kissinger was an accidental list. you can read the 1950 undergraduate thesis the longest ever submitted to harvard university, 400 pages, and it reads -- it is tough going. but the echo of the 1950s accessed angeles on his present and the intense subjectivity that there is no reality other than one that emanates from our own individual experience of the radical freedom and tragedy and suffering is the hallmark of existence and there is no meaning to existence other than the meaning that we assign as individuals and people have a responsibility to act in the world. in the footnotes of course where the other accessed angeles use that different kind of morality from the accessed angeles from to protest the war and the entire kissinger used it to defend and advance the war and empire. so in kissinger's shadow to explain this how it manifested itself in its specific policies and that after he left office in his advice as a foreign-policy intellectuals. but the thesis is darkening that proves you can see how the fox kind of

kissinger represents. he kind of represents purpose. what i try to argue in the book there is a hollowness to the purpose that leads to circularity, and escalation causing more escalation causing more escalation. amy: israel and palestine. >> he was deeply involved in the middle east, particularly after the u.s. was defeated in southeast asia. and he was instrumental in blocking in the impasse. there are historians that write about this. one talks about how kissinger kind of locks in the current stalemate. he commits the united states not to recognize palestine until palestinian authority recognized the legitimacy of israel, but he doesn't demand any such -- he doesn't demand any such conditions on the support the u.s. gives to israel. but beyond israel-palestine, his support for the shaw -- amy: in iran. >> prior to the revolution, using the duopoly of iran and saudi arabia prior to the revolution as guardians of the gulf, was disastrous. kissinger kind of using petrodollars, the increasing rise of oil pr

kissinger became frantic. the written notes of a white house war council convened on march 23rd convey the conundrum. mr. helms, the director of the cia, dick helms, mr. helms said the enemy believed we might bomb north vietnam, something might be achieved. mr. kissinger asked how this message could be conveyed to north vietnam. general wheeler, the chairman of joint chiefs of staff, said it would be clear if we actually did some bombing. [laughter] then came a coup out of nowhere. that week a right-wing military junta took power in cambodia. forces started moving toward the cambodian capital 200 miles northwest of american military headquarters in saigon. nixon instinctively embraced the right-wing leader of the cambodian coup, a general with a name no one could forget, lawn novel. quote, president nixon asked me to draft several telegrams containing expressions of friendship and support recalled hard shall green, i -- marshall green. i was concerned he would read into those messages the degree of u.s. milita

he told kissinger told kissinger several times to his face about his dislike. he said write this on the blackboard 100 times. the professors are the enemy. the establishment is is the enemy. never forget it. that's the true nick richard nixon on tape. [applause]. thank you very much for coming. >> please line up to the right of the table. remember to fulled up your tent chairs. thank you. >> i'll be right there. hold on just a second. [inaudible conversation] a signature feature of tv is our all-day coverage of book fairs and festivals from across country with top nonfiction authors. here's our schedule. near the end of september, we are in new york for the brooklyn book festival celebrating its tenth year. in october, the southern festival of books in nashville. there weekend after that we are live from austin for the texas book festival. near the end of the month we will be covering two book festivals on the same weekend from our nation's heartland, it's the nation's heartland, it's the wisconsin book festival in madison. back on the east coast, the boston bo

and kissinger is a wonderful window on to those contures. the second thing there, has been a tendency so focus on the neocons much the way people focus on kissinger outside of context. i'm sure they loathe each other. i know barack obama dund -- doesn't like hillary clinton but i don't know how useful that is when thinking about the way that -- how ideology both enables and reflects action, and thinking about broad overlaps within the foreign policy establishment. i think that you can look at kissinger and look at the kind of irrational subjectivism of his will to power and see a resonance deeper in american culture, american exceptionalism to a great degree, and forward to the neocons, and the argument then, therefore, is that the neoconservativism is not an exception. if you expunge and distract the neoconserve differences from american history you don't have a virtuous republic. you still have what we have, just manifested in different case, and that's what was trying to get it's with kissinger's relation with the knowow -- neocon. >> i h

kissinger. kissinger had to plead for the president's attention. poor k they noted, no one will pay attention to this war. and it looks like lau is falling. on march 15, kissinger met for three hours with nixon, helms, and helms, and key members of the national security council. the president wasn't wanting to let laos go down the drain. helms and the cia, helms was blunt. the u.s. and the cia had to ask to go to thailand to send battalions of troops to laos without telling congress. the cia director wrote and apologize for my vulgarity, this is a quote i told the president i realize this was a shitty decision. but in light of all the factors that seem desirable. nixon commented, commented, it had been necessary to do on pleasant things necessary and this was one more that could be taken on as well. there is going to be no announcement the president said. we're just going to do it, we don't have to explain it. the political situation at home was no better than the military situation abroad. secretary of defense, melvin warned nixon on tuesday, marc

henry kissinger. i was curious about that because the president is clearly setting the policy and the various secretary of state throughout this. various secretary of state's were those that executed them, so i'm curious why you made that choice. the book is kind organized by president. the chapter on nixon is the nixon ford chapter. i really wanted to college because injured chapter -- i wanted to call it the kissinger chapter. i could not convince bill to agree. fory kissinger, for god or , had hisod or for bad own dynamic as a very powerful foreign-policy maker. at one point he was both national security advisor and secretary of state. he initiated this contact with castro without asking richard nixon's permission. it was right in the summer of watergate, and nixon was clearly going to be besieged -- impeached and leaves. he did this with the guy who ends up being president of national public radio, a longtime democrat who would provide perfect political cover if it were ever leaked that kissinger

when he was with kissinger. he could play all sides of the street. there was some question about whether hague was really loyal to nixon preview may recall when when -- and ehrlichman were fired in 1973 hague comes as the chief of staff and for the last 15 months there some evidence of hague being not entirely loyal to nixon in this period. i don't really know the extent of it because i think hague was playing a lot of games, keeping his options open but hague is a guy you would like to work or you but he was brilliant, smart, tough, great at shelving the paper which you wouldn't trust. [inaudible] >> the issue was how was nixon behaving before and there was a whole theory, not sure it's true but there's a body of evidence that suggests that. >> thank you for coming. would you be willing to speak a little bit about nixon's campaign contributions and then particular allegations about his involvement with. >> i know there's a theory about that on not an expert on this is all but i don't think there's any proof of

when he was with kissinger. he could play all sides of the street. there was some question about whether hague was really loyal to nixon preview may recall when when -- and ehrlichman were fired in 1973 hague comes as the chief of staff and for the last 15 months there some evidence of hague being not entirely loyal to nixon in this period. i don't really know the extent of it because i think hague was playing a lot of games, keeping his options open but hague is a guy you would like to work or you but he was brilliant, smart, tough, great at shelving the paper which you wouldn't trust. [inaudible] >> the issue was how was nixon behaving before and there was a whole theory, not sure it's true but there's a body of evidence that suggests that. >> thank you for coming. would you be willing to speak a little bit about nixon's campaign contributions and then particular allegations about his involvement with. >> i know there's a theory about that on not an expert on this is all but i don't think there's any proof of

that wasn't kissinger's idea it was nixon. in fact, when they told kissinger that nixon wanted a ticket to china his response in 1969 was fat chance. now the tapes are terrible. a lot of you have heard excerpts of them. you know why, nixon said terrible things, he made remarks were racist things, but i listen to a lot of the tapes, hundreds of hours of these tapes and my strong impression is that a lot of this was posturing on nixon's part. it's this kind of awful thing that isn't unusual for the period and certain type of mail that has has to showed a show what a man he is by swearing a lot and the swearing actually was no more than say the "washington post" where i worked. [laughter] but there was an arrogance and yet it contrasts with his coolness at other times. nixon could be very cool and he was good with world leaders because he didn't make small taxes he didn't even try. he talked about interest and not ideology. he got right down to business. he was a fairly cool hand in those circumstances. in his office with all the

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henry kissinger and mrs. henry kissinger. miss kristie parson and miss melanie yow. >> that's what they tell us. that is what i did for many years and studied. interpreting. >> have fun. >> thank you, you too. >> the honorable greg s cowcroft. the honorable catherine and mr. david. the honorable wendy sherman and mr. bruce. president obama: good evening, everyone. on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to our country. [applause] president obama: president xi, members of the chinese delegation, once again i want to welcome you as we honor the ties between our nations. [speaking chinese] president obama: in our visit to china, michelle and i is the traditions and cultures that span thousands of years. i understand that in china there saying: the heavens. i dare not stand in the way of the divine. [laughter] [chinese] -- [speaking chinese] president obama: president xi and i are happy to expand the cooperation between our two nations. people around the world question whether we have the same cooperation that we need and well

the national security council, kissinger, cia director, chairman of the joint chiefs meet. nixon is noncampos mentis because that week had happened the saturday night massacre in which the attorney general and the assistant attorney general quit because nixon ordered them -- against law -- to fire the special prosecutor investigating watergate. so while this crisis is happening, nixon's upstairs drunk in the residence, non compos mentis, and six elected officials put the united states on a nuclear alert one step short of imminent nuclear war. so there was some decision making that was just part of american foreign policy, okay? that went contrary to his own biases against what he called the establishment. he didn't like people who went to harvard, he didn't like people who were, quote, intellectuals. he told kissinger several times to his face, you know, about his dislike for jews, and he said write this on the blackboard a hundred times, the press is the enemy, the professors are the enemy, the establishment is the enemy. never forget it. that's the true richard nixon on t

. >> i asked the senior most statesman in the foreign party ren he kissinger what he makes. it is foolishness, but dangerous. it could have extremely grave repercussions. part of the problem is that china's government remains a black box and few understand what's happening that makes it easy to have the intentions to beijing's every move. take the recent decision to allow the currency tow fall. instandpointly denounced by politicians as an effort to flood the market with chief goods. over the past few years, they have appreciated substantially against the dollar and the yen. the chinese government appeared to be responding to western pressure to allow market forces to rain which in this case made the currency fall. that's why the monetary fund-raised the decision to devalue. the policies have been inconsistent and ineffective, but that doesn't mean they are evil. the republicans's rhetoric on china and mexico reveals a break down of the teart's ideological vision and develop. for decades they favored internationalism and engagement and free markets. in 2016, it's possible th

i asked henry kissinger what he makes of the rhetoric. it is foolishness, he said but dangerous foolishness. it could have grave repercussions. part of the problem is that china's government remains a black box and few understand what's happening there, which makes it easy to ascribe malign intentions to beijing's every move. take the chinese central bank's decision to allow its currency to fall, instantly denounced by politicians in washington as an effort to flood the u.s. market with cheap goods. well, actually, over the past few years it has appreciated substantially against the dollar and the yen. the chinese government appeared to be responding to western pressure to allow market forces to reign, which in this case made the currency fall. that's why the international monetary fund praised beijing's decision to devalue. beijing's policies have been inconsistent and ineffective in both the currency and stock markets, but that does not mean they're evil. the republicans' rhetoric on china, mexico and immigration reveals a break-down of

niall ferguson's new book, kissinger, the idealest. thank you, marlgt for taking time for us. >> thank you. this makes john kerry's job that much harder. the arab states are not happy about the u.s. getting any closer or coordinating in any way with russia. >> rose: and especially iran, too. >> exactly. >> rose: thank you, margaret. thank you. >> rose: carol, thank you. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> rose: thank you for joining us. see you next time. for more about this program and earlier episodes, visit us online at pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. this is "nightly business wide. report" with tyler mathisen and sue herara. >> four horsemen of the fourth quarter. with the ugly third quarter almost done, there are four things investors need to watch that could make or break the year for stocks. >> up up an

niall ferguson's new book, kissinger, the idealest. thank you, marlgt for taking time for us. >> thank you. this makes john kerry's job that much harder. the arab states are not happy about the u.s. getting any closer or coordinating in any way with russia. >> rose: and especially iran, too. >> exactly. >> rose: thank you, margaret. thank you. >> rose: carol, thank you. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> rose: thank you for joining us. see you next time. for more about this program and earlier episodes, visit us online at pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and >> the following kqed production was browsed in high definition. >> it's all about licking your plate. >> i should be in psychoanalysis for the amount of money i spend in restaurants. >> i had a horrible experience. >> i don't even think we were at the same restaurant.

new york governor andrew cuomo, former secretary of state henry kissinger, and new york mayor bill de blasio. in a speech, the mope made another reference to the sex abuse scandal, saying he accompanies them in their time of pain. he said to the sisters in this country i love you and that meant a lot to them. lester, back to you. >> anne thompson, thanks. let's go 20 blocks north where the pope is staying for the night on manhattan's upper east side. ron allen is there. what's the scene like? >> reporter: it is quite something. there's a huge army of new york city police, you can see behind me there. the townhouse where the pope is staying is down the street 50 yards from where i am standing in the darkness over there. there was a huge police operation a few minutes ago, a large motorcade came up into the area. it is unclear whether the pope is there or not, getting back to this area, there are no crowds here at all, purely a police security operation. crowds were here earlier today. once the prayer service got under way at saint patrick's cathedral not far from here, the crowds moved

to give another example about the berlin wall, i met him in november that henry kissinger said to him in november of 1988 that he thought maybe -- the biggest thing that would happen on his watch would be the very gradual start of a very gradual diminution of control. and the wall might come down sometime in the next few decades. and of course it happens within a year. and it wasn't because reagan said tear down this wall. when it came down that night it wasn't because gorbachev gave a specific order. but i think even more important in terms of reagan's rhetoric in 1989 and the end of the cold war was what he said when he went to moscow in the supper is of 1988 when asked whether the soviet union was still an evil empire, he said he was talk building a different time, another era. and i think that that really neutralized the sort of perception of threat in the safety union when it came to the americans. and it allowed for events to proceed very quickly in the year that followed. >> when the wall fell in 1989, johnson, former chief of staff to herbert walker bush, basically said presid

thank you. >> as sergei lavrov begins his rebuttal, i am joined by senator kissinger. everyone is scrambling in the administration from this very unexpected use of air power, the bombings launched today for the first time by russia. and we are told against homs and other rebel civilian areas, not against isis as russia as claimed. what do you make of this? >> i agree that this is alarming. and i just listened to what secretary kerry said. trying to get the u.n. engaged on this longer-term solution is necessary. this is highly problematic in the region and will continue to destabilize the region. and i think it needs a multilateral approach at this point. >> one of the things that you'll obviously be dealing with is the migrant crisis, because this is, clearly, escalated the war against civilian populations. there was talk at the u.n. of an agreement with russia and others to try to stop assad from using barrel bombs. now it seems that russia is not doing anything to stop assad. they are popping up assad. >> well, as you know, the number one victim of all of these activ

to give another example about the berlin wall, he said to me that henry kissinger said to him in november of 1988 that what would have been on his watch was the very gradual start of a very gradual diminishing of soviet control. the wall might come down within the next two decades. it happens within a year and not because reagan said to tear down the wall. when it came down that night it was not because gorbachev gave a specific order. i do think it is an important moment but i think that even more important in terms of reagan's rhetoric in 1989 and the end of the cold war is what he said when he went to moscow in the summer of 1988 when asked if the soviet union was still the evil empire. he said he was talking about a different time, another era. i think that that really neutralized the perception of threat in the soviet union when it came to americans and it allowed events to proceed very quickly. >> when the wall fell in 1989, john sununu, the former white house chief of staff in a new book says that president bush did not want to rub it into the face of mikhail gorbachev. he wanted t

. -- kissinger right there. [ organ music ] >> it's interesting today, governor cuomo meeting the pope and those in congress as a guest of former speaker, nancy pelosi, and other minority, was who we know, [ indiscernible ] [ singing ] [ music ] and now today, her son, meeting the pope, greeting. it's extraordinary. cuomo is a very, very faithful catholic and he could give a very eloquent testimony to his life. >> and had disagreements with the church on some very social issues. >> he sure did, but not about the importance of faith and the importance of his catholic education. [ cheers and applause ] . [ applause ] >> so what we're, what we were seeing before, vespers begins proper, he has to change his clothes, get in the same dress that monsignor richie on the right is in, the director of the cathedral, called kwoeur dress and it's dress that's proper to evening prayer, if you are a priest. and they've given him some flowers as a sign of welcome, and i would guess, i don't know this, that he's made the an hem >> will he goes. >> you've done this father. [ laughter ] >> do you know wh

>> reporter: well, we see the pope greeting henry kissinger who is in the second row, i believe. cardinal dolan is by his side. the man who you see in front of the pope here, that's monsignor mark miles. that is the pope's translator there to help him along. cardinal dolan also speaks italian so between the two of them, they can help with any kind of communication problem should one exist. but this really is a phenomenal moment inside. outside, they are starting to move out. some people are starting to leave. another bouquet of flowers for pope francis inside. to hear that kind of cheer in a cathedral is really remarkable. and just that boisterous new york enthusiasm that pope francis is now starting to get a taste of as he makes his way to the back of the church. slowly up the stairs there with a little help. he has a bad hip. you can tell he's enjoying every second of this. cardinal dolan, i don't think i've ever seen him smile quite this much. that is dominico giani, the head of security. he will put the flowers at the pieta the st. patrick's cathedral. he blesses himself. now

he's a noted biographer and process or of history and also author of kissinger. it's the first of two volumes. this is going to be a decade long project for you. >> yeah, i spent ten years putting this together and every morning i wake up and think it will be even harder. >> so when you go back -- let me just ask you about the book for one second which is what made you decide to devote a decade of your life to kissinger? what did you think would be constructive to us? >> there's nobody that contributed more to the theory and practice of american foreign policy. he remains the great strategist and it's extraordinary that nearly every president since kennedy -- >> great and controversial. >> there are those that said he's accused of war crimes. >> that's another reason for writing the book. he's the most controversial figure in terms of foreign policy so i thought it was worth writing a scholarly serious book that looks into this man's life and the first half of his life is extraordinary. it's a tale of a refugee that flees to the united states and ends up being ap

you made the, that kissinger did certain things during his time of power and that obama is doing similar things now, which if i understood you correctly you are making sort of an ethical parallel. that to me is such a facetious argument. it doesn't get to the real issue of either of their actions at ethical? so i just wanted to say it because you could say a bomb is doing similar stuff. >> .. >> >> [inaudible conversations] >> our subject today is the holocaust hitler's plan to eradication of european jews during world war ii and not the persecution began years before the war started and their pursuit of the final solution remains unaccountable to the hillside world until the fall of the third reich they capture the records the nazis kept and recorded the liberation of the camps with photos with the documentation now preserved in the national archives was used as evidence in the war crimes trials to document the actions of those who carried out the crimes and those that discovers a the results in today's featured book we have nearly 600 of their stories including my sister-in-law's mothe

pleased shockssed at the size of the thing i said henry kissinger took 1100 pages to describe three years. a hundred 65serve for 80 years. i thought what i might do tonight is pull out some of the around the this book soul of john paul ii. intention 3.5 years ago when i began this project. while the pope had been written amount -- andust an enormous amount, at that time 18 years, much writing came at him from the outside as a great statesman, diplomat, historical figure who only incidentally happened to be a catholic christian, priest, bishop. that seems to get him backwards. you can only understand this man public action if you understand it as the public action of a radical christian disciple, someone for whom the truth that the cherry -- church carries is not simply one option in a supermarket of spirituality cut the truth of the world. i thought it might be some interest to let me tease out this narrative and the goings-on that are told in this book. ofen aspects of the soul john paul ii as i have come to understand him in the eight years of our conversation and this project. the firs

kissinger will be in attendance. wednesday will be an even bigger day. tours the boeing plant, heads to a local high school, then attends an internet industry forum with the likes of warren names,and many other big including china's internet czar gates.ner with bill thursday, he heads to the other washington. d.c., of course. a 21-gun salute and perhaps more discussions than likehe'll face in seattle, america's wide trade deficit, change. human rights is always on the agenda. and perhaps the most prickly and cyber--ng hacking and cybersecurity allegations. yang jiechi, in an exclusive interview, says cyberspace cooperation with the u.s. is possible. >> china believes that china and the united states and other countries should really try to work out the, thes for cybersecurity in mutualof equality, benefits and mutual respect. up hispresident xi wraps u.s. visit in new york over the weekend where he will address nations.d yvonne? >> thanks, steve. we'll take a look at some of the other stories we're watching for you. here's doug with a roundup. been scram

henry kissinger, the former secretary of state, was there. speaking to some of the topics, the economy was chief among them. president xi said the chinese economy is still operating in a good range. interestingly, bloomberg pro-dex desperate dekes -- predicts change. one thing the president did say is that it is the duty of the government to stabilize the stock market to avoid any systemic risk. this fall, by nearly 40% over the past few months the evaluations was also an issue. he said china will not be value its currency -- devalue its currency. sea was alsona another issue. territorial waters are the big issue over there. beijing does claim about 4/5 of the sea must to the chagrin of its neighbors including the philippines and the watchful eye of japan and south korea. they do say they will not seek hegemony or expansion. espionage a, cyber very big topic tonight. that will also be when president xi meet the obama. --y say he is a defender meet president obama. they say he is also a defender of cyber security. they will try to fight cyberc

henry kissinger will be there. wednesday will be the big day. he will visit boeing's everett factory as well. as well as a finishing plant, possibly in china. according to the "seattle times." he will go to lincoln high school in tacoma. he visited there in 1993 when he was an official. in the evening or afternoon he will have a tech powwow, if you will. the chinese internet industry forum sponsored by intel. tim cook, jack ma, pony ma, bob iger, howard schultz, a long list of people. lots before he goes on to washington dc on thursday. then the united nations in new york on friday, saturday, sunday before he turns back. angie: what are the major issues talking about? stephen: i could probably name five and we would not talk about the -- we would not scratch the surface. trade deficit. at an all-time high. south china sea on a geopolitical and military front. china claims 4/5 of the south china sea. very contentious issues. climate change. we are leading up to the paris meetings. these are the world's two biggest commuters. cyber security one of

when i was political director of the white house, terry kissinger spoke to the staff in setting politics if there is bad news get it out fast because on like fine wine bad news does not improve with age. so i follow that. we told the bad as well as the good. we emphasize the good, we're trying to get people hope and confidence. the ultimate mission was to get people to rebuild their communities. two jobs, it took a place to live, a place to send your kids to school. housing was the biggest issue from the second week, searching for survivors and remains were the biggest issue the first week. we tried to get the truth out, you have to tell the truth, nothing helps you worse then people find out you are lying about something and it destroys your credibility. why i was compose? i don't think of myself as having been especially composed. i remember doing an interview with cnn on wednesday or thursday morning after the storm, miles o'brien the political reporter and we did it by satellite i was standing in front of the governor's mansion. he asked me three times in a row, why i was not being c

that is a famous term that henry kissinger used. the logjam was broken. it settled the boundary and extradition and all of these things. it was sent up to the senate for ratification. it was ratified on a saturday immediately with the largest majority of any senate ratification of a treaty until then. it is all done. one was an insurance case. the creole arrived in portland in december 1841. slaveowners who had been smart enough as had been the practice to take out insurance on the property, everyone has property insurance. they filed claims against their insurance companies for compensation. in the lower courts, the slave owners one, but the insurance owners appealed. the lawyer for the insurance companies was a young louisiana lawyer. i will come back to him if we have time. he was a lawyer for the insurance companies. he began by checking the slave owners. the creole was not seaworthy. it's crew was not armed. it is your fault. there was an insurrection by the slaves. the decision came out in 1845. the court said that the slave insurrection caused the

his biography of henry kissinger has just been published. carol, you have been following the story. carol: they saw each other at a lunch. putin made a brand -- grand entrance. they went into a private meeting, which lasted 90 minutes. you know, i have covered this president for six years and i have covered other meetings and this was the first time the u.s. officials came out of the meeting and felt like they were not arguing about the terms of what the problem is. they were more arguing about how to approach the problem. charlie: margaret, what can you add to what we may know? was only in the country for about seven hours. it was very much, i am here, making a statement, and i am leaving. their favorite tagline is, it is hard to get inside putin's had. -- head. this meeting went on far longer than many expected and it has stalled u.s. policy in many ways up to this point because people wanted to see, what is putin going to put on the table? he did not put much on the table. as far as hearing his vision about what to do in syria. charlie: how do you see the way putin played this? >

our quotation of the evening from former secretary of state henry kissinger the democrats have aa serious hillary clinton problem, and it's getting a lot worse. lou: top headlines, president obama has enough votes in congress for his nuclear deal with iran. republican simply don't have the votes. wanted in the fatal police shooting. the manhunt has been hampered by a vague description of the wanted men. a knew poll gives hillary clinton more negative than positive. the highest negatives joining us now fox news political analyst, republican strategist, national review editor, fox news contributor. >> it's the trump eagle. >> my guess is he will come up with a bigger one. >> more impressive. >> it's good to have you both here. let's start with the iran deal support. retiring the 34th vote. >> will republicans needall republicans need to do is stand up and do a filibuster demand within this document. being passed over their objections and the injections above houses of congress. at this time i just wanti just want to see them tattoo it across the presence face. a bad deal. what happened here

. >> i think it's a major geopolitical defeat for the united states, lou. 40 years ago henry kissinger and richard nixon had one of their great triumphs by getting anwar sadat to kick the russians and soviets out of the middle east. they are now back in a major way filling a vacuum fueled by eight years of weakness by the obama administration. >> where is this headed? a president and administration, defense secretary ash carter saying they were talking about deconfliction. this is taking the obvious and twisting it into the unrecognizable. for the defense secretary to say a discussion is under way on deconfliction, obviously iran and russia are further bolstering their support of assad while the united states dances blindly on the margin. >> this is one of the great side gifts of the iran deal, lou, is the russians and iranians are free to work together to inflict a massive defeat on the united states and the obama administration in syria. this is a play to keep assad in power. we've said he should go. the russians and iranians have said that is never going to happen. in the meantime w

china business council will be giving a keynote, as well as henry kissinger who was nixon's national security advisor. also, secretary of state. he went to beijing in 1972 and met mao zedfong. that started the path towards normalization of relationships. howard schultz will also be giving a speech, the ceo of starbucks. a lot will be happening in that room. big names in the audience. toie: no doubt paying homage one of the world's biggest economic powers also vying to be a huge political power as well. we got this tension between china and the u.s. ahead of the state visit. what are the expectations surrounding all of this? stephen: there are a lot of big issues that were probably taken up on thursday and friday in washington. the widening trade deficit with china that the united states has which has been building up by about $1 million every day. security hacking will be a big concern. climate change -- that could be a pillar of the major policy speech from xi which will include some technology issues and market access which a lot of people in this room tonight will be wanting to he

kissinger we call it an opportunity. coming up in the next hour, we will be joined by the latvian foreign minister on russia and the baltics. stay with us. ♪ "surveillance" exclusive -- the lights are on loan in washington -- the lights are on in washington. possibleent shutdown -- possible on wednesday at midnight. we need to get to top headlines. here is vonnie quinn. vonnie: there is a big transaction in the tobacco industry this morning. reynolds american has agreed to sell its natural american spirit cigarette unit to japan tobacco group. the price is about $5 billion u.s. buyingobacco has been cigarette brands overseas to offset a stagnating smoking rate in japan. president obama gets a major boost to the u.n.'s peacekeeping force. he persuaded leaders of 50 countries to commit more groups -- more troops. right now there are 125,000 blue helmeted u.n. peacekeepers deployed in 16 complex worldwide. during the general assembly in new york, mr. obama will lead a summit on how to confront islamic state and violent ex

our quotation of the evening from former secretary of state henry kissinger the democrats have aa serious hillary clinton problem, and it's getting a lot worse. we take that up. next. these guys are about to go surfing comeau but not where you might expect.expect. the story and video coming up next. you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want you driving around on three wheels. smart. with liberty mutual new car replacement, we'll replace the full value of your car. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. rubut then i got ap domain and built my website all at godaddy. now i look so professional, i just got my first customer who isn't related to me. get a domain, website and email starting at $1/month all at godaddy. lou: top headlines, president obama has enough votes in congress for his nuclear deal with iran. republican simply don't have the votes. wanted in the fatal police shooting. the manhunt has been hampered by a vague description of the wanted men. a knew poll gives hillary clinton more negative than positive. the highest negatives joining us

officials, cheney, rumsfeld, kissinger, were urging the shaw to proceed with nuclear programs, and there were also pressuring universities to accommodate these efforts. my own university was an example, m.i.t., under government pressure, it made a deal with the shaw to admit iranian students to the engineering department and return for grants from the shaw. this was done over the very strong objections of the student body. but with comparably strong faculty support. the distinction that raises a number of interesting questions about academic institutions and how they function. the faculty or the students of a couple of years ago would have a different institutional place. -- andts of the nuclear fact, some of these m.i.t. students are now running the iranian nuclear programs. opponents of the nuclear deal argue that it didn't go far enough. you have heard a lot of that. and interestingly, some of the supporters of the deal agree. demanding that go beyond what has been achieved and that the whole middle east should rid itself of nuclear weapons, in fact, weapons of mass destruction genera

secretary of state, henry kissinger, who called for a policy of u.s. energy independence. eventually exports resumed but the u.s. and the saudis, their relationship was frayed. still, thanks to a boom in our domestic energy production, u.s. energy independence now seems to be on the horizon. later this month, congress will vote on a bill to lift a ban on oil exports. congress imposed the ban in 1975 in the face of dwindling u.s. oil reserves. here's how sponsoring congressman joe barton explained for overturning the ban. >> no other nation in the world has the capability that the united states of america has to substantially increase our oil production, but in order to do that, mr. chairman, we simply must repeal this outdated ban on crude oil exports. the bill before us today would do that. it is a bipartisan bill. we have almost 10% of the democratic caucus as an original co-sponsor of the bill. john: should we lift the oil export ban? and you followed that history, right? pat: sure, the king met in the great bitter lake after f.d.r. was coming back from the yalta confer

that is the famous turn that henry kissinger use when nixon .pened china the logjam was broken. they signed the treaty of washington on august 9. it settled the boundary. senatese sent up to the for ratification. it was ratified on a saturday immediately with the largest majority of any senate ratification of a treaty until then. it is all done. let me mention, quickly, three epilogue events. one was an insurance case. when the creole arrived in new 1841,s in december of slave owners who had been outt enough to take i insurance on their property -- everyone has property insurance, human -- ppen to be the lawyer for the insurance companies, a young louisiana lawyer, i will come back to him if we have time later, an extraordinary figure. he was the lawyer for the insurance companies. he began by attacking the slave owners saying, look, the creole weren't armed, it's all your fault. the ultimate question was if the loss of property was due to the british authorities, which was covered by the policies or an insurrection of the slaves, which was not covered. a decision came out in ma

then at 10 eastern, greg grandin's new book, kissinger's shadow. and then coming up at 11, a collection of firsthand accounts from holocaust survivors by anthony pitch. that all happens next on c-span2's booktv. but first, damon tweedy on race in america. [inaudible conversations] >> so welcome, everybody. so i'm, my name is damon tweedy,