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Hello im David Rubenstein at the library of congress in washington, d. C. As part of the National Book festival and we are pleased today to have Washington State bob gates whos written a book called exercise from power which ive read and recommend. We are going to talk about this book and a little bit about bobs career. I should point out we worked together along time ago about four decades ago in the Carter White House when i was the deputy and bob gates was executive assistant. So in those day...

Are still there and we never change them theyre still dangerous and in some ways theyre more dangerous than ever because people are focused on other issues and they simply dont see the dangers that we face and sent in to parry why isnt it discussed. Thats that course is too deep for me to answer psychological question to fundamentally. When the cold war ended the danger and the worried that people had the fear that people had about a Nuclear Catastrophe just ended with it and they just dont want...

We face today is blundering into nuclear war by mistake thats the threat we should focus on thats the right threat and by focusing on the wrong threat yesterdays threat of a russian intentional attack rationally making the threat of a blunder even worse. Hypothetically mr secretary give me an example of what would be a blundering threat i think the most obvious example is a false alarm that we have had now during the cold war 3 different false alarms. More of them i personally experienced by get...

True why well i think what happened is that a lot of policies that we had for the cold war for the arms race we had with the soviet union those policies never changed when the cold war ended and so as bill said people have moved on cerns have moved on to other issues but the old policies are still there and we never change them theyre still dangerous and in some ways theyre more dangerous than ever because people are focused on other issues and they simply dont see the dangers that we face and s...

A Nuclear Catastrophe is actually greater now was during the cold war and were entered into a new arms race is dangerousness cost is the one in the cold war tom if thats true why well i think what happened is that a lot of policies that we had for the cold war for the arms race we had with the soviet union those policies never changed it when the cold war ended and so as bill said people have moved on their cerns have moved on to other issues but the old policies are still there and we never cha...

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But for donald trump he could do no right. What sense of what is driving this in the extreme media that you are a part of . First of all there is a bias against republicans in general and to be portrayed as dangerous and like donald trump he is stupid and dangerous according to the media. We just cannot break out of that. They feel if they did they would be ostracized by their colleagues within the white house correspondents cobol feel among themselves they laugh at him, they mocked him , that i...

And International Studies this is about one hour. [inaudible conversations] welcome back. Cliff, happy birthday. You are welcome. It is all for you. I really am delighted to welcome general joseph votel for our keynote address today. He currently serves as ceo and president of Business Executives for National Security and he joined their in january 2020 following 89 years of distinguished military service and served for three years as commander of u. S. Central command and prior to serving as co...

Cspan2. Former state department and National Security officials testified on the Trump Administrations iran policy before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Secretary of state mike pompeo declined an invitation to testify on the president s decision to kill iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Committee chair representative eliot engel threatened to subpoena secretary pompeo in order to obtain information on the u. S. Drone strike. Subject to limitation in the rules. Before i begin, i want to mak...

Former state department and National Security officials testified on the Trump Administrations ive been policy. Secretary of state mike pompeo declined an invitation to testify on the decision to kill soleimani. The Committee Chair threatened to subpoena secretary pompeo in order to obtain information on the u. S. Drone strike. Before i begin, i want to get i want to make the big announcement. Happy birthday. I am 35 years once again. Me too. We had here today to examine Trump Administration pol...