i thought your answer on vietnam was good. i really didn't like your answer on de gaulle, because i think i heard you say, and i believe you actually have said out loud, but you don't believe you ought to go out of the country this year. >> well. >> i don't think you could very well say that you'll meet him anytime that's continue for both people. >> well, you're right, i'm not going out of his country. i did not say where i would go. i didn't say i go out of the country at all, did i? >> no, i guess -- >> press says i reaffirmed that i wouldn't go. >> i see, well i guess i did not hear it. did not get the meeting of it that everybody else did. i think the outstanding things was that the close-ups were excellent. you need to learn. when you are going to have a prepared text, you need to have the opportunity to study it a little bit more, and to read it with a little bit more conviction and interest and change of pace. because you -- >> all the trouble is that they criticize you for taking too much time. they want to use it all

mark: another problem was a situation in vietnam. in many of the conversations, with this all important topic. this was no conversation this one comes from may 27, 64. and lbj is on the phone this national security advisor. monday and this is at a point where lbj is trying to keep vietnam off the agenda and of the front pages but as well aware major decisions are looming before him few months on the road. >> the more i think and getting into another. [inaudible]. that one can never get out of it. and i believe that the chinese communist come into it and i don't think that we can drive 10000 miles away from home in that area. [inaudible]. and don't think it's worth ripping apart i don't think that we can get out. [inaudible]. it is an awful mess. [inaudible]. what is it for three and what is it worth to this country. [inaudible]. we have a treaty everybody else has a treaty out there. and of course you start and they tissue right into your own kitchen. [inaudible]. and that is trouble the suffer the world if anything comes apart on it

this is before vietnam, of course. after that, we suffered, of course, many pandemics, the hiv and now covid-19. we see now there is no trust to do all the necessary public health measures in either of those two. it took a long time to even fund a lot of the drug development for hiv because the government would not admit that there was a problem. no one mentioned the word hiv. and we see donald trump completely politicizing the covid-19 pandemic. we have preventable deaths that are unconscionable and far greater than anything we have lost in wars. there are 1 million deaths, and a great many of these deaths are preventable, and we know they are preventable because we can countries that did well, like south korea, and each per capita death rate -- host: i think we got your question. dan balz? guest: it is an important observation. certainly, the government was slow to recognize the seriousness of the hiv crisis and to begin to try to act on it. he is right. it took ronald reagan a while to do that. i think, subsequent t

opposing the war in vietnam saying they would support people who chose not to go to vietnam and as a result of that julian julian bond was not seated. he was elected to the state legislature at georgia. remember nick they refused to see them. so this is the reaction right? king leaves the protest about bonds failure to be seated, but he still you know, but by 60 70s ready and one of the things that again the war is escalating, but he sees a magazine ramparts magazine. early in 67 which has a photo essay on the children of vietnam. and it describes over a million deaths. and casualties. i mean wounding equipping or of children with images of people napalm children and an essay talking about the tools of war that america is using know gases bombing defoliants and and this really shakes him up so has to speak out. and he joins a march in chicago, but his big coming out is in new york city and a speech. he gives it riverside church. pointing at the wrong thing and it's called beyond vietnam a time to break the silence. and this is one of the strongest public statements made against the w

the war in vietnam presented _ necessary. the war in vietnam presented itself _ necessary.lf to _ necessary. the war in vietnam presented itself to nixon - necessary. the war in vietnam presented itself to nixon as i presented itself to nixon as 500,000 american troops already being in place and 50,000 in the pipeline when it became president. 30,000 casualties having already been suffered. and the debate in america had become so embittered that presidentjohnson couldn't appear in public except on military bases. a significant part of the american elite have become convinced that the defeat was better for the american soul than a continuation of the war. you can hold of you like that out of government, but when you are in government, how do you withdraw 150,000 people when they are 80,000 enemy? and an equal number of allies who will become enemies.— become enemies. one of the consequences _ become enemies. one of the consequences of _ become enemies. one of the consequences of that - become enemies. one of the consequences of that was - become enemies. one of the l consequ

but we have those who served in vietnam who are still waiting for their benefits. sergeant first class heath robinson pact act would not be on the floor today without the hard work of numerous veteran service organizations, veteran families, survivors, advocates, and the veterans themselves who came to washington to meet with senator tester and with me and with every member of the united states senate to tell their story. and thinker the most effective -- and they are the most effective advocates there could be. many of them and others testified before our senate veterans' affairs committee. this legislation is not just a product of senator tester and i, it is a product of so many. it's so much more and perhaps -- no offense to senator tester -- but perhaps our role is really insignificant when you look at the people who have encountered these challenges but used those challenges as an opportunity to fight not just for themselves but in most instances more likely to fight for other veterans in similar circumstances. i thank them for their service. i thank them for

but these days he's working for the vietnam, his government hunting cyber criminals. at the height of his career hacker, no men hew, made a fortune stealing the personal data of some 200000000 americans. he had fast cars, fancy apartments, and luxury holidays. then it all came crashing down and f b. i sting operation lured him to the u. s in 2013 and he ended up spending 7 years in federal prison. he'd been a hacker since childhood. now he says he's turned his back on his criminal past, and has been recruited by the vietnam government. his mission, to hunt cyber criminals. my god, boy, he tylen though my dream now is to help as many people as possible to avoid being cheated online. thank you, though. the former millionaire now lives in an average apartment in hotel men, city, roughly 70 percent of vietnam's, 98000000 people use the internet. and cyber threats are rife, vietnam, as one of the highest rates of ransomware attacks in the asia pacific region de la young, elijah, because i ain't nobody how i really regret the past. if i'd continued my study, i would have be

those who served in vietnam still waiting for their benefits.class robinson would not be on the floor today without the hard work of numerous veteran service organizations, veteran families, survivors, advocates and veterans themselves who came to washington to meet with senator tester and me every member of the united states senate to have a conversation to tell their story and they are the most effective advocates there could be. many of them and others testified for the veterans affairs committee. thes product of so much more and no offense to senator tester but perhaps our role is insignificant when you look at the people who have encountered these challenges but use the challenges as opportunity to fight and not just for themselves but in most instances more likely to fight other veterans in sir sir miller circumstances. i think them for their service and their work helping us deliver long-lasting solutions, copperheads of reforms for those who serve. i especially want to thank you robinson family who turn their own loss and heartache into

i am at an age where it might seemed like the vietnam war was a long time ago. and we would have taken care of those who have served. but we have those who served in vietnam who are still waiting for their benefits. sgt first class keith robinson packed act would not be on the floor to date without the hard work of numerous veteran service organizations, veteran familiest survivors, advocates and the veterans themselves who came to washington to meet with the senator tester, with me, with every member of united states senate sprayed to have a conversation to tell their story. and they are the most effective advocates there could be. and many of them in other testified before senate veterans affairs committee. this legislation is not just a product of senator tester and i at the product of so many. it is so much more and perhaps no offense to senator tester maybe our role is insignificant when you look at the people who have encountered these challenges but use those challenges as as an opportunity to fight not just for themselves, but in most instances probably

-- pre-watergate and pre-vietnam. the have been a couple moments, 9/11 being one of them, where the american people rallied together with their government and had a stronger feeling about trust in government. but that receded again very quickly. pew came out with an updated version of this on the sixth of june, and at this point, i think it showed only 20 percent of americans said they have trust in government to do the right thing. watergate is a dividing line in the history of the relationship between the american people and the government and the american people and their politicians. host: that dividing line and issues of trust what we are talking about with dan balz this morning. if you want to read his deep dive into these issues, you can read on the washington post headline -- website. i'm headline watergate happened 50's ago, its legacy still with us -- (202) 748-8001 for repoublicans, (202) 748-8000 for democrats. you also talk about a dividing line of sorts for the political parties and how watergate impacte

from vietnam. however, the reports were far from optimistic instead of a slowdown in hostilities as a result of the peace negotiations. the communists had launched a massive new wave of assaults throughout the south to erode resolve on the home front and grasp heightened leverage in the diplomatic struggle. later in the month us chief negotiator averill harriman arrived in washington for further discussions with the president. after weeks of communist intransigence the united states position continued to show both. and flexibility the united states would stop its air raids over the panhandle of north vietnam where supply and infiltration routes converged into the south when a reciprocal gesture of de-escalation either directly or de facto was apparent the other side. meanwhile, the united states continued to seek peace in vietnam through every other available channel. working toward this goal would be the new us ambassador to the united nations george ball replacing arthur goldberg who was retiring

ambassador to a united vietnam. mr. carper: the six of us went to vietnam because veterans service oarses were convinced -- service organizations were convinced because hundreds of thousands of m.i.a.'s, missing in action were in that part of the world many we believe those families deserved to know what happened to their loved ones whose bodies were never recovered. like many of my colleagues, i come from a military family and we know what it's like to lose a loved one to war. my mother's youngest brother died in 1944 at the age of 19 during an attack on his aircraft carrier in the western pacific. my grandmother is a gold star mother. my uncle bob's body was never recovered or returned home to the country he served. my family never knew what it meant to have really a sense of closure finality. they never gave up on his coming home, something he never did. and so it means something to families like mine for our government to heed that moral obligation and stand up for the military families still waiting to see their so

. export to india, china and vietnam-— export to india, china and vietnam. �* , ., ., vietnam.rtiliser, gardener, - vietnam. and you mentioned . fertiliser, gardener, wonderful ghana, it is a net importer of fertiliser from ghana, it is a net importer of fertiliserfrom ukraine, so fertiliser from ukraine, so what fertiliserfrom ukraine, so what is the conflict or war in ukraine there done to the supply fertiliser? it ukraine there done to the supply fertiliser?- ukraine there done to the supply fertiliser? it made the situation worse _ supply fertiliser? it made the situation worse to _ supply fertiliser? it made the situation worse to be - supply fertiliser? it made thej situation worse to be honest, but this problem has been there for many years now. let me give you a story. there is this farmer called rita. she only cultivates 20% of her farm, largely because she is not able to access high quality fertiliser and seed, this was way back in 2018. now her cultivation has gone down further. we import a lot of fertiliser, we bring it to the country. the situation in ukraine has m

it was a secret history of the war in vietnam. nixon at that point was not a part of that.xplain why he then went off on that and everything else that ensued. >> this has long been one of the grt mysteries, which is your absolute right. there are 2 million words in the pentagon papers and not one of them is "nixon." should've been one of the great political coups of his life. two mortal enemies, jfk and lbj, are slammed in these papers and nixon is not mentioned at all. however, the key that we now understand, that has been unlocked in the last two years that gives us the understanding for the first time of nixon's overreaction to the pentagon papers, is the chennault affair, which is that nixon becomes afraid in the wake of the ellsberg release of the pentagon papers in june 1971 that as part of these leaks that the documents documenting the chennault affair will come out. he knows these documents exist. he doe't know where they are. he comes to think they are at e brookings institute, the think tank in washington. he is on tape in december 1971 ordering the only burglary

we are still catching up with the vietnam war and the unkept promises the government made to veterans. in addition to what you listed, something else this legislation would fix is the fact that the u.s. government poisoned many of its own service and family members at camp lejeune in north carolina for years. this will finally rectify that situation and bring much-needed relief and benefits to those veterans. this legislation is huge. to add more point, it will be voted on hopefully next week. to get into the walkie weeds, there was a vote to end debate on this last week. it passed by a huge majority. 86 voted in favor but 12 senators voted against this bill, which included three senators who serve on the veterans affairs committees, two senators who are veterans themselves, one is still serving in the reserves, and a doctor. three of the people that voted against should be the most knowledgeable dow important and overdue this legislation is. want to encourage everyone who is listening to call your senators and ask them to vote yes on the pact act. even the 12 that voted against can t

a vietnam veteran who needs care, he's going to be delayed. a gulf war veteran, she's going to be delayed. if you're collapsing the whole system, every vet rap loses -- every veteran loses. every veteran loses. now, mr. president, i've actually seen this in my state, and i know your state has had some challenges with the v.a. several years ago, i held a field hearing in arizona, on some of the challenges in the v.a. but i've seen the system collapse in alaska. in 2015, my first year in the u.s. senate, due to legislation that had been passed the year before, we essentially had the system in alaska collapse. somehow, some way, legislation and ideas from the v.a. thought it was really smart to remove the ability to actually make appointments from veterans -- for veterans in alaska, not by officials from the v.a. who lived in alaska, but somewhere in the lower 48. i think it was louisiana or somewhere. not a good idea. the whole system cratered. i've seen it. and no veteran benefits. no one benefits. my first year here, in 2015, that was my numbe

-- pre-watergate and pre-vietnam.he have been a couple moments, 9/11 being one of them, where the american people rallied together with their government and had a stronger feeling about trust in government. but that receded again very quickly. pew came out with an updated version of this on the sixth of june, and at this point, i think it showed only 20 percent of americans said they have trust in government to do the right thing. watergate is a dividing line in the history of the relationship between the american people and the government and the american people and their politicians. host: that dividing line and issues of trust what we are talking about with dan balz this morning. if you want to read his deep dive into these issues, you can read on the washington post headline -- website. i'm headline watergate happened 50's ago, its legacy still with us -- (202) 748-8001 for repoublicans, (202) 748-8000 for democrats. you also talk about a dividing line of sorts for the political parties and how watergate impacted

the vietnam veterans. i remember it because it hit home to me. i remember those vietnam soldiers. i remember the stories of toxic exposure to agentorange . i remember how we knew what we needed to do but man, it took us a long time to get stuff done. in fact we're still dealing with agent orange but here we are today. treating this generation of veterans just like we treated the vietnam veterans and other generations of veterans . as a result of turning a blind eye on the needs of the veterans who died, and they have died. due to toxic exposure. so here are the facts. more than 3 and a half billion post 9/11 veterans may have been exposed to toxic substances overseas. 75 percent of those men and women report being exposed to burn pits and as a result of these exposures any veterans suffered from rare deadly cancers, respiratory conditions andother illnesses . let me say it again really rare but deadly cancers and respiratory conditions and other illnesses. sometimes developing years after they served in the military. it's easy for me to stand up here and talk about cancer. i don't

it's a history of film through vietnam and obviously through your life and the personal. it's nott just a memoir of what happened when and where. it's personal and terrific. >> i just neglected to tell you that i hired him years ago. [laughter]mo and he's been my moderator ever since. just joking. he was the second writer on the wall street money never sleeps, which we did in 2012 and worked together. i pushed him as hard as i could and got the best out of him and quite enjoyed it. he's very smart. you wouldn't think so. [laughter] very smart. a bachelor though. this is correct. but let's talk about you. you wrote the book. i will say in short my life i feel like is coming into history. it starts selfish. you want everything for yourself, you are egocentric and you startce to have experiences with other people. coming from a small family, as i did, it took me a bit of an adjustment and the adjustment was sometimes very painful because through divorce and for. but i feel like i've gotten closer t and closer to the american experience in terms of history. obviously i've bee

this is treason, you know, he's he's out there keeping the literally keeping the vietnam war going forit then after the election johnson decides that he can't ever speak of this publicly because it would undermine the moral authority of nixon coming in the results of this are buried for 40 years. we only really learn if this event about 10 years ago when some of these documents are declassified, but nixon knows that he's done this and so nixon becomes paranoid that the that papers somewhere in the brookings institution about this event and that when the pentagon papers are leaked in 71 pentagon papers, by the way, which have nothing to do with nixon whatsoever and he should have not cared at all about their rules about his presidency. they're about the earlier president of johnson kennedy. there are two million words in the pentagon papers, richard nixon's name does a single time. so in theory, this should be a great scandal for him. it's about tearing down lyndon johnson and john f. kennedy two democrat presidents. yeah. he he becomes afraid that this this chenault affair is going to

the vietnam veterans are lighting up around the block.o was a stunning turnaround and a cinderella story in the film cap going every single country did well. i am very grateful that the natural end. i know you 400 pages so there is no better ending. >> and that is part of the mystery i think they did a bad job i think they had covid but they didn't. [laughter] i made a deal with a much bigger company simon & schuster enable to the next book it is in my head right now. [applause] >> it is called chasing the light and this is oliver stone. when we started planning this energy and climate summit many months ago. we had no idea just how timely it would turn out to be in mid-march of 2022. >> we had no idea how timely this word turn out to be march 2022 we are seeing firsthand why energy independence is critical toer national security elon musk tweeted a few days ago we need to increase the oil and gas output immediately. across

this moment of vietnam and the pentagon papers and a watergate . you see the modern moment of congressional oversight. one of the things that we again forget is the irving committee when it begins its hearing in the summer of 1973 were new. that congress had very little history of oversight here. so when they set out to figure out what they're going to do and how to do this they go back to congresses earrings to investigate the 1861 battle of bull run. that's how far they had to stretch back to look for analogues of congressional oversight. hearings that you mention , those are televised that summer for something like 240 hours on national tv in the moment when there were far fewer tv choices of course this was the three networks and vbs and the average american household that summer watchesnearly 40 hours of televised hearings . which is just a tremendous amount of newsconsumption imagine . and the whole battle over iv executive privilege. something we still see playing out in the papers literally day by day right now begins with richard nixon . t

this style weapon deadlier than what we had our soldier carry around during vietnam. think your own guy had mosh powerful that was more deadly than the weapons we gave our troops in vietnam. actually, it is morley that will and deadly than f-16s we gave our soldiers and marines in vietnam. >> he sounds like idiot for first part of war our troops m-one. shoots the 3080. it is a big rounds. f-16 shoots what ar-15 shoots which this 556. 22 caliber. a little bitty. but difference m-16 fires unfold auto. m-16 can fire 800 rounds a minute. no where near that. this insane. it is ridiculous. so when they are telling you weapons of war they literally have no idea what they are talking about. keep that in mind. >> ♪ we don't care what anybody says, we don't we think that the fact that there are objects floating around in your atmosphere apparently outside of it, that are not human origin intech tents go hume tunneling story. hard to think better story. january 6th. but it important. and extraordinary implication for all of us scientist have detected radio signals coming from st

they would also not permit me 10 and a half years to do the vietnam.would want it in a couple of years. and the kind of corners that would be cut in that process was nothing i wanted to do. i also was aware even with the success of the civil war series, people would come and ask me what i was working on from other places. when i would say baseball, they would say, great, that will sell. they would say, how long is it? i would say 18 and a half hours. they would walk away. after baseball had an even bigger audience, they would say, what are you doing? i would say jazz. they would go along? i would go, yeah. they would say, african-american stuff does not sell. you suddenly realize sometimes you had to pick these projects, all of them, based on your gut -- not on a focus group, not on some marketing panel, but what you wanted to do. david: how many projects do you have in the works now? can you say what some of the ones are? ken: yeah, yeah. i don't know why people make this stuff secret. i just locked or finished, we are about to next week mix the first

who won the war between the nuclear usa and north vietnam?am, of course, who won the war between the nuclear alliance and afghanistan, afghanistan, of course, on the subject, the cold war was a period of colonization, when colonial powers lost decisive wars by anti-colonial movements or states, russia today acts as a colonial state, perhaps this is where the seed of doubt that just grew in the heads of our european partners is that russia is big, nuclear russia ukraine is small for nuclear , so we will lose if we simply, well, it is better to remember some historical lessons and precedents in dialogues and victories with our partners, they will simply treat better, treat us better and give us weapons to our prospects in this war, please, of course, if uh, russia disdains on the use of nuclear weapons. i really hope that she will not do this. the united states demonstrated very concretely and very clearly in the conversation . the american side warned about the impossibility of using nuclear weapons, neither tactical nor strategic, especially

he needs it for vietnam or as lyndon johnson would say vietnam.he needs it for vietnam and you know one time when kennedy comes into officers kennedy comes into office there are 600 in south vietnam an' when he was assassinated that there are 16,000. so i do not buy this notion that okay he's going to get us out of vietnam, from the 16,000 that isin a trendline of getting outo kennedy feels betrayed yet he still needs to use them and that's why they consider him the first failure in the group of six because he doesn't do anything to bring the cia. ronald reagan of course runs on a pledge to defeat the soviet union and build back the american economy and reduce the power and size of government. unfortunately for reagan, he needs the government and theus military and the business to accomplish the other two so almost like kennedy he finds he needs the agencies he wants to get rid of too much to get rid of them. i will share one anecdote. david stockman was a true believer in reducing the size of government and they were sending memos to all of the d

what would happen in vietnam? well, there's no consensus on that, his supporters say undoubtedly he would have gotten us out of that. he was too smart to be dragged into a protracted war and so forth. in fact, i think on one occasion he said something like, i think he said, i will get us out of vietnam. when it happens, i will be as a communist appeaser, but i can do it. we have to be reelected first, and that was a paraphrase. others who we of course do not know, but the fact but others, the spectacle of that, pointed out something i never thought of all along, which is you know, the same people that were advisers to lyndon johnson, with the escalation, they were the same advisers that he had. i mean, if they advise kennedy to do differently than they advised johnson, with the war have escalated even under kennedy? it is an unknown. it will remain so. now, having surveyed kennedys foreign policy involvement, let's now look at his domestic power. it will not take long. well, it is blank. actually, i am kidding. it

you have to realize, somewhere between five and ten vietnam veterans take their lives every day in this country. i realize that we're talking about the -- but don't forget about us to, came from 74 when i was in omaha. i was also a civil service working for d.o.d., but these are the issues i see here as well. there are other groups that should be more involved, like the veterans of foreign wars, they're not. they're not a very effective veterans group from what i've seen in my exposure to them. so, that's all i wish to say. >> okay. john it virginia, thank you. >> john, you bring up a valid point. this is about unity of effort, about sharing data, putting a level of urgency on this. it's not because we lack intellectual ability or capacity, we just need to organize. just like we did against cancer, against hiv and a.i.d.s., covid. we've got the ability to solve this but we just have had all these boutique, disconnected efforts that have been going on for the last 20 plus years, we really need some leadership. and that leadership needs to come from an individual who's got skin in the gam

i'm at the age in which it seems like the vietnam war would have taken care of those that served. this urgent wouldn't be on the floor today without the hard work of numerous veterans service organization and veteran families, survivors, advocates and the veterans themselves who came to washington to meet with senator tester and me and every member of the senate to have a conversation to tell their story andan they are the most effectie advocates that there could be. many of them and others testified before the senate veterans affairs committee. the legislation isn't just a product of senatorct tester and, it is a product of so many and perhaps no offense to senator tester but perhaps our role is at the people that have encountered the challenges but used the challenges as an opportunity to fight not just for themselves but most instances probably more likely to fight for other veterans in similar circumstances. ti thank them for their service and their work in helping us deliver long-lasting solutions, comprehensive reforms for those who served and i especially want to thank keit

make these kids heroes, the same way we looked at heroes in vietnam, the same way we looked at heroesr laws in place. in australia they had the biggest mass murder ever and the government came in and said, all right, that's it. no more guns, and everybody went that sounds reasonable, and they gave up their guns, and it's been like 15 years. no mar mass murders in australia. coincidence or, you know -- i know that's a big challenge, and i am far to the left, you know, but we -- we need -- people need to turn in their guns. i understand people, you know, liking guns. i've got two kids who like guns, but i have to tell you, when the second amendment was written, they were talking about muskets. they were talking about muskets. >> yeah, that's true. bing, bing, bing, one shot. they had no idea that there would be guns that would go bam, bam, bam, shoot 100 rounds in a minute and people say you can't change. it's the second amendment. it's an amendment. it's already been changed. so don't say you can't change the second amendment. you can change the second amendment. change the damn thing.

history with vietnam, we eventually normalized 20 years after the vietnam war image in winner. is there a way to escape geostrategic vices that both of these countries are in and, and i would say with united states, is there a way 20 years from now to potentially normalized as we did with vietnam to do so with afghan. oh, i think there are several alternative futures and maybe more than several. i'm depending on the configurations and what happens certainly that there's one alternate. the future where i have janice done. i makes peace with itself with the different factions, ethnic groups, religious sectarian differences comes to a form agreement on a formula which has been the problem that has been no agreement on a formula that has brought support their thought ones. and there are republicans that there are people want, decentralized left can, is on where to different regions are more control over their affairs. others will want this strong central state road of religion that they haven't come to an agreement on that they can agree to do. and if they do, and they do not prese