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This, we use the military as the default instrument of power. what we -- we're louzy at using state craft, flat terrible at it. we're lousy at using the economic instrument of power and we absolutely positively do not integrate all three instruments of power. instead what we do is rely on these guys. we use the military instrument of power as default instrument and that's partially a function of the fact that leaders and legislators, businessmen, everybody around the country, very few people have military experience. >> an interesting poll, testing public confidence in various institutions. th...

Xenophobia. a bipartisan approach to try to get at what is a serious problem. instead, by overreaching, they undermine and sully the very name of democracy, small "d" and they give bad image to those politicians who are there in washington, d.c., who are the bane of the existence of most americans. americans left and right are tired of this political chicanery. allow people to engage in reasonable governance and state craft and get away from this agonizing stupidity they seem to be obsessed with, martin. there's no other way to say it than that. >> but professor dyson, we've only had six heari...

Remake other societies. really the primacy of local realities. the one lesson i took from vietnam from the first gulf war and from both iraq and afghanistan is local realities trump global abstractions. i think the first president bush understood that. the second president bush, look at his library. what he wants to do is talk about the spread of democracy and freedom around the world. i do not believe that can be at the core of american foreign policy. >> i'm interested to hear you use terms like return on investment around foreign policy. what kind of grade would you give hillary clinton's e...

360" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. while the world knows thatcher for her public persona, we're left wondering what she was like in private life. we're lucky to be joined by a former aide to margaret thatcher in 2000-2002. you had helped her write her book "statecraft." thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> we're hearing about her lega legacy, wonderful things about her, also things in her legacy that aren't necessarily the greatest thing in the world. but you actually knew her. tell me about the last time you saw her and what you saw there that those of us who didn't know her might find s...

>> when i talk about the president's trip for me such a triumph. i've worked on presidential trips. it was both state craft and stage craft. so he goes through, he meets with leaders, he has this really emotional good conversation with young people. and then as he's leaving on the way out he sort of brings two of america's biggest allies who have been at odds and gets them together okay you guys you got to start talking. it was something to see. it's good for us. it's good for our policies but also something to marvel at. >> i agree. this was -- i was surprised by it. a lot of people were. peo...