and the obama administration coming in. it was seamless, appropriate, may not had fully integrated on every issue but it was absolutely crucial at the time to avoid what likely would have been a depression to restore stability and order and i think our entire country and for that matter the world economy benefited from that i commend you. i think there's a real respect between anyone who has had that sacred responsibility as president of the one president at a time. i think we certainly experienced that with president bush 41 in the clinton administration. that served our country and our democracy well. >> thank you very much. we will now go to questions. raise a hand and a microphone will go to you. >> can you give us a quick discussion of what happened on 2004 and 2012 on presidential planning? start transition planning while the running for reelection? and there's a vulnerable period if the other person were to win. >> that is a great question. the answer is, very little. it is just against the nature of any incumbent adm

up by the obama administration. tended so there was not an abrupt shift in policy. the person whom president obama picked to be his first treasury secretary and therefore the navigator of the course in responding to the financial crisis was tim geithner who had been a democratic treasury appointee earlier in his career. at the time of the financial crisis during the bush administration was the president of the new york fed. so he was part of the triumvirate of hank paulson, ben bernanke and the new york fed president, tim geithner. that triumvirate is the one that really charted out the course , soresponding to the crisis there was an unusual element of continuity in the stewardship of the response to the crisis. it has to be regarded as one of the most effective government responses in the history of economic policymaking. to underscore that, josh, in his typically modest has not stated as starkly as i think it was. i think you made a key point about one president at a time. in this case, with the economic crisis an

once the nixon administration moved to terminate and increasingly partnered its activities within the law enforcement assistance administration, community involvement in federal social programs looked largely relegated to the law-enforcement realm. even within the crime control apparatus only about 2% awarded the irving police department for other community-based programs. the white house and the justice department were far more interested in supporting measures that stimulated the omnipresent control defensible space and new law-enforcement technologies in low-income neighborhoods while using the police productions and anti-doping from the initiatives with the social welfare program. due to its own assumptions about race and its unwillingness to describe the hierarchy that has defined the social political and economic relations of the united states historically the bipartisan consensus did not believe that african-americans were capable of governing themselves. nixon expressed the sentiment overtly and there's never been an adequate black nation the president said and they are the on

and the obama administration coming in. it was seamless, appropriate, may not had fully integrated on every issue but it was absolutely crucial at the time to avoid what likely would have been a depression to restore stability and order and i think our entire country and for that matter the world economy benefited from that i commend you. i think there's a row respect -- real respect between anyone who has had that sacred responsibility as president of the one president at a time. i think we certainly experienced that with president bush 41 in the clinton administration. that served our country and our democracy world -- well. >> thank you very much. we will never to questions. -- now go to questions. raise a hand and a microphone will go to you. >> can you give us a quick discussion of what happened on 2004 and 2012 on presidential planning? start transition planning while the running for reelection? and there's a vulnerable period if the other person were to win. >> that is a great question. the answer is, very little. it

and get the administration to do what they need to do. so the obama administration has taken a lot of well thought and received grief for being above the law. but they're not not really. there above congress. when the courts have spoken the obama administration have complied. they can put it in the court when there's differences in views with american people and administration. >> ministrations never like to give up information. congress is a nuisance that they have to put up with. as is the associated press and all the groups under foia that also want information. >> right but when you have subpoena power, you're the only person in the house that have subpoena power on his own signature. at one point held members in contempt of congress, but the administration had to enforce that. and you just get stymied at that point. >> guest: that was one of the lessons learned both during the bush administration and your tenure when president bush, his people were held in contempt for not delivering witnesses to the judiciary committee and the firing

of the bush administration. the september 11 attacks and the transition out of office of george w. bush changed the tone and action undertaken during the transition period. in 2008 president bush led the most determined transition out of office that we have experienced. he began the transition cycle in 2007 in discussions with his chief of staff, josh bolten who led the effort. uin turnnterne -- closed the circle by habit representatives of the incoming outgoing executives meet well before the election. he brought together representatives of the candidates in the white house in july. almost two months prior to the 2008 party convention. johnson, who led the transition of the executive director for president bush and 2001, he was the office of management and lead the department and agency planning work together information for a new team. he will be on the second panel. equally important in the 2008 transition was interest in making use of those administration preparations by those leading the transition effort fo

the obama administration said the u.s. was likely to lose a court case in an international tribunal over iran's claim to some 400 million in assets that the u.s. froze after the first hostage seizure in iran in the late 1970s. officials said the settlement of that claim the tune of $1.7 billion overall came just as washington was finalizing a separate prisoner swap for the four americans who were set free. >> there was a conscious strategic decision that was made on the part of the obama administration as we were implementing the deal to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon to resolve other longstanding concerns we had with iran. >> now, the state department acknowledges this was not the typical way we do business sending $400 million in hard currency, foreign currency aboard an unmarked cargo plane to be delivered more or less in the dead of night to tehran. they said they were forced to get creative because the u.s. does not have diplomatic relations with iran. critics are saying this amounts to ransom and it has

what else is the obama administration hiding. r shocking turn the obama administration handed over the cash after they fored them to apologize on their knees for saling in thought water. >> a war of words between donald trump and president obama. the president says trump is worst president in history. >> president obama said his objection to donald trump goes well beyond public policy. obama questioned the republican nominee's temper amount and ability to replace him as president. calling him woefully unprepared. >> there has to be a point at which you say somebody who makes those kinds of statements doesn't have the judgment, the temperame temperament, the understanding to occupy the highest position in the world. >> obama went on to question why republicans continue to criticize trump's statements and policies and still support their nominee. trump responded president obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the united states. trump's running mate indiana governor mike pence joined in blaming obama for

even the administration acknowledges some of the money that's been returned to the ayatollah is ending up in the hands of terrorists or fomenting terrorism around the world. they've allowed al qaeda to run free inside the islamic republic of iran. there's no doubt that the money the iranians have their hands on is going to hezbollah and hamas and places all around the world where the iranians are committing acts of terror. >> two quick questions about the election. one is hillary clinton. you had an effort under way to prevent her from getting intelligence briefings based on the e-mail scandal. are you still trying to do that? >> we are. but it's not going to be successful. she's demonstrated she's not capable of securing important american secrets, that we shouldn't provide her anymore until we are convinced she could. our soldiers and airmen deserve that, bret. >> there are many democrats now saying, and some republicans saying that they think the donald trump campaign is coming unhinged and there's disarray inside. are you concerned about it? >> i'll let the trump campaign speak to

you have to fill out the remainder of the administration. ms. kumar: you all had some bumps at the beginning as well. the economic transition, i was -- that was part of the transition that was well formed when you came in. you created the national economic council which continues today. mr. bolten: yes. ms. kumar: i think the president management council was created early too, and the economic program. but there was trouble with appointments. mr. bolten: we did. it would be a just josh, to get your perspective on this. i think that most administrations have had some issues on appointments and are and or confirmations. we certainly had it on the attorney general. on the other hand, as i had noted earlier, and again i give the republican leadership and the senate a lot of credit for this -- we got our cabinet in , the attorney general's office. i believe more properly than any other administration i got in -- in place because we had cooperation from the senate and getting those approved. we got those in place but we also had some other issues, some

." >>> it's against the policy of the united states to pay ransom for hostages, but did the obama administration do that to secure the freedom of four american prisoners in iran in january? a lot of questions today after a wall street report had the timing in january. it coincided with the arrival of a plane loaded with cash of $400 million. the white house is pushing back. >> let me be clear the united states does not pay ransoms. the only people that are making that suggestions are right wing ers in iran and those in america. we said that there would be a lot of in do in do and then those that engage with iran. i recommend that the details that you illicit is a colorful news story, but they don't change the fact. >> since then two more have been arrested in iran and it will put additional administrations at risk. >> to put a price tag on the head of every american traveling abroad. >> they have made every american who knows that they can get a pay off. >> the desalniables are laughab >> james, i thought that the push back was forceful and possibly affective. are we just to believe that this wa

. >> the administration airlifted $400 million in cash to iran. you know, we cannot have four more years accommodating and apologizing to our enemies or aban dong our friends. america needs to be strong for the world to be safe and donald trump will lead point world stage from strength. liz: chief washington course end ijams rosen is in washington with more. reporter: the funds were drawn from european banks and placed on a cargo plane it was the first insmallment of $1.7 billion to ruin. the four prisoners freed. the obama administration says the payment traces back to an arms deal the u.s. signed with iran shortly before the fall of the shah in 1978-1979. u.s. officials say iran's claims with respect to that deal have been winding their way through the international courts at the hague and u.s. stood to lose $10 million. the white house claims it was co-incidental with the release of the hostages. they wore conducted by different teams and technical experts involved in these investigation for many years. paying ransom to kidnappers puts americans

you're continually working on the priorities of the administration. during even when vice president gore was running for president, the clinton administration was working very hard to a cop was all the things that president clinton wanted to a copy. also to the other part of your question, you have a discrete set of people that are working on transition and so it is not an either/or. >> is that an important thing? if you're worried about transitions, he need to have a discrete people -- group of people whose job it is to focus on that. >> if you want to get anything done, he to have discrete people. -- you have to have discrete eople. all generalizations are false including this one. here's another one, the primary reason every government organization, every government in the world does not work to satisfaction is because they don't have, they don't govern with desired outcomes in mind and there's little transparency about how well they are performing relative to the goals they do have. that is the case of the federal government and every country and e

the administration. it wasn't just the state department, it was the white house, the pentagon, others, who have repeatedly insisted there was no relationship between the payment of this money and the release of the hostages. it was obvious to everybody at the time that's what happened. i think it's more obvious now with this admission from the state department. kudos to james rosen for continuing to ask these questions. you wonder if the administration would ever admit this if not for reporters like james. >> they continue to say there were different, separate tracks. yes, the exchange may have happened at the same time, but connected to different payments and grievances that were due. can they maintain that or does it get lost in the conversation? >> of course it gets lost in the conversation, all of this stuff does. they may have been separate tracks because there was 40 years of pent up disagreement and lack of conversation that had to be worked out. this plus growing concerns that this administration

it has been the policy of this administration, the policy of previous administration. there are those because of the value that we place on human life. it was the same conclusion really -- reached by democratic and others. that is why the united states won't pay ransom, even for americans unjustly detained overseas. we do have a quite strong record of securing the release. just iran but other places around the world. it's a process the administration has overhauled to make it more effective. the same for turn -- safe return of u.s. citizens is something the president has made a priority and we made significant progress. >> between now and election day, what does he hope to accomplish? what alternatives does he have? fact that congress hasn't an done a lot during the eight months of the year, they will get a lot done over the next 2.5 months or so. in particular, it has been disappointing that while congress is in the midst of a seven-week break, there are americans in some communities dealing with the zika virus being actively spread in the communities. congress skipped

emerging in the prior administration. and i think carter doesn't necessarily -- people don't necessarily discuss carter in that way. so, you know, after johnson, the nixon and ford administrations, we don't get this kind of rhetoric of community involvement that i mentioned in the epilogue and kind of a focus on addressing urban problems such as employment, education, etc. but what carter ends up doing, and this is reflective of where kind of federal priorities were and where funding had been allocated by the time he took office, youth employment programs during his administration for black youth take the form of installing security cameras, barbed wires, bars on the windows, extra locks within housing projects. so in this sense, you know, during the carter administration his major kind of youth employment program forces african-american youth to be calm, complacent to a degree in the surveillance and criminalization of their own communities. so that's kind of a metaphor for the larger aspects and limitations of domestic p

the reason for that is the administration, the obama administration kept in place tough financial implications against iran. >> reporter: many republicans say this is the classic case of ransom, paul ryan released a statement earlier today reading if true, this report confirms our long-standing suspicion that the administration paid a ransom in exchange for americans unjustly detained in iran, goes on to say the public deserves an explanation of the length this administration went to in order to accommodate the world leading state sponsor of terrorism. donald trump weighed in on twitter calling it a, quote, scandal and his campaign chair this afternoon said you better bet this is something trump will touch on in the days to come. trish: the obama administration puts $400 million in foreign currency, right onto an unmarked cargo plane, fly the plane to tehran just as american hostages are released, this is all just coincidence? the optics do not look good. former cia agent mike baker, famed investigative reporter judith miller and wall street journal foreign affairs correspondent jay solomon, t

the administration's lies about the 2012 benghazi attack continue to this day.would have humiliated a less coarsened group of government leaders and policy makers with the president not on blaming an online video two weeks after that terrorist attack. but doing so at the united nations. bald faced lying together general assembly. >> the crude and disgusting video sparked outrange throughout the muslim world. there is no video that justifies the attack on an embassy. lou: no, there isn't. and there is no justification for a president who would up season wait, and lie. and utter disrespect for the american people as the president and his advisors lied, lied and lied some more in order to pass the president's signature law obamacare. >> i intend to keep this promise. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. if you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. lou: mr. obama repeated that lie for four years. his legacy is one of shame. mr. obama seeming reply willing to lie to the american people and encouraged membe

. >> i think this is the single biggest scandal of the obama administration. and when the history books are written about this in 20 or 30 or 40 years and we see these declassified files and we learn what was in the osama bin laden document cash, people will be appalled at what was withheld and what the american people didn't know as they had to make important decisions about the country. >> earlier, james wooldsy slammed those who skewed the intelligence on isis! if you're in the intelligence businesses and cooking the books, you're worse than worthless. you are helping move government in a direction that is in tune with as they put it, the narrative and making the facts fit the narrative, rather than trying to understand the facts and help the government devise a policy to deal with the real factual situation. >> okay, fallout from this and what do you think of james' comments? he said history books will be written about this. no. because this is an issue that angers conservatives and not liberals. if this were a conservative government, then history books wi

i think the new administration is inheriting a much more robust set of relationships with across the region, and there's a real regional demand signal for maintaining those relationships and framework are i think it will probably carry forward. i think the one real, as already been mentioned from the wonderful affiliates on the economic side because we have made a lot of real gains on the secure decide, on the economic side we negotiated this very complex and landmark agreement in the tpp but it's now quite vulnerable and so we will have to wait and see whether the u.s. can pass it. >> angela with bloomberg. one thing i didn't hear you mention is cybersecurity, clear that something of interest with some of the bilateral relationships. there's a group of senators that are pressuring obama to try to make cybercrime's a priority with the g20 discussions. we are teaching that will play both in the g20 summit broadly as well as in the bilateral, special with china and russia? >> our cyber expert isn't jim lewis. the four of us sort of semi-managed to make the iphone's work. but politicall

the administration has done a study of job licensing. to get a new job. and it seems regulations written by washington are just fine, but if you write a regulation in springfield or albany, it's terrible for growth. it seems like these regulators just like their own regulations. charles: the obama administration has added over 2 million new regulations. young people just aren't motivated base think the hurdles are too high. if you do make it big were you are one of the evil rich people. we put up so many roadblocks, ways the season season tough to try and do well? >> you are hitting on an important point. for folks coming out of business school that studies entrepreneurship. you have got to incentivize them and motivate them and run with it rather than say we are going to tax you this much more and regulate you. you walk through some of the offices in the investment banking world. the compliance departments are three floors. and the producers and the people trying to generate income are one floor. so that i think since i have been on wal

following a series of explosive reports from "the wall street journal," the obama administration this month has sought to rebut charges that it paid ransom for five americans released from iranian captivity back in january. even as senior u.s. officials admit they withheld the $400 million until they received word that the hostages were being set free. a linkage of the prisoner release to the payments that the state department had previously denied. the obama administration confirmed on january 19th, a treasury department account, known as the judgment fund, was used to send iran an additional 13 payments, each for $99,999,999.99, or roughly $100 million to satisfy the interest that washington negotiated with iran. the total pay out of $1.7 billion was lower than the judgment taxpayers might have been forced to pay if a judgment hadprevailed. the state department refused to provide additional information about why hard foreign currency was used for the initial payment or why there was a 14th payment in the amount of $10.4 million. >> we have a practice of not commenting publicly on tr

the george w. bush administration were persuaded by both of these claims. the claims of the democratic capitalism being destinedemocrao proliferate around the world and claim that the supremacy had endowethey supremacy hadendoweda capacity now to bring about the ideological change. so those were the overarching notions that led the administration to say they pose a danger. it didn't pose a danger because iraq appeared to be a source of enormous opportunity to bring history to its intended destination. >> one of the things that continues to surprise me is how the american public seems to be a sleep to the fact that we are making such a major investment in escalation now. and in iraq as well as afghanistan and syria. are we putting too much emphasis on isis and in your estimation does it represent a threat to the united states? >> what is isis? at this point it is around 20,000 fighters that are vile and vicious. they don't have an air force, they don't have weapons of mass destruction, they don't have any significant resource base to draw. they don't have any

and the obama administration continuing to stonecall on this. people are wondering, you're on the cotton family farm in arkansas. i must say it looks like a very nice place to be on this sunday. president obama didn't keep it a secret. he announced last january we were giving this money to iran. let's look back at what he said. >> iran and united states are now settled a long-standing iranian government claim against the united states government. iran will be returned its own fus, interest, but much less than the amount iran sought. >> now, i understand the point you made in your first answer. we're talking about $400 million in cash, ahn unmarked plane, we're talking about the hostages waiting on the tarmac until the plane landed, but you certainly would agree that the administration did not keep this payment, maybe the nature of it, but they didn't keep the payment secret. >> well, they didn't keep the nature of it. straight cash in 500 euro notes, a note notoriously used to terrorism around the world so much so that the european union is takin

following a series of explosive reports from "the wall street journal," the obama administration this month has sought to rebut charges that it paid ransom for five americans released from iranian captivity back in january. even as senior u.s. officials admit they withheld the $400 million until they received word that the hostages were being set free. a linkage of the prisoner release to the payments that the state department had previously denied. the obama administration confirmed on january 19th, a treasury department account, known as the judgment fund, was used to send iran an additional 13 payments, each for $99,999,999.99, or roughly $100 million to satisfy the interest that washington negotiated with iran. the total pay out of $1.7 billion was lower than the judgment taxpayers might have been forced to pay if a judgment had prevailed. the state department refused to provide additional information about why hard foreign currency was used for the initial payment or why there was a 14th payment in the amount of $10.4 million. >> we have a practice of not commenting publicly on t

the gen. services administration did we know how hard your job is. we get to do it for the federal government to the other one a come over and talk shop were always here for you. ladies and gentlemen, naomi kelly. >>[applause] >> good morning. i was thinking about all the numbers of how much office space you manage and how much procurement you have and its enormous. i was very proud of our numbers we manage the city of san francisco about 4,000,000 ft.2 of office space and $1 billion in procurement and we manage 25 year-tenure 25 million capital plan. and compared to those numbers that's small. compared to the gsa. but, it's really great to be here today because of the chair partnership that will have with each other in sharing best practices, learning new innovative procurement policies, it policies. it will be very helpful in that it's helping us share relevant data, figuring out what the data we have with the city but good data the government has put together super public is that we can share with each other so we can be much more innovative. there

two rivals who come together in the same administration. it's an opportunity to get a feel for what was going on in washington d.c., a place that i work certainly don't have the insight behind the curtains as to what goes on behind the curtains. another national security book i just read this summer, michael hayden, former national security director talking about the link of space and terrorism and this was called playing to the edge. it was about his time in the cia. again, same kind of venue. mostly history, sometimes current things,. i read the story of john mcclay, the individuals who president lincoln had met in illinois. they came with him and it's the story about their lives is to young men working in the lincoln administration during the civil war and what happened in their lives "after words". again, i like to read history, less interested in the battlefield but much more interested in the people that serve in that capacity. probably my favorite book of the summer has been hamilton. i've decided that he's a great author and i'm goin

and last week when we were trying to get the export administration act through the congress, necessary legislation, my administration went to capitol hill and tried to convince the house and the senate that we should have an amendment on that legislation, which would take strong and effective action against those who participate or cooperate with the arab boycott. one other point. because the congress failed to act, i am going to announce tomorrow that the department of commerce will disclose those companies that have participated in the arab boycott. this is something that we can do. the congress failed to do it, and we intend to do it. ms. frederick: mr. trewhitt, a very brief question for president ford. mr. trewhitt: mr. president, if you get the accounting of missing in action you want from north vietnam or from vietnam, i'm sorry, now would you then be prepared to reopen negotiations for restoration of relations with that country? mr. ford: let me restate uh our policy. as long as vietnam, north vietnam, does not give us a full and complete accounting of our missing in action, i

even the administration acknowledges some of the money that's been returned to the ayatollah is ending up in the hands of terrorists or fomenting terrorism around the world. they've allowed al qaeda to run free inside the islamic republic of iran. there's no doubt that the money the iranians have their hands on is going to hezbollah and hamas and places all around the world where the iranians are committing acts of terror. >> two quick questions about the election. one is hillary clinton. you had an effort under way to prevent her from getting intelligence briefings based on the e-mail scandal. are you still trying to do that? >> we are. but it's not going to be successful. she's demonstrated she's not capable of securing important american secrets, that we shouldn't provide her anymore until we are convinced she could. our soldiers and airmen deserve that, bret. >> there are many democrats now saying, and some republicans saying that they think the donald trump campaign is coming unhinged and there's disarray inside. are you concerned about it? >> i'll let the trump campaign speak to

that is the approach the administration has taken. at has led to significant investments in border security. there are more resources in terms of equipment and technology and personnel on the border, then any other time in the history.it is a testament to the president making that a priority. the unfortunate fact is there would be even more, resources securing the border if republicans and in the house of representatives have not blocked immigration reform and perpetuated a system that even senator rubio describes as the closest thing we have to amnesty. that is on the conscience and the hands on republicans who have failed to deal with the situation. president obama has taken on this challenge with a lot of determination, a sense of seriousness, and ensuring that the policies we have on the books, and the policies we have implemented are both consistent 's status as an nation of laws and immigrants. >> a couple more. secretary kerry was asked, about comments about coverage as it relates to terrorism. he said to remember no country is

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he hammered the administration for paying back in january $400 million in cash to iran. e money, you should know, was part of an arms deal with the shah, an incompleted arms deal however, the allegation is it became part of a cash for captives deal with the republic. donald trump hit it hard today and president obama hit back. >> we announced these payments in january, many months ago. it wasn't a secret. we announced them to all of you. josh did a briefing on them. this wasn't some nefarious deal, and at the time we explained that iran had pressed a claim before an international tribunal about them recovering money of theirs that we had frozen that as a consequence of its working its way through the international tribunal it was the assessment of our lawyers that there was significant litigation at risk that we could end up costing ourselves billions of dollars and it was their advice and suggestion that we settle. and that's what these payments represent. and it wasn't a secret. we -- we were completely open with everybody about it and it's interesting to me how suddenl

not just lying, they are also sneaky, the most transparent administration is the least transparent administrationhistory. this was a very important deal to the world, and they lied about it. and we got kerry bowing down to iran. >> you were the first to say, and when you said it, it clicked. you can't talk about paul ryan anymore. paul ryan is annoying as hell, as is lindsey graham and john mccain. i can say it, you can say it. it's very frustrating. he's got to focus on two people, hillary and obama. >> and then he should let his surrogates, all those like me who support him -- >> people like me. >> christie, newt gingrich, mike huckabee, they do a real good job defending him. and we can defend him against people coming against him on this side and that side. he should focus on exactly the things you're talking about, why this country can't take four years of hillary clinton. now, if cruz is thinking about being president in 2020, he would become president after hillary clinton put two or three justices on the supreme court that would make his presidency useless. they would find everything he di

first, they demanded the administration transfer funds intended to combat the ebola virus. and use it instead for zika. the administration complied. $589 million was redirected. in essence, robbing peter to pay paul. resources went to the center for disease control who will obligate all of the remaining funds by the end of september. resources went to the nih and biomedical advanced research and development. both will exhaust almost all of their funds for vaccines by the end of august. because of continued inaction by the republicans, they will force the department of health and human services to take money from the nih, biomedical research. we know what that means. some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will stand up and talk about how we need to spend money for biomedical research, but nih will have to shift the money in order to do with zika. and if they don't, vaccine development will be stopped dead in its tracks. they're forcing them to take money from other health programs to continue to pay for diagnostic so we know the scope of the zika outbreak. the

people should be upset about the way the obama administration is handling iran. e fact is iran has taken more hostages. the u.s. has gotten hosed all around and the question is whether the american voter will care. charles: gina, i know this sprung up on you. almost everyone believed it was ransom to begin with. but now that there is more evidence of this, the administration will deny this. but if you were willing to pay $100 million per hostage, why does that not put a target on somebody else's back. >> it absolutely does. if you look at gitmo news. how many of our people put their lives in harm's way for the people that obama wants to turn free. how many times is this administration going to run over the lives of americans before they. charles: the big news, the trump campaign shakeup. what do you make of it? >> hopefully for trump the third time is the charm. you can't win an election by running against someone else. you have got to run on what you stand for. if you believe in that you should let trump be trump and this is probably a reasonable strategy. trump

in a sense strategic cooperation begin integrating the administration. the first two years for him on maybe the lowest point i just israeli relationship from the time of israel's founding. it was because the were a series of surprises and because of the siege of beirut. but reagan comes back to his instincts and also george schultz who become secretary state. people think of alexander haig, but he was out. schultz comes in. accommodation of schultz and reagan in the aftermath of our embassy being go up in april of 1983 and then the marine merits being blown up in october of 1983. they come back to what they think is fundamentally who can we count on and who is a threat to us. what emerges from that, in fact, is an architecture for cooperation, militarily and intelligence wise and even economically. and that builds a set of personal relationships. institutions are made up of people. overtime the reason it exists this was because from that time on, surface to surface relationships have been developed or intelligence community to intelligence community relat

this individual soul the administration analysis in the world of radical islam. there are the people like al qaeda will actually kill you" you up to. only the brotherhood can save us from al qaeda. they both wants to destroy and we are helping people because we think they are going to kill us later? so the worldview giving power to the group that is as extreme, they just have a different methodology. but we could talk for hours. >> wait for the microphone. >> if you search intranet the article number one and number two and also i listed all the violations and recommendations how to win, one of which is in the last resort, not the first and other things i'd recommend it. my question is about saudi arabia. they were helping at the beginning. they fund all of this extremism all over the place. we started in yemen killing thousands of innocent. >> it all comes from saudi arabia and there are muslim countries that you've mentioned, but -- >> question? how do you address those issues? >> in the book i deal explicitly with the most important year in the birth of modern

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the administration. n't just the state department, it was the white house, the pentagon, others, who have repeatedly insisted there was no relationship between the payment of this money and the release of the hostages. it was obvious to everybody at the time that's what happened. i think it's more obvious now with this admission from the state department. kudos to james rosen for continuing to ask these questions. you wonder if the administration would ever admit this if not for reporters like james. >> they continue to say there were different, separate tracks. yes, the exchange may have happened at the same time, but connected to different payments and grievances that were due. can they maintain that or does it get lost in the conversation? >> of course it gets lost in the conversation, all of this stuff does. they may have been separate tracks because there was 40 years of pent up disagreement and lack of conversation that had to be worked out. this plus growing concerns that this administration maybe

this is one of the problems i have with both this administration and frankly the bush administration. no one actually tried anybody through the process of holding these people through all that money. >> tony, i must change course for a second. >> sure. >> we have reports that russia has started air strikes against syria using iranian air bases, or an iranian air base. >> right. >> have we been run out of the middle east completely? >> we have. right here on this show, and i think with you on your show we talked about the fact that we at the london center have predicted the rise of what we call the damascus pact. syria, iran, russia and some of the elements therein becoming essentially the modern day warsaw pact of the cold war. and, yeah, stew, they're working on running us out of the middle ooe east. and this administration is letting it happen. iranians are not only after the space, they're going into yemen, they're going into other areas traditionally not influenced by their version oflt islamic faith. and what we see here is a major expansion of iranian influence, which nothing --

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sense, the strategic cooperation began in the reagan administration. the first few years were maybe the lowest point of the u.s. israeli relationship, from the time of israel's founding, and it was because there were a series of surprises and it was because of the siege of beirut. reagan comes back to his instincts and also george schultz becomes secretary of state. of schultz and of ourin the aftermath in 1983being blown up and the marine barracks being blown up in october of 1983. they come back to what they think is fundamentally, who can we count on and who is a threat? what emerges from that is an architecture for cooperation, militarily and intelligence wise. builds a set of personal relationships, institutions are made of people and overtime, the reason it exists this way is because from that time on, service to service relationships have been developed. looking at who are particular threats and problems, and they see who the counterparts are and who can help deal with that, they create a kind of nexus and it lives from one administration to the

wanted the senate to hold hands on what was in the pentagon papers including the fact that the johnson administration have told epic lies about the war and he was basically told were not getting anywhere near as this. we could go on for another half hour about whistleblowers inside government systems and your experiences would be interesting to hear about. my impression is if government bureaucracies in general are able to manage internal assent. we would be out of business. it makes it very difficult. let me just conclude by asking you to join me and thinking this great group -- thinking this great group. during the most recent term they made it easier for landowners to challenge decisions by federal regulators under the clean water act. a minnesota company seeking to operate a mining operation can immediately file a lawsuit against the u.s. army corps of engineers over the agency's determinations over the waters of the united states. they did not need to go to a potentially long permitting process before it can bring the case to court. here is the -- here is the oral argument from this past march.

the administration says it's not random. ecretary john kerry says these were separate tracks, this was iran's money that we owed back to them. here is what he said. >> the u.s. and iran are now settling a longstanding iranian government claim against the united states government. and iran will be returned its own funds, including appropriate interest, but much less than the amount that iran sought. >> so he was quoting back to the president what he said about the deal when it got done. he was referring to the '79 overthrow there. he said this money was owed to iran, we simply paid it back, it wasn't a ransom. >> yeah, of course, here's the problem with that. this whole two-track theory, and that's what the department of state said from the outset, we're doing this on two separate tracks, is obviously nonsense, because what happened? there was no actual deal signed but when the arrangements were met with iran and we cut this deal, the hostages were released. now we know, and nobody knew this before, the money was actually flow