from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. charlie: michael morell is here. he is one of our nation s leading national security professionals. he most recently served as the cia s deputy director and twice as acting director. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome, sir. michael: it is great to have you back. charlie: it is good to be back. let me start with this. house intelligence chair alleges spy agency abuse. wall street journal, g.o.p. lawmaker sparks new battle over trumps by claim. new york times, g.o.p. leader puts new spin on wiretaps. take me through this. unpack this. i don t think most understand what the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee is saying. michael: sure. charlie, this is complicated. but let me start with the bottom line. this in no way validates the president s claim that he was or his associates at trump tower were the target of surveillance by the obama administration. it doesn t even come close
of how the book subject went from being an idealistic harvard graduate to hard-core columnist to the lessons we can draw from that as we grapple with modern form of fanaticism. it s it s a brilliant book that to quote the new york times window of delusion and narcism that fill the radicalized of any era. there s another reason that we are particularly delighted to be hosting tonight s event at the library and that s long distinguished career as journalist and human rights advocate, you can read about in your program researched and wrote much of this book right here down the hall from where we are sitting in the libraries fredrik and alan room. the alan room are several special places at the library that offer actions to our collection and quiet contemplating place for writers to think and be inspired. it s always a source of pride when we are able to celebrate publications made at the public library at the public event as we are doing this evening. tonight we are proud beca
as she continued on the track. it isn t likely they get a lot from paris to london to rome. but the exciting work is when it comes from places people have to look on a map to find. said this is the cutting edge american foreign policy so let s conclude one on this note but where the turnover of the depth of expertise has left the field i wish as some point the next industry show would consider pulling somebody from the ranks for putting somebody in the leadership role from that. will put this up at this time it is awful and any student of foreign policy and practitioner is not only informative but it is fascinating. but what i ve learned from the book thank you so much for your contribution. [inaudible conversations] and. i am the vice president of the program here it is my great pleasure to welcome you to deny its author talk who will be discussing the just published book true believer. as you will soon hear there are aspects from the tragic and compelling story co
reading this transcripts was painful because they are whispering to each other at night and they are never alone and he is saying that just wants to die and she say no, that is just what our enemies, meaning the americans want you to do. you cannot give them that victory. he had to keep it together. we have to rebuild. it seems as though you say he followed him into buddhism or anything that does seem like she was extremely devoted. i have the impression from some of the things she says that she was just as devoted a communist issue was. hard to imagine her not living the simple life. when they are reunited after nearly five years apart, they were in the same prison but they didn t know that although occasionally he thought he heard themselves away from him. imagine cheering her coughing and indeed it was at the first question that he asks her after not seeing each other for five years with heavy remained true? not to me, but to the cost. if that is not a fanatic. but she
amendment rights to businesses for the first time. we could draw some connections here but your not here to listen to me talk about the court you are here for linda greenhouse. please join me in welcoming her to politics and pro. it s really a treat to be back here. i ve been here for a couple of the other books that you heard about. this is my first actual book talk with this book which came out and was published last tuesday. there is no better place to launch a book like that it s a book about washington it s a book about the relationship between the supreme court and our politics so it s much more timely actually then the co-author and i imagined when we launched this project about five years ago into be here on what i think is the most dangerous place inside the beltway. no one can walk in without spending more money than the anticipated. i m gonna start by just reading a couple paragraphs that will give you a bit of the flavor what he said. he s had a long scheduled sca