weinberger's diagnosis? sinusitis, nasal polyps, deviated septum, all problems he told phyllis that could be cure with surgery. >> did your sister get better after the surgery? >> no. she got progressively worse after the surgery. >> by thanksgiving, just six weeks after her surgery with weinberger, phyllis barnes was gasping for breath. repeated follow-up visits to the clinic brought no relief. her family feared she might have pneumonia. >> i had to call the ambulance one night to have her taken to the emergency room because she couldn't breathe. >> shawn barnes, phyllis' daughter, was only 16 at the time. >> she did end up pulling through, but it was a hard time to get through. >> within days of leaving the emergency room, phyllis was again gasping for breath. so in december 2001 she turned to another ear nose and throat doctor for relief. the new doctor immediately suspected something serious. her breathing was ragged and a large lump was visible on the side of her neck. >> he called me on my cell phone a

weinberger when he was notified he would be secretary of defense. he called me up and said i want the chapter. i said i don't have it. it is at the heritage foundation . he said, i'm going to be secretary of defense. i said, i'm sorry. you shouldn't be the secretary of defense. i didn't say that. he said i needed and wanted. i said i can't get it for you. he said, i imagine you have some galleys at home, don't you? i said, i do. he said, i think you better get them. send them out here. i want them. then he couldn't read it. he said i can understand the damn thing. i said this is not the guy to be the secretary defense. abbreviations.e where's the glossary? so i had to do a glossary and send that out. later, i got to see him at the pentagon when i went over to work. along so have to move don't take too much time with anecdotes. a time when we were the dominant force with reagan and we got lucky before everybody sprung back into action against us. reagan had a lot of personal from his leadership of the screen actors guild. he'd knew what they could do

so secretary weinberger was capped captain ike, but he became a very strong supporter of strong defense. 17% increase in the budget and specifically funding the programs that carter had cut and the missile programs. and that is the bomber program. and also implying that became explicit later on. that the framework of arms control that mr. carter had, and quite specifically, it was the arms treaty of 1979, it was no longer the way of talking to the soviets. that treaty was withdrawn by mr. carter because of the soviet invasion of afghanistan and all kinds of negotiations stop. and this actually gave us an opportunity to mr. reagan. i call him mr. because that's what we called him. he was informal enough when you talked to him. and even when you were in high flu polutant -- follutant places. he would ask questions of people. and he was really funny, too. and he was quite decisive once he had the options laid out for him verbally and in the short papers we had to write. i would write a one-page summary of the agency plotting paper and cover the things that we had called bracketed language,

bush pardoned caspar weinberger and five other people on the eve of their trial for corrupt purpose in order to make sure that they didn't come back and testify against him but nobody suggested that would constitute either a crime or impeachable offense alan you know though you are smart and i we go back a long way or an old plan yeah you know. and you know i read that you dined with dirt with the president you appear on fox news regularly that alan dershowitz would become a hero of the far right is an anathema yeah yeah i mean first the i'm not here of the far right i am hero of some people on the right and i'm a devil to some people on the left look i dined with president obama dined president clinton i don't think any american should turn down an invitation to dying president he wanted to talk about the middle east i'm deeply involved in the middle east peace process as you know and a close friend of benjamin not that you know who i know president abbas and i've been asked for my advice i was asked my advice by president obama president clinton president carter president bush and i'

bush when he fired weinberger very specifically with the corrupt votive to avoid him testifying against him. nobody suggested that was impeachable they were to impeach any president they would do a lot of their way the evidentiary requirement what they charge with tweed trees and with only one? does that require impeachment? i don't know the answer to that and they said it very clearly. >> so to talk about the specific allegations those key distinctions of what would happen in the impeachment circumstance you can imagine an article of impeachment against the president for the activity one conceives is not a crime if he moves to london and stop doing his job you could impeach him for that and maybe that is what amendment number 25 is about or he has voluntarily lef left. another example. russia invades alaska just like we took back crimea, we will take back alaska. it was a bad deal it was like $25. it is invalid. and the president doesn't do anything you are right. [laughter] it probably legitimately does belong to you that would be most horrible thing he would never be elected again is

bush pardoned caspar weinberger and five other people on the eve of their trial for a corrupt purpose in order to make sure that they didn't come back and testify against him but nobody suggested that would constitute either a crime or impeachable offense alan you know though you're smart and i we go back a long way or an old plan yeah you know. and you know i read that you dined with dirt with the president you appear on fox news regularly that alan dershowitz would become a hero of the far right is an anathema yeah yeah i'm first one out here of the far right i am a hero of some people on the right and i'm a devil to some people on the left look i dined with president obama dined president clinton i don't think any american should turn down an invitation to dying president he wanted to talk about the middle east i'm deeply involved in the middle east peace process as you know and a close friend eventually not to you know i know president abbas and i've been asked for my advice i was asked my advice by president obama president clinton president carter president bush and i'm always g

. >> secretary weinberger, you were credited with the military buildup which has come to a lot of thewe have to go to baghdad, secretary. >> something is happening outside. the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. we're seeing bright flashes going off all over the sky. we're getting starbursts in the black sky. >> the significance in journalism terms was it was the first time which you had extensive live coverage of the war. >> our office was on the ninth noor of the el rasheed hotel. we were one of the tallest buildings in baghdad, so we knew that whatever was going to happen, we would be able to see the drama. >> the military offensive overnight has been described as the largest, the strongest air attack in history. >> just one meant. clearly, i've never been there, but it feels like we're in the center of hell. >> saddam hussein in address to the iraqi people and arab nation says the mother of all wars has started. we told you earlier in the week that the information ministry had received its own satellite dish and prior to that, the foreign ministry had -- we've got to run. s

from john wyatthead and john weinberg bob mnuchin at goldman sachs a lot of people have touched my life in a very important way i can't identify any one individual i guess i have the most to my parents who gave me an education. >> i know you've talked about that on numerous occasion. kit from the bronx who certainly became a self-made billionaire has helped so many people throughout your generosity joe has a question for you >> lee, the storied career you have had and for someone like myself who looks upon you, you're not going anywhere, but please share with all of us, you began by talking about how difficult it is and how important for focus is and successful investing the criteria has made you successful, what are the one or two things that really, really you focused on to help you be so success as it relates to just investing. >> maintain ed a value orientation. i've always said my first analysis and this is where steve and i work together is to figure out the direction of the market. because you know, at times, the market is overvalued, times it's fairly valued. that has a big infl

the president might want to put him on his team by pardoning him the way bush pardoned weinberger, or prosecutor may want to put him on their team by giving him immunity, but he's no longer loyal and he's going to get the best deal he possibly can. as to the substance of the tape, it's ambiguous. the context, getting a law firm involved, getting a corporation set up sounds like they wanted to do with the right way by having paper records. the word cash does apparently come out of trump's mouth but it's not completely clear in what context. in the end they say do it by check and they don't do anythin anything. so there's no crime here, there's no evidence of a crime, but lanny davis is right, it does raise questions of credibility depending on what the tape says. next step is given to a forensic expert, haven't really sweet and so we can hear precisely by stretching the words who said what and then find out why it was cut off so abruptly. forensics experts can determine whether it was artificially cut off, whether it was part of a call that was cut off. we have a lot to learn about thi

bush when he fired kasper weinberg are expects sitly and very specifically with a krupp motive to avoid casper wineberger testifying against him. nobody suggested that that's impeachable. if they were to impeach any president i think congress would find a crime. the more interesting issue is what the evidentiary requirements are for a crime. have to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt? does the two witness rule apply in impeachment? i don't know the answer to that and i say at that time very clearly in the book. >> i think this is a good time to turn and talk about the pick allegations against donald trump because i think there's key distinction to be drawn here but what would happen in an impeachment circumstance around trump you could imagine two things. one is you could imagine an article of impeach against a president for an act that everyone concedes is not a crime. if the president moves to london and stopped doing his job, sun steen contends you could impeachment the president. >> that may be what amendment 25 is about. if he leaves his job or you might find that he has voluntari

carol, but time nuclear in the country was just developing as commercial and some leaders like alvin weinberg who ran oak ridge tennessee national laboratory that we still have was seeing the answer overpopulation and they were talking about, they were doing it about a busy argument that population will grow to eventually food supply dramatically, therefore we will all eventually run out of food so we were talking about 20 million by 2050. which is just not going to happen. there are world population will press 10 billion. a lot of people to be sure but it's not 20 million. around 100 with the growth rate will be zero. and we will basically be a steady-state after that.why population off? call the population transition and it's the result of people who use to have lots of kids with the help of maybe one or two. coming into a world now where medicine of economic development makes it possible to have one or two children were three children and expected that all will make it. that happened consistently in country after country. it's now running through the entire world. that's why the population

i'm so glad i have marked weinberg here. he can help me with a couple developments in the news. trade discussion. this is a movie playing out in real-time. first off on this trade thing, i was just discussing ronald reagan took it to the japanese for dumping computer chips on the market. were told later on he regretted that whole battle. the japanese saved but it soured relations for a while and he didn't like the way played out on the world stage. what you make of the way this is playing out. >> ultimately it didn't work but it did bother him. relations were very important to him. it wasn't always about the substance. sometimes it was about the style. alliances were important and friendships were important. communicating in a positive friendly way made a difference to him. he thought you could get more business done that way than being a bully. >> the argument has been since we tried the nice guy routine with the chinese and some of the other countries that take advantage and to little avail. here's the president heading off to montana espousing this top view of the world that

tom: you look at the weinberg family, mr. rubin, solomon is a major cultural change. what is that?ed out, lloyd blankfein came up through the trading business. if you look at what has happened 2015,ly for goldman in trading was not a high point. one of the things people are looking for is on the investment banking side. we have seen jpmorgan, citigroup post very good results on the advisory side, on m&a, and also helping companies raise capital. expectations are very high. that is where solomon has grown up at goldman. you jumped about goldman looking more like a bank in terms of this consumer business, that is another area he has been pushing. nejra: how much in the earnings so far we have heard from the four biggest banks already have to do with tax cuts? >> that is an ongoing story this year. there was a lot of bullishness in the markets for the outlook for banks, both from the impacts to their own balance sheets and what that meant for consumer sentiments. bank stocks this year have been suffering. there has been anxiety about how long this party will continue for banking. ther

it goes back to weinberg of trees going to the sky. the sky factor analysis? abby: i will tell you what it is showing and that is momentum stocks have underperformed the -- 100 by about 10% percentage points year to date. we have also seen under of about that magnitude for stocks with international exposure. what we are basically seeing is that investors with a market that is roughly a fair value are becoming more careful in this process and that's what they should be doing. cash is an asset for us in something that investors should not be thinking about either in , but rather is equities rise in evaluations do not improve because they will have prices rise more than the earnings underneath them are growing. levels,me to raise cash we have been recommending to raise cash as we mentioned before because so many fixed income that we will be seeing offering at this point. tom: we will continue this discussion. abby joseph cohen, senior investment strategist at goldman sachs. there is so much more, we are utx.g you tx, out -- q2saw one gues

i remember when george schultz and weinberger would not talk to each other directly.rmediary. that was the way that they did it. they would talk to colin powell. so we have had that kind of situation. . i think that they do talk to one another now these two guys represent traditionalism. the problem is much more john bolton. tom: go there, he is going over to the pentagon. so why is "john bolton the problem." ambassador haass: there have not been high-level meetings. there has been complaints about the absence of the meetings, the cabinet level, without the president's. . an there isd always tension between the national security adviser who has two hats, he is supposed to get everybody talking, but at the same time he is a pipeline directly to the president. he is a counselor as well as an honest broker, and i think the feeling is john bolton has the balance wrong, too much of a counselor privately with donald trump and not enough making the interagency process work. in the run-up to helsinki, there was not a clear meeting amongst all the principles on what the presid

think it is alluded to, more than alluded to in your book -- is the role that ronald reagan, casper weinbergerd we not end up through that decade basically outspending them and them trying to keep up with us, spending themselves into oblivion? >> something like 70% of what the soviets spent throughout this period was on defense and in trying to keep up with the united states, and certainly they had more troops and more tanks, but the u.s. had a qualitative edge in technology that essentially kept the russians ten years behind where the u.s. was. there is some debate among historians about how much u.s. spending actually pressured the soviet union into collapse. bye-bye the time th bye-bye -- but by the time there was a soviet leader willing to talk to wrr aronald reagan and e time ronald reagan understood what the soviet fears were, there was a match ready to be made. i think that's one lesson that if the current president is inclined to learn lessons -- >> no -- perhaps y >> perhaps he can take from ronald reagan. as you know, ronald reagan read a lot throughout his entire history. probably r

mark weinberg is with me, expert on russia relationship, you have 20 seconds to tell me whether you thinkin won or trump won? >> putin won, trump missed opportunity to call him out, he dodged every opportunity to do it and he missed a chance he won't get again. stuart: quickly, walid phares, same question, did putin win or did trump win, that press conference? >> very difficult to answer. i was ready to talk about international and suddenly the whole moment became about russia meddling and, of course, the consequence. one thing i retained is that offer made by president putin, i don't know how it will impact. stuart: ashley, you were watching with me, your comment. ashley: we know putin is great kgb and outmaneuvered our president. i thought mr. trump was going to push hard. this was his opportunity to get into the face of vladimir putin and say, why did you interfere or try to interfere -- liz: he didn't do that. instead the president said putin made a strong and powerful denial. again, . the president did not -- stuart: tried to. liz: they tried to affect -- liz: broke into state electo