Mississippi in the 18th century. Enjoy book tv this week and every weekend on cspan2. My name is karen greenberg. Thank you so much for joining us here at the center on National Security at fordham law. Were delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is chris whipple, Award Winning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spy masters. Can you see it . How the cia director shaped history and the future. And well talk a lot about this book today. First, i just want to say, thank you, chris, thank you for joining us. A pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. This is actually a wonderful read. When i started it, i was sort of like, oh, no, this is going to be too much information, i wont be able to take it in. Its fantastic. Its based on, in addition to your own knowledge and research, its based on over 70 interviews and youve interviewed, among those, the leading directors of the cia. Living directors of the cia. Except for the current on
This is a wonderful read. When i started it i was sort of like this is going be too much information. I will be able to take it in. Its fantastic. Its based on an addition to your own knowledge and research its based on over 70 interviews and youve interviewed among those the leading director of the living directors of the caa except for the current one. Its really not going to say it, its not so much about the cia directors as about the cia directors and the relationship to the white house and the president. Would you agree with that . Thanks for the kind words about the book, because one of the things i really tried to do, maybe above all, was to humanize these directors. I was lucky because it is a cast of characters never couldve dreamt up, from dick helms act in the 60s was the quintessential cia director bob gates described to me as a james bond type character. Cigarette in one hand, dry martini in the other who could walk into the oval office and tell lbj that the domino theory
Documentable influence of large contributor networks on Office Holders comes at the agendasetting stage of the process. Not on final roll call votes. Thats why its hard to do the research. We have tons of exampled evidence of bills being especially kept off, not passed. Its especially the negative power of stopping a bill from moving forward, but also amendments to create special breaks for people. I dont think theres much doubt that this happens. The question is can you document that it doesnt happen in a clean election state. I havent done that work. But i do know that a traditionallyfunded state, especially working through Party Leaders, the agendasetting states thats quite important. Second, on the question of whether clean elections produces more extreme Office Holders, i want to get again, this time i wont get in the weeds. We have have a private conversation later. I just want to say that i strongly disagree with the paper that, the unpublished article. I have a different interp
Prosecuted for standing up for the president , he was prosecuted for covering up for the president. And done nighable is the parallel universe in which a federal judges ruling is received. Donald trump seemed to be priming his base by live tweeting todays proceeding and announcing in the next hour he expect stone to be exonerated. I want to address today sentencing of a man, roger stone. Roger stone. Hes become big part of the news over the last little while. And im following this very closely and i want to see it play out to its fullest because roger is a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion. What happened to him is unbelievable. They say he lied. But other people lie too. Just to mention comey lied. Mccabe lied. Lisa page lied. Her lover, struck, peter struck, lied. You dont know who these people are . Trust me they all lied. And of course trump lied 16,000 times and counting. Burt its comments like those that have us on pardon watch this hour. But even if justice doesnt ult
Longrange bombers. Right now, we are watching for a verdict in the Paul Manafort trial. Jurors are working through their second day of deliberations in a virginia courthouse. This before leaving for the day, yesterday, when they asked the judge four questions, including a request to define the meaning of reasonable doubt. Theyre deciding manaforts fate on some 18 counts of tax evasion, bank fraud, and hiding Foreign Bank Accounts. The verdict also carries implications for special counsel Robert Muellers broader russia investigation. President trump, of course, has been calling that investigation a witch hunt, and hes been applying pressure to wrap it up. A short time ago, trump was asked pointblank about manaforts fate. I dont talk about that now. I dont talk about that. I think the whole manafort trial is very sad. When you look at whats going on there, i think its a very sad day for our country. He worked for me for a very short period of time, but you know what, he happens to be a v