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That worked for him. he expected a lot of them for sure, but theres no doubt that this is a very sad day for the state department, for americas diplomats and for anyone who worked for him. >> well, our sympathies are with you and all those who knew him so well. michael sang, we appreciate your time today. thank you so much. thats going to do it for me this hour. "andrea mitchell reports" starts next. good day, everyone. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington where we are mourning th...

Covid-19 related complications despite being vaccinated according to his family. we are watching for reaction from the white house. weve already seen tributes start to pour in for the man who served in high level positions for four presidents. a man who put country first. rejecting blind party allegiance and division. he was a national security adviser to ronald reagan, chairman of the joint chiefs to president george h.w. bush and president clinton and he finished his career in government as se...

I want to play part of what he told her about his personal experiences, andrea touched on this, growing up in the jim crow era. >> for america to be america, the kind of america i love, the kind of america i served for most of my adult life, we have to make sure that were opening up that america and the opportunities that exist in america to every person who says theyre an american or an immigrant, for that matter. im the son of immigrants. my parents came here in banana boats from jamaica, and ...

Sought out expertise and the respect he had for professionalism, the professional military, professional foreign service. you know, i think all of that sprang from who he was as a person, and how he came up from childhood through the ranks and into this remarkable positions he had. >> michael, kelly, and jack jacobs, thank you for your expertise, your thoughts this morning on the extraordinary life of colin powell. well continue to follow reaction to colin powells death this morning. were also...

More on secretary powell coming up in your hour. i know you have to go get ready for the noon hour. thank you for talking to us. michael, you knew him very well. secretary powell was famously not tied down by party. he served under presidents bush, but then both presidents bush. he was endorsing president obama. i want to play that moment. nbcs meet the press october 2008. take a listen. >> he has met the standard of being a successful president. being an exceptional president. i think he is a t...

Job many years ago, colin powell who died today as an exceptional leader in and out of government. back with us, michael sang who served as a special assistant to secretary powell. he was also a former senior director of middle east affairs at the nsc as well as managing director of the washington institute. it struck me that one of the things we heard from antony blinken was that people, his people, would walk through walls for him. you were one of his people. why? why and how did he engender s...

Wound up -- how the powell doctrine, he formulated it. decide what it is youre trying to do first, before you allocate resources particularly scarce resources in order to get it done. michael talked about how he went down to talk to the people who were actually doing the work. that was his mod us on randy. he said he learned going to meetings as a high ranking officer you learned nothing. the way to find out whats going on is to go down where the people are actually doing the work, following the...

>> jon: new information for you now a front line documentary takes a closer look at how and why vladimir putin was targeting u.s. elections. the intelligence community admits they failed to get washington to publicly condemn russian meddling in our democratic process. >> in the days before the election there was constant interaction between the experts at c.i.a., f.b.i. and n.s.a. we were monitoring and using our abilities to understand what the russians might have up their sleeve at the 11th ho...

Because north korea has shown theyre very far along. so it seems like china would have to do something meaningful to remove what they have in order for that to be effective. >> well, i think the hope with china that the trump administration has because north korea depends so much on china economically. that you could use again that threat of conflict, that threat of war that would be terrible for china to induce the chinese to squeeze the north koreans to come to the negotiating table. a flip si...