Shut. Inside were 45 americans. Inside firedards tear gas to buy time. When it was realized help was not coming, one of the Security Officers tried to persuade students to leave. He was immediately captured. The staff are treated floor by floor. One american who spoke farsi went out. He was immediately threatened with death. The americans surrendered. Host just a portion of a canadian documentary which will be seen later today. We want to welcome Stuart Eizenstat. His new book, president carter the white house years. Limbert negotiating with iran wrestling with history. In that portion of you documentary. Explain what happened as he went outside and then were taken hostage. First, thank you for having the program. As they mentioned the documentary, those responsible , the iraniany government, was clear they were not going to do anything. Or could not do anything. There, illed over reach the Prime Ministers office. The first thing she said was what about those passwords we sent over . A
A plan for order put forward by Elizabeth Warren. If you support the idea of medicare for all. If you are opposed, 202 7848001. If you are still undecided, 202 7488002. You can send us the text or jonas on facebook. Read your, we will tweets. We have a lot to talk about in the second half of the program. We will look back 40 years on those americans held hostage in iran. We will begin with the debate over medicare for all and new polls coming out showing joe biden holding onto a lead nationally, a lot of voters still undecided. The trillion dollar bet on taxes. That is a proposal put forward by Elizabeth Warren. She insists it will not result thep tax increase for middle class. She said private health forrance workers could work the medicare instead. Proposes a host of tax increases, the middle class will not pay an additional burden. The plan was hammered by republicans and repelled democratic rivals. Unreliable. Lled it republicans were blunt in there pretty criticism. Governor ben s
Washington journal continues. Host it was 40 years ago this week that 52 hostages were taken , an issue that consumed president carter and reshaped american foreignpolicy. For the next hour and a half on washington journal at howpan3, we look back it all happened 40 years ago. Just before 11 00, the attack began. They were over the walls and soon the chain on the main gate was cut. This was filmed by a student. The motor pool was behind the main gates. He right was the chancellor that house the sensitive medications systems. Thefront doors of chancellery had been bolted shut. Inside were 45 americans. Inside firedards tear gas to buy time. When it was realized help was not coming, one of the Security Officers tried to persuade students to leave. He was immediately captured. The staff are treated floor by floor. One american who spoke farsi went out. He was immediately threatened with death. The americans surrendered. Host just a portion of a canadian documentary which will be seen late
Lights in here, because youre all going to be on tv. Cspan is taping tonight. Im kidding, youre not going to be on cspan, the speaker will be on cspan. When we get to the q a, they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. So if you have a question, just try to wait until they bring the mic to you so we dont have to repeat it. The speaker will repeat the questions so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it or however they work it. Our speaker tonight is david robarge, received a phd at columbia university. After teaching at columbia, banker david rockefeller, media studies at columbia, he joined the cia in 1989 and later became a political and leadership analyst on the middle east. Dr. Robarge moved to the cia history staff in 1996 and was appointed chief historian of the cia in 2005. Hes published several classified works as well as unclassified mono graphs on supersonic Reconnaissance Aircraft and intelligence the American Revolution and biography as director of C
Warlike situation, relationship changed but the dependency of one group on the other continued. It was either about money or influence by them is pretty much prevalent in different ways through different presidencies weve had throughout our history but the history i cover specifically since Teddy Roosevelt administration until today. Host is there a reason you picked that starting point . Guest yes. First of all it was only so much time i had an life basically to do a couple of centuries versus one but really what happened was as we know there was a crisis, a crash, black tuesday 1929. Not want to start the book but when i realized when i researched that crash was a couple of the bankers that were most connected to the crash and most concerned about it including bankers from the morgan bank bank which we now s j. P. Morgan chase, if you trace them back, traced back to j. P. Morgan and j. P. Morgan was one of the league bankers in the country from 1890. There was this through line of in