Page 2 - Michael Sing News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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. nbc's 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 transformational figure. he is a new generation coming into the -- on to the american stage, and for...

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 such respect and loyalty in a town that is not always known for either of those things. >> you know, ...

Wound up -- how the powell doctrine, he formulated it. decide what it is you're 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 what's going on is to go down where the people are actually doing the work, following the orders and instructions that have been given down through the chain of command. and talking to th...

>> 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 hour. >> jon: michael kirk conducted the interviews for this program and joins us now with a preview. ...

Because north korea has shown they're 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 side which i worry what the chinese would like to see come out of all this is the u.s. make concessio...