hybrid culture, and we can't deny that. so, in some ways, the more obvious bi-racial identity that i have to affirm, african-americans also have to affirm. and white americans have to affirm because they partake in the hybrid culture. you know, the truth of the matter is that american culture at this point, what is truly american, is black culture to a large degree. flip on the television set, and it's had a profound influence on this entire nation, and it has to be affirmed. we are at a historic conundrum the likes of which i never thought i would see in my lifetime. >> we still do not know the outcome of yesterday's vote. >> sometimes it seems we share a continent but not a country. today thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil,

despicable acts of terror. >> the world before 9/11 looks different than the world after 9/11. >> every nation has a choice to make. in this conflict, there is no neutral ground. >> the facts show that saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction. >> in this battle against terrorism, there is no silver bullet. ♪ ♪

>> today, america is again forging its future by choosing a man to lead it into the 21st century. this is cnn's coverage of election 2000. >> this is the last official stop of campaign 2000. [ cheers and applause ] >> if people do what i think they're gonna do, you're looking at the next president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> the schedule over the last 48 hours reflected a major worry -- florida, home of governor jeb bush. >> and when he looked me in the eye and said, "florida's gonna be bush/cheney country," i believe him. >> in texas, george w. bush was known as a bipartisan governor. at the time, the state house was run by democrats, and he had a very good working relationship

with them. >> we poured our hearts and souls in this campaign and organization, and the people are gonna decide. >> indiana and kentucky, the polls now have closed in those two states. our projected winner is governor george w. bush, as expected. >> bush wins south carolina. vermont, up in the green mountain state, they're for al gore. >> a big call to make, cnn announces that we call florida in the al gore column. >> about roughly quarter of eight, we and all the other networks call florida for gore, and i remember saying, how is bush possibly gonna -- you know, what's the path he could possibly take?" because he's lost michigan, he's gonna lose pennsylvania. if anybody wins all three, it's over. >> you can bet that governor bush will be madder than a rained-on rooster that his brother, the governor, wasn't able to carry this state for him. >> mr. bush says he is not yet ready to concede florida, so

that only complicates the evening just a little bit. >> the network's called this thing awfully early, but the people who are actually counting the votes are coming up with a little different perspective. >> george bush was a very confident man. i don't think bush ever doubted that he would manage somehow to get elected. >> some new returns came in, and suddenly the gore lead that was necessary to make this prediction evaporated. >> what the networks giveth, the networks taketh away. nbc news is now taking florida out of vice president gore's column. >> as the night went on, it stayed close until at about 2:00 in the morning eastern time, it looked like it was game over. >> abc news is now going to project that florida goes to mr. bush. >> george walker bush, the new president of the united states, the governor of texas. >> and at that point, al gore called george w. bush to concede. >> then by about 3:00 a.m. eastern time, the numbers start to wobble again.

>> something to report to you here in this very unusual night. the vice president has recalled the governor and retracted his concession, saying that florida is too close right now. >> under florida law, if the margin of victory is less than half percent, then there's an automatic recount. >> mr. vice president, did you win the election, sir? >> we're having a great run here. >> a confident and seemingly relaxed al gore is effectively starting a second campaign for the white house. his campaign chairman in florida announcing the campaign will support lawsuits over the issue of ballot irregularities in palm beach. >> i cast a vote for gore, but at the same time, i must have punched the buchanan column as well. >> there was the butterfly ballot in palm beach county, where an awful lot of people thought they were voting for al gore, but because of the way the ballot was designed, they ended up voting for pat buchanan.

and, believe me, those two candidates had nothing in common. >> pat, good evening. >> hi, charlie. >> do you think you really got 3,400 votes in palm beach county? >> yes, i did get 3,400 votes, but i also agree that many of those very probably and almost certainly were intended for al gore. >> i think if it hadn't been for pat buchanan and the butterfly ballot, al gore would have been president of the united states. >> a hand recount of the vote is already underway tonight in palm beach county, one of four florida counties which could determine who becomes the next president. >> there were four counties where we had concrete evidence of irregularities, and so we asked for in-depth recounts in those four counties. >> the blame may fall squarely on a tiny piece of paper called a chad. the chad is what voters are supposed to punch out of paper ballots when they make their choice. sometimes, it sticks. >> the hanging one is counted, the swinging door is counted, and the tri is counted. the ones that are not counted

are the ones that are just dimpled or pregnant. they're a little bit out but they're not through. >> the real issue at hand now is the decision by florida secretary of state katherine harris to have all ballots from all counties turned in and certified by tomorrow night. >> i've decided it is my duty under florida law to exercise my discretion in denying these requested amendments. >> the game was this. the democrats wanted to keep the recount going, and the republicans wanted to stop it. >> they may keep asking for recount after recount after recount, but when is it going to end? i ask you, when is it going to end? >> each day was a drama, and the gore forces had just one shot left. they could go to the florida supreme court. >> the court today has issued its opinion by a vote of 4-3. it has ordered a manual recount of all under votes in any florida county where such a recount has not yet occurred. because time is of the essence, the recount shall commence immediately.

>> the florida supreme court issued an opinion changing the deadlines, changing the manner in which votes would be counted. we were stunned. and so we challenged that in the united states supreme court. >> the votes are being counted, and all of a sudden, the television screen flashes that the united states supreme court in a 5-4 decision has ordered the counting to stop. and there hasn't even been an argument of an appeal. >> here you had a conservative supreme court stepping in with the authority of the federal government to stop what was traditionally a local issue. it was the reverse of everything you heard from conservatism. >> the wait is underway for a decision from the united states supreme court, a decision that could keep alive al gore's presidential hopes or kill them outright and hand the presidency to george bush in what would be the first presidential election ever decided by the court. >> the system had never had this kind of stress test before, and it failed it.

the result of all this -- chaos and uncertainty as to who the president of the united states would be come january 20th. >> everybody in the country was on pins and needles, and those of us who were working to try to get the situation stabilized and over with were exhausted. >> i thought we were so clearly right that i thought that there had to be a chance that i could persuade one of those five justices to change their mind. i hoped i could do it. i didn't. >> it was a very unusual late-night ruling from the united states supreme court, the decision ending any lingering hope of a recount. >> the problem with bush v. gore is that it looked so partisan. it ended in a 5-4 vote with the conservatives in the majority. and so what's important here is to understand the bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. the outcome of the 2000 election -- i don't mean the fact that bush won -- i mean the way he won deepened skepticism about

the impartiality of our institutions. >> thank you, all. [ cheers and applause ] whether you voted for me or not, i will do my best to serve your interests, and i will work to earn your respect. the presidency is more than an honor. it is a charge to keep, and i will give it my all. thank you very much, and god bless america. [ applause ]

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about two things primarily. one is education, and this initiative no child left behind, and the other is tax cuts. >> bush comes into office essentially as a moderate conservative, as a compassionate conservative. it's a pretty middle-of-the-road presidency for his first few months. >> this is an abc news special report. dan rather reporting from cbs world headquarters in new york. good evening. president bush is about to officially announce what could be one of the more significant decisions of his presidency. >> the issue of research involving stem cells derived from human embryos is increasingly -- >> the fact that was one of george w. bush's first major speeches to the nation tells a lot about the challenges that he thought were the greatest that he faced. what was he gonna do when science and religion didn't take him the same place? boy, things would change for him in a month. >> we want to tell you what we know as we know it, but we just got a report in that there's been some sort of explosion at the world trade center in new york city. >> you're looking at the world trade center. we understand that a plane has crashed into the world trade center.

we don't know anything more than that. [ sirens blare ] >> of course, as we all know, years ago there was that terrorist attack. it took place down on the ground and in the underground levels and the garage levels. uh, but again, that's not to imply that we have any reason at this point to believe that this is -- this is terrorism or not. we simply don't know. [ sirens wailing ] >> have you seen any evidence of people being taken out of the building? of course, the major concern is human loss. i mean, do you know -- >> oh! another one just hit! something else just hit. a very large plane just flew directly over my building and there's been another collision. >> this is cbs news continuing live coverage of the apparent terrorist attack today here in new york city. [ camera shutters clicking ] >> [ speaking indistinctly ] i saw a large plane like a jet go immediately headed directly into the world trade center. it -- it just flew into it, into the -- into the other tower coming from south to north.

i watched the plane fly into the world trade center. >> oh, my goodness, oh, my goodness. we're looking at a, uh, live picture from washington and there is smoke pouring out the pentagon. >> in the nation's capital, a state of emergency and an emergency plan now in effect to keep the federal government running in an orderly way. >> and again, i don't mean to say this in melodramatic terms, where is the president of the united states? the president of the united states led -- i know we don't know where he is, but pretty soon the country needs to know where he is. >> there is a lot of confusion. again, it appears that an aircraft of some sort did hit the side of the pentagon. >> wow, jamie, jamie, i need you to stop for a second. there has just been a huge explosion. uh, i'll tell you that i can't see that second tower. >> let's go to the trade tower again because, john, we now have a -- what do we have? we don't -- >> it looks like a new plume, a new large plume of smoke.

>> one can only hope that the area has been evacuated, but of course you wonder about all the emergency vehicles and the people who might have been injured early in the morning. >> there was, you know, dust and whatnot everywhere, but it was -- >> oh, my god, look out! [ indistinct conversations ] [ police radio chatter ] [ people coughing ] >> we came from the 82nd floor, and i don't know where my parents are. i don't know. i hope to god they're okay.

>> i was standing next to one world trade center, and then all of a sudden, i heard rumbling and we all started running away from it. the glass, like, blew out and threw me onto the sidewalk. >> i was thinking of going back to try and find people from my office, but it was chaos, so john's like, "let's go." i start to leave. i see people jumping from the top of the world trade center. linda. >> it was unbelievable in there. there's guys still trapped we couldn't get to. >> i'm just gonna add to the chaos and the trauma of the day by saying that a large plane has now crashed about 80 miles southeast of pittsburgh. >> we don't know where their destination was, what their target was. we can only presume, we can only guess that they were short of the target. >> it would never be the same for george w. bush. from that moment on, he would never again have the bandwidth

to think primarily about domestic problems. >> by september, he still wasn't seen as a heavyweight. there were still questions, even from republicans who liked him. could he handle this job if something big happened? and then something big happened. but in the early weeks of the crisis, george w. bush proves to be incredibly effective. >> this nation stands with the good people of new york city as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens. >> george, we can't hear you! >> i can hear you! [ laughter, cheers, applause ] i can hear you! the rest of the world hears you, and the people will -- [ cheers and applause ] and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

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security team, including vice president cheney, secretary of state powell, secretary of defense rumsfeld, national security adviser condoleezza rice and others since the attacks. >> well, the media at camp david was a pretty sober affair. they all knew that, in one way or another, they had failed the american people. so, the mind-set completely shifts to trying prevent another 9/11. >> are you satisfied osama bin laden is the kingpin of this operation? >> there is no question he is what we would call a prime suspect. and if he thinks he can hide and run from the united states and our allies, he will be sorely mistaken. >> i joined fbi in 1997. i was assigned to work terrorism. when we saw the planes hit the buildings, the world trade center, we knew that it was al-qaeda. >> there had been a progressive escalation. in 1998, bin laden attacked the u.s. embassies in east africa, two simultaneous attacks using suicide tactics. then the attack on the uss

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and they created what they called the "global war on terror." >> president bush plans to sign the anti-terrorism bill into law today after it was overwhelmingly approved by the senate. the legislation gives sweeping new powers to law enforcement, including expanded wiretapping and surveillance authority. >> the most important part of the patriot act is the power of surveillance. some people are privately worried this is too much, but at the time, in the aftermath of the anger and shock and horror, there's very strong support from both parties to pass it. >> this government will enforce this law with all the urgency of a nation at war. >> the politics of the time led to america's sort of tough-war attitude. we were gonna fight them here and we were gonna fight them abroad. >> operation enduring freedom, the u.s. retaliation against osama bin laden and afghanistan's taliban rulers, is

underway. u.s. tomahawk cruise missiles delivered the first blows, hitting military targets near the capital city of kabul. >> it was a righteous war. we had every reason to go to afghanistan. we gave the taliban so many opportunities to give bin laden up and they refused. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al-qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. these carefully-targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations. >> around the world, there was enormous support for the war in afghanistan. there was a sense that osama bin laden and al-qaeda had attacked not just the united states but the security of the global community. the u.s. military mission to overthrow the taliban was very swift. it took only about six weeks to force the taliban out of kabul. >> toppling the taliban wasn't that difficult.

toppling a government is one thing. to track down individual fugitives, that was difficult. >> the president's approach to this is that it will be continuous, but that it will be broadly based, and it will be economic and political and diplomatic, as well as military, overt and covert. >> the concept, especially by don rumsfeld, was, "we want a small footprint." and there as some wisdom in that. they sent in a bunch of cia officers with suitcases full of money, and they hired a bunch of tribesmen to go after bin laden. >> u.s. officials say american commandos, operating alongside opposition forces, got within two miles of a cave complex where osama bin laden is believed to be holed up. but they could not go any further without exposing themselves to fire from the al-qaeda fighters defending the cave. >> there was a moment where we had bin laden bottled up inside tora bora, we knew where he was, but the road to pakistan was left open.

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after a flight halfway around the world, 20 terrorist suspects captured in afghanistan are settling in tonight in an open-air prison in the caribbean. >> shackled, hooded, and in one case, sedated, they had been loaded aboard a transport yesterday in kandahar with two guards for every prisoner. >> in many cases, you had no idea of how senior they were, how junior they were, how much information they had. so you had to have a system to bring them somewhere and then subject them to intensive interrogation. >> the bush administration decided to call them "enemy combatants" and they did not have prisoner of war status. they didn't want them to have those kinds of protections. >> across europe, there have been complaints warning america won't win the war on terror if it gives up the high ground. >> some people said the

president does not have unilateral power to deprive these people of any rights whatsoever, and it began to erode international support for us. >> some here now say the critics' real complaint is less about how al-qaeda prisoners are treated than it is about how america's acted on its own with no apologies. >> the president of the united states! [ cheers and applause ] >> the intensity of the early days of the war on terrorism started to concern some people. but you have to realize the country was different, that people were shocked by what happened with 9/11, and the bush administration used that. >> our war against terror is only beginning. >> there was this sense in the bush administration that there are these rogue states which will take advantage of the chaos created by al-qaeda.

so, even though bin laden hasn't been captured, the united states is on the road to war somewhere else. >> our goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening america with weapons of mass destruction. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror. iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward america and to support terror. the iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax and nerve gas and nuclear weapons for over a decade. states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world. >> president bush, rumsfeld, and cheney, long before 9/11, wanted regime change in iraq. they felt like, in the first persian gulf war in 1991, that the job was not done. and when they started the war against terrorism, they saw that as a perfect opportunity. >> many americans weren't really

thinking of saddam hussein. they were thinking of osama bin laden, so it wasn't clear why this should be part of the war. >> the iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. >> imagine a september 11 with weapons of mass destruction. >> but we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. >> the administration had to mount an argument, and they did it by scaring us. >> simply stated, there is no doubt that saddam hussein now has weapons of mass destruction, that he is amassing them to use against our allies and against us. >> vice president cheney made repeated visits out to cia headquarters, and it was quite clear what conclusions were very welcome at the white house and what conclusions were not. >> the bush administration found the intelligence it wanted and then sold that intelligence to the american public. >> why haven't our allies, who presumably would know the same information, come to the same conclusion? >> i don't think they know the

same information. i think the fact is that, in terms of the quality of our intelligence operation, i think we're better than anybody else. >> i think that the world has to be presented with the information, with the intelligence that's available. a debate is needed within the international community so that everybody can make a judgment about this. >> today the white house denied reports of a division in the administration over how to handle saddam hussein. >> a white house spokesman says there is no internal rift, insisting the administration speaks with one voice in demanding iraq be rid of all weapons of mass destruction. >> it turned out that there was, in fact, this war within the bush administration amongst some very heavy hitters. >> colin powell is not a fan of invading iraq. he has this famous expression, the pottery barn rule, "if you break it, it's yours." and he knows that if we go in and break iraq, it's ours. we're gonna have to rebuild it. on the other side, rumsfeld and

cheney, they just want to go in. >> when you're dealing with terrorist networks that can attack at any time, at any place, using any technique, you know before you start that you can't defend against that. therefore, you have no choice. we know they have weapons of mass destruction. we know they have active programs. there isn't any debate about it. >> powell is the odd man out here. he realized he couldn't affect the decision itself, so at that point, he switched gears to trying to affect how the decision would be carried out and persuaded the president to get public support. >> the democrats are opposed to the war. george bush is happy to have this become an issue. bush actually pushes the idea of having a resolution supporting the use of force in iraq before the congressional elections so that members of congress will feel compelled to vote for it. >> congressional opposition in both houses finally came down to a few hard-core liberals who worried congress was giving up its right to declare war.

but it was a lonely fight when the white house invited a bipartisan crowd of supporters for an obvious show of power. opposition really began to melt. >> because i believe it is important for america to speak with one voice at this critical moment, i will vote to give the president the authority he needs. it was one of the hardest decisions i've made. even though i had a great deal of skepticism and concern, i felt it was important to give our commander in chief the benefit of the doubt as well. >> for critics of the war, it was very difficult to argue against it because the memory of september 11th meant that those who were aggressive had the upper hand. >> in balancing the risks of action versus inaction, i think new yorkers who have gone through the fires of hell may be more attuned to the risk of not acting. i know that i am. >> president bush says america has spoken with one voice.

early this morning the senate voted 77-23 to clear the way for the president to use force against iraq if necessary. the vote came hours after the house also gave overwhelming approval. >> the united states, in 2002, was not a normal america. we had been attacked in a way we had never been attacked before. it was just a whole new game. and, as a result, president bush had a mandate to do whatever he wanted. >> the days of iraq acting as an outlaw state are coming to an end.

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what the president of the united states is talking about is a new war against iraq with the purpose of removing from power saddam hussein. >> you have a dictator there who is not obeying u.n. resolutions -- and he certainly wasn't -- who had had weapons of mass destruction and we thought still did, so i think there was quite a strong case for action. >> a deal was reached, a vote taken, and now the u.n. security council has made it clear -- let weapons inspectors in, or else. >> powell pushed very hard to get the security council to adopt a resolution demanding saddam hussein readmit international weapons inspectors. and saddam hussein agreed to it. >> the outcome of the current crisis is already determined. a full disarmament of weapons of mass destruction will occur. the only question for the iraqi regime is to decide how. >> weapons inspectors are confident their first few days

there have gone smoothly. that includes the right to make surprise checks on so-called special sites, including presidential palaces. >> when the saddam regime readmitted the inspectors, they were making progress, but they simply did not have enough time to really find out anything of significance. >> at this point, the security council was very much against an invasion. and so it was decided, in the white house, that they had to make one more push and really say, "we've got the evidence." and who better to do that than powell? >> the secretary's presentation is intended to win the security council's authorization for military action to disarm iraq. in the end, president bush says he does not need the authorization, but he would like to have it. >> in the vice president's office, they had already written a speech for powell. it was every rumor, every bit of unverified intelligence they had ever gotten. and he got it and looked at it and said, "pfft, i'm not gonna

give this speech, are you kidding?" >> colin powell spent a few days at the cia going over all their intelligence, and the majority of it was discarded. >> our conservative estimate is that iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. an iraqi major who defected confirmed that iraq has mobile biological research laboratories. saddam hussein already possesses two out of the three key components needed to build a nuclear bomb. >> powell had some doubts, but i think those doubts were pretty much dispelled by the director of central intelligence, george tenet. >> he insists that george tenet sit behind him, be right there in the television shots, in order to show that the intelligence community stands behind this. >> i can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how iraq provided training in these weapons to al-qaeda. >> you could sense the tension in the room.

the audience was riveted by what he had. he held up a little vial claiming that this was what a vial of anthrax looked like and how deadly it could be. there were all kinds of graphics. there were excerpts of conversations that had been picked up by electronic surveillance intercepts. >> we must not shrink from whatever is ahead of us. we must not fail in our duty and our responsibility to the citizens of the countries that are represented by this body. >> well, this was perhaps the most dramatic presentation at the u.n. in half a century, america essentially trying to win the world over for a war it now believes is necessary, the skeptics shaking their heads. the stakes couldn't be higher. [ indistinct shouting ] >> millions of demonstrators turned out around the world to protest the use of force against iraq. >> ain't no power like the power of the people 'cause the power of the people don't stop! >> you have massive numbers of people in the united states and

across the globe pour out in the streets to demonstrate. in fact, it stands today as the largest single demonstration against war in our history. [ crowd shouting in native language ] >> no more lies! no more war! no more bush in 2004! >> there is no question about it, that the majority of the country was strongly behind invading iraq. and those of us, whether you're on the left or the right, who oppose that feeling after the 9/11 horrors, were, i think, considered unpatriotic. >> within the bush administration, you had the vice >> within the bush administration, you had vice president cheney, secretary of defense rumsfeld, the hardliners, those who wanted to take more dramatic action. and there was a momentum the international community was unable to stop. >> the united nations security council has not lived up to its responsibilities, so we will rise to ours.

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leave iraq and take his two sons along with him. the alternative will be war. >> no one really joined the united states except great britain. and so bush was doing this on his own. the international community thought that what we were doing might have consequences we couldn't imagine. >> the u.s. war to disarm iraq and oust saddam hussein intensified dramatically today as the air campaign began with massive bombing raids on baghdad and elsewhere. >> the rest of the world saw this as a war of aggression. >> my fellow citizens, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger. >> it's getting much, much closer. all the air defenses are opening up around me at the moment.

massive shock blast just coming through our windows. i'm going to have to take cover. >> the invasion and the toppling of saddam was really quite easy. the entire campaign did not take more than a month. >> we see the coalition forces advanced from southern iraq near the kuwaiti border. from there they moved through karbala and into baghdad. it's taken 22 days of war for the coalition to get this far. >> i was privileged to command the 101st airborne division. we liberated the first major city in iraq, najeh, then karbala and moved into baghdad. >> the man who ruled here so brutally and absolutely for almost 25 years has vanished. >> the closer we got, the more they knew saddam was finished, and they were glad to show it. >> the troops were very welcome. shiites and people who hated saddam were joyful, running through the streets. you had the iconic image of the big statue of saddam hussein being pulled over with some help

from u.s. troops. >> this is george w. bush, the president of the united states. at this moment, the regime of saddam hussein is being removed from power, and a long era of fear and cruelty is ending. the government of iraq and the future of your country will soon belong to you. >> things, however, very quickly started to turn dicey. >> the city of baghdad has now experienced five days of looting. government ministries, hospitals, museums, the homes of the wealthy, and even the palaces of saddam hussein have been stripped bare. >> we saw the looting and the total disorder in the streets and the, frankly, indifference on the part of american authorities to what was happening. >> the pentagon says coalition forces will indeed get that unrest under control. but that has not yet happened. >> it wasn't just that there was disorder. the society is being torn apart, and there's nobody in control.

and that was our fault. >> mr. bush declared an end to the military phase of the war in iraq and called the battle a victory in the war against terrorism. >> the administration's very intent on actions that show to the public things are going well. so on may 1st, 2003, bush flies out to a ship near san diego and gives this speech where he talks about just how well the operation had gone. and the navy had hung a banner in the background that said "mission accomplished." >> the transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. our coalition will stay until our work is done, and then we will leave, and we will leave behind a free iraq. >> since the start of the war the president's job performance has jumped ten points from 67% to 77% as of this evening.

>> of course, the mission was far from accomplished. in fact, what was actually happening during this moment is a real insurgency was beginning to gather steam. >> the jubilant mood among the very iraqis who suffered most under saddam's regime was not necessarily shared across most of the iraqi capital where some violent resistance remained. >> it was starting to appear to me this was not going to end the way it had been briefed. you could just see that this country was probably going to crack. >> the united states learned the hard way that removing a tyrant is not the same thing as ushering in democracy. it's much less difficult in many instances to get rid of the old than it is to help bring about something that's new and better and enduring. >> it may seem an ungracious note on which to end, but the beware the euphoria. ripping down saddam's pictures, toppling his statues, those are

the benign photogenic events that can delude us into misunderstanding what lies ahead. there are hundreds of thousands of scores to be settled in this country. blood debts to be repaid. the u.s. military doesn't want to get into the middle of that, but if it doesn't, there are likely to be lynchings and massacres that will sicken the world and make the establishment of a new government hideously complicated. it is good that people are finally able to believe that saddam's regime has been crushed. the military victory was difficult enough, but now comes the hard part. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i'm laila harrak. a search by the fbi reveals more classified documents at u.s. president joe biden's home