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Lobbiest turned around and supported the American People and passed policies that upset his former colleagues greatly. Host and gigi sohn is special council through the fcc and Gautham Nagesh and with the wall street journal. We look forward to having you back. I love the show. I will be back. Cspan created by companies 30 years ago and brought to you as a service by your local cable or satellite provider. Coming up, former graze congressman talks about his trip to iran and scott talks about edu...

Talk about a small world, though. It blows your mind. Back to your point, i arrived inat 3 30 in the morning and i think every light was on when i flew in. Was it thursday night . It may have been. Anyway every light that you can imagine was on and there wasnt a cloud in the sky so it was a great view as you arrived. We arrived and i should identify doctor here sitting in the front row and he was my guide as we landed there. One of the funny things that happened is we got off the plane and went ...

Records have been pretty much upheld a. Interpretation and application of the ethics rules is really up to the branches of congress themselves, its the committees to interpret that. Anyone else . Yes. [inaudible] about how congress can avoid ethical investigations. Well, i think nowadays, and again, jim kim service take to this better than i. No sophisticated lobbying shop pitches just on their ability to have, you know, who they know and have contacts, and certainly, nobody pitches on the basis...

Answer. All the opposite side has to do is to stop supporting a bill that would allow the biggest banks in america to rip off the people one more time. We bailed out the richest banks in america with the peoples money. The people do not want that anymore. And so this provision thats in the bill that would allow them to basically put us all at risk because they want to trade these derivatives and be protected with fdic cannot go on. And so there are a lot of other things in this bill thats unacce...

To fully declassify a march 13, 2003, cable from c. I. A. Field officers to headquarters. This cable provides information about the Bush Administrations campaign to build public support for the iraq invasion. One part of that campaign was the repeated misleading suggestions that mohamed atta, leader of the 9 11 hijackers, had met with an iraqi intelligence official in prague. I received a letter from director brennan making public for the first time some of the cables contents. He quotes the cab...

It may be at the point where it may be right to do that. Dan . The answer in my mind, i guess there is a distinction with triangulation. I guess the president is throwing his party overboard to work with republicans that rarely works. I would suggest to some degree it is not that complicated a question. If you have a divided government and want to get something done, you have got to work with the other party. I draw the contrast to that. I was stills immediate predecessor. President bush left an...

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming out to our first public event of the year for the task force. Let me thank the Atlantic Council and the Plowshares Fund for the generous support. We have been going on for four years and i must say that the news keeps getting better. Some positive indications about the nuclear talks. But we are here to talk about the people to people aspects of the u. S. Iran relationship which are maybe more important in some ways than the technicalities of how man...

Been a lot of talk about what the neighbors are allies in the region have identified a problem with it cuban u. S. Policy so what is really the best way we can engage some of these partners in the region who now can point to a change in policy to use them in a way to help bring about liberties and democracy in cuba that we all want to . Whats the strategy for effectively engaging others in the region to be partners in this work now but the policy has begun to change . The second is how can we as...

Heavy weight exposed by a cyber atook on sony. Attacks on big stars like tom cruise, and they wont like whats said about them. On the bright side, golden globe nominations out today, it was who was not nominatining getting the most attention today, thursday, december 11, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome, its thursday, if you live in hollywood, its all about you this morning, good and bad. Good side...

Castros revolution. We had an ambassador who worked very hard in 1959 and 1960 to see if he could findni Common Ground for coexistence. That didnt work. Bonds were broken. After the missile crises there was an opportunity because the cubans were upset with the soviet union and president kennedy opened secret channels to see if there was a possibility of normalization. That dialogue ended with kennedys assassination. Rose mike rogers, William Leogrande and Peter Kombluh when we continue. Rose add...