woodrow wilson begins to broker a peace. one of the things that attracted me was the similarities between then and today. mark twain was said to have said that history does not repeat itself but, it rhymes. an eloquent man. a former academic. he is an idealist who can make a wonderful speech. the best of his generation. william jennings bryan on a good day would have been close. in foreign policy, woodrow wilson came to the job with no experience. that is going to be -- in fact, he famously says that it would be an irony of fate that he had to deal with fire -- four in affairs. -- foreign affairs. it has to do with a great war. to boot, he has, after roosevelt -- he has a very bitter and partisan opposition that is going after him at every turn. it is amazing that you can draw a lot of parallels between these things. anyways, roosevelt, and the face of this neutrality, which, he considers to be cowardly and dishonorable, he said that we should support the president as long as the president supports us. as long as the preside

woodrow wilson makes a speech in negotiated peace. he says also we need to create a league of peace. time he's come around to this idea. and within a couple of weeks, germans stun him at the end saying well, tomorrow, we are going back to warfare which we had gone away with it. its's only a matter of time. woodrow wilson can't believe people do this. those who won't come to march. in march, the ships go out. begin to go down. now the united states comes in. woodrow wilson asks congress for declaration of war. they gather and give him this. in his speech, he says this will world safe ke the for a democracy. no land,d states wants no reparations, this should be a war to end all wars. that's the idea. those lt can appreciate words. he comes to washington now with hat in hand. the ets in the red room of white house asking for a command. hi's not going to give a command enemy, his political enemy. just didn't make sense. it wasn't 1898. is a new mechanized war with professional soldiers and armies.essional and the decision is made that the

frank and his wife had stayed with woodrow wilson when wilson was president of princeton.wilson had been to frank's house a number of times for lunch. frank's mentor and former president of national city bank said of wilson after meeting him at frank's house, he is not a great man. of course he would say that because he was a banker. they had a number of discussions, but wilson never wanted his discussions made public because he felt it would be bad for his image if he were seen talking to a banker. one of the things that happened when they were coming down on bankers in the wilson years was the pluto hearings looking into these money trusts. their conclusion in 1913 was there were few leaders of finance who controlled most of the concentration of wealth and credit in the country. does this sound familiar today? i think there is so much to be learned from this looking at it today. they did agree we have got to do something about not letting there be another crash like 1907. these two gentlemen were assigned to come up with a banking system of their own. this is the basic i

they were more pro-civil rights than woodrow wilson. they had a little different twist. there is an amusing thing. president truman had a committee on government contract compliance. eisenhower's people said, ok, i guess we should have one. we will just call it the president's committee on government contracts. they left off compliance. that sounded what the heavy-handed government on business. it was a little friendlier. you were mentioning richard nixon, this is a group that eisenhower asked vice president nixon to get involved in any really jumped in with both feet. there is a parallel with him and lyndon johnson with the kennedys. this eisenhower committee became known as nixon's committee. >> what is your message to the historians here today? what have you been telling them about your research? >> politics matters. the actions of government officials have the potential to shape american society. government is not the only force that shape society and its impact is ambiguous, but nevertheless, the history of government remains central to american history and we need

the first one is by a scott berg it is a new biography of woodrow wilson it is a thoughtful volume.e took 13 years of meticulous scholarship to right this boca and it shows. one of the most thoughtful, balanced in american history who had his own contradictions but it give some new insights into appreciation in the history of the american and presidency. a and a delightful read one of the best i have read in a long time. >> the other is from the university of virginia. and then talking about how much of the problem that flowed with three construction is the reinstitution of jim crow in the south came but he turned to vintages that when he was indicted for war crimes in endicott. but chris matthews has written of. it is the story of the relationship of tip o'neill am president ronald reagan. it is the story of the time that now seems long long ago.uqzz unfortunately when democrats could make a difference in the country and everyone who works here should take it too hard to because of the relationship. there were. a wonderful book on the history of the adoption of the civil rights act

they were more pro-civil rights than woodrow wilson. they had a little different twist. there is an amusing thing. president truman had a committee on government contract compliance. said, ok, i people guess we should have one. we will just call it the president's committee on government contracts. they left off compliance. that sounded what the heavy-handed government on business. it was a little friendlier. you were mentioning richard nixon, this is a group that eisenhower asked vice president nixon to get involved in any really jumped in with both feet. there is a parallel with him and lyndon johnson with the kennedys. this eisenhower committee became known as nixon's committee. >> what is your message to the historians here today? what have you been telling them about your research? >> [inaudible] politics matters. the actions of government officials have the potential to shape american society. government is not the only force that shape society and its , butt is ambiguous nevertheless, the history of government remains central to american history and we need to act

, went across the street in essence, started the party and split the republican vote allowing woodrow wilson, a very progressive democrat, become president with less than 42% of the vote. we have been fighting that wing of the party ever since. sometimes our opponents look like teddy roosevelt, sometimes tom dooley or nixon or ford or bob dole or john mccain or mitt romney. but today it's john boehner, eric cantor, lamar alexander. we are fighting that wing of the party. as i said earlier the voters rejected them and only when the face of the opposition to the democrats is a limited government constitutional conservatives do we score big victories. this very weekend as a matter of fact, republican leaders, eric cantor, kevin mccarthy, our meeting at the ritz-carlton in florida, meeting with the main street partnership. their objective with the main street partnership is to come in mitch mcconnell sorts, to crush them everywhere. that means us conservatives. so the main street partnership that eric cantor and kevin mccarthy our meeting with this weekend are dying to crush conservatives. so ma

. >>> chris christie introduced a special class in trenton, the first class of woodrow wilson fellowsthey are all switching to teaching and they take their backgrounds in science, technology or math or engineering and spend three years teaching in the state's highest need schools then plan to prepare youngsters for careers in those fields. >>> and now a surprise at the port lady of richmond school. the colorful mascot was here to announce the winner of a poster contest. third, fourth and fifth graders were asked to create posters, the winners were announced today and presented with $100 savings ktd. >>> now checking out stormtracker 6 live double scan at the airport, or this is the shore where there is heavy rain. >> this is the airport. >> yes, it is the airport. it's flooded, look at the streets, heavy rain at philadelphia international airport and poor visible. be careful there are pocket of hey, i lost my debit card. do you guys do instant replacement? what just happened? check your wallet. no. no way. your debit card should arrive in 7-10 business days. [ male announcer ] it's ti

i'm the principal at woodrow wilson high school. udent organized-student led and run counterprotest. the students found out that westboro was going to protest that wilson high school because we had a gay/straight alliance. our students wanted to show that wilson high school is a diverse school. we're about acceptance. that's in class on wednesday during pride day after 50 years of schnydering and looking over my shoulders so i came out to the students. i couldn't be the principal of a high school celebrating lgbt through diversity and tell kids it's okay to be whoever you are in a safe space and me, not being willing to do that also. it's been incredible. our students send a message that they're accepting of everyone. >> joining me now, the principal of wilson high school, pleasure to have you on the show. it's been a long time since i've been at wilson but i cannot tell you i think my day is my proudest day as a tiger. tell us if you will, what the initial reaction was from the student body when you found out that westboro baptist c

. >> for more on president obama's i spoke withland, the president of the woodrow wilson center, who was in ukraine during the recent elections as an observer. if he thinks poroshenko will be the man to end the conflict in ukraine. they certainly the ukrainians do, about 87% of them came out to vote freely and he won a clear majority of the votes, with 55% of the votes. i met with him along with our was chaired by former secretary of state madeleine albright. we found him to be very impressive and obviously president obama, who met with him today in poland, thought he was impressive as well. he has a huge job, and a lot of what he does has to be done by ukrainians. it cannot just be the west coming to the rescue. he does have a peace plan involving decentralization of power. do you think that could worse, based on your experience? >> i think it could work. i think it's a good idea that the word that was used was decentralization of power. that is more autonomy for regions, especially ukraine. vladimir putin has recognized this election. poroshenko said on the news that there is a ver

joined by aaron david miller, vice president for new initiatives and distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson center, author of the end of greatness, why america can't have and doesn't want another great president. gentlemen, welcome. president obama met for less than an hour with congressional leaders on wednesday. what sort of options are realistically available? >> well, the options that they keep talking about are first, increased intelligence. both for ourselves and to provide the iraqi government. they're talking about option he of putting special -- options of putting special forces into iraq. then there's the special operation which is the one that seems to be getting the most attention and finally there is the idea of do we pull more people out of the embassy as an example to russ our vulnerability. >> what do done? >> there are no good options. its a little bit about like the crisis we've been in for syria and over the ukraine. the military options have very little possibility of achieving a success. it is just not in the cards to leverage military force at this point. >> aaron you

this is not woodrow wilson those guys took us into wars and wanted to take us into wars woodrow wilson and talks in a war it's you know. the republicans have historically been the anti-war party i don't get what's going on there so cheney peace was walking us through some of the significant missteps of this ministration i have supported right here on this show the drone program because i believe it was a very very useful activity i support the national security monitoring program i support the rendition program right now we have the president of the united states and the attorney general authorizing the interrogation prima rand of this particular new capture in a way that i think is harmful to the criminal justice system in america i think our . ever so pork the idea that we ought to interrogate and get as much information as we can i have tried to support the administration where we could find commonalities the problem has been the missteps that our current because he's got a hodgepodge of policy that isn't clear where he wants to go he can't close guantanamo bay because the congress

can't be a candidate that shakes down more money on wall street than anybody since i don't know, woodrow wilson, and be a populist." now, he sounds a lot more like today's democrats than hillary does, to me. is he wrong about her? >> well, governor schweitzer, it's an interesting line for him to go to and isn't the first line he said something like this. what we're talking about when we look biographically, issues involving the inequality. as secretary of state, the notion of inequality for her was a guiding principle in why we needed to stabilize in certain countries, that growing inequalities are actually a grave danger for societies. this is something that has guided her as first lady, as a senator, as the secretary of state. it's been her principle. so inequality, hillary clinton, go back and look at her words to the new america foundation recently -- >> i just think this is going to be a tough sell for her. hillary clinton is going to have the closest ties to wall street out of he candidate in either party. she was getting paid $200,000 per speech by the biggest wall street firm. the idea

seven years before woodrow wilson put forward his idea of a league of nation. theodore roosevelt, who is known as this warrior, this aggressive person, is talking about peace. his slogan for foreign policy was, "speak softly and carry a big stick and you will go far." he often used diplomacy. there was no major war that his presidency was involved in. he was, in many ways, a peaceable man. it occurred to me, being a historian, that no one in 75 years, when i looked into it, had done a separate book on president roosevelt about those four years. 1914 in europe. in america, we did not come in until april of 1917. roosevelt is involved in the war when we do not get in the war. there is this thing called the "short war illusion." everyone thought that the war would be over in three months. it would be a glorious war with calvary charges. nobody could survive more than three months of fighting. they were looking back at the wrong war. it seems like generals always do that. they were looking at the franco-prussian war.

next, aaron freeburg, professor politics and international affairs in the woodrow wilson school here at prince ton where he's taught since 1987. as you'll not fail to notice rom the introduction in your program, aaron has had a fascinating, and pleasant career. then he decided to found the hamilton society and hire me to run it for him and he hasn't had a moment of peace in years. he continues to serve as the president of our board of directors. finally, michael duran, the roger hurting to fellow at the center. he earned the bachelor's degree at stanford. doctorate here in froins. he serves on the national board hamilton s on the society. michael is, as jane austen might have said, a man of information. tweets prolifically under "doranimated" and 7500 followers is the most advisory mber of our board apart from john bolten. panelists will speak for 15 to 20 minutes and we may have discussion among hemselves, after which we'll open it up for questions. so, dr. pierce? >> i contend we are forgetting lessons learned the hard way, we we learned that secretary of states seemed to have lear

professor freedburg, of politics and international affairs in the woodrow wilson school here at princeton where since 19 # 7. -- 1987. noticewill not fail to from your program, aaron has had a distinguished, fascinating and an career. but then he decided to found the alexander hamilton society and to run it for him, and he hasn't had a moment of peace in four and a half years much but aaron continues to serve as the president of our board of directors. duran is theel ther her tog fellow at brookings institution, earned his bachelors at stanford, atters and doctorate here princeton, and he serves on the nart board of viefers of the society. michael is a man of information. prolifically. and has 7500 followers is the most popular member of our apart from john bolton. each of your panelists will for 15 to 20 minutes and then we may have some discussion among themselves, after which it up for questions. dr. pierce. >> i contend that we are forgetting lessons learned the hard way. we had we thought learned that american presidents and secretaries of state seemed hitler'searned after meteoric r

with me is the director of the brazil institute at the woodrow wilson center.you wondering the same thing about your home country? >> yes, and most brazilians are. brazilians are very divided now about the wisdom of hosting the games. they were very much in favor of the games two years ago. ds of brazilians now believe this will bring more costs than benefits. but there is a very healthy discussion in brazil brought by the controversy surrounded the world cup about public spending priorities. in a country that has an emerging huge middle-class that wants better services, etc. >> what happened in the two years? >> what happened is that a very popular president ended his eight-your government with an approval rating of 85%. ,n an economy that was growing he was replaced by a non-curis dumack -- non-charismatic and the economy is growing and 2% or less. we had news that gdp may be in negative territory. in this new environment, people are concerned. and all the works, the public works that were planned for the world cup, especially in transportation and related th

and we have the former advisor of the secretary of state and vice-president of the woodrow wilson.ron, there is a little bit of a back and forth according to the jerusalem post. israeli officials are krietizing the united states and training and saying this is part of the issue that you are confronting in iraq that you will have to face first. >> as a small country living in a dangerous neighborhood, the israelis are clearly concerned about the meltdown in syria and iraq. i am not sure it was a direct criticism of america competence. after all we spent 25 billion trying to stand this army up. and in a matter of several years trying to coup proof the military maliki undermined the effectiveness of it. israelis are concerned about the security arrangements in the jordan valley than they are critizing the closest ally. >> what do you think it should look like. other countries like iran. and we have an established partnership with israel. what should it look like if any? >> the israelis are focused on primary taking care of business. and that is protecting their borders and that is che

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until it was put in jeopardy in our own century or i would say the 20th century, by woodrow wilson's adoption of the notion that really as he said in his address of february second, 1917 that the american republic existed for no other purpose than for a reason to somehow improve the rest of mankind. not only to improve americans, lesser americans but improve the rest of mankind. this of course, this violated a whole bunch of principles. first of all the principle that there must be a correspondence between an and sin means. what possible means could effect the approved of mankind? how in heavens name, by what power on earth can anyone improve mankind? is it indeed possible to change human nature? is it indeed possible to change anyone's culture not less anyone else else's forcibly? common sense says no. america america's statecraft in the 20 century says yes. we can and we should try and we must. if we don't we are not an exceptional nation. one might add we are not an exceptionally stupid nation but in fact so much of american statecraft in the 20 century was promised on that. examp

. >> the war that killed 60 million, it wasn't as woodrow wilson suggested, a war to end all wars, but it did transform the world, recognizing empires and transforming them. we are live in sarajevo. it did transform the world, and it redrew geographical boundaries. we know that the assassination is the catalyst, but are we any closer to understanding the definitive causes of the first world war? >> definitely, this war was crucial because it was the end of one sultan, one czar, one kaiser and a lot of kings in europe. it changed the borders. it formed new states, an i would like to say it was an incident of group of anarchists and talling terrorists after the assassination. they said he was a terrorist because he killed innocent lives, but he had the guilt of assassinating prince ferdinand. >> it was almost farcical the assassination. he threw a bomb at the arch duke, and that didn't result in his death. so he went away and had a cup of coffee. then the arch duke was diverted. so he took the opportunity when the car passed his cafe to shoot him and kill him. and if he hadn't killed him

stirred on by president woodrow wilson and the crisis of world 1917, themarch 8, senate adopted the cloture rule, now rule 20 rule. unlimited debate. required a 2/3 majority to invoke cloture. that meant 67 votes. as one noted, free speech in the senate should still be the rule and cloture the exception. it remains the exception for decades to come. from 1917 to 1964, the senate introduced 22 cloture motions, fewer than one a year. over that same time, the senate invoked cloture just five times. five times in 47 years, and never did it invoke cloture on the civil rights bill. although it tried 11 times. illustrate,tistics opposition to cloture or any procedure that might interfere with the senate's deliberative nature remained strong. and not just among segregationists who opposed civil rights. some senators, particularly those from small or sparsely populated states, opposed all cloture motions on principle viewing it as a gag rule to is dirksenate, explained senate version to cloture is traditional. never supported cloture even when they supported the passage of the bill. debate continued

like woodrow wilson did to lead into world war ii. we're not supporting the afghan government. these five individuals will help undermine the very central government president obama said he is trying to help. and more importantly i don't recollect trust qatar who these prisoners have been released to. even if they're not in the field, this is a propaganda victory for the taliban. this will strengthen them and these five individuals can do thing from qatar. >> there is no question this is a victory for the taliban. by the way i thought we didn't negotiate with the enemy but apparently we do. more importantly, when we release these five to qatar, a what makes us think they're staying there? these people are determined to kill americans. >> that's my point. the government of qatar has said we will guarantee they will not leave qatar. we'll see. >> how can they do that? >> i don't know. they said they will restrict their travel which means they'll be free. so if you have guys running around doing things, they can start increasing their ability to command and control from qatar, als

joined by aaron david miller, vice president for new initiatives and distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson center, author of the end of greatness, why america can't have and doesn't want another great president. gentlemen, welcome. president obama met for less than an hour with congressional leaders on wednesday. what sort of options are realistically available? >> well, the options that they keep talking about are first, increased intelligence. both for ourselves and to provide the iraqi government. they're talking about option he of putting special -- options of putting special forces into iraq. then there's the special operation which is the one that seems to be getting the most attention and finally there is the idea of do we pull more people out of the embassy as an example to russ our vulnerability. >> what do you think should be done? >> there are no good options. its a little bit about like the crisis we've been in for syria and over the ukraine. the military options have very little possibility of achieving a success. it is just not in the cards to leverage military force at this

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james cox promised to be 100% behind woodrow wilson's policies. since wilson was wildly unpopular, as was the league of nations, cox received the most resounding drubing in the popular vote in history. today the country is on a slow recovery and president obama's ratings are low. that might make hillary clinton to distance herself from her boss. remember, the three people in her shoes who have won all ran on continuity. now, mrs. clinton's recent memoir suggests that she has not yet made up her mind as to what course she will follow. the book is a carefully calibrated mixture of praise and criticism, loyalty and voice such that she can [ applause plausibly go in whatever direction she chooses. history does suggest that choosing change or continuity, that will truly be her hard choice. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my washington post column this week. column this week. let's get started. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >r >p >>> according to dramatp dramatic ndramatic e could bebleak. $23 million worth of property will likely be und

james cox promised to be 1 million percent behind woodrow wilson's policies. but since he was wildly unpopular, cox received the most resounding drubing in the popular vote in history. today the country is on a slow recovery and president obama eas approval ratings are low. that might suggest hillary clinton to distance herself from her former boss. but obama, obamacare and other policies of this president are very popular among many democratic groups. and remember, the three people in her shoes who have won all ran on continuity. now, mrs. clinton's recent memoir suggests she has not made up her mind as to what course she will follow. the book is a carefully calibrated mixture of praise and criticism, loyalty such that she can plausibly go in whatever direction she chooses. now, the word today is different and hillary clinton is in a unique position, especially if she can truly mobilize women voters. but history does suggest that choosing change or continuity, that will truly be her hard choice. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" col

we tend to forget the history of that period in which woodrow wilson not only took us into a war that didn't yield the results that were advertised but he used the occasion for a lot of domestic policy making that were very delicate in terms of the economy and other things and lead to the 1920 election which was one of the great of our history. >> those are one of the examples of the american people pulling it back. it's possible that we are in kind of a mild example of the american people pulling it back. it seems to be happening in terms of where the american people are right now. president obama indicated he was going to move in that direction but he pulled back because the american people weren't favorable of that might be exhibit a in that. but the question that rises now giving what's happening in the middle east in the media time frame is what happeneds in that process if we find ourselves in a serious crisis. and crisis being potentially islamist fundamentalism basically taking over large swaths of syria and iraq and creating a kind of modern. >> in that context, i'd like to i

i don't know, woodrow wilson, and be the populist. explain that.at what i'm reading? >> well, unfortunately, we've come to a place in politics that you win elections by raising more money than the other person or the other parties whether democrats or republicans, you rush to where the money is. you go to the pharmaceutical company, the insurance companies, the big banks, you go to wall street. they're the ones that can write the fat checks. here's the problem, if they've been writing you the fat checks, you're beholden to them. what we needs a democratic party that stands up for working people, who says, we need to have a strong middle class again. we can't have a democratic party that is corporate like. that's the risk we're faced with now. we already have a congress full of people who have been bought by corporate america. we need chief executives that will stand up to corporate america and say, i'm putting america first, not your profits. >> david cay, have the corporations become so strong that they are going to be able to overrun any candidat

the problem is he's charmed with the ups nudge act written in 1917 by woodrow wilson to criminalize defensest world war~i and under the law he would be barred from making the defense to make which is i did this because it was improper to conceal and it the public had a right to know. you're not even allowed to raise that and his sentence of life in opinion would be almost guaranteedded. >> you're almost to release mode from the documents and we're going to learned the kind people the nsa was targeting. >> and some specific people as while. >> individuals yes. >> like who. >> i can't break the story on your show but the story is imminent. >> what does that mean, today, tomorrow? -- >> me colleagues will kill me if i give you a specific time frame but a it's really soon. that is the key to think about. we shouldn't think about powers we give to the government only when we like the people with the power or like how they're exercising it. the founders instructed us to think, do we want government have pear when people we don't trust are exercising it in ways we dope like, and we shouldn't want

this view was shared by woodrow wilson, who was sometimes caricatured, and he made many mistakes. but the actual plan for the league of nations was that there would be a great power directorate or concert, that it wasn't a purely utopian experiment. franklin roosevelt was as much of a realist as his cousin theodore. he mocked the kellogg briand pact of 1928 trying to outlaw war, saying war cannot be outlawed by resolution alone. roosevelt who came up with the phrase of united nations and didn't put a whole lot of stock in the actual details of what became the u.n. world organization, he left that to secretary of state kordell hall. he even envisioned great power concert with the regional hegemons policing the world, keeping the peace after the end of the war against germany and japan. he said the real decisions should be made by the united states, great britain, russia and china who would be the powers for many years to come, and it would have to police the world. so in different ways, in different decades, what theodore roosevelt, franklin roosevelt and richard nixon and perhaps

an educator in woodrow wilson senior high school. he has students with him here today. thank you for that. he serve pd as a student or grade level leader co-representative and co-faculty adviser for the gay straight alliance and washington teachers union. education policy at the heritage foundation, done extensive research around the federal government's role in education. welcome, ms. burke. ms. hoover, if you begin. >> chairman brown and members of the subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify at the hearing regarding the borrowers experience with student loans. my name is nancy hoover. i'm the director of financial aid at dennyson university. a selective independent undergraduate liberal arts college with enrollment of approximately 2200 students. i have been the director of financial aid there since 1994 and administer the implement of the direct loan program in year two. the endo youment allows us to award annually financial aid to 97% of our student body. an average of 47% of our graduates borrow federal loans and 4% borrow private loans. the cumulative f

in washington, d.c., students from woodrow wilson high school gathered for a counterrally monday against the westboro baptist church, which came to protest the school celebration of lgbt pride. last week, the schools principal came out of the school assembly. a proud gay man that just happens to be the principle of wilson high school. [applause] out whilencipal spoke standing alongside d.c. mayor vincent gray. on monday, hundreds of students and community members gathered to show their support for lgbt equality and to condemn the westboro baptist church members whom they vastly outnumbered. >> we took it together to be proud of who we are and be happy , like what we're doing is making an impact that this group bills after protesters. you can learn a lot about the standing up for your rights. >> when people come to my town, i'm going to stand up and be counted. >> and those are the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. a candle

joining us in washington, robin wright, middle east analyst for the woodrow wilson center.s. the strategy the president has, no combat troops in iraq, but he's sending 300 special operations forces, obviously, naval seals, army age rangers, n beret, these are men and women capable of engaging in combat. what is going on here? t >> the real mission is to get on the ground and make sure the iraqi military remains cohesive. >> which it hand been. >> right, particularly as isis mosts on the capital, that that's no fleeing these forces in a way that makes baghdad vulnerable. i think to some degree they're baby-sitters, making sure these guys do what they're supposed to do. >> with reexpespect to these 30 advisers, is that really going to make a difference? it's a huge military. the first sign of trouble in erbil, other places, what happens? >> i think the really goal is to make sure there's enough time t created. everyone knows there's no military solution to this crisis. that is has to begin with a new government. it has to begin with not just replacing the prime minister but a

aaron miller's an distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson center, author of several books on theed drones with hellfire missiles now flying over baghdad. what does that say to you? >> protect the 180 who are there and position for possible military action -- >> drones with hellfire mifssils protect military advisers who may be in the green zone, very, very heavily populated area. are you going to start firing -- >> because if we're going to collect intel, they're not going to stay in the green zone. forward operators will need to be in the northern area to gather intelligence and they need protection. >> you wrote a fascinating piece this week. basically saying a cohesive iraq or cohesive iraq strategy, it's all a fiction right now. >> it's tough because iraq confronts two major problems that no nation, even functional nations, can't really alter. what it is, its demockogrademog. and what it is. you've got a country that's sectarian in nature. a prime minister who wants to preserve shia exclusivism. you've got jihadis capitalizing on sunni disaffection. you've got kurds protectin

. >> thank you very much and thank you to the woodrow wilson center for inviting me here.it's also hard to follow dr. brzezinski when he covers such a broad bit of history, or current history. and he does it in such companies that such terrific terms. so some of my comments may be underscoring points that he made. i would agree completely that the think of the west needs to do is support ukraine. it seems to me that the best review to the kremlin's policy of the last six months would be if three to four years from now ukraine is looking each day more and more like poland. a normal democratic rule of law european country but and i think the west can do things to help make that happen from including terms of economic support, advice on things like energy diversification which is going to be a real issue today with gas pumps decision to reduce the gas flow tigre. i would second his point about provision of military assistance to ukraine. certainly nonlethal assistance makes sense, but light anti-armor weapons and man portable air defense weapons make sense in terms of making

you go back 100 years to woodrow wilson and the creation of the federal reserve system. regional banks, you have two in missouri. the whole idea of going back and re-examining that role. there was no support for these things which is an important point in all this. it is something barney and i have dealt with everyday. i've been asked a million times since the summer of 2010 why did we end up with 3%. i gathered the smartest minds in the world to sit down and talk about proprietary trading, with a long discussion, in the end i had a bunch of people that wanted zero and 10 but i could get 60 votes for three. you have to keep in mind if you don't get the 60th vote in the senate, everything dies. these numbers are not magical. they are based on the reality is that if you don't end up with a --the kind of support you need. we had to do things we were not overly enthusiastic about. you have to be mindful all the time. if you're not able to keep the majority of the house and a super majority in the senate, this is nothing more than a nice discussion. >> the gamble to me was th

i'm joined by jane harman from california, now president and ceo of the woodrow wilson internationalnter, newt gingrich, former republican speaker of the house between '95 and '99 who ran for president in 2012. rana far hoo har, assisting managing editor at "time" and our own political director chuck todd. i want to talk about ed woor snowden. it's been such an interesting conversation for the country. and we wanted to know just about how his own words speaking to the public might have changed views, and, chuck, you did some new polling around this to gauge people's attitudes. let's look at some of the findings that you put together. >> yeah, let's do. new polling we conducted before and after snowden's interview that we are revealing for 9 first time here shows at least for now his appearance does not seem to have changed many minds. more americans disagree with snowden's decision to leak nsa documents than agree. that number essentially unchanged from a january 2014 nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. when it comes to snowden himself, 27% of those surveyed have an unfavorable opin

. >> joining me now is robin wright, senior fellow at the woodrow wilson center and daniel benjamin whothe adviser to hillary clinton on counterterrorism and is with the dickey center at the center for understanding. maliki needs to go, is that really the key? is that what needs to happen? >> there needs to be a change at the top in iraq, but we have had changes at the top before and we also got sectarian so i'm not sure that we'll get much better. maliki has strong support and the shia constituency has strong support in iran and frankly, i fore that we don't have the leverage to get the kind of government we'd like to see in iraq. >> and we can always bring back jalabi. >> is he the best asset that we have in i know you have a lot of report when it comes to iran and the role they can play. >> i think at the end of the day there are no military solutions in iraq. we can certainly push back or eliminate fanatics, but we can't eliminate fanaticism through military force. we have to look for a political solution and we have to deal with problems that we haven't dealt with in the past eight

white house for the associated press, syndicate the columnist george will, and director of the woodrow wilson center and former democratic congresswoman, jane harman. brit, i want to pick up on my conversation with congressman chairman rogers. president obama is pressuring maliki to form a unity government but on the other hand as we've been discussing, maliki seems to be doubling down on a shia base both reaching out to the grand eye toe ayatollah sis. how do you reconcile the two? >> i don't think you can and i don't think the objective the president set forth while it would be very nice can come about in time to save the increasingly dire military situation inside iraq. it may be that the city of baghdad won't fall, but it is clear that much of iraq already has fallen and is in the hands of the most brutal kind of terrorist organization you can imagine. so the situation in iraq that the president described in the sound bite that you played before we started here is now gone, forfeited, in my view, by this administration, and by iraqi president maliki, who is, you know, a very ineffective a

the effort and this was really the work of woodrow wilson and establishing the league of nations the idea that this world this criminalization of war hearkens back and builds on the just war tradition that ran from cicero all the way through the great medial thinkers and actually if you go back and look at the just war tradition in just war theory which they wrapped up in a catholic legal theory in the church. the just war theory actually is much more nuanced and talks about lots of things we talk about today like humanitarian intervention, preventive and preemptive war and place to go well beyond the simple idea that any use of force other than self-defense is illegal. i also think it's a too shall make, so just as a matter as countries have not followed this idea just war or criminalized self-defense historically and i think they are doing it today and at the u.n. charter itself institutionally. there have been plenty of wars since the u.n. charter. they have never been authorized by the u.n. and were not in self-defense. the u.n. i think has been powerless, fairly powerless to sto