From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Good evening. Im al hunt filling in for charlie rose. We begin with retired general carter ham. He oversaw u. S. Defense interest in libya and nigeria. He was a Top Commander in iraq. He was one of the few Army Privates who rose to four star. I am pleased to have him. Thank you. Happy to be here. Is al qaeda on the rise . It is very episodic. It depends on what locale you look at. That is one of the challenges of africa. We as americans have a tendency to look at africa as a whole. It is quite diverse. In east africa, alshabaab has largely controlled somali for a long time, is on the back foot. Certainly very violent, in the Westgate Mall attacks, heavily populated resort areas previous tracking capability. They dont control nearly as much of somalia as they used to. In general there was a sense after we kill bin laden they were in decline. We had beaten them. Did we miscalculate . What should we do with these new challenges . On
To deal with the emotional scars of those who bear unbelievable torture at the end of the chinese to cater ship has helped many, many people get some normality back to their lives. They lived in china in 2014 and when he came to the u. S. To continue his academic pursuit. If you could begin. Mr. Chairman, thank you for this hearing. As far as i can remember, this is the 16th hearing you host on human rights issues in china. Thank you very much for your leadership. And your statements and your words and actions and that of other congressional leaders made clear that we have been fighting not alone. Thank you very much for your leadership and support. Today i will not repeat myself for my personal account of the tiananmen massacre. Instead i will try to provide you, mr. Tribune and other congressional leaders, a window to reach that will probably help you understand better the political situation in china and the direction that is taken. 25 years ago, the Chinese Students and citizens in
Torture than believing you have to maintain control on other human beings by weaponry and by those kinds of cowardly acts that we witnessed in Tiananmen Square. The chinese totalitarian government must not be allowed to last. Democracy must prevail and be the order of the day. On us, especially with chairman smith at the helm, to be steadfast and to be your friends in the fight for keeping liberty and freedom on the forefront. For being that example, having that courage, the guts, the fortitude. You are an inspiration to us. Emocracy will flourish of freedom will survive because of you and others like you. I thank you for being here and thank you for your courage, your willingness to participate, and dont ever. Thank you very much. I yield back. Thank you. I cant believe it has been 25 years. It has gone by rather quick in a way. I think our chairman for fighting for individuals who want freedom. 25 years ago, in Tiananmen Square, they built a statue of liberty. Many of my friends were
Then at 9 p. M. Ezekiel emanuel is on after words talking about his book, reinventing American Health care. At 10 eastern, tim townsend tells the story of an American Army chaplain who was tasked with providing spiritual support to nazis during the nuremberg trial. And we wrap up at 11 p. M. Eastern with ann scott tyson. She describes the career of special forces major jim grant who developed a strategy to embed special forces in afghan villages to fight alongside Afghan Soldiers against alqaeda. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. The roots into jewish history for most people and thats true in the United States as well, i think is essentially the great, difficult, contentious issues of the holocaust. Well, the holocausts not contentious, but what does it command . It commands a minority of lunatics and monsters denial or it commands reverence. A properly heavy fence of sorrow. The middle eastern, the Israeli Palestinian conference, of course, exercises especially in europe pro
Right, i theyre not really the people who [inaudible] [inaudible] who are you waiting at . Okay. Its very disappointing. I found as a reporter its been difficult to get stories on balochistan into my own paper. Occasionally i will do a reporting trip and i will get the story, but i cant go down there very often because its one of those very forgotten places and very forgotten wars. I think the same comes with the administration. Its something they are not, they have mentioned occasionally, i know when they have that talks, but its very low down the list. I think what carlotta was saying about the crimes been committed there again, the People Living there, you know, all around the world when those crimes are reported widely enough and attention is brought to bear on them, then typically outside parties, whether that be the United States or european union, will feel obligated to be involved. And i think one of the strengths of pakistans military Intelligence Agency has been to really con