comics are well established in vietnam as leisure reading for kids.actoring in pirated editions, some 18 million comics are produced here each year. 90% of those are translations of foreign titles with japanese manga. a particular favorite. but recently these trends have begun to shift. bookstores now carry graphic novels by local artists. and most buyers are from the 9x generation. >> one of the best local manga draws on historical themes. few home grown comics tend to make it into print, so readers like me are always on the lookout for new titles. >> holy dra u gone imper tor, a series set in vietnam is popular with readers in it their teens and 20s. this historical epic is based on vietnam's triumph against the mongolian invasion. but it's not all about war. readers also learn about the everyday life of the common people. their work has one attention for its strong vietnamese identity with little influence from foreign manga. it's currently on its third volume. the artist behind holy dra gone imper tor is this 30-year-old. he often walks the street

why were we in vietnam? folly. it is a history of six episodes in western civilization where leaders led their nation into disaster. and a warning against misrule. >> thank you. >> well, it's an old book but i think ill it still has current si, emily post on etiquette. [applause] [laughter] >> i just want to say real quick, we know him as an author but in austin, texas, he is greatly respected for putting a statue or ensuring a statue was in downtown austin of willie nelson, and that's a contribution. i want to say thank you for being so patient. it's been a great panel and thank you for being here. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, please take all of our monthings with belongings with you because we're going to clean the room.

i wrote this to honor the marines that i served with in vietnam. with their dedication dedication, courage of the sacrifices they made in a war that if you supported. in vietnam serving with honor and did everything their country asked and more. i also wanted to describe realistic picture of a you want infantryman in combat, seeking the elusive than lethal enemy never knowing if someone is enemy were friendly. a war without the front line. constantly cold and wet and hungry and tired. resupply would never arrive on time we would have to ration our food and ammunition. we can never he dup the meals and never had dry socks. every day was the same. up at the crack of dawn brought trudge bois 4 miles with 85 counts of key here on our back set up an ambush can stay at half the night and firefights in between. that was the life of their riflemen in combat one of those was a corporal from the third platoon. live with like to read that passage about him. >> a shot rang out. seeking cover. then five or six enemies open up on the far side. a hail of bullets

vietnam vets said no one's ever said that to me before. oh, jeez, you know? i can understand not supporting the war, the vietnam war was what it is, the iraq war is what it is. so i i can understand people had that sensation, but to go for 50 years and people not even recognize that you were willing to give up your life, you went over and did this, now it's 2000 and whatever and i'm the first person to say that to a dozen people. i think the other end of this is to go back to one of those dating classes. it was a really good one where you work on those inner games. i remember this one scene during one of these exercises there was this big guy, masculine guy, and we're doing this, like, internal meditation exercise and this really big guy, masculine guy, he had this, like, breakthrough, right? he just realized something about himself, something about life, and he starts crying, right? he's having just one of those cathartic cries, that full-body cry. he just realized something about his life, and he's having this perfect breakthrough. and right in the middle o

on the vietnam vet i was telling michael that things are worse for him then they were for the vietnamvet. worse for michael than the vietnam vet. better than someone who gives a dashmac's banana someone is his passion, shaking hands is so, so -- each scratched his chin. michael took a a drag and let it out, passive. people are so, so passive said the vietnam vet. but that is how it goes. so this is the gap that i found this book so effectively a bridge. a way to help civilians better appreciate soldiers. we want to civilian -- civilian -- soldiers i'm not so sure that's the right thing to do. i also realize something i don't think i want to know more about veterans to make them feel better, i don't feel guilty and that way. i want to know more about veterans and everybody to know more about them because i think they have a great deal to teach us about the sense of purpose, about the possibility of living and leading us significant part of life by dedicating themselves larger, about duty. and about a lot of the things that michael talks about in the book. he makes this bridge by an awa

the vietnam war was what it is. the iraq war is what it is. i can understand people had that sensation but to go 50 years and people not recognize you are willing to give up your life and you went over and did this and i am the first person to say this? i think the other end of this to go back to one of those dating classes, i went back to one of them and this was an inner game one. a really good one. i remember this one scene one time during one of these exercises there was this big, masculine guy who had a breakthrough. he just realized something about himself, something about life and he is having a big breakthrough. he is crying. having a cathartic cry. he realized something about his life and is having a perfect breakthrough. right in the middle of the crying, cathartic moment, one of the other guys walks up to him and is like awesome breakthrough, high five. he is right in the middle of this cathartic full buddy cry and the guy is like high five, dude. i feel like vets coming back from war are in that zone and someone coming up to you fe

he was captured in vietnam. spent six horrible years as a p.o.w. say what you will about senator blumenthal. he spent six years in the marine corps, the reserves, serving in the united states, and what they are pointing out, the president got draft deferments. he never served. what they are saying, mr. president, you should be more sensitive going after military vets like senator blumenthal, senator mccain since you didn't serve yourself in the military. you've heard that argument. i just want you to respond. >> my dad was in world war ii, the battle of the bulge. my wife's dad in world war ii and the korean war. i have nothing but the most respect for anybody that ever wears the uniform, bears the battle. i have no criticism. >> well, senator, there's a lot more we could discuss. it's a busy news day. i'm grateful to you for joining us. senator john barrasso, republican of wyoming. >>> coming up, president trump reaching across the aisle and inviting democratuc and republican senators for lunch. among the democratic senators, jon tester. once he e

arnold foss as a marine corps infantry patrol commander in vietnam where he received the bronze star medal with combat and purple heart. he later served as the director of the reserve during 9/11 commanding general of the marine corps mobilization command and commanding general retiring with a rank of major general. arnold worked for the united states senator sam nunn of georgia as his director of national security affairs then as the staff director of the senate armed services committee. later as the executive vice president he was responsible for corporate business development and was the deputy of the federal business segment. arnold has chaired on numerous commissions on national security, the guard and reserve and the department of defense reforms. recently he competed a two-year stint as the chair of the national defense industrial association. he chairs the reserve force policy board and service on the defense business board which focuses on bringing world-class business practices to the pentagon. when he's not writing a book, he is the ceo of the group specializing in federal

it's the most comprehensive system they will use until well into the vietnam war. the reason i think there's this moment in world war ii is because the u.s. military invested so heavily in world war i treatments they have the best doctors in the united states on the western front. they are treating soldiers. there has been money poured into these field hospitals and they are doing everything they can. yet after the war there is still this very large, and the population grows of individual who return who claim to be shell shocked and become permanent s disabled. so i think for the u.s. military there's always most this feeling that well, we tried treatment and it didn't work, therefore shell shock must be caused by something else. if we try treatment and it doesn't work it must be because it is hby the time we get to world war ii they do not include psychologists or psychiatrists in the military units as they had in world war i. they invest very heavily in screening. the idea is we have already screened out all of those people who would suffer from shell shock, so i

to vietnam vets returning, there is an explosion of use of marijuana? >> the explosion of marijuana use is tied to the late 1960's and early 1970's. the number of people using it you have significant .pplications if you imagine a situation in marijuana use specifically to marginalized citizens -- i mentioned the jazz musician, or hippies who are protesting in california. you can imagine in which the policy might not be as sympathetic to making sure those people were incorporated into modest society. but as more middle-class young people started to use drugs, it farme a greater concern, as as a punitive aspect of drug policy, to figure out how people could not only the rehabilitated, but ensure that they were not locked up for extended periods of time. >> is more demand you have supply issues. >> one of the things that is challenging about marijuana restrictions is it is relatively easy to grow. it grows everywhere. people who are really thoughtful about figuring out how to constraints i really concerned that a policy that focus too much on it was not go

>> you just gave a history of the vietnam war in five minutes which is quite an accomplishing. >> it'sonly because it happened over and over and over again. the field that i love his american intelligence. it touches diplomacy and attach as national security and we are not very good at it. we only started out in 1947 just under 70 years ago. the russians have been added and the british have been added since queen elizabeth i and the british have been added since sun tzu wrote -- even more succinctly than the colonels summed up the vietnam war. three words, know your enemy. in order to know your enemy you have to talk to him and in order to talk to your enemy you need spies. you need what they call human intelligence. you need somebody who speaks the language of your enemy which might be arab back. it might keep posh to come it might be chinese. .. because fear is not a good starting point to do rigorous strategic analysis of where you stand in the world. if this president succeeds at what he seems to be setting out to do which is to tear down the council, we are going to be acting late

there is a conversatio conversaa book about a vietnam vet.if someone gives about the war than to shake hands with someone who could give a shit less, so fucking, he scratched his chin and let it out. people are so passive, but that's how it goes. so this is the gap i found this book so effectively bridge in the way to help civilians better appreciate soldiers. we want to civilianize soldiers and i don't know that that is the right thing to do and the book made me think about that. i don't want to know more about veterans to make them feel better, i don't feel guilty in that way. they have a great deal to teach about the sense of purpose and the life of dedicating one's sense to a cause larger than oneself without duty and about a lot of things that michael talkl talks about in his book and he makes this bridge in a way that is unusual and unique in a variety of ways it's a wonderful observation and close through the humor in the book. i want to touch on a couple of the passages he laments feeling aimless, hopeless, just less all-around in the

vietnam comes to mind. after china and japan, vietnam is probably next. with the u.s., it represents 15% of the economy, driven by exports like furniture, bedding. the announce exports to the u.s. have been surging, more than doubling since 2010. many chinese factories moved to vietnam because of lower wages, lower costs. be it has been counting on the -- to cement and formalized vietnam has been counting on the tpp to cement and formalize its trade relations with the u.s., but that is not to be, at least in its current form. rishaad: thank you for that. that is haslinda amin. japan on itsific, lunch break, there we have it at the moment, a sea of green, that reflation trade back again, rumors about the demise of such a trade a little exaggerated here. .he global rally being extended details on strength and what is going on in the u.s., also janet yellen speaking this week, so eyes on that. it is all down to that push higher. for a third week, we were in the doldrums for much of it. trump'sdown to donald promise of "phenomenal" tax plans, and he would ann

sharyl: vatan's job was to review medical files of vietnam vets to see if they're eligible for payments for injuries from agent orange. what made you think that something wasn't right? david vatan: i noticed that some of my co-workers are reviewing claim folders a lot faster than i did. sharyl: the faster the analysts worked, the more money qtc made. how many files do you think could reasonably be reviewed in a day? david vatan: five or six based on my observation. sharyl: but some people were doing 50? david vatan: 50 and 60. sharyl: kennedy is going against the grain of the government and medical establishment, which have long insisted there's no scientific reason to be concerned about vaccine side effects. he says the trump transition team contacted him with the idea of forming and independent scientificom safety. robert kennedy: he said he knew many people who had, who thought and who believed their children had been injured by vaccines, and he wanted to make sure we had the safest vaccines. sharyl: i spoke with robert de niro who has a teenaged son with a neurodevelopmental disorde

at the end of the war, jonathan trid escaped vietnam on a makeshift raft with his family.aster's degree in education, he became the principal of this school, lee senior high, the most ethnically diverse school in the city. what percentage of your student body english is not the first language? >> i would say about 80% of them. >> do those kids get sent here specifically, or is it just reflective of the community? >> oh, no, no, it's reflective of the community. by chance. >> 80%. >> in the city of houston and the surround suburban area it's very well integrated. >> why? how did that happen? >> i think one of the main reasons is the strong economic base here. it's because of the ability for you to get a job and make a decent wage. it allowed for immigrants, families to come over and build a nest egg, to own their own home or go to a better neighborhood. it has to be a strong economically viable base for them to quickly overcome that portto make a life for themselves. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> all right, repeat after me -- positive affirmations -- today's a beauti

and to cater also to the beautiful story of growth in vietnam.iger is one we call an international brand. so next to heineken, it is a brand very come from entry to heineken. or red have tecate stripe or other brands that are able to travel. making travel -- tiger travel more internationally and we are confident that this could be a great success. guy: i want to talk about what the analysts are saying about your business right now. at the moment you have 18 buys on the stock, 12 holds, and two sells. i want to talk about one of those lies. liberty is learnt that one of the brokers with a buy rating on your stock have clients telling him that the stock is not investable. because what is happening between the u.s. and mexico. sense, what clarity can you provide on what that relationship is going to look like and how you think it is going to impact some of your key brands there? guest: i wish i could provide clarity because what businesses like glass is volatility and uncertainty. what i can tell you is that our beautiful brands are working well on

>> we didn't -- we are going to go back to vietnam. what was the president's record in vietnam. that started to fly back and forth, too. howie: do you think this is overplay or under play by the president? >> the problem is the president says this stuff then it's news. >> during the press briefing there were a number of questions for six minute about what demoralizing meant. there was one question in that briefing about earlier in the day the u.s. commander in afghanistan asked for thousands of troops to be deployed. they got one question and it wasn't answered. >> it's a supreme court nomination at stake. so one of those who interviewed blumenthal was chris cuomo on the cnn morning show. that prompted this tweet from the president of the united states. he never asked about his long-term lie about service in vote a number of. fake news. kokomo * reacted in real-time. -- cuomo reacted with this. >> the first point i made in the interview, the president with all due respect is once again off on the facts. >> he was right to say he did bring this up. i think in general. howie: the

talk about blood on the ground and with lyndon johnson sin did in vietnam -- johnson did in vietnam,lenty of blood is spelt. it was spilled in the calls and purpose of what? his statement about the killing fields is not that far off. this is a man that is waking up america's soul. donald trump is what we finally need in the white house. this is a man that is waking up the soul and spirit. it is waking us up. he is the catalyst of truth right now, whether we like it or not. i happen to like it at my age at 86 years old. thank you so much for your time, c-span. a little bit more than 10 minutes left before we start to bring up our guests to talk about the week ahead and other issues. here's a headline in the washington times. dianne feinstein was on fox news sunday and talked a little bit about the president's executive actions. >> this is not one thing. this is what they call shock and all -- awe. and they have every right for some want to go to court to see if the shock and awe is constitutional. he is not a dictator. he is the chief executive of our country. there is a tension betwe

and not the vietnam era. he apologized for that at the time. that's kind of taking an old element against richard blumenthal and also saying that he misrepresented what neil gorsuch said and yet those working with neil gorsuch on behalf of the trump administration affirm that he did, in fact, talk about being concerned about the president's comments. so president trump again using the tactics from the campaign season that have carried into his administration where he punches back, and he will sometimes ignore certain facts to focus on other distracting facts like bringing up the issue of vietnam war service for richard blumenthal that's not pertinent to what's going on now. those who worked with the federal judge up for consideration for the supreme court, they're all saying he did express that. kate? >> kelly o'donnell at the white house for us. kelly on a busy day. thank you so much. to go over big topics, i want to bring in steve mcmahon and ron, a former national spokesman for the ted cruz campaign. thank

ask him about his vietnam record. he misrepresented that just like he misrepresented judge gorsuch. >> shepard: the president is referring to blumenthal's said that he served in vietnam. he later clarified said he served during the vietnam war as a member of the marine corps reserves, which he did. senator blumenthal responded to the president today. >> there is no question about what judge gorsuch said to me. the white house staff was there. it was confirmed by judge gorsuch's own spokesperson. >> senator blumenthal says he wants more. he's calling on judge gorsuch to publicly condemn the president's comments. so far that's not happened. on the decision to reinstate the president's travel ban, we're expecting that today from the federal appeals court in san francisco. the timing is not certain. today the white house said the president has no regrets about his comments on judges and that he will continue to speak his mind. the president also went on a twitter tirade about a fall lay target, republican senator john mcc

as a black person of america, my daughter fought in iraq, i fought in vietnam.all of your callers in c-span have been calling and they don't understand it is a different thing when you are shooting at somebody. when somebody is shooting back at you, it is a whole different ballgame, buddy. you were going to need poor folks, black folks, mexican folks, asian folks. you are insulting those people. ,nless you bring them around you need the united states of america instead of the divided states of america, we have too much division. we have political division, racial division. those fences mend in order to protect this country. those people don't care if you are republican or democrat over there. my daughter, she is a black girl. she got out of iraq after four years. she told me that she has seen that those people do not care. they look at u.s. and american. until we come to understand that , these people don't mind dying and that is the difference. host: that is herbert from georgia. we go to nebraska next. elizabeth on the republican line. caller: yes, i appreciat

i wanted to put vietnam behind me and never think of it again and move on.uld but he found a way to cope. through the lens of a camera. he went to a pilgrimage of vietnam memorials. >> this is why i get up in the morning. jay: the goal is take a picture in all 50 states. that morphed to tens of thousands of photographs. in a web exclusive, wjla.com, join us as we show you what mike walsh has captured while crisscrossing america. jay korff, abc7 news. jonathan: you can head to wjla.com right now to see jay's latest story called "a means to heal." you can see all of jay's long form pieces. you can check out abc7 stories under the features tab so when you on the website look for the features tab. to the war on terror and new video of destruction in the historic city of palmyra, syria. on the left let me show you something. video of the ancient ruins looked like before the islamic state attack. russian ministry of defense. russia claims to have detected an upsurge in truck movement near palmyra saying isis may be causing more damage before they leave that area.

in fact, midway also had the distinction of making the very last miss you down of the entire vietnam war in january 1973 just before -- the midway has the distinction of making the very first and very last miss you down of the entire conflict. at the same time, preparations were being made to have her based in japan. we never base to carrier in a foreign homeport before. began anthe midway 18 year deployment. .he war went on in 1975, north vietnamese forces are really making headway and saigon was about to fall. the midway was assigned a special mission to act as a special floating base for long-range and large air force helicopters to evacuate certain people from saigon before the communistic over. as it turned out, not only were those people evacuated, but it turned into an humanitarian rescue effort as many the enemy citizens were able to be shuttled aboard the midway another ships offshore and south vietnam. operation frequent wind is a major milestone in midway's history. what made this unique as well amongst other carriers was that midway being based in a foreign port also had

because we are fighting a no-win war in vietnam -- a war we don't want to win. and i don't like no-win wars, especially wars our men are getting butchered in. don't you want to stop this war? don't you care about what's happening over there? well, i care -- i care a lot. >> sabato: another precedent for modern campaigns from 1964 is that the issues that really matter don't get discussed. vietnam, which became the issue for four years -- johnson was the peace candidate, and it was one of the reasons why he won. he actually said during the campaign, "we're not about to send american boys 9,000 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." and we all know what actually happened. people should've probed johnson more about what he might have done. it's a lesson for us in every campaign. make the candidates discuss the issues that really matter, as we see them, rather than allowing them to put certain subjects off limits because it suits their political needs. >> the legacy of the '64 convention and the barry goldwater nominat

it didn't exist, after years of saying it did, so, ask senator blumenthal about his vietnam record.esented that, just like he misrepresented judge gorsuch. thank you all very much. there is no question that judge gorsuch said that these attacks on thejudiciary are disheartening and demoralising. you needn't believe me. there were white house staff in the room, and his own spokesman confirmed afterward what he said. the judiciary and executive are two separate branches of government that meant to keep their distance. judge gorsuch, when he was unveiled at the white house, seemed determined to do that quite literally, though it seems to be something to president is struggling to accept. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. an independent report has concluded u nsafe an independent report has concluded unsafe construction at schools in edinburgh was the fault of the council and the building contractor. it was apparently just luck that no one was killed just over a year ago when a wall collapsed. it was closed after safety concerns. more than 8000 pupils were affected. we report. spread acr

so, in countries like vietnam, it could be bigger than 1% gdp. knock—on effect on the direct investmentlostjobs in these countries. yes. potentially, it will not just these countries. yes. potentially, it will notjust be investment. it will have an impact on employment which would also impact consumption. so we are really thinking about the potential scaling down of some of these trade related impacts which could really impact the economy. so, how can many of these asian economies which could be impacted by the trade pacts basically skirt the reduction in growth? is it through bilateral agreements with the united states ? bilateral agreements with the united states? i think that is probably one channel. at a company level, there will be a great incentive to invest and have domestic presence in the united states. of course, that will be viable for some industries, but not be labour intensive industry, for example. it is not the easiest thing to do. it depends on the industries, what you can do. the second thing is they will probably look to each other more, increasing trade within the re

that's something that changes over the late 20th and early 121st century. >> in decision the vietnam vets returning, there's an explosive use of marijuana in the 1960's? >> so the explosion of marijuana use is roughly tied to the late 1960's and early 1970's. you see the number of people who were use it which had if you imagine a situation where drug use is confined in marijuana use to arginalize citizens. you can imagine in which the posse might not be as sympathetic to making sure those people were not incorporated to modern society but as more young people started to use drugs, particularly marijuana, there became a greater concern as far as the punitive aspect of drug policy how people cannot be only rehabilitated but ensure they were not locked up for extended periods of time. >> with more demand, you have supply issues. in other words, this is another problem for government in that time period. >> for sure. and one of the things that's really challenging about marijuana restrictions is that it's relatively easy to grow. its nickname is weed because it grows everywhere. so peopl

ask senator blumenthal about his vietnam record. he misrepresented that just like he misrepresented judge gorsuch. >> blumenthal is standing by his account of the meeting with gorsuch. obviously this now emerging as a major issue in this supreme court nomination fight. for more, i want to bring in kelly o'donnell at the white house. so kelly, take us through this. one thing i am curious about. is there room for there to be two interpretations of the event where blumenthal asks a specific question, gorsuch tries to provide an answer and they each have a different understanding of the answer? >> what's notable about what the president said is he used the word misrepresent or misrepresenting four times in a matter of seconds and made two references to his sort of attack on richard blumenthal, democrat of connecticut about his vietnam. he corrected it but has paid a political price for it over time. this is something the president is bringing back up now to discredit blumenthal and his account. day seanpicer is saying what the nominee t

some of our fellow vietnam veterans have left us.but i am the person i am today if there's any small measure of success that i've achieved, it's because of the comradeship and the love in struggle we caged together. my friends and fellow pows that we were proud to come home with honor. and i'm honored to be with you today. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> sender, we will be in phoenix next month for a system with saving visit to the va. commander, would you introduce our next guest speaker? >> it gives me great pleasure to introduce our next speaker. he was confirmed by the u.s. senate as secretary of veterans affairs on february 13, 2017. unanimously, how often do you ever hear of a senate agreeing on anything, 110 no votes? how about that? prior to confirmation our guest serve as the ace undersecretary for health leading the nations largest integrated health care system with more than 1700 sites, serving almost 9,000,000 veterans. a physician himself, he has has held numerous chief executive roles at morristown medical center, t

there'd been a series about vietnam history. and it was produced there.n amazing tragic epic about the vietnam war. that is fine with me. i think that's absolutely true. we can talk more about that later. so he hired a bunch of folks from the television program. on the vietnam series what they did in the early days of people trying to invent how to do giant historical things. it was supposed to look easy. the hour that you saw. one of the devices that was employed they came from the vietnam series was a thing called the school. if you're going to do a film about the civil rights movement or the great depression as we did why would you not call in the expertise of folks who have been spending their entire lives studying this subject. not to put them on camera. he wanted the story to be told entirely by the sharecroppers. if you weren't there you can be in the movement. it is a good role. all the historians we were only 20 years out from the civil rights movement. it takes the ups and downs. we were 20 years out from that. what the hell does this all mean.

ask senator bhumibol about his vietnam record. he represented that. just like he misrepresented judge gorsuch. >> i am simply repeating what judge gorsuch said to me and i hope he will repeated an even stronger terms clearly, unequivocally, emphatically thing the president of the united states is absolutely wrong to be attacking the judiciary. >> kimberly: what do you make of the back-and-forth? >> dana: i see these things as separate. the comments against senator senator mccain, anytime there is a raid, you will have an after action report, the dod does, and there will be criticism. there will maybe even be some internal criticism. the president, for as long as we can remember going back, has received criticism from people on capitol hill or civilians who have no idea what is going on a national-securitywise. presidents have to not focus on it and focus on the mission and be able to move forward. i would never have said that about senator mccain and i think yesterday katrina van hogle called john mccain an armchair warrior. we have a senator. you mig

every day that he was in college, we were losing the vietnam war. donald trump managed to get a doctor to say that he had bone spurs that then allowed him to escape the draft and possible service in vietnam. those bone spurs never inhibited donald trump's physical activity before or since the vietnam war. and his utter obliviousness to the vietnam war today surely helped convince most of the governors in the room that he was as divorced from reality as his speech was. there was even a moment in his speech today when he left his prepared remarks to announce that he, alone among americans, had just discovered that the health care system in this country is complicated. and that repealing and replacing obamacare is not going to be as easy as he thought. we'll have more on that later in this hour. the president said he will talk more about his proposed budget tomorrow night in an address to congress but he did not actually promise more detail. president george w. bush appeared on the "today" show this morning and matt lauer asked him about the travel ban

, there are a lot of similarities between the problems we had in vietnam, wasn't a lack of firepower, wasn't a lack of money. it was a lack of commitment, a lack of vision, a lack of strategy. you could say that's probably true today about our war against terror. having a guy like that who believes, who's been able to pick apart those problems, general mattis is a guy who believes strongly in having a dynamic strategy. i think it indicates there are a lot of good indicators that this administration about serious about trying to come up with a strategy for combating terrorism. >> james: charles. >> what's encouraging about him is that the book he wrote on vietnam and also he was the architect, one of the architects of the surge in iraq. in both instances he's going against the prevailing assumptions and worldview. the surge we all now praise in retrospect. people were skeptical of it even within the bush administration. it was kind of revolutionary and he was there. it tells you here's a guy who will say what he thinks and promote what he wants. the other interesting element of the ann

.> this is a book the subtitle is war and peace, vietnam and america october 1967.o addresse needed was does vietnam seem like a very long time ago? is it still relevant? a writer with the resources and the talent and the meticulousness and dramatic drive bring it to life in such way that it is relevant now? host: who is alice mayhew and what role has she played in your life and many others? mayhew is ace legendary editor. she is still working after many years. she has edited some of the best writers and thinkers that our country has seen. she is not somebody who likes the limelight. i am not surprised you have not gotten her on the show. think she should talk to you, at whatshe is so good she does and she really has an obligation to share that with the next generation. she is a genius editor. host: what does that mean? barbara: it means a lot of things. who can hear a pitch for a book idea and just know instinctively whether or not it is a good book. whether or not that is the book you should be writing. editor, terrific line someone who goes line by line and fixes

this is a particular concern because soldiers were returning from vietnam and there was a concern they would be addicted to heroin. there was federal interest in making sure they didn't flood the streets. homeless, or whatever. so nixon had a robust strategy for dealing with drug policy. that's something that changes over the late 20th and early 21st century. >> in addition to the vietnam vets returning, there's an explosive use of marijuana in the 1960's? >> so the explosion of marijuana use is roughly tied to the late 1960's and early 1970's. you see the number of people who hadusing it which also implications for drug policy. so if you imagine a situation where drug use is confined in marijuana use to marginalize citizens. jazz musicians in harlem or hippies who were protesting in california. you can imagine in which the policy might not be as sympathetic to making sure those people were incorporated to modern society. but as more middle-class young people started to use drugs, particularly marijuana, there became a greater concern as far as the punitive aspect of drug policy to fig

military in vietnam. explain what the book was about and what kind of, what window it may afford us on how he may handle his role as national security adviser. >> well, this book was called dereliction of duty. it grew out of his ph.d. thesis and became a landmark work inside military circles. i was a look at the vietnam war and the failures of the military leadership at that time to really talk truth to power, to tell president lyndon johnson what was really going on and in his thesis, made the war unwinnable and untenable because the military did not speak up. so it may give us that window into his philosophy, plain-spoken and not likely to change and likely to continue speaking up. >> interesting. barbara starr, thanks very much. stay with us. we will have the panel come in. today john mccain praised the choice of mcmaster. steve israel called him brilliant, a brilliant reasonable leader who understands both hard and soft power which kls be said for cnn political analyst kirsten power who joins us alon

i couldn't resist. >> the stars shot on location in australia, hawaii and vietnam.uring awards season the best actress at golden he globes, sag and oscar winners had to improvise her oscar winning looks. >> i'm filming king kong. i'm spend ming my days running around in the jungle with no i don't have the time. >> the most thrilling action rugged and more exciting. >> up next, with matt damon, who is the nicest guy in hollywood unless he is talking about jimmy kimmel. >> he tells his writing staff he still has a job. >> plus, "la la land," with telling all about the stars. >> i'm terrible. >> and joey lawrence's surprising new career move. >> we are with the former ♪ ♪ >>> jeremy jordan stars in >>> look at matt damon at the premier of his new movie "the ya great wall" and his wife, luciana. that is one of the great relationships. matt's relationship with jimmy coup coup kimmel, oh, not so good. >> jimmy kimmel, my shot he will show up at the oscars? >> except for me throwing stuff at him. i will be in the crowd wishing him who ill things. >> of course there is a pr

yes, he did misrepresent himself in the past as having served in vietnam.idn't serve in vietnam. he apologised for the statements about six years ago. on a more pertinent point about whether he misrepresented judge gorsuch‘s comments. judge gorsuch‘s team say he did misrepresent the comments. another republican senator in the room said he was talking in a more general way about criticism of judges. a little bit of wiggle room. clearly president trump does not wa nt to clearly president trump does not want to get involved in a direct confrontation with the man he has nominated for the supreme court. looking at trump tweaked this morning, lots of fake news about. laughter welcome if you are president trump there is always a lot of fake news about in his opinion. he believes he's been treated extremely unfairly by the news media who he says in the us is nearly all biased against him. he makes the point repeatedly that the media picks and chooses exactly what it wants to say according to how best to portray donald trump in a bad light. he's had a range of criti

and that was vietnam. i'm going back a little further in history. did the american media ever tell us instead of bringing freedom to vietnam, we're faithfuling democracy? because the agreement was after the french were defeated at the -- they were supposed to be a free free election throughout vietnam to united. we put a stop on that. in other words, we stifled democracy. did the press tell us about that? no. host: you've put some important issues on the table. we will give our guest to respond. thank you for the call. guest: it's true. the media isn't perfect. and certainly true that, you know, sometimes has a tendency to follow larger popular opinion about how it covers things. in this particular case with the trump presidency, i would say that with president trump now having picked a fight ax very serious fight with the media, i would say that the media has got its backup. in this particular case, i doubt very seriously that they're just going to fall into line with what the administration wants. host: 202-748-8001, that's our line for republican