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About his 1987 book the art of the deal. He kept saying we needed a president who could write a book like this. It sort of embodied who he was. So i figured i would read it. I never read art of the deal. I thought i might write something about it for the post. I learned he had written many books. Three memoirs, Business Advice books, even a golf book. So i decided to pick a few of them. Brian why did he interest you, other than the obvious . Carlos a lot of politicians memoirs tend to be sort of formulaic. They are prescreened and scrubbed. They project sort of this bland wholesomeness and all americanness. Trump wrote his before he intended to run for president ever. The first was when he was 41 years old. I thought they might tell me something about him. I thought he would be more interesting than reading all the other sort of longterm politicians, which is the same reason i ended up reading ben carsons books too. Brian what is ....
Long term . I can remember arriving in rio to see the saudi text with the entire text of the Framework Convention in brackets. And i know that theres still a concern that russia has been difficult to deal with on this issue for many years. But i dont want to answer the question. What is the where are the big challenges, do you think . Yeah, well so, theres two different ways to anxious that question. If you mean in the context of the Ongoing International negotiations thats kind of the i guess i mean both, the negotiations and the real world on the ground. Okay. So, with respect to negotiations, the short answer is i dont think we know yet. I think that there i mean, going into these negotiations there were various groupings of countries who were at least from our point of view and from the point of view of any number of countries who were seeking a certain kind ....
Has a new book, irancontra, which is based on an extraordinary amounts of research and documents and diaries and interviews with individuals with a truly a mountain of material and documents the tunnel think anyone else has ever systematically and seriously looked at a lesser prosecutor. In the end user butchers would not look as well as they should have permitted the picture that emerges out of changes are damaged artery in. I think it changes in a somewhat disturbing point too often the president and his aides to a correction first and worried whether it was proper later. Proper and legal later. At the heart of the scandal were to secret intelligence operations which is what the intelligence wants to focus on the spirit to one in Central America and one in the run. Shes to intelligence operations were never properly notified to the congress of the United States. Theyre for ....
This is pretty this is press pass. Taking a look at how we wage war in the modern age from the point of view of one soldier who studied it in the classroom. Lieutenant colonel john nagle fought in both gulf cars. He is out with his own book knife fight. He joins me now. The review of your book from Foreign Policy magazine had an interesting way of juxtaposing the issue of vietnam and you do it yourself in here is basically the u. S. Army specifically and the military community overlearned the lessons of vietnam particularly that is how the first gulf war was fought but then under learned other lessons. How much of the Counter Insurgency manual basically comes right out of lessons from vietnam . An extraordinary amount of it. A whole generation of Army Officers. David petraeus who did his own doctoral work at princeton ....
The last two americans being detained in north korea are coming home. The state department made the announcement. Flor washington. The days of life in a prison camp are over for kenneth bay and matthew miller. On saturday, north korean authorities released the two men, and they boarded a plane for the u. S. A wonderful day for them and their families and obviously, we are very grateful is for their safe return. I appreciate a great job on what was obviously a challenging mission. Director clapper is james clapper, the u. S. s director of National Intelligence. In a statement, the u. S. State department called clapper key to the mens release. We are grateful to director of National Intelligence clapper who engaged on behalf of the United States in discussions with dprk authorities about the release of two cit ....