Historian talks about the evolving nature of the relationship between president s and they are cia directors, and how it is influenced by the president s needs and interests. One director, George H W Bush later became president himself. Smithsonian hosted this program. Good evening everyone. Its a pleasure to welcome you for our program. If you could put away our cell phones, we would appreciate it. If you are wondering why there are bright lights in here, you are going to be on tv. Im kidding, the speaker is going to be on cspan. When we get to the q a, wait until we bring the mic to you. The speaker will repeat the question so you can hear it. Our speaker is andr teaching at columbia working for David Rockefeller he joined the cia in 1980 nine and became a Political Leadership analyst on the middle east. Moved to the history staff in 1996 and was appointed chief historian of the cia in 1955. And his biography as director of Central Intelligence was recently declassified. Reviewscles
headquarters in new york city, a huge turnaround, the cook political report has new analysis showing it s a toss-up. that s a pretty stunning shift from months ago, where headline after headline predicted a republican wave. thanks to a string of legislative wins and galvanizing issues like abortion, democrats now have motivation and momentum on their side. on the other side, many far-right republicans are struggling, unable to connect with moderate i m at wegner s. my wife wants some vegetables for crudite. this is $20, and we have joe biden to thank for this. john fetterman has been fund-raising off that video all week. this is the kind of thing that mitch mcconnell to admit he has concerns. i think there s a greater likelihood that the house flips than the senate. senate races are different. they re statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. looking at various numbers, you can see the shift happening in real time. politico shows democrats up fo
playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat
Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end
Theyre going. It could also be the putin regime is feeling a little bit uncertain and they want to demonstrate areas where they are strong to try to sort of prevent any uncertainty within the United States from leading to some sort of a strong response against putin. Hockenberry we conclude with seth myers interview with author George Saunders, book is called lincoln in the bardo. I noticed every time i had an artistic thing work out, my mind would go to that, you know, what do you think. In 2012, i finished my last book, the idea showed up. I was, like, why dont i try that . And the answers were its too hard, too earnest and would require too much heart of you. I thought, okay, im 58. Ill at least try it. I gave myself a window, at least three months to goof around with it and it game came alive. Hockenberry russia and a new novel by George Saunders when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and In