The president encouraged all of us to spend time with the press because even on an offtherecord, if we couldnt answer their questions, we better go back and do more homework. The last thing ill say, one of my fondest vignettes of the press and reagan was Sam Donaldson, lou cannon of the Washington Post, Andrea Mitchell of nbc news were all fighting about who was going to do the last pool report on air force one or 26,000 as we headed back to california at the end of the reagan presidency. And my lasting memory on a portable typewriter was Sam Donaldson on the floor of air force one typing the final pool report and reagan came back to say thank you. Thats the kind of relationship, even though it gets tough, iran contra, my job in the aftermath of iran contra was to remind reagan before he went within shouting distance of sam or andrea or anybody else, remember if you answer the question on iran contra, you might as well not give the speech youre giving today because nobody is going to c
Calling for the same, calling for the house and the senate to come back from break to grant president obama for iraq and syria, in the first 45 minutes this morning should congress return from break to the end vote on policy 285880 and 2025853882 for independence for iraq and afghanistan veterans if you want to way in 2025853883. On social media reach out to us on twitter at cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan and email journal on cspan. Org and they took the vote in the Guardian Newspaper of bombing to start in hours as they backed the war, 524 for the resolution, 43 against and a little this morning from patrick winters saying the over all tone of the sevenhour debate was questioning and dubious and warned any strategy does not address isis in syria or the proxy war between i ran and the sunni on the other was incomplete and also questions on whether iraqs army has the political well to defend communities from isis assault in the uk. Here in the United States some members of Congress Cal
To authority, quite responsive to what a president wants and if you look at the various covert actions over the years and ill be discussing some of them, these were directed, conceptualized orchestrated endorsed by president s of the United States. Now, when we get into the controversy of the cia itself, i think its important to understand that when president s come to washington, they fall in love with two institutions. They fall in love with camp david and they fall in love with the cia. And when they fall in love with the cia, unfortunately, its with the clandestine aspect of the cia. Its Clandestine Operations and its covert action that they fall in love with. Harry truman was an exception to this and ill discuss that in a minute. When president s have had trouble with the cia, its been over intelligence analysis where i spent 24 years as a soviet analyst. And the remarks of a couple president s will i think demonstrate what i mean. One of my favorites is Richard Nixon. When Richar
The most important Strategic Initiative of any president over the last 40, 50 years, it was the strategic triangle of nixon and kissinger to allow the United States to build better relations with both china and the soviet union than they had with each other. And it was cia intelligence that provided the impetus to suggest that we could do this and as a result the soviet union would have to engage us which they did in terms of the treaty of berlin and the arms control agreements and we would end up with very good bilateral relations with both of them. So, the cia can be effective as a support instrument in this area. In terms of what needs to be done, because im running out of my time, i think we could do ourselves a lot of good by going back to that oped that president truman wrote in december of 1963. The warning about covert action, the warning that covert action is policy. And covert action, therefore, can taint clandestine collection and even taint intelligence analysis. That the c
Process. Abroad, our climate assistance now reaches more than 120 nations. And on tuesday i called on every nation, developed and developing alike, to join us in this effort for the sake of future generations. The people of the world looked to us to lead. And we welcome that responsibility. We are heirs to a proud legacy of freedom. As we showed the world this week, we are prepared to do what is necessary to secure that legacy for generations to come. Thanks. And have a great weekend. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] hi. Im tom tillis, the republican nominee for the United States senate and the great state of north carolina. Over the past four years, ive had the honor of serving as the speaker of the house in the state assembly. But my journey to get there is what defines the American Dream. I was brought up in a working class family with my mother and father and five siblings. My parents often had to work