mark jacobson, member of the east oakland stadium alliance fighting to keep the team at the coliseum. >> represents ocean carriers and we need to know that we can still move cargo efficiently and effectively and the question is. >> does oakland want a baseball team. it sounds so simple, doesn't it. but it really does come down to that. and david samson knows as former president of the miami marlins. he spent 10 years battling. >> for a new ballpark and in the end it happened. it is the job of the government to decide what kind of city the voters want. and i'm not here to opine or judge whether oakland should be or wants to be a major league city. what i am saying. >> be careful what you wish for because if the a's leave and mark my words, if there's no ballpark deal done. they are right at the end of baseball's back to the team. cavill says that he and the ownership remain committed to oakland. yet with the commissioner saying that they can look elsewhere. they continue to do so, including those trips. >> to las vegas to explore their options. theresa kron 4 news. >> now to the north

mark jacobson is the assistant dean at syracuse university maxwell school and also served at the pentagon during both bush and obama administrations. he says it's not yet clear how rumsfeld viewed his own actions and legacy. i think the, the challenges that the, the donald rumsfeld we see and have seen as the donald rumsfeld, he wanted us to see, he created that narrative and until we can dig more deeply into his records and have those camden conversations, we won't know whether he was remorseful, let's say in the way that a robert mcnamara was, even if an successfully over the vietnam war where the rom, so went more deeply. i could even be that room so was not as contract as, as someone like mcnamara and had no regrets. and i think to some degree that that's the rumsfeld we've actually seen for the most part. but again, i think this story has yet to be told. i think this is a complicated man. and again, now i'm not sure in the end how contrite how he was, but there is no doubt that is supported the veterans. once he left the office of the secretary of defense was purposeful, was strong,

mark jacobson, member of the east oakland stadium alliancm fighting to keep the team at the coliseum. >> represents ocean carriers and we need to know that we can still move cargo efficiently and effectively and the question is. >> does oakland want a baseball team. it sounds so simple, doesn't it. but it really does come down to that. and david samson knows as former president of the miami marlins. he spent 10 years battling. >> for a new ballpark and in the end it happened. it is the job of the government to decide what kind of city the voters want. and i'm not here to opine or judge whether oakland should be or wants to be a major league city. what i am saying. >> be careful what you wish for because if the a's leave and mark my words, if there's no ballpark deal done. they are right at the end of baseball's had it back to the team. cavill says that he and the ownership remain committed to oakland yet with the commissioner saying that they can look elsewhere. they continue to do so, including those trips. >> to las vegas to explore their options. theresa kron 4 news. >> coming up o

mark jacobson, member of the east oakland stadium alliance fighting to keep the team at the coliseum. represents ocean carriers and we need to know that we can still move cargo efficiently and effectively and the question is. >> does oakland want a baseball team. it sounds so simple, doesn't it. but it really does come down to that. and david samson knows as former president of the miami marlins. he spent 10 years battling. >> for a new ballpark and in the end it happened. it is the job of the government to decide what kind of city the voters want. and i'm not here to opine or judge whether oakland should be or wants to be a major league city. what i am saying. >> be careful what you wish for because if the a's leave and mark my words, if there's no ballpark deal done. they are right at the end of baseball's back to the team. cavill says that he ond the ownership remain committed to oakland yet with the commissioner saying that they can look elsewhere. they continue to do so, including those trips. >> to las vegas to explore their options. theresa kron 4 news. >> and now kron 4 sports

. >> whatever structures actually being finance mark jacobson, member of the east oakland stadium allianceg to keep the team at the coliseum. >> represents ocean carriers and we need to know that we can still move cargo efficiently and effectively and the question is. >> does oakland want a baseball team it sounds so simple, doesn't it. but it really does come down to that. and david samson knows as former president of the miami marlins. he spent 10 years battling. >> for a new ballpark and in the end it happened. it is the job of the government to decide what kind of city the voters want. and i'm not here to opine or judge whether oakland should be or wants to be a major league city. what i am saying. >> be careful what you wish for because if the a's leave and mark my words, if there's no ballpark deal done. they are right at the end of baseball's back to the team. cavill says that he and the ownership remain committed to oakland yet with the commissioner saying that they can look elsewhere. they continue to do so, including those trips. >> to las vegas to explore their options. theresa

to come back to you on the question of the diplomatic effort, admiral, but i want to bring in mark jacobson who is the former secretary adviser to ash carter and combat soldier in this 2006, and so i want to ask you if this is a full best choice or what is the best practice to deal with this resurgent taliban? >> far be it for me to disagree with my former boss admiral savridis, but we should have continued with some things that worked well like embedded partner, and i don't think that you had to increase the number of troops, but in particular, american air power was helping the afghan security forces with what they needed to do, and in fact, you have seen in the past couple of days a little bit of the walkback where centcom has the authority to give more support, and now the u.s. contractors will remain to make sure that afghan forces can remain. >> and now we are looking at the presidential lectern, and white house aide left the remarks there for the president. we are within the two-minute warning. mark, what does the area look like without u.s. troops? >> a mess. without organizations l

jacobson could fly halfway across the country marked uninvited in the oval office, like in march 1948e that he literally refused to meet with, weizmann. a war hero from britain from the first world war. all in an effort to get him to do what he knew in his heart he needed to do, was to was recognize the empathetic independent state of israel. nobody could've spoke in the way he did, no one as in the cabinet secretary, only someone with an equal relationship with him who didn't want anything from, him and eddie never asked for anything from him. and he speaks to him and says basically get over your childish anger, truman gets mad and stops his desk and says ok, you win. he sees wise men and then two months later he is the first foreign leader to recognize the state of israel 11 minutes after it was declared. >> your chapter on nixon is no less interesting. anyone our age and older and we share a generation, but i have a few years on you, i will concede that, that is transparency number three for tonight's segment. anyone our age knows the name bibi rebozo, it is distinctive, it was a n