henry kissinger on north korea. mr. kissinger: i think a better someould be to send private emissaries to the chinese and say, here is our notion of the evolution of the region, if things continue as they are. clash by military somebody is inevitable. charlie: the president's decision on daca, experts weigh in on north korea and a moment with henry kissinger when we continue. ♪ charlie: we begin with this. the trump administration has said it will end daca that obama era program that grants temporary status to undocumented immigrants brought to the uss children. jeff sessions announced the decision this afternoon. attorney general sessions: the program known as daca that was effectuated under the obama administration is being rescinded. the daca program was implemented in 2012 and essentially provided legal status for recipients for a renewable two-year term worker authorization and other benefits including participation to mostly adult illegal aliens. the policy was implemented unilaterally to great controversy and l

henry kissinger on north korea. kissinger: the best way would be to send some private .missaries it is our notion of the evolution of the region. military clash, it is inevitable. experts weigh in on north korea and a moment with henry kissinger when we continue. we begin with this. the trump administration has thatit will end daca grants temporary status to undocumented immigrants brought to the uss children. jeff sessions announced the decision this afternoon. attorney general sessions: the program known as daca that was effectuated under the obama administration is being rescinded. the program was implemented in 2012 and essentially provided legal status for recipients for a renewable two-year term worker authorization and other benefits including participant tatian -- mostly adult to illegal aliens. implemented unilaterally to great controversy and legal concern. extend benefits on numerous occasions to this game group. it deliberately thought to achieve what the legislative branch was physically refused to auth

he makes this amazing breakthrough, and he comes back and is talking to henry kissinger on one of the infamous white house tapes, and iago starts to whisper and he says you know, henry, the american people are a bunch of sheep. they watched me on television with all that handshaking and stuff in china, and you and i know it really doesn't mean a thing. y this is richard nixon not really being cynical about the american people but bad mouthing subkeys yet such a sense of inferiority. that's where, i should've used it in the book. it is a good line. >> you mentioned that for affairs piece of 1965 which he seemed to have an enormous amount of sophistication about asia are in the book you point out he had toured asia's vice president, part of his dutiest for dwight eisenhower and that he learned a great deal and present a lot of people. he seemed to have really takenry it on as a study too much of thh rest of his life. one of the things about the book they got attention as soon as it came out whe what you broke a bf news that had to do with the asian land where the avenue we shouldn't try

i was struck as i did the research that people likee henry kissinger and elliot richardson would write in their diary or talk on the phone with each other and as watergate was collapsing around him, they would say this is really a shakespearean scene of someone who has so many gifts and yet this tragic flaw which ended up bringing t him down in quite a shakespearean manner. he was iago to his own a fellow. he was whispering in his own ear, you're not good enough, they hate you, there against me, and in the end it destroyed him and he had that one final moment of recognition, some of you may remember on the last day he was in the white house, when he addressed his staff and family in the east room, and he said, remember others may hate you, but if you hate them then you destroy yourself. it was this wonderful moment of self recognition when he sees that the tragic flaw has brought him down in just the way he feared the most, and in the end, that's what he got him. >> i'm struck by your comparison to iago to his own fellow. i don't believe that mine is in the book. i believe you have set

secretary of state henry kissinger and now. reports. a nobel peace prize winner silence on the military crackdown of the rohingya in myanmar. is under international pressure as hundreds of thousands of the long persecuted raheem just steamed into bangladesh they told her stories their villages burned women raped and children killed. landmines another danger as they crossed the border united nations secretary general caused a crisis a textbook example of ethnic cleansing do you believe this is ethnic cleansing well i would answer your question with another question when one third of the growing a population of the country can you find a better word to describe it. as on some churchy is urged to take strong stands on behalf of the rohingya critics are asking whether her peace prize can be revoked the nobel committee in norway is no stranger to controversy or pressure throughout the prices hundred sixteen year history many winners have been accused of not deserving the honor in two thousand and twelve the european union received the prize

secretary of state henry kissinger and now. reports. a nobel peace prize winner silence on the military crackdown of the rohingya in myanmar. is under international pressure as hundreds of thousands of the long persecuted raheen just steamed into bangladesh they told her refix stories their villages burned women raped and children killed. landmines another danger as they crossed the border united nations secretary general caused a crisis a textbook example of ethnic cleansing do you believe this is ethnic cleansing well i would answer your question with another question when one third of the growing a population of the country can you find a better word to describe it. as on some churchy is urged to take strong stands on behalf of the rohingya critics are asking whether her peace prize can be revoked the nobel committee in norway is no stranger to controversy or pressure throughout the prices hundred sixteen year history many winners have been accused of not deserving the honor in two thousand and twelve the european union received the

secretary of state henry kissinger and now. reports. a nobel peace prize winner silence on the military crackdown of the rohingya in myanmar. is under international pressure as hundreds of thousands of the long persecuted raheem just steamed into bangladesh they told her stories their villages burned women raped and children killed. landmines another danger as they crossed the border united nations secretary general caused a crisis a textbook example of ethnic cleansing do you believe this is ethnic cleansing well i would answer your question with another question when one third of the growing a population to flee the country can you find a better word to describe it. as on some churchy is urged to take strong stands on behalf of the rohingya critics are asking whether her peace prize can be revoked the nobel committee in norway is no stranger to controversy or pressure throughout the prices hundred sixteen year history many winners have been accused of not deserving the honor in two thousand and twelve the european union received the p

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henry kissinger. when we continue. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin with this, the trump administration said it will end daca, the obama era program that grants temporary status to undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. attorney general jeff sessions announced a decision in a press conference this afternoon. >> i'm here today to announce that the program known as daca that was effectuated under the obama administration is being rescinded. the daca program was implemented in 2012 and essentially provide add legal status for recipients for a renewable two-year term work authorization and other benefits including participation in the social security program to 800,000 mostly adult illegal aliens. the policy was implemented unilaterally to great controversy and legal concern, after congress rejected legislative propos

he makes this amazing breakthrough and he comes back and he's is talking to henry kissinger on one of the infamous white house tapes and diablo starts to whisper and he says you know henry the american people are a bunch of. they watch me on television with all that hand shaking and stuff in china and you and i know it really doesn't mean a thing. this is richard nixon not really being cynical about the american people that badmouthing himself because he has such a sense of inferiority. i should have used in the book. >> you mentioned on the foreigner. foreign affairs page in 1965 when he seemed to have an enormous amount of sophistication about asia and you point out in the pokey toward asia as vice president and he learned a great deal in the press. he seemed to have really taken that on both too through much of the rest of his life. one of the things about the book that got attention since it came out was you broke bit of news that had to do with the asian land war that everyone knew we shouldn't try to fight richard nixon's round of fighting when he became president in vietnam of

i was special assistant to henry kissinger, the national security adviser, and i was in charge of orchestrating and putting together the thick briefing books for the president for his trip to china. my first impressions of beijing was a very bleak and rather depressing place. it was very drab. everyone is dressed the same. very few cars — mostly bicycles. we arrived at the guest house and to our surprise, they announced that chairman mao would like to see president nixon right away. this was mao acting like a traditional chinese emperor — not giving you any warning when you're going to be summoned to his presence. i've worked for many presidents, including several close up. president nixon was by far the most well versed and strategic in international relations. he was extraordinary. whatever his flaws, one has to grant him that. as a person, he was quite shy. he was always somewhat ill at ease in engaging in banter or small talk. kissinger and i agreed that chairman mao would always have exuded power and attraction. this is not to glorify him, he was a monster in many ways. we immediately

i was special assistant to henry kissinger the national security adviser and i was in charge of orchestrating and putting together the briefing books for the president for his trip to china. my first impressions of beijing was that it was very bleak and depressing. it was early drought. everyone is dressed the same. very few cars, mostly bicycles. we arrived at the guesthouse and two hours the prize, the announced that chairman mao would like to see president nixon right away. this was mao acting like a traditional chinese emperor, not given you any warning when you were going to be summoned to his presence. i have worked for many presidents. including several close up. president nixon was by far the most well versed and strategic in international relations. he was extraordinary. whatever his bars, one has to grant him back. as you person, you was quite shy. he was always somewhat ill at ease in engaging in banter or smalltalk. —— small talk. both sides had clear reasons for trying to reopen communications after 22 years of mutual enmity and indeed fighting each other in korea. when you m

i was special assistant to henry kissinger the national security adviser and i was in charge of orchestrating and putting together the briefing books for the president for his trip to china. my first impressions of beijing was that it was very bleak and depressing. it was early drought. everyone is dressed the same. very few cars, most the bicycles. we arrived at the guesthouse and two our surprise, the announced that chairman mao would like to see president nixon right away. this was mao acting like a traditional chinese emperor, not giving you any warning when you were going to be summoned to his presence. i have worked for many presidents. including several close up. president nixon was by far the most well versed and strategic in international relations. he was extraordinary. whatever his flaws, one has to grant him that. as a person, he was quite shy. he was always somewhat ill at ease in engaging in banter or smalltalk. both sides had clear reasons for trying to reopen communications after 22 years of mutual enmity and indeed fighting each other in korea. when you meet someone of histor

>> rose: i've asked you this before, so what do you say to the question posed by henry kissinger that iran that is to decide whether it wants to be a country or a movement? >> exactly what i told henry kissinger, we will make that decision when the united states makes that decision to be either a country or a cause. when are you prepared to make the decision that the united states is no longer a cause, then we will make a decision. this talk about being between a cause or a state is an iranian sepsychotomy. the united states has failed the to recognize the realities in the region. when president trump goes before thation general assembly and talks about iran as a deck tatership under the guise of democracy, he's forgetting the fact that in countries that are allies of the united states, the concept of ballot box doesn't exist. we're celebrating today as people, as women get a right to drive in some of your allies. >> rose: you suggested earlier iran would like to talk to anybody. what ought to be the conversation between the united states and iran about the future relationship between

i was special assistant to henry kissinger, the national security adviser, and i was in charge of orchestrating and putting together the briefing books for the president for his trip to china. my first impressions of beijing was that it was very bleak and depressing. it was early drab. everyone is dressed the same. very few cars, mostly bicycles. we arrived at the guest house and to our surprise, they announced that chairman mao would like to see president nixon right away. this was mao acting like a traditional chinese emperor, not given you any warning when you were going to be summoned to his presence. i have worked for many presidents, including several close up. president nixon was by far the most well versed and strategic in international relations. he was extraordinary. whatever his flars, one has to grant him that. as you person, you was quite shy. he was always somewhat ill at ease in engaging in banter or small talk. —— flaws. both sides had clear reasons for trying to reopen communications after 22 years of mutual enmity and indeed fighting each other in korea. when you meet some

i was special assistant to henry kissinger the national security adviser and i was in charge of orchestrating and putting together the briefing books for the president for his trip to china. my first impressions of beijing was that it was very bleak and depressing. it was early drought. everyone is dressed the same. very few cars, most the bicycles. we arrived at the guesthouse and two hours the prize, the announced that chairman mao would like to see president nixon right away. this was mao acting like a traditional chinese emperor, not given you any warning when you were going to be summoned to his presence. i have worked for many presidents. including several close up. president nixon was by far the most well versed and strategic in international relations. he was extraordinary. whatever his bars, one has to grant him back. as you person, you was quite shy. he was always somewhat ill at ease in engaging in banteror always somewhat ill at ease in engaging in banter or smalltalk. both sides had clear reasons for trying to reopen communications after 22 years of mutual enmity and indeed fight

bush to you guys go play golf or whatever with your friend henry kissinger who you call your pal who is another war criminal these are your friends war criminals and corporate supervillains your birthday party looks like the international criminal court of the egg all right you gave rise this could task to be going back years years the koch brothers helped fund and further bill clinton in his early days in politics through the democratic leadership council a group of wealthy staines who wanted to poll the democratic party to the right. up zero zero five five on that one guys you got exactly what you wanted they helped with the rise of bill clinton obama and would be president hillary clinton so your of corporatist a wet dream hillary the reason you can't feel people's pain is because you created their crying over all it seems hillary just lives in just a titanium bubble just an impenetrable massive bubble she has no idea what's going on in this country and then there's a book and go read about it there's no piercing that bubble that's all the time i have for today but we have live sh

bush to you guys go play golf or whatever with your friend henry kissinger who you call your pal who is another war criminal these are your friends war criminals and corporate supervillains your birthday party looks like the international criminal court of the egg all right you gave rise this could task to be going back years years the koch brothers helped fund and further bill clinton in his early days in politics through the democratic leadership council a group of wealthy staines who wanted to poll the democratic party to the right. oh high five on that one guys you got exactly what you wanted they helped with the rise of bill clinton obama and would be president hillary clinton so your of corporatist a wet dream hillary the reason you can't feel people's pain is because you created their crying over all it seems hillary just lives in just a titanium bubble just an impenetrable massive bubble she has no idea what's going on in this country and then that is a booking go read about it there's no piercing that bubble that's all the time i have for today but we have live shows coming

bush to you guys go play golf or whatever with your friend henry kissinger who you call your pal who is another war criminal these are your friends war criminals and corporate supervillains your birthday party looks like the international criminal court of the egg all right you gave rise this could task to be going back years years the koch brothers helped fund it and further bill clinton in his early days in politics through the democratic leadership council a group of wealthy staines who wanted to poll the democratic party to the right. up zero zero five five on that one guys you got exactly what you wanted they helped with the rise of bill clinton obama and would be president hillary clinton so your of corporatists to what drew him to hillary the reason you can't feel people's pain is because you created thereby. overall it seems hillary just lives in just a titanium bubble just an impenetrable massive bubble she has no idea what's going on in this country and then that is a booking go read about it there's no peers in that bubble that's all the time i have for today but we have l

i was going to an event henry kissinger was speaking at and the chair set can everyone hear me and from the side henry , by definition, the people who cannot fear will not respond. -- the people who cannot hear will not respond. [laughter] you're at the wilson center and today is another in our books at wilson series featuring the latest book by the remarkable james reston who is a wilson center global fellow. the topic of the book deals with a contentious period in the history of the vietnam war, and the book itself deals with the contentious debate over how to americans'ar and the role and sacrifice during that period. that was fraught with politics and contention over the appropriate artistic expression to memorialize that dramatic period in american history. the gold standard of book reviews remains "the new york times." there reviewed this week and described the book as superb -- unexpectedly affecting unexpectedly affecting in terms of the emotions it evokes as one reads it. it is a fantastic volume. jim has been affiliated as a fellow at the wilson center. it is remarkable the to

i mean in a logical world isn't that rational again you know henry kissinger once said and i was taking this to heart that diplomacy is saying the nicest possible are the nastiest possible things in the nicest possible way and president trump did not say things in the nicest possible you way yesterday but ambassador bolton came out who i think has been one of our most effective u.n. ambassadors and said it's the best speech he sent us president give at the u.n. in twenty years and i think sometimes you have to go out and call out the venezuelans the north koreans the iranians we act like these things are normal when they're killing people and threatening their neighbors and running concentration camps and torturing and murdering these things aren't normal i mean syria's a horror show and and i'm glad the president called him out i know people think that's undiplomatic and it's maybe we should do that plight company but you know sometimes the bad guys conduct calls for it but then the president comes out and says that. bill clinton and president obama were responsible for the most korean

i mean in a logical world isn't that rational again you know henry kissinger once said and i was taking this to heart that diplomacy is saying the nicest possible are the nastiest possible things in the nicest possible way and president trump did not say things in the nicest possible you way yesterday but ambassador bolton came out who i think has been one of our most effective u.n. ambassadors and said it's the best speech he sent us president give at the u.n. in twenty years and i think sometimes you have to go out and call out the venezuelans the north koreans the iranians we act like the. these things are normal when they're killing people and threatening their neighbors and running concentration camps and torturing and murdering these things aren't normal i mean syria's a horror show and and i'm glad the president called him out i know people think that's undiplomatic and it's maybe we shouldn't do that play company but you know sometimes the bad guys conduct calls for it then the president comes out and says that. bill clinton and president obama were responsible for the most kore

kissinger arguably did the great thing when he opened china up to the united states in this play he doesn't come off very well of course they need legal the millions killed in the end of china as well as well. in this play we try to portray people as they are talking about them so we don't have in the long little guys the woods you use about yeah we don't have we have it appealing to the actors and it's kissinger we just that's the characters have opinions and they get to enjoy them. in any bush just like this you're going to get judges of bias both sides and what you've would so far but i mean did they could to me when i watched it the right of return of palestinian refugees almost thrown away in a line in the play well it's because it was a key element in the negotiations so it's not thrown away but it's required to be a concession right before the larger agreement could take place so it's so hard with something as vast as this for the dinner plates just mentioned very briefly and as it is and it's mentioned as a key moment in order to make it possible for there to be the possibil

i mean in a logical world isn't that rational again you know henry kissinger once said and i was taking this to heart that diplomacy is saying the nicest possible are the nastiest possible things in the nicest possible way and president trump did not say things in the nicest possible you way yesterday but ambassador bolton came out who i think has been one of our most effective u.n. ambassadors and said it's the best speech he sent us president give at the u.n. in twenty years and i think sometimes you have to go out and call out the venezuelans the north koreans the iranians we act like these things are normal when they're killing people and threatening their neighbors and running concentration camps and torturing and murdering these things aren't normal i mean syria's a horror show and and i'm glad the president called him out i know people think that's undiplomatic and it's maybe we shouldn't do that play company but you know sometimes the bad guys conduct calls for it then the president comes out and says that. bill clinton and president obama were responsible for the most korean cr

kissinger said at the time that politics is not missionary activity my fear of the kurds of syria is that as the war does come to a conclusion that the us will abandon them and allow the turks to deal with them on that without any interference that's a possibility i hope it doesn't happen say the kurds the big aka suddenly in terms of economic philosophy that some people say it's of the neo marxist movement really not that akin to door trying to know it was well behaved turkey traditionally it was a communist movement but it is moved on a great deal in those states particularly since because of the fall of communism and also because of a dollar on the leader of the p.k. who is a true christian has and sells come up with new policies new ideas and was very much in favor of a ceasefire with the turkish government didn't want to pursue an armed struggle but the the kurds of syria are not case in any of them that have received support from the in their allied but they are not in fact. ok let's move to iran trump has been very vocal about his opposition to iran but yet all of his policies

i mean in a logical world isn't that rational again you know henry kissinger once said and i was taking this to heart that diplomacy is saying the nicest possible are the nastiest possible things in the nicest possible way and present from but did not say things in the nicest possible you way yesterday but ambassador bolton came out who i think has been one of our most effective u.n. ambassadors and said it's the best speech he said the u.s. president give at the u.n. in twenty years and i think sometimes you have to go out and call out the venezuelans the north koreans the iranians we act like the. these things are normal when they're killing people and threatening their neighbors and running concentration camps and torturing and murdering these things aren't normal i mean syria's a horror show and and i'm glad the president called him out i know people think that's undiplomatic and it's maybe we shouldn't do that plight company but you know sometimes the bad guys conduct calls for it then the president comes out and says that. bill clinton and president obama were responsible for the

henry kissinger famously said iran cannot decide if it is a nation or cause. since 1979, the regime has behaved like a cause, the cause of spreading revolutionary shiite islam by force. its main enemy and rallying point has been and continues to be what it calls the great satan , the united states of america. the regime's main weapon in pursuit of its revolutionary aims has been the islamic revolutionary irgc. soon after the revolution, the irgc was created to protect the revolution from its foreign and domestic enemies. they reported not to elected government that to the supreme leader alone. soon after its own creation, the irgc found a way to spread iran's influence abroad. came the bombing of the u.s. embassy in beirut in 1983. 63 americans killed. then came the bombing of the marine barracks, 241 americans killed. then the kidnapping and murder williamtation chief buckley. in 1985, a twa airplane was hijacked. the body of a u.s. navy diver was dumped on the runway at the beirut airport. in 1988, u.s. marine colonel higgins, a u.n. peacekeeper in south leb

kissinger said at the time that politics is not missionary activity my fear of the current syria is that as the war does come to a conclusion that the us will abandon them and allow the trucks to deal with them on that without any interference that's a possibility i hope it doesn't happen say the kurds the big aka suddenly in terms of economic philosophy that some people think it's of the neo marxist movement really not that akin to door trail to know it was well behaved turkey traditionally it was a communist movement but it is moved on a great deal in those states particularly since because of the fall of communism and also because of a dollar on the leader of the p.k. who is a true christian has and sells come up with new policies new ideas and was very much in favor of a ceasefire with the turkish government didn't want to pursue an armed struggle with the the kurds of syria are not case any of them that have received support from their allied but they are not in fact. ok let's move to iran trump has been very vocal about his opposition to iran but yet all of his policies would

kissinger arguably did the great thing when he opened china up to the united states in this play he doesn't come off very well and because they need legal the millions killed in the end of china as well as well. in this play we try to portray people as they are talking about them so we don't have in the long little guys the would you use about yeah we don't have we have it appealing to backers and it's kissinger we just that's the characters have opinions and they get to enjoy them. in any push just like this you're going to get judges of bias both sides of what you've would so far but i mean did they could to me when i watched it the right of return of palestinian refugees almost thrown away in a line in the play well it's because it was a key element in the negotiations so it's not thrown away but it's required to be a concession right before the larger agreement could take place so it's so hard with something as vast as this for that in i play it's just mentioned very briefly in passing is and it's mentioned as a key moment in order to make it possible for there to be the possibi

kissinger said at the time that politics is not a missionary activity my fear of the kurds of syria is that as the war does come to a conclusion that the us will abandon them and allow the trucks to deal with them on that without any interference that's a possibility i hope it doesn't happen say the kurds the big aka suddenly in terms of economic philosophy that some people say it's of the neo marxist movement really not that akin to door trail to know it was well behaved turkey traditionally it was a communist movement but it is moved on a great deal in those states particularly since because of the fall of communism and also because a dollar or two on the leader of the p.k. who is a true christian has and sells come up with new policies new ideas and was very much in favor of a ceasefire with the turkish government didn't want to pursue an armed struggle with the the current syria are not case any of them that's how to proceed support from their allied but they are not in fact. ok let's move to iran trump has been very vocal about his opposition to iran but yet all of his policies

i mean in a logical world isn't that rational again you know henry kissinger once said and i was taking this to heart that diplomacy is saying the nicest possible are the nastiest possible things in the nicest possible way and president trump did not say things in the nicest possible you way yesterday but ambassador bolton came out who i think has been one of our most effective u.n. ambassadors and said it's the best speech he sent us president give at the u.n. in twenty years and i think sometimes you have to go out and call out the venezuelans the north koreans the iranians we act like these things are normal when they're killing people and threatening their neighbors and running concentration camps and torturing and murdering these things aren't normal i mean syria's a horror show and and i'm glad the president called him out i know people think that's undiplomatic and it's maybe we shouldn't do that plight company but you know sometimes the bad guys conduct calls for it but then the president comes out and says that. bill clinton and president obama were responsible for the most kor

kissinger arguably did the great thing when he opened china up to the united states in this play he doesn't come off very well of course they need legal the millions killed in the end of china as well as well. in this play we try to portray people as they are talking about them so we don't have in the long little guys the would you use about yeah we don't have we have it appealing to bankers and kissinger we just that's the characters have opinions and they get to enjoy them of course in any bush just like this you're going to get judges of bias both sides of what you've would so far but i mean did they could to me when i watched it the right of return of palestinian refugees almost thrown away in a line in the play well it's because it was a key element in the negotiations so it's not thrown away but it's required to be a concession right before the larger agreement could take place so it's so hard with something as vast as this with that in i play it's just mentioned very briefly and as it is and it's mentioned as a key moment in order to make it possible for there to be the possi

henry kissinger. matt: another interesting thing josh green gets into in the piece is how bannon has cultivated this group of old cold war years from the -- warriors to help them build this anti-china narrative the with a built-in anti-soviet narrative. in the vietnam war they felt america was kind of preoccupied for obvious reasons with ending the vietnam war. in a series of meetings with kissinger at his weekend house in connecticut, bannon has cultivated him and gotten him in with china. kissinger else's career in and outside of government around china. he has been there 80 times. what is interesting is kissinger tends to fall on the opposite side of the platform when it comes to china. he is a globalist. he has not historically been on board with anti-globalism, anti-trade rhetoric that bannon is keen to push. it is interesting to see how -- we are not sure where kissinger falls in this conversation. it seems clear he helped facilitate some of these meetings that bannon took in hong kong. julia: t

henry kissinger, as close as henry was, never knew about the tapes. john ehrlichman never knew about the tapes. >> two people told me about it before it became public. i called bradley at home at 9:00 on saturday night i believe and said nixon taped himself. what should we do? ben, said, i wouldn't bust one on it. it's kind of a b-plus story. okay. the boss says b-plus. i won't work on it. i took sunday off and monday they called butterfield. i remember, ben came by and knocked on my desk and said, okay, it's better than a b-plus. >> from then on, it's a fight for the tapes. am i telling the truth? is the president telling the truth. what else happened? the prosecutors immediately subpoenaed the tapes. the senate subpoenas them. so nixon is early advised to destroy the tapes. ...has grown into an enterprise. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. now, i'm earning unlimited 2% cash back on every purchase i make. everything. which adds up to thousands of dollars back every year... ...and helps keep my passion growing... ...in eve

henry kissinger famously said that iran can't decide whether it's a nation or a cause. since 1979 the regime has behaved like a cause. the cause of spreading revolutionary shiite islam by force. its main enemy and rallying point has been and continues to be what it calls the great satan -- the united states of america. and the regime's main weapon in pursuit of its revolutionary aims has been the islamic revolution guard corps, or irgc. soon after the revolution, the irgc was created to protect the revolution from its foreign and domestic enemies. the irgc reported not to elected government but to the supreme leader. soon after its own creation, the irgc founded hezbollah to spread iran's influence and its revolution abroad. then came the bombing of the u.s. embassy in beirut in 1983. 63 americans killed. then came the bombing of the marine barracks, 241 americans killed. then the kidnapping and murder of c.i.a. station chief william buckley. in 1985, a t.w.a. airplane was high jacked. the body of a u.s. navy diver was dumped on the runway at the beirut airport. in 1988

henry kissinger is a prime example, james baker, brent -- the consummate professional, hardened realist. somebody who dealt with all sorts of dictators around the world and for him to say the hardest people to deal with were the japanese i found quite startling. but also telling about the problems the alliance has experienced. >> so, you appreciate the extra narrowly obligated relationship between china and japan, how do you approach the ascetic fear? richard: the u.s. is a very difficult balancing act. if the u.s. muscles up in asia, as someone like, it runs the risk of precipitating conflict, and in fact getting ahead of asian allies which want the u.s. to be there to keep the peace to be a conciliator or bouncer, -- for balancer, but not necessary fight wars. but if the u.s. leads a vacuum that will be more dangerous, because china will fill it. china already has this salami slicing policy in east asia, the sea, china sea, east china accumulating influence in such a way that it is hard to the u.s. to push back. i think at the core of what the u.s. has to do as long as the u.s. is com

when i was political director or the white house, henry kissinger said in government and politics, if there's bad news, get it out fast. because unlike fine wine, bad news does not improve with aim. and so i followed that. we told the bad as well as the good. we emphasized the good. we were trying to give people hope and confidence because the ultimate mission here was to get people returned to their commune communities and re build the communities. took jobs, took a place to live, took a place to send your kids to school. so, housing was the biggest issue from the second week. searching for survivors and for remains were the biggest issue the first week. so we tried to get the truth out, and you -- as i mentioned earlier, just have to tell the truth. nothing hurt worse than for people to fine out you lied about something. why i was compose inside i don't think of myself as having been especially composed imremember doing an interview with cnn on thursday morning after the storm, and miles o'brien, a political reporter for cnn, we did bit satellite. i'm standing in front of the govern

he had a birthday party purge henry kissinger who turned 94 and the two of them did 20 minutes walk round the world, no notes. i don't know perthshire hoping there was something in the water at the state department. >> as i remember george shultz said something, to be 94 again. >> from his point of view church house was still a. >> when you look back in your career which was extraordinary but would you say you are most proud of having done? >> with the caveat that history takes a long time to judge i think i'm most grateful that we stood up for their right for people to -- i know there were a lot of criticism and a lot of it is probably justified about freedom agenda and declaring one of america's most important services was to work hard so that no one would live in tyranny. i think america is at its best and its highest calling when it leads both from power and principle. we stand for the proposition that the right to be enjoyed are indeed universal and if they are universal that there are no people for whom they shouldn't he will secured. i'm very grateful that we were able to do that.

henry kissinger. matt: another interesting thing josh green gets into in the piece is how bannon has cultivated this group of old cold war warriors to help them build this anti-china narrative the with a built-in anti-soviet narrative. in the vietnam war they felt america was kind of preoccupied for obvious reasons with ending the vietnam war. in a series of meetings with kissinger at his weekend house in connecticut, bannon has cultivated him and gotten him in with china. kissinger whose career in and outside of government around china. he has been there 80 times. what is interesting is kissinger tends to fall on the opposite side of the platform when it comes to china. he is a globalist. he has not historically been on board with anti-globalism, anti-trade rhetoric that bannon is keen to push. it is interesting to see how -- we are not sure where kissinger falls in this conversation. it seems clear he helped facilitate some of these meetings that bannon took in hong kong. julia: turning steve bannon

one that has the virtue of being true as henry kissinger used to say is remember the last time the overcorrected for the presidential overreach and 74 and 75 there was a young man that was the white house chief of staff who was frustrated by that, his name was dick cheney so now it's come back the other way. at some point, we need to keep a pendulum in the right place and i think jackson used his powerw usually wisely sometimes not but he is a human being, all presidents are human beings and we don't appreciate that enough. i think that we expect they run for the job, by and large we don't go out and force them to do it, quite the opposite. but at the same time, we talk a lot about leadership in the country and we should, we should also talk about followership and about the patient, the virtue of patience. this goes to the obama question. he clearly understands this. the speech in grant park, the road will be lon long into the m will be steep, there will be setbacks, and in that way he was arming us and managing our expectations in a realistic way. churchill once said a free people can save a mi

. , if and more since the 80's you look at the national security archives of henry kissinger, and the reagan administration, trade as part of national security. a good ambassador, or the best ones, are able to combine trade and security issues in the thoughtful way, so there is double success. this seems to me the challenge with south korea, so important in our korean network. where weo find ways say the pre-trade agreement has its own dispute mechanism processes built in. the so-called joint committee exists. it doesn't have to be the topic of a free-for-all in competitive innking, because as i argue "hundred year marathon," both korean and united states economies are challenged by china. in the a common interest chinese playing by the rules, wto, but other agreements they have. i would like to see progress in south korean and american trade talks within the context that the joint committee exists, that the mechanisms are ready to handle challenges. this should be coordinated with both countries concerned about chinese competitiveness. they are outcompeting both of us. common interes

henry kissinger famously said that iran can't decide whether it's a nation or a cause. 1979 the regime has behaved like a cause. the cause of spudding revolutionary shiite islam by force. its main enemy and rallying point has been and continues to be what it calls the great satan -- the united states of america. and the regime's main weapon in pursuit of its revolutionary aims has been the islamic revolution guard corps, or irgc. soon after the revolution, the irgc was created to protect the revolution from its foreign and domestic enemies. the irgc reported not to the ed government but to . preme leader soon after its own creation, the irgc founded hezbollah to spread iran's influence and its revolution. soon after its own creation, the abroad. then came the bombing of the u.s. embassy in beirut in 1983. 63 americans killed. then came the bombing of the marine barracks, 241 americans killed. then the kidnapping and murder of c.i.a. station chief william buckley. in 1985, a t.w.a. airplane was high jacked. the body of a u.s. navy diver run way at the the -- dumped on the runway at the

henry kissinger is a prime example. brent scowcroft dealt with hardened political officials around the world. this was telling about the problems this alliance has experienced. jeff: if you are the united states today and first of all, you appreciate the externa early complicated relationship between china and japan, have you approach the pacific theater? -- how do you approach the pacific theater? richard: it is a difficult balancing act. if the u.s. muscles up in asia , it runs the risk of precipitating conflict. in fact, getting ahead of its asian allies, which want the u.s. to be there and keep the peace, but not necessarily fight wars. thatf the u.s. withdraws, is potentially even more damaging for asian countries because if the u.s. does leave any kind of vacuum, china will fill it. acquiring thisy salami slicing policy in the east china sea of the community influence in a way that makes it hard for the u.s. to push back. as long as the u.s. is committed to its position in asia, they have to strengthen alliances.

kissinger said in the middle east, is this a crisis that can be resolved? or a problem that has to be managed? and i think that in the 70-year life of the nuclear age, i think we've been remarkably fortunate. that as few nations have managed to nuclearize. it's rising from year to year but i do think we're in this very odd position where we have a nuclear threat in a regional conflict, which is an old pre nuclear age question. that's what china is looking at. china doesn't want north koreans rolling across their border. and i think that the place to watch for, whether this turns out well or not, is perhaps less washington and more beijing. >> a quick question. a serious question for people who have come upon this late. how is it that the only nation to have used nuclear weapons kind of tries to decide who can and cannot have them and certainly tries to pass judgment on it? >> we became the world's most significant power in the history of civilization. not to be too grand on a friday evening, in august, you could say in july of '45 when the bomb worked. ther