blair. >> anthony charles lindon blair. >> you've kindly provided us with a witness statement. i haven't seen a signed copy but it doesn't matter. are you happy to confirm the truth of your statements to the inquiry? >> absolutely. >> i'll deal with some general matters first. before we do, mr. blair, thank you very much for providing the inquiry with the assistance that you have. you comment in your statement that you haven't received some papers from the cabinet office. have you yet received them? are you satisfied you got what you require? >> yes, i'm satisfied i got what i require. this is mainly a list of meetings with various media people and we've got as full a picture as we can get. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> on the first page, mr. blair, dealing with general themes, we're working from the pagination which the inquiry has provided, 05572. you say in the second paragraph, disentangling what is inevitable from what is wrong is a profound challenge. now, we understand in that sentence the adjective inevitable, but could you elaborate on the "wrong," please. >

blair? >> no. >> do you think they may have done so without your explicit approval, even with your knowledge speak with obviously did so because it was without my authorization. >> at. [inaudible] only to act with your authority, would you agree? >> no. i medically. i'm trying to explain why we change the system when i went to number 10 and why i thought it was better to have political advisors were a new development from 1970s onward. you always have civil servants without political advisors to they are obviously party people, with their own views about what should happen. they had to find a way of working with us. and my insistence was the political advisors were doing a job, had to work under the auspices of the office of civil service, and this is what we tried to enact in the treasury but and this is why went to downing street, i removed the order of cuthbert i said we would not have a political appointee as head of communicate should. i appointed a traditional conventional civil servan

blair. to cut a long story short, they characterized the media as behaving like a great, sloppy labrador, which repeatedly bestowed its affections on you rather than a feril beast. >> that's the description of the daily mail that i don't totally recognize, i have to say. yeah. interesting that one. i've come across that before. but i'm the one with self-delusion, am i? >> arguably there's a more cerebral contribution from the guardian. may be look at this one. it's the leader of the 13th of june, 2007, which is still under tab 50 in this bundle. they say there's an easy response, i'm paraphrasing. it is to accuse the prime minister, the master some will say of half truth, the spin -- >> it's actually the financial times, i think. tab 50. >> that's the last page. before that, sir, there's "the guardian," the leader of the 13th of june. do you have that one? >> i've got it. right sermon, wrong preacher, is that the one? >> that's it. i'm only reading the headline. >> again, they're picking up

blair the other point on the abstract from mr. mullens' diary, the lines, did you say that to murdoch, not in so many words where you're intending to communicate to mr. mullen that obviously the clear and stark message which we see at the top of the page might not have been imparted to mr. murdoch more attenuated a subtle version might have been. do you accept that or not. >> i can't remember precisely what i would have said. frankly, it wasn't an occasion as i recall where i was, out there to start banging the table. so i don't know whether it sums up what i said to him or the implication or not really. >> the end offense this encounter with mr. mullen you say my absolutely priority's to win. i know that sounds unpolice palled. i see it as my role in life. >> sounds like it. by the way, let me emphasize i don't think it's unprincipled to win. if you believe in what you're doing, you should. but, yes, you know, i don't -- this the pointless to do anything else, but i saw an ability to go out there and persuade. the murdoch group a

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we're told blair has huge medical bills. blair's attorney ronald karp has seen video of the beating last june. >> these bouncers who were dressed in black came over and started kicking him in the head. he didn't know at the time that they were off-duty police officers. all he knew was that the bouncers were kicking him in the head. >> reporter: d.c. police confirm it was detectives working this case who identified their fellow district 1 officers on the surveillance video allegedly involved in the beating of blair. >> somebody in the d.c. police department obviously saw and when he looked at it, he thaw his people were doing the kicking -- saw his people were doing the kicking and so it was a courageous move for him to expose them. >> reporter: in response to the indictment and the effort made by her own detectives to help investigate this case, police chief cathy lanier said, "i am proud of our 1st district detectives for demonstrating the integrity that we expect from all of our law enforcement officers. there are no excep

says tony blair well the important part of this of course is that at one point during tony blair of j.p. morgan's testimony to the leveson inquiry protester had to be jacked it after getting into the court and calling mr blair or war criminal who had been paid off by j.p. morgan for the iraq war mr blair said on the record that there was no truth in the allegation but you know the protesters are going to closer and closer you know these leaders have to look over their shoulder more and more especially blair who technically speaking qualifies as a war criminal for the activities in iraq certainly and his connection to j.p. morgan of course the oil blood for oil that he denied was the case that's been proven to be true the oil deals he did after leaving number ten show a clear connection blood for oil so the protesters quite accurate and of course in terms of an elected officials here's another story that max and i have been covering while we've been here over here bad debt bank should go bankrupt so in ireland they're determining whether or not to vote yes for the european fiscal tre

blair, may i move on to the evidence of mr. wattson, who, as you know, gave evidence here last week and is one of the co-participants. his statement really is under tab 19 in your bundle. you'll find his witness statements. a couple of points he makes. 05557, he says at the bottom of the page, he understands that you were in receipt of e-mails from rebekah brooks at the time. this is the time of his resignation in 2006. that will demonstrate that it was her intention to exact retribution for the resignation. now, we know you didn't in fact have a personal e-mail. but apart from that obvious point, is there any other comment you can make on what he says there? >> no. i mean, look, i didn't use text or e-mail at the time. something of which i'm profoundly grateful now. but i don't recall anything of that nature, whether they were sending. mails. i don't know. i have no knowledge of that at all. i don't think so. by the way, the issue to do with tom watson's resignation was perfectly simple. i was at the time prime minister. he wa

they are our all-access guests, blair underwood and nicole ari parker. >> you must be stanley. i'm blanch. >> yes. >> where's little woman? >> in the bathroom. >> here with the stars of the revived hit "a streetcar named desire," blair underwood and nicole ari parker. con gratelationgratulatio congratulations. that's a big deal. >> yes. >> the shows are closing out around us. it's by word of mouth. the word on the street is this is the show to come to. >> this is a huge hit. >> "a," it's a classic american play and "b," blair underwood is in it. >> like nicole said, it's a classic. many people feel as though they know it or think they know it. it's important to have a barometer, point of reference. >> one of the perceptions is that you all have radically changed the play from the original tennessee williams version or even the randall version. >> minor things. >> minor changes. >> people are basing it on the movie. a lot of people haven't read the actual play. they're going off the movie version in 1951 which was made at a time when censorship is very high. most of the stories,

blair? >> if you take the whole of the relationships within government, but then you can say that about most of the senior media political people. >> did she have ready access to you and your senior cabinet effectively whenever she wanted it. >> not whenever she wanted it. but if there was an issue that concerned her, i don't know whether she would necessarily come on to me about it. but most cabinet ministers will take the call of an editor of a major newspaper. i'd be surprised if they didn't. and i don't think per se there's anything wrong in that. on certain occasions i would have. i would say back in the '60s that would have been the case or even the 50s. i don't know. i would have been surprise first-degree the editor of a major newspaper wanted to speak to a cabinet minister. >> i'm not sure it's right or wrong or another issue. something you said a few minutes ago, which chimes with this question is this, managing these forces, that's of the press, was a major part of what you had to

blair, we're now in 2001 in your second election victory. mr. campbell's diaries again, page 20, the bottom of page 21, 30th of october. so this must be the year 2000. at the bottom of the page t.b. saw murdoch in steltser and then in brackets murdoch adviser and asked them outright whether they were going to back us. murdoch said they were unelectable an that was that. t.b. seemed to take it at face value. is that an accurate account or not? >> yes, i think that would be an accurate account. >> so we do have you asking a direct and explicit question of mr. murdoch and getting a blunt answer, don't we? >> yes. i mean he wouldn't -- i don't think it was -- that other media people also asked him what his attitude was going to be. again, i didn't see any -- they were going to make a decision about it. so why not ask them. >> was this the only occasion in which you were so outright, to use mr. campbell's phrase, with mr. murdoch or do you think there were others? >> no, i think before the 2005 election i probably would have asked -- i actually don't

number found blair road is a down pit -- northbound blair rd. is shut down. i have seen quite a few houses that have had some damage done to them. there is a lot of debris and mess up here. it is hard to pick out what is what. i do not want to get too low down here because fire crews are still working to try to see if they have anybody that may be injured, but just to give you an idea, i will have bible pull out wide. -- bob people out why. look at the debris we are saying. we will pull out again, and we will show you a garage where the whole side of the wall has been ripped out. it will be just to the left and right there. that gives you an idea of some of the damage. there is a vehicle that is upside down. that gives you an idea of how bad and how strong the winds were. we are saying larch trees that are snapped like toothpicks up at three large trees that are stacked like toothpicks. fire department crews have a command post here. they are checking out side streets off of route 1 and some of the homes to see if anyone is injured in those locations. we do k

thank you to blair underwood and emi emilymann sticking around.ekends with alex wi witt." with chase sapphire prefe. with chase sapphire prefe. high schools in six states enrolled in the national math and science initiative... ...which helped students and teachers get better results in ap courses. together, they raised ap test scores 138%. just imagine our potential... ...if the other states joined them. let's raise our scores. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students.

thank you to blair underwood and emi emilymann sticking around.eekends with alex wi witt." with chase sapphire prefe. with chase sapphire prefe. high schools in six states enrolled in the national math and science initiative... ...which helped students and teachers get better results in ap courses. together, they raised ap test scores 138%. just imagine our potential... ...if the other states joined them. let's raise our scores. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students. let's solve this. good afternoon. chase sapphire. (push button tone) this is stacy from springfield. oh woah. hello? yes. i didn't realize i'd be talking to an actual person. you don't need to press "0" i'm here. reach a person, not a prompt whenever you call chase sapphire. >>> hello, everyone. it's high noon in the east, 9:00 in the west. i'm richard lui in for alex today. >>> heat storm, millions without power. gop to block health care. bus bulliy ies punished. ond who gets custody of katie and tom's daughter? details this hour. >>> but first -- developing now, mill

thank you. >> i am blair moser. i was in baja valley, a six- block walk to 24th street, where i shop, and where my children shopped. i can say ditto to the testimonies you just heard. over the years i shopped on 21st street, we lost variety shops, craft shops, corner groceries. may shopny shops are vacant. a natural food store is boarded up. we don't need more bankers. it changes the character of the neighborhood. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i am pablo and i work in noe valley. we've been there 25 years. my kids went to school there. i hvaave lunch there every day. i can walk to this. i bank with them now and drive twice, three times a week. the previous people said, my kids, we don't talk about the bank. they like when i take them to first republic for ice cream. it is a great idea we have the bank in the valley. >> thank you. >> it's ai live on sanchez stre. i would like to add my voice to the people to say that we have five banks in three blocks, more than one for each block. three of them are too big t

>> reporter: moments after blair dropped his phone, firefighter, steve davis, and his team spotted blairstay alive. >> there's three or four guys that were able to lift the tree off of him. and then, they was able to gently pull him out to safety. >> reporter: this morning, blair is in the hospital, expected to make a full recovery. for "good morning america," alex perez, abc news, chicago. >> we do hope he makes a full recovery. but to have his phone so handy like that. thank goodness. >>> let's go back down to sam. >> as wild as this spring has been, we're beginning to change the pattern in the northeast. look at the live shot out of new york city. wabc, by the way, my former home, and the station that's the best in new york. if you're not watching them in new york, you're wasting power, if you're not watching wabc in new york. let's show you what's happening now. this area of low pressure has been taking over the northeast and the mid-atlantic. basically, it's dragging in that colder air along the coastline and keeping us cloudy and damp. you're going to watch that shift out. watch th

there are inviting president obama and he's very very close right now to tony blair blair is campaigning for him in the united states as an unofficial advisor if these policies to attack the sovereignty of russia continue to escalate in the russian government will have to respond and you could going to do ok and i suspect that the president putin will make this very clear to president obama do you think then we'll see any breakthroughs on those important issues you mentioned syria and the anti missile defense system particularly now we're seeing a bomber in build up to his presidential election. well you know there's a huge scandal in united states right now there's several but one of which is that president obama's own national security chief leaked the information about president obama's maniacal kill policy drone kill policy and cyber attacks on iran and one of the reasons that leak took place was to build up president obama as a strong defender of democracy and freedom and a tough guy for the election now this is backfiring right now because these people in the democrat and republica

blair was wearing them. there is a whole series of good reasons why south winds could perfectly have said the tory government are exhausted and democratically we need a change. so i wasn't surprised when they changed. did they change over european policy? i don't take so despite my conversation. how could they have? i had catbert nodded the euro. i had introduced legislation to ensure that any government had to have a referendum, which led to the following. and the labor party's position, mr. blairs, mr. mandelson, in 1999 were still that they should go into the euro. and i was stopped because of disagreements within the labor party and disagreements with the chancellor of the exchequer. so they could hardly switched on european policy if mr. murdoch on the international were cool about europe, which i think is a fair description. it was not a sensible job to move from the prime minister that was supposed to the euro to a prime minister that is going to be in favor of a euro. so i don't think the change had

blair nor has greater faith in their wisdom and judgment. it is my belief that they will any moment reject this mood which has been stirred up by the press in favor of a period of restrained grief and sober private mourning. that's the way we do things in this country, quietly with dignity. that's what the rest of the world has always admired us for. chris: she has been the object of ridicule, good natured as in this b.b.c. comedy. >> i'm speaking to you today from the 10th robing room where i keep many of my queenly treasures. my sonic septemberor, my balloon clown for use for children at parties, and my magic mirror for telling me who is the fairest in the land. still me! [laughter] chris: the grander story is what she truly means to britain as commentate ors are noting this weekend and last spring at the royal wedding. listen to the commentary as she emerged from the palace. >> the queen with this nation, the servants of the nation and a wonderful example of how to live in the difficult life of monarchy with such charm and distinction. ch

karl meyer and shareen blair brysac have been members of this library since 1974. mr. karl meyer and ms. shareen blair brysac are at the authors of numerous books, which you will see in your program. many are in display at the front of the members room. i would like to mention that the last time they spoke for us in 2008, they talked about their book, kingmakers, the invention of the modern east. recording for that event is available for you on our website. the new book, "pax ethnica", has received early praise. nonspecialists in the social sciences will find it accessible , and because of the breadth of the subject manner, containing much food for thought. another review calls it a good news but based on serious research about how traditionally hostile groups can overcome differences to live in harmony. the book is a skillful rendering of an inspiring message. our friends from the corner bookstore are with us tonight, and they will be happy to sell you a copy of the book and the authors will sign up for you after the event. we will have a question and answer period. w

>> i would fall tony blair's evidence on this. i think that might have been the case perhaps when he was prime minister. speaking personally, as someone active in front line politics, i to the broadcasters are incredibly important. it is not always clear that there are following a newspaper is judgment. i would say the significance of the story is massively elevated if it is right at the top of one of the big news shows. that is often a judge of whether something will really have an impact in the political sphere. quite often, they will be picking up stores from newspapers, but quite often, they have their own investigations. quite often, the bbc, for example -- and i'm a supporter of the bbc. i am not seeking to criticize the institution. they will run a special support -- report, a panorama report, and put on top of the today program, and we are expected to treat that as the most important thing happening in britain that day. i would not say that it is a trick for process whereby the newspapers from a story and the journalists -

these jobs will never benefit the community of blair. the community of blair will be depopulated because of the spruce one jobs. >> thank you, miss gunnoe. mr. eisenberg, we've heard that this has some effect on the people locally. miss gunnoe talked about it. but you talk about the lead for this coal. let me ask, how much of that coal is sent to other countries? >> off top of my head, what are we doing to ourselves? miss harbert used, do we want a country that -- and you described the country that you were asking whether we would want to live in. i think, yes, you're getting right at the heart of this question. do we want a country that is despoiled and so that we can use the coal to china and to india? and, yes, to venezuela. so there's not much time, but miss gunnoe, let me ask you quickly if it sounds that the epa using new science as it comes forward to make the best decisions for protecting the streams? >> absolutely they should be. and i need to say that the citizens from southern appalacha have lobbied the epa for these protectio

blair, i happen to agree with you about maps.e of the big reasons we're seeing some of the other folks in the space fall off. most notably, of course, garmin. do you think beyond maps they might actually have something with perhaps this nividia chip? we're seeing chatter on blogs. it seems like it might be integrated in the macbook pro as well. >> you're exactly right. i do think we are going to see a return to nvidia. there's evidence other the weekened and leaked images that looks like they'll move back to nvidia with the keplar product. thanks for having me. >> brian blair outside the worldwide developers conference in san francisco. doc, would that be your buy of the day? would it be nvidia on that expectation? >> like i said at the top, scott, i love nvidia because of the both moves in the stock, options, and leaked photographs that appear to show that chip in there, that keplar chip. additionally, verizon. a lot of put sellers and call buye buyers. i'm with joey t. i like verizon which i think getting even more upside than

blair. i would like to find out how this gentleman managed to access the court through what is supposed be a secure corridor. i will have an investigation undertaken about that immediately. i apologize. >> can i just say on the record what he said about iraq and j.p. morgan is completely untrue. i have never had a discussion with them about that or any relationship -- >> you are entitled to say what you want but you should not feel it necessary to answer someone else's point. >> i appreciate that, the part of the difficulty with modern politics, and but i say this not a criticism to the media but my experience is you could have a thousand people in the room and someone gets up and shouts or throw something and that's the news. the other 999 might not bother turning up. back in 1997 -- >> the line in the diaries was fantastically irritating on one level that we have to go to these kinds of routines, with an election looming, we would be daft not to try. what is part of the irritation is that

these jobs will never benefit the community of blair. the community of blair will be depopulated because of the spruce mine jobs. >> thank you, miss gunno. mr. eisenberg, we heard that this has some effect on the people locally, miss gunno talked about it, and talked about the need for this coal. let me ask, do we know what happens to the coal of logan county? how much of that coal is sent to other countries? >> i do not know the answer. >> well, i can help you. a third. so a question we have to ask ourselves is what are we doing what are we doing to ourselves? mr. herbert -- do we want a country that -- and you described the country that you were asking whether, you know, whether we would want to live in. yes, you're getting right at the heart of this question. do we want a country that is despoiled and contaminated so that we can send the coal to china and to india, and yes, to venezuela. there's not much time, but miss gunno, let me ask you quickly, if you think it sounds that the epa should be using new science as it comes forward to

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doctrine tony blair's doctrine a responsibility to protect and to intervene and change regimes at will by the consensus of the international community this is the biggest problem our government has and this is what the military is fighting against right now our without consensus i would add really and we've been hearing a lot about regime change when it comes to syria and iran should the u.s. start training its soldiers so they're prepared for this i mean you said a lot of mistakes were no because they weren't ready for iraq and afghanistan and what happens if they go into syria same mistakes what that what that that's exactly the point i'm making that the general dempsey the joint chiefs the head of the joint chiefs of staff the chairman has opposed the military intervention. into syria and into iran precisely for this reason that one should start these kinds of interventions especially in those countries you're going past the point of simple combat you're threatening the danger of nuclear war because president clinton and others have made very clear they will not agree to a un securi

blair? >> no. >> do you think they may have done so without your explicit approval or without your knowledge? >> the obviously did so. it was without my authorization. >> with your authority? >> no. i made it clear. i am trying to explain why we changed the system when i went to no. 10 and why i thought it was better to have this come up with the development from the 1970's onwards. there are advisers. and they obviously have their own views about what should happen. i have to find a way of working in the civil service, and my position is political advisers given a job had to work under the auspices, and this is what we tried to, and this is what i told treasury, and this is why when i went to no. 10, i said we could not have a political appointee inside of communications. a traditional, conventional civil servant as the head of communications, and then when he retired and went back to the treasury and went back to prepare a treasury job which he now does for the new government, i appointed

one man, walter blair, lost his right eye as a result of the fight. police have not said what charges those officers will face. >>> a high-speed chase ended in a violent accident in southeast. witnesses tell news4 that officers were chasing a car in the capitol hill neighborhood when it crashed into four parked cars near 11th and pennsylvania. two people inside the car were taken to the hospital. capitol police have not released any information on the incident and have not returned our calls. >>> 6:07 is our time now. ahead, another madoff heads to prison. >>> plus, outrage this morning about how much money jerry sandusky will collect while behind bars. >>> a summer scorcher today, but by tomorrow, you'll be wishing it was only 90 degrees. weather and traffic on the 1s, ahead. >>> and next, she's a very frequent flyer. the milestone hillary clinton has set. homicide of young people in america has an impact on all of us. how can we save these young people's lives? as a police chief i have an opportunity to affect what happens in a major city. i learned

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a particular example of this was blair. he says things such as, i do not recognize any of the quotes i have been asked about. so i do not know what they are. >> i understand that. >> yasser we have received -- the answer we have city received is confidential. given the vast majority, it rises to a lesser extent. we would ask the for the questions in those two cases. >> thank you. >> think about it and we will come back to appear >> very good. >> thank you very much. >> i swear the this will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. >> statements of truth and you have signed it. >> yes. >> mr. brown, thank you very much. for the work that has obviously gone into the inquiry. i am sorry for the delay. >> fine by me, thank you very much. >> your general comments, which i will ask you to elaborate, if i may, on the first day of it -- first page of your statement. you referred to securing the right balance between the freedoms of the media and the privacy of the citizens. there's a premise that there is an imbala

blair's speech, mr. brown, which was, i think, on the 12th of june, 2007, the day before he left and you took over, did you agree with the sentiments he expressed in that speech? >> i think tony was saying exactly what i'm saying today, that this issue of fact conflated with opinion, i've never used these words, nor would i use these words, and i think my sentiment about the importance of the press has been expressed in my earlier remarks to you, that we both need and should support and try to defend and uphold the best of standards in a free press. but i think his remarks were exactly what i'm saying. that if you set out to editorialize beyond your editorial column, if you conflate fact and opinion and put it on the front page of your newspaper, if you then sensationalize it by alleging that the opinion is not about the policy that you're supposed to be discuss, but about the person that you are now attacking, then that's not a healthy sign for a democracy. and i do note in afghanistan that -- and this

called well actually when tony blair calls you had a dead. well you know milton friedman famously said you never get it nothing like a free lunch and yet that concept of getting a free lunch is the entire concept that drive wall street the city of london now for thirty five years getting something for nothing right that's you never pay off except with more debt now suddenly that's all coming to haunt them milling frame and of course lay the groundwork for this abomination called neoliberal banking and now we're seeing the result of it so he was right in one way however in the long run he proved to be a bit of a charlatan as are all of the other neil liberal architects that brought us this current the task of face to face ever thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you the no i am much more coming away stay right there. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'

a global threat if it ends up in the wrong hands well for more on this we can now talk to charles blair he's from the federation of american scientists joining me live now from washington so if these chemical weapons do fall into the hands of islam and al-qaeda groups fighting for the rebels could you give us a larger what could be the consequences. certainly thank you for having me on i think that the key point that you made is what they might be certainly we don't have an understanding of the how largest stockpile it is so it's hard to precisely determine what the effect would be but given the estimates of the stockpile as it is now specifically their chemical weapons you could see the weapons themselves used either within syria between different factions if it's a civil war that are vying for power you could see it used by the assad regime against the free syrian army or in other scenarios if there was complete chaos you could see groups like jihad as type groups of violent islamist groups taking those agents out of syria. and then they'd have some work to do they'd have to weaponize

blair. oth mr.campbell, he said that opposition for 18 years and having to get the message across to my in a very much more proactive way, the labor party. and the government attitudes and approaches, developing opposition, which was a mistake. i think that is how he put it. >> you just put it the other way around. it may be the same thing.thg. >> i think there was probably a greater degree of informality. g i am not sure what the witnesses were referring to. and overnment, what is more wary about what might be right orin wrong. there is certainly an approachi that i tried to take as leaderoe of the labour a party. >> on question five, lessons to >> be learned from the recent history of relations between the media and politicians. you talk about all points, and there is a fifth point which you pick up again under question eight. you say first of all, politicians are too slow in condemning or scrutinizing the combat to the media in particular. the phone hacking abuses, and a number of reasons for thi

his writings in "the new york times" and elsewhere and advancing the case that george bush and tony blair were making at the time to invade iraq. on the night the iraq war started, march 19, coming up on nine years ago this week in 2003. on the night the war started, michael ignatieff was hanging out with his friend, an iraqi intellectual, and they were having dinner at casa blanca, the restaurant on the harvard campus where faculty and students hang out. michael ignatieff and she had night -- dinner on the night of shock and awe. the two of them were teaching at harvard and ignatieff was the director of that center. mckeel was faculty at harvard and the two of them are probably the most important intellectual figures for the bush administration. mckee of playing the role of the native informant and the iraqi intellectual and intellectual version telling the bush administration what they wanted to hear and he is the source of dick cheney's intelligence that the american troops were being greeted with flowers and an this intelligence came from this makia. ignatieff played the very importan

blair. mr. campbell said, having been in opposition for 18 years and having to get the message across, they are very much more proactive. the labor party carried into government attitudes and approaches -- it was a mistake, that was how he put it. you said the other way around. >> there is a greater degree of informality is how i would put it. i think that there's a great degree of informality in opposition. having been in government, one is more wary about what might be right and what might be wrong. certainly the approach i have tried to take as leader of the labor party. >> question 5, in reference to the recent history of relations -- you have four points. i'm putting them all together now. you say that politicians are too slow in condemning comments by the media involving the phone hacking abuses. the first reason is that politicians were wary of being seen to be curtailing freedoms of the press. the question is, in which way is rightly? >> there are two factors at work here. there is a fac

blair?our authority, would you agree? >> no. i medically. i'm trying to explain why we change the system when i went to number 10 and why i thought it was better to have political advisors were a new development from 1970s onward. you always have civil servants without political advisors to they are obviously party people with their own views about what should happen. they had to find a way of working with us. and my insistence was the political advisors were doing a job, had to work under the auspices of the office of civil service, and this is what we tried to enact in the treasury but and this is why went to downing street i removed the order of cuthbert i said we would not have a political appointee as head of communicate should. i appointed a traditional conventional civil servant as the head of the communications. and then when he retired and what back to the treasury and incidentally went back to a formal policy job, you know, for the new government i appointed the person who had been

david eland and blair mossier. >> i will be brief. i am david island. i have been there 21 years. my only objection is we lost so many retail spaces to commercial. if a commercial space opens up, i would have another neighbor. i speak for the retailers, and the community benefits district. i hate to see more retail go to commercial. >> can you approach the podium. >> i will complain about the fact that i want to talk about what happened to the san francisco giants last night, part of another component. we have the boys playing in the street. we've lost our ability to feel, and the feelings -- are guiding us. that's what's at stake for me. i know a little store in the corner of sanchez and 24th. she owns a place called the button box. the cost of -- she loves my wife. this is evaporating as we speak. that poor woman was approached by a very haughty, hyper business-like woman who told her that if she didn't raise her prices bad things would happen. this is an empty threat. that is the feeling a lot of us are trying to talk about. we wish this was in the forefront of our

that with such ease, in more than one article by the variety of critics taking streetcar starring blair underwood, takin g that production to task. there's a controversy about that, does it work when they are saying this particular line? that debate continues, so it is not so easy to take this which -- make the switch. >> no. they did cat on a hot tin roof, and that is a harder one to swallow, to make an all black cast out of. all.'t understaned it at people -- someone is always going to come down on the other side of the fence. tavis: do you ever get tired of taking raise questions? -- race questions? >> i think they are boring. when president obama was elected, i had that moment of wow, look at where we are. race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing. tavis: it is one thing to be tired of being asked about it and another thing to say it is less and less worthy of discussion. ." >> yeah, if you look at the situation in virginia where this kid was shot by vigilante without much to do by police, the questions start up again. this a little more carefully, there is som