. the bread and butter of afghan and na tchto troops patroli

ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker, will talk about afghanistan's future challenges and opportunities the event is hosted by the carnegie endowment for international peace. watch it live on c-span and c-span.org. >>> the american enterprise institute recently held a conference on federal job training programs. panelists examined the labor market and looked at the impact of the programs in spurring job growth, also suggesting ideas for creating more employment opportunities. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> welcome back for the third and final session of this conference. um, we've got three distinguished experts. let me very briefly introduce them. paul decker is president and ceo of mathematica policy research, a nationally-recognized expert, he is, in the design, implementation and execution and evaluation of education and work force development programs. he's one of the nation's leading experts on employment and training programs targeting displaced -- targeting dislocated workers and other unemployed individuals. he's also the president-elect of the association for public p